Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025

[Frankolala]

I don't know how this season will look like for Chelsea but witg how they are performing in the friendlies, I'm beginning to have a clue.

What is your conclusion from Chelsea's pre-season results? It seems that not having enough results makes us believe they will have a good result for the upcoming League. But from my experience, pre-season matches cannot be a definite benchmark for results in the league that will run. Maresca also looks set to work to the maximum, but it looks like he still needs some adjustment and time. But I think next season there will be a lot of surprises.

Looking at the last 5 friendly matches, they won 1 match only 1 draw and 3 losses, of course it is not a good result but I have to agree that pre-season friendly match is not showing the real performance of the team.
I can even say that losing more matches on pre-season matches can help any team to evaluate better and try to improve themselves for the real competitions.
By the way, I also do not see Chelsea are doing good in the window transfer because I dont see popular names in their new arrived players.
I'm not sure how Chelsea will look like in the upcoming season, whether they will be able to compete with other big teams or not next upcoming season.
We will have to wait even until some matches in the new season to know how great a team is (not only Chelsea).

This has being Chelsea's problem, they recruit a lot of average players every season that will start looking for how to cope with the team. A big name is needed in Chelsea when signing so that he can add to the club's performance for success but I am not seeing anyone yet and that is what is making Chelsea under Abrahmovich different from this new Chelsea.

I just hope that they don't regret at the end of next season just as they always do whenever the season comes to an end. Let it not be that they spent too much with not good result because it will be a waste of funds.

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I don't know how this season will look like for Chelsea but witg how they are performing in the friendlies, I'm beginning to have a clue.

What is your conclusion from Chelsea's pre-season results? It seems that not having enough results makes us believe they will have a good result for the upcoming League. But from my experience, pre-season matches cannot be a definite benchmark for results in the league that will run. Maresca also looks set to work to the maximum, but it looks like he still needs some adjustment and time. But I think next season there will be a lot of surprises.

Indeed, this cannot be used as a benchmark for next season because after all these pre-season matches are sometimes only used as a forum to prepare themselves and give some young players to prepare for the great tension in the season to be implemented.

But on the other hand of course from every match there must be lessons to be taken as well as for Chelsea in their pre-season matches. The problem is that from one match to another for Chelsea i don't really see that Maresca learns from mistakes.  They still can't work well together in every friendly match. They also still tend to be weak in defense which makes this a bit worrying.

Chelsea have only one more preseason match against Inter before they are immediately faced with a big match in the opening match against Manchester City. and i think Maresca should be able to at least improve the defensive performance and player chemistry in the last pre-season match before they really start the new season in the EPL.
 

[Alpha Marine]

Except someone will tell me Enzo is saving his best tactics for the season and is not taking pre season friendlies seriously that's why they are getting this dismal results, I would understand, but then, they say what is in you can't be hidden and so no matter how you try to dim it, it will always find a way to come out.
 Of the four or five games they played during the tour, it's only one Chelsea were able to win and it was against a club in Mexico (Club America) whose strength can't be compared to even the weak clubs in the EPL.
 Enzo Maresca is really not having a good time right now seeing as he's not performing as he should be doing as he did at Leicester. What I think is that they will not find it easy this season because I don't think any club right now will be willing to relax on their sails and let Chelsea pass them because they will all be struggling to avoid the drop zone or not being able to qualify for European competition.

With the state of the players at Chelsea, I don't expect him to start winning immediately. Also, he's a new coach who is still trying to find his feet and the pre-season is the time where he can experiment all he wants. Let the players Chelsea are signing not deceive you, that team is a mess. I can't really tell what's going on in that team.
They have a total of 45 first-team players in their squad, that's absurd. You'll think that's the worst of it but no. All those 45 players are a bunch of average players and many of them are young players even teenagers. Who runs a club like that? It would be that mad if this club spent little money in signing these players but they spent a billion+ in pounds to acquire those players and that is excluding the signings they made this window. I wonder how the fans are just so quiet about all of this.
Now they're about to spend about 40 million pounds or so on Samu Omorodion, a player that scored 8 goals last season. They way they do business is laughable.

[bastisisca]

Actually, nobody expected Manchester United to even have a competition against Manchester City. We all thought that Manchester City was going to win the match easily against Manchester United. Why Manchester City was unable to win is very easy to understand. The defense of Manchester City did not work very well at that particular day. If someone, before the match thought that Manchester United was going to win against Manchester City, he was absolutely a Manchester United fan. Otherwise, almost nobody thought that Manchester City would lose. And even though Manchester United was able to win the FA Cup, probably the coach Ten Hag should still have been fired. He did not do a good job. Obviously, it is good for the authority that they are giving him another chance. But will he be able to make amends?


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By the way, this weekend the FA Cup winner is coming up to fight against the Premier League champions 
Looking forward to this match.. 

The odds are overwhelming, no one really expects anything from Manchester United, from the famous red furies.
Manchester City is becoming a powerful and relentless team, so much so that it has truly ruthless betting odds.
Obviously bookmarks don't go to take money: so here too the result is obvious.

[hahay]

The two goals scored by Madrid in that match were actually not due to the greatness of the Madrid players, but rather the poor and weak defense that Chelsea currently has, even from what we saw today, don't we all really miss Rudiger, Thiago Silva and also Koulibally is currently in Chelsea defense, not the clowns that Chelsea bought expensively, such as Fofana, Colwill and Badiashile.
I think Madrid second goal could have been prevented if only Badiashile had moved quicker to block the ball into the goal and not just watched without making the slightest effort to prevent it.

The 2 goals Madrid scored came from 2 failed offside traps from Chelsea which Madrid made good use of. There were a lot of mistakes, especially in terms of communication and relying too much on each other, which made Chelsea hassle themselves in securing their defense.
Madrid's attack pattern is still not too good actually and we can see that there are so many opportunities that seem to be wasted by Madrid but on the other hand it cannot be denied that although Madrid is still not too good in terms of attack but Chelsea is also very bad in their defense which makes Madrid win and seems to be an easy match in this match. Enzo Marescca still has to work hard to change Chelsea at this time because they still have not shown the performance they should show.

Losing or winning is not an important result in a friendly match like this because the most important thing, of course, is that the coach can evaluate to be able to improve the team's performance to be better for next season. So yes, I personally will not blame them as you said and also cannot want the old players you mentioned to return. Because anyway, with a friendly match like this will also certainly make the coach be able to correct his shortcomings and mistakes.

But, if Enzo Maresca is unable to improve the team's performance next season, then of course Chelsea will again fire the coach at the end of the season. Because after all, a coach must certainly be able to make the team better after doing a lot of strategy experiments also in pre-season matches like this. So yes, let's just look forward to whether Enzo Maresca will succeed in making Chelsea better next season or not, or maybe for the umpteenth time Chelsea will fire the coach. Lol

[Leviathan.007]

Since Manchester United couldn't have a good performance so far during the last season now they want to improve the team and especially the midfielders, that's why they decided to stop working with Casemiro and McTominay while these two players are both key players, and effective for Manchester united but they won't stop working with both players and hire some other players instead and they think Manuel Ugarte but this player too expensive and PSG asked 65 million euros for him that's why Manchester United thinks about Sander Berge the player Burnley.
 

 

[Chilwell]

Chelsea seal €40m agreement with Atletico Madrid for promising striker

Atletico Madrid are about to close the signings of Conor Gallagher and Julian Alvarez, but with those big-money moves happening, it was inevitable that a significant sale would be needed to balance the books. It will soon come to fruition, with Samu Omorodion heading in the opposition direction to Gallagher.

Fabrizio Romano has confirmed that a deal has been agreed between Atleti and Chelsea for Samu. A fixed fee of €40m will be paid for the 20-year-old striker, who leaves Los Colchoneros less than 12 months after he signed from Granada for only €6m.

Source link: https://www.yardbarker.com/soccer/articles/chelsea_seal_40m_agreement_with_atletico_madrid_for_promising_striker/s1_15980_40714642

[bitgolden]

Enzo Maresca needs to learn from the pre-season game they played, plus the challenges he will face next season with the players the team provided to him. Chelsea is not a team that is patient with its managers, they are always interested in achieving good outcomes each season. I won't think about Maresca as a bad manager only because they failed the pre-season games, I believe Chelsea will recover and win their games.

Enzo Maresca seems like a manager that will take time to adjust to life at the big boys table, he has been staff for a while, but manager for less and I think it is going to be not that easy to get good results right away. Just because he studied and worked under Pep Guardiola, doesn't mean that he is going to be great and I believe that he is going to face some issues about managing player as well.

What Pep does is not simple, I know that Pep always worked with amazing teams and that's why everyone keep saying that what he did is a hard thing that not everyone can do, but the reality is that I have seen squads better than current City and yet they ended up being not as good as City, that's the simple reality. Look at how much money they spent in the last 5-10 years, there are teams that spent more and got nothing in return.

So Chelsea should be fine, they spend a lot, but I am not expecting top three from them, even four would be very hard, best case for them this season is top 6 at the moment and they will probably do that unless they suck. This is why Enzo has a very tough job, he is taking over a team that is barely there, and it is going to be very tough for him to build this team.

[Antotena]

Chelsea in the Preseason match is bad enough to say but that's right it doesn't make a benchmark because it could be that later after the league starts there will be many surprises where Chelsea will be more dominant it could be like that, although in the pre-season match it can also be made a little benchmark but Chelsea's personal opinion will not perform better and this needs a long process for Chelsea to get back on track.

Everyone aren't impressed by what Chelsea played and because they flopped last season, there is much expectations from them especially now that there is a new coach for the team, they have no excuses to lose match in this pre-season, they ought to have tear any team they played against but so far they have loss 3 matches and draw one and win one which is not impressive to people. The question they are asking is where is Chelsea going this season.

Todd Boehly is just unfortunate with Chelsea club, I'm not sure there is anyone that is unlucky like him when it comes to purchase of a club, from been a standard club to one of the low level club. If not for the hype and the past glory the club has achieved, it will be long forgotten or become one time performing club like Tottenham spur.

[rendravolt]

It still feels like a dream to see Arsenal successfully slaughter Leverkusen with a landslide score and is this really the Arsenal we know?

Even though this is only a pre-season match, the Gunners are so serious about being able to beat Leverkusen and I think this could be a good record after successfully beating last season's Bundesliga champions. Mikel Arteta must also be very happy with his team's performance in this match and it looks like he's fielding all of his main squad so they can win.

On the other hand, maybe Xabi Alonso freed his players here and didn't burden them all too much to achieve maximum results. Leverkusen certainly just wants their players to stay fit before the season starts and I think a defeat like this feels quite reasonable. It looks like Xabi Alonso also only fielded his reserve players and it's a stark contrast to what Arsenal did. In addition, Granit Xhaka was finally able to reunite against his former team and this was a fun match for him.

[Coyster]

The odds are overwhelming, no one really expects anything from Manchester United, from the famous red furies.
Manchester City is becoming a powerful and relentless team, so much so that it has truly ruthless betting odds.
Obviously bookmarks don't go to take money: so here too the result is obvious.

City are usually favorites to win against most teams in the world, and definitely against Manchester United, but the Manchester derby can be unpredictable sometimes and even the team in form can lose unexpectedly. Nobody expected Manchester United to beat City in the 2023/2024 Fa cup final, but they did. Don't get me wrong, i am not saying United is going to win the game, but there is a chance, and to add to that, the first game of the new season is usually tricky and the best players might not be at their best.

[SOKO-DEKE]

Well, they had an opportunity to make this upcoming season much better but they decided to let it slide by kicking Mauricio Pochettino out, that man took them to the Europa League spot after several errors by previous coaches and if not that Manchester United defeated City to win the FA Cup, Chelsea would've played in Europa League instead of Conference League, but then how did the board pay him back, by cutting ties with him when his bond with players on an off the team became strong. Enzo Maresca might encounter lots of difficulties and things might be worst than other coaches, not leaving behind the fact that he could have a serious confusion in selecting his best XI due to bulky squad depth. As for changing Maresca, it won't come like a surprise given that Todd Boehly lack patience and won't hesitate to look for another option if Maresca doesn't miss his expectations.

Chelsea was to quick to be sacking Mauricio Pochettino everyone deserves a chance to improve I can count how many coaches Chelsea have sacked within two seasons and if they continue like this people won't really have enough time for their strategy to actually work, but all Chelsea care about is instant result and for them to get exactly what they desire they will need to give their coaches more time to be able to establish what ever plan they have an not rush and expect to get results. Winning Europa was not enough for them. If not they would have even appreciated him at least winning a title for them but they want Chelsea to be equal with Manchester City and it won't be possible. They can not be on the same level with Manchester City. And even Manchester United winning the fa cup was all luck to me. Look at what happened to Manchester United during the preseason game with Liverpool they did not even stand a chance against them that is Liverpool for you. Enzo Maresca Will also try is best and and if they don't get results am sure Chelsea will fire him also but this season am sure nothing will come out of Chelsea.

Honestly, the way Chelsea have been sacking coaches, that's why they are not being getting reasonable improvement from those coaches. If they had given them more time, it may have lead to great improvement for Chelsea. As for Pochettino, I was not expecting that Chelsea would sack him so quickly like that, with the way he was trying his best. If Arsenal, which have improved under Arteta, now have the chances Arsenal has given him, I don't know why Chelsea will not be that patient with Pochettino. Any teams that sack coaches anyhow will find it very hard to see what they aim to achieve. Many coaches that Chelsea have brought and sacked were better managers in the teams they were in before,but the time Chelsea is not giving them is what is causing them not to achieve Chelsea's aims.

[Jaycoinz]

The odds are overwhelming, no one really expects anything from Manchester United, from the famous red furies.
Manchester City is becoming a powerful and relentless team, so much so that it has truly ruthless betting odds.
Obviously bookmarks don't go to take money: so here too the result is obvious.

City are usually favorites to win against most teams in the world, and definitely against Manchester United, but the Manchester derby can be unpredictable sometimes and even the team in form can lose unexpectedly. Nobody expected Manchester United to beat City in the 2023/2024 Fa cup final, but they did. Don't get me wrong, i am not saying United is going to win the game, but there is a chance, and to add to that, the first game of the new season is usually tricky and the best players might not be at their best.

Manchester united I would say got really lucky the last time they even won the FA cup from their city rivals because it was a clear stand that Manchester city are way better than united and I know they would definitely win the community shield from united this weekend although I can't be really certain as per say because that title isn't really that serious and they might decide to start their second squad and not all their top players.

[RockBell]

With the state of the players at Chelsea, I don't expect him to start winning immediately. Also, he's a new coach who is still trying to find his feet and the pre-season is the time where he can experiment all he wants. Let the players Chelsea are signing not deceive you, that team is a mess. I can't really tell what's going on in that team.
They have a total of 45 first-team players in their squad, that's absurd. You'll think that's the worst of it but no. All those 45 players are a bunch of average players and many of them are young players even teenagers. Who runs a club like that? It would be that mad if this club spent little money in signing these players but they spent a billion+ in pounds to acquire those players and that is excluding the signings they made this window. I wonder how the fans are just so quiet about all of this.
Now they're about to spend about 40 million pounds or so on Samu Omorodion, a player that scored 8 goals last season. They way they do business is laughable.

Chelsea players are not that bad both i think, Chelsea have been spending good money on players that is exactly what a club needs but Chelsea are spending money and their performance is still poor, despite all the money they have been spending. because Chelsea bought a lot of players still nothing good is coming out for now so they have to do better than what they have been doing because this is no longer the issue of having player or not they need to train the once they already  have. look at club like Liverpool that did not even participate in the transfer window are still and will continue to do well. how you prepare your players matters a lot. and even before Chelsea can be fully transformed it will take a lot of time for that to actually happen but you know fans they will want everything to happen in no time. using the preseason to experiment is not a bad idea because that is one of the places you test run anything you want to test run. when Chelsea played against Manchester city the facial expression their fans were putting on was funny because they already know that they their club is already loosing a lot of things, and for them to get that back is going to be a lot of work. if its about Chelsea spending money on players they are trying but they need to work on their players not buying alone to be their concern.

[Jaycoinz]

It still feels like a dream to see Arsenal successfully slaughter Leverkusen with a landslide score and is this really the Arsenal we know?

Even though this is only a pre-season match, the Gunners are so serious about being able to beat Leverkusen and I think this could be a good record after successfully beating last season's Bundesliga champions. Mikel Arteta must also be very happy with his team's performance in this match and it looks like he's fielding all of his main squad so they can win.

On the other hand, maybe Xabi Alonso freed his players here and didn't burden them all too much to achieve maximum results. Leverkusen certainly just wants their players to stay fit before the season starts and I think a defeat like this feels quite reasonable. It looks like Xabi Alonso also only fielded his reserve players and it's a stark contrast to what Arsenal did. In addition, Granit Xhaka was finally able to reunite against his former team and this was a fun match for him.

Well like I always say it's the friendly games and i wouldn't ever take these games that serious because the whole league itself hasn't kicked off and this lose can't be used to determine the way they will play because I can see even from the line up that most of the players of this Bayer Leverkusen wasn't actually featured and that's because maybe the Manager might be avoiding unnecessary injuries to his players.

[Egii Nna]

Since Manchester United couldn't have a good performance so far during the last season now they want to improve the team and especially the midfielders, that's why they decided to stop working with Casemiro and McTominay while these two players are both key players, and effective for Manchester united but they won't stop working with both players and hire some other players instead and they think Manuel Ugarte but this player too expensive and PSG asked 65 million euros for him that's why Manchester United thinks about Sander Berge the player Burnley.
 

 

The first question here is: did you think that sander Berge will be the best fix for Manchester United? Although we know that Sander Berge is a very talented midfielder that has impressed a lot of people so far, and based on consideration, he will be the best solution to fit in the midfielder than Ugarte, the best fact is that Manchester United should try their possible best to be so strong and good in this season so that they can do more than what they did in the previous season so that those that have an interest in supporting them will have the hope to support them more.
 
All expectations are now on Manchester United, and we have hope to see what they will do in this upcoming season if they will do more than last year or if they will do less, so we hope to see the best performance.

[Stable090]

Looking at the last 5 friendly matches, they won 1 match only 1 draw and 3 losses, of course it is not a good result but I have to agree that pre-season friendly match is not showing the real performance of the team.

I just hope Chelsea won’t continue like this when the season starts. I know we shouldn’t use pre-season matches to judge a team, but Chelsea's performance in pre-season matches is just kind of poor. I will keep on saying it that Chelsea defense is just too weak, and their opponents are always finding it easy to penetrate. We all saw how Chelsea conceded goals easily against Manchester City in their pre-season match. Seriously, their coach should try to fix all this before the season starts, because he might find it difficult to correct the mistake when the season starts.
 
Chelsea are making use of their main players in pre-season matches, so I expected their performance to be better. Other clubs are using the players they have in reserve, but Chelsea are making use of their main players, so I just have the feeling that if the season starts, there won’t really be any serious changes in their performance.

[Dailyscript]

Arsenal playing  Bayern  Leverkusen in Club Friendly. Arsenal  having a good time in the match-winning 3 goals to not in the first half of the friendly. Leverkusen taking full possession in the first half why Arsenal is leading in the first half. so what much are we expecting from Arsenal in the upcoming Premier League 2024/2025 season if they keep their good performance at this friendly and bring it in the upcoming Premier League fixtures they will be able to win the league and stop the holding champions Manchester City of winning league one more time this coming season. Arsenal leading in the second half by 4 goals against Leverkusen.

[Richbased]

It still feels like a dream to see Arsenal successfully slaughter Leverkusen with a landslide score and is this really the Arsenal we know?

Even though this is only a pre-season match, the Gunners are so serious about being able to beat Leverkusen and I think this could be a good record after successfully beating last season's Bundesliga champions. Mikel Arteta must also be very happy with his team's performance in this match and it looks like he's fielding all of his main squad so they can win.

On the other hand, maybe Xabi Alonso freed his players here and didn't burden them all too much to achieve maximum results. Leverkusen certainly just wants their players to stay fit before the season starts and I think a defeat like this feels quite reasonable. It looks like Xabi Alonso also only fielded his reserve players and it's a stark contrast to what Arsenal did. In addition, Granit Xhaka was finally able to reunite against his former team and this was a fun match for him.

Well like I always say it's the friendly games and i wouldn't ever take these games that serious because the whole league itself hasn't kicked off and this lose can't be used to determine the way they will play because I can see even from the line up that most of the players of this Bayer Leverkusen wasn't actually featured and that's because maybe the Manager might be avoiding unnecessary injuries to his players.

Yeah friendly games are not to be taken seriously but there is always a good feeling when teams takes it seriously and win most of their pre season games because it is also a way of preparing themselves ahead of the new seasons so sometimes their performance at pre season games can reflect in their normal league matches so whether Bayern Leverkusen played their best squad or not, it doesn't change the fact that Arsenal won them in a friendly match and looking at Arsenal squad that featured in this pre season match, most of their key players were available for this friendly match hence their ability to win Bayern Leverkusen all the way from the first half so friendly or no friendly game, it was a good result from Arsenal.

You need to understand that whether players that featured in a pre season match or not, every player is cautious of not getting injured before the league matches starts so is literally every team that doesn't play all their key players in a friendly match as some of the players are reserved for the new season games.

[baeva]

It still feels like a dream to see Arsenal successfully slaughter Leverkusen with a landslide score and is this really the Arsenal we know?

Even though this is only a pre-season match, the Gunners are so serious about being able to beat Leverkusen and I think this could be a good record after successfully beating last season's Bundesliga champions. Mikel Arteta must also be very happy with his team's performance in this match and it looks like he's fielding all of his main squad so they can win.

On the other hand, maybe Xabi Alonso freed his players here and didn't burden them all too much to achieve maximum results. Leverkusen certainly just wants their players to stay fit before the season starts and I think a defeat like this feels quite reasonable. It looks like Xabi Alonso also only fielded his reserve players and it's a stark contrast to what Arsenal did. In addition, Granit Xhaka was finally able to reunite against his former team and this was a fun match for him.

Well like I always say it's the friendly games and i wouldn't ever take these games that serious because the whole league itself hasn't kicked off and this lose can't be used to determine the way they will play because I can see even from the line up that most of the players of this Bayer Leverkusen wasn't actually featured and that's because maybe the Manager might be avoiding unnecessary injuries to his players.

I don't think Arsenal are too pleased with their win, like many they were just testing tactics and some players, everyone should realise that's what pre-season matches are for, not to satisfy their egos with wins. Most teams don't even put half of their main squad on the pitch in such matches. But it's definitely worth saying that Arsenal are feeling good about themselves