Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026

[DubemIfedigbo001]

If Chelsea had not scored at the beginning of the match, they would have played much more offensively. I wonder if their strategy will be successful, we are entering the last 20 minutes of the match and the match is still a draw. Both teams will take a little more risk, I think we will watch 1 more goal in this match and the match will not end in a draw. but both teams can make mistakes and both teams can score

Edit: They scored with Haaland, Chelsea may have no chance anymore

Further edit, Foden has sealed the game. It's now 3. I believe E. Maresca would have to deal more with the fitness of the team and reduce his extremism in playing defensive game, he's even turned Madueke to a false 2. Most Chelsea players aren't smart at all and are looking weak and fatigued. Manchester city players are more full of if energy. Nkunku was a mistake of a substitution today. I would've preferred Guiu honestly.

The match is technically over, there's no way Chelsea is getting anything from this match. Congratulations to Manchester City. They earned the win from an amazing display. Haaland is world class. When he's not scoring, he's creating chances.

[Amphenomenon]

If Chelsea had not scored at the beginning of the match, they would have played much more offensively. I wonder if their strategy will be successful, we are entering the last 20 minutes of the match and the match is still a draw. Both teams will take a little more risk, I think we will watch 1 more goal in this match and the match will not end in a draw. but both teams can make mistakes and both teams can score

Edit: They scored with Haaland, Chelsea may have no chance anymore

Chelsea are currently losing three goals to one and now it's at extra time. There's no hope for a comeback, Chelsea has often find it difficult to get a win against Manchester City since we recently started declining after our Champions League victory against them in 2021.

Even the current unstable City team are still able to be the better team against us tonight sadly and Haaland do often enjoying getting in the scoresheet against us.

[fuguebtc]

Right now Manchester City conditions are becoming increasingly worse this season now the match is in the late minutes and yet they're maintaining a 1:1 draw with Chelsea, I think this season is just off for Manchester City and if this match eventually ends in a draw or Chelsea adding an extra goal to winning Manchester City it then means that man City should just forget this season and bench on till next season because at the moment retaining the title I off their hands and the coach should just accept the fact that a change in patten is needed.
Updated: Manchester city added another goal a few minutes ago: now Manchester city 2:1

The game was unpredictable as I said in my previous comment, but if any team will win it is Manchester City because they have some skillful players in the team than Chelsea. And now that they have gotten 2-1, they should defend the goal so if they end with the 2-1 they have won. And if Chelsea mistakenly score another goal then the match will end with draw.
Edited: 3-1. Chelsea is gone based on the time frame that is left in the game.

After a long time we got to see a well-organized gameplay from Manchester City. And Manchester City won against a first-tier team. The match ended 3-1. Manchester City's overall performance was also very good. City was in very bad form. In the last match, City lost 4-2 against PSG. So, beating Chelsea in today's match was a big challenge for City.

Chelsea scored the first goal of the match. And Chelsea played a bit defensively. Even then, Chelsea players were able to make several strong attacks. However, City players dominated the match with 64% ball possession. At the end of the first half, the match was tied 1-1. Haaland scored in the 68th minute of the second half and FOden's goal in the 87th minute ensured a 3-1 victory for Manchester City.

[SatoPrincess]

Madueke scored the opening goal for Chelsea. Mikel Obi will have a lot to say about Jackson in his next podcast. Nicolas Jackson has missed two clear goal opportunities in 30 minutes of the first half. Chelsea are a good club, I love what Enzo Maresca is building with this team but they need to sign a striker that can guarantee them goals because Jackson is not dependable.

Edit: Manchester went on to win the match 3-1. They completely dominated the second half, I didn’t expected Chelsea to fall that easily.

[Docnaster]

If Chelsea had not scored at the beginning of the match, they would have played much more offensively. I wonder if their strategy will be successful, we are entering the last 20 minutes of the match and the match is still a draw. Both teams will take a little more risk, I think we will watch 1 more goal in this match and the match will not end in a draw. but both teams can make mistakes and both teams can score

Edit: They scored with Haaland, Chelsea may have no chance anymore

Just after Erling Haaland scored to put Manchester City ahead, Phil Foden added Manchester City's third three minutes before the end of normal time. Chelsea failed to make good use of their chances in the second half ajd because Manchester City were able to equalize before the break, I wasn't expecting Chelsea to get the better of Manchester City tonight. Enzo Maresca's overall performance for Chelsea this season I don't think is an impressive one and his failure to know which players that should be benched I think is another reason Chelsea have lost some points in the league this season. Chelsea current first choice goalkeeper Sanchez isn't playing with enough confidence hence the series of errors that's led to goals so I think Maresca should turn his attention to the second choice goalkeeper

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I guess it is much more entertaining to watch Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest playing this season rather than watching Tottenham and Manchester United struggling to defend against their opponents from scoring goals past them. Even though Nottingham Forest has suffered their biggest loss against Bournemouth today by conceding 5 goals at the final whistle, but Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth are still having a better record as compared to Tottenham and Manchester United in the total number of goals conceded so far for this season.

Although the match was entertaining with many goals for Bournemouth, it was a little upset to see the result where Nottingham forest could not score a goal which in the end the bet had to lose.

I'll get over it because this is all that's at stake.

Well, even though they have a good record, this defeat is like Forest is nothing so I'm a little surprised with the 5-0 result which is a lot out of the ordinary.

[Asiska02]

City was able to put themselves back in the game before the end of the first half after Joško Gvardiol was able to equalize the goal on the 42nd minutes of the match with a rebound. City wasn't really happy after the early goal deficit, and that kept them on the struggle to equalize the goal and it came through after several opportunities. I hope to see more impressive displays from both teams in the second half.

The match today was a success to Manchester City and they really outperformed Chelsea and got that deserving big win today. They came back all the way from one goal to a victorious three goals win against one goal from Chelsea. Manchester City are now back into the top four of the table and they are now keeping their hope of the top four table alive once again. Chelsea are really disappointing and I don’t know what to say more about them. Whenever they get a chance to top four of the table, they misuse it and now they now see their self back below the the top four of the table.

The match is technically over, there's no way Chelsea is getting anything from this match. Congratulations to Manchester City. They earned the win from an amazing display. Haaland is world class. When he's not scoring, he's creating chances.

Haaland has been booed in the past for not been able to create more chances or score any goals when they were in their poor form. But in this match, we can see the big name Halland once again getting it all right and putting his team on the lead in today’s game. Pep Guardiola is far from being not able to do anything this season for the club, he can still achieve success this season even though it won’t be like he did last season.

[Frankolala]

Right now Manchester City conditions are becoming increasingly worse this season now the match is in the late minutes and yet they're maintaining a 1:1 draw with Chelsea, I think this season is just off for Manchester City and if this match eventually ends in a draw or Chelsea adding an extra goal to winning Manchester City it then means that man City should just forget this season and bench on till next season because at the moment retaining the title I off their hands and the coach should just accept the fact that a change in patten is needed.
Updated: Manchester city added another goal a few minutes ago: now Manchester city 2:1

The game was unpredictable as I said in my previous comment, but if any team will win it is Manchester City because they have some skillful players in the team than Chelsea. And now that they have gotten 2-1, they should defend the goal so if they end with the 2-1 they have won. And if Chelsea mistakenly score another goal then the match will end with draw.
Edited: 3-1. Chelsea is gone based on the time frame that is left in the game.

After a long time we got to see a well-organized gameplay from Manchester City. And Manchester City won against a first-tier team. The match ended 3-1. Manchester City's overall performance was also very good. City was in very bad form. In the last match, City lost 4-2 against PSG. So, beating Chelsea in today's match was a big challenge for City.

Chelsea scored the first goal of the match. And Chelsea played a bit defensively. Even then, Chelsea players were able to make several strong attacks. However, City players dominated the match with 64% ball possession. At the end of the first half, the match was tied 1-1. Haaland scored in the 68th minute of the second half and FOden's goal in the 87th minute ensured a 3-1 victory for Manchester City.

Manchester City showed us the best of their football quality today, holding to their ground and showing the visitors what they are made of. From one goal down, they took the lead and won the match. Chelsea opened the scoreline but couldn't score any other goal after that, instead they lost focus and allowed themselves to be outplayed by City who kept on pressuring their defense till they scored three goals.

[Callido]

Madueke scored the opening goal for Chelsea. Mikel Obi will have a lot to say about Jackson in his next podcast. Nicolas Jackson has missed two clear goal opportunities in 30 minutes of the first half. Chelsea are a good club, I love what Enzo Maresca is building with this team but they need to sign a striker that can guarantee them goals because Jackson is not dependable.

Edit: Manchester went on to win the match 3-1. They completely dominated the second half, I didn’t expected Chelsea to fall that easily.

Mikel Obi always have something negative to say, no one tells him the crab he says. He was also in the club and i wondered what really did he make for the club, just tired of seeing  bunch of retired plebs call out others when they are seemingly same.

We know Jackson for always missing chances, but all needs is to motivate and not criticize any player in the team.

Impressive performance from Manchester City, the victory was deserved and all efforts for the signings did pay off even though they were later subbed out.

[Salahmu]

Either ways one of the things can happen, so is either Manchester City toys with them or Chelsea will toys with them but Manchester City is the only one who got shocked previously. However which of the matches today bit your imagination? Because for me it was the Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest, it start by a goal but the concern was not alarming because any club can face that also when they are still adjusting, so I thought but I didn't no that the adjusting was to be conceiving more goals, by the time it clock two goals then I knew the adjustment has gone bad and they keep coming for Nottingham Forest and the final thing we saw was 5:0 against Nottingham forest without cancellation.

This game is certainly the most surprising for any gambler today because no one was expecting the game to be won with such big margin between the two teams because if not anything it would even be said that Nottingham forest were actually the stronger side but that's totally not the case when the end results came because there totally out done by the home team which wouldn't have been such a big suprise at all if not for the fact that the goal margin was crazy.

Actually I will just say there mind was not there because of the gaps I saw, losing this 3 points is too expensive for Nottingham forest, actually it shouldn't have been Bournemouth that will do this to them even when Liverpool cannot win them, however this will also make Brighton to also want to do what Bournemouth has just done to them next time. Actually now I understand what some persons was saying about Manchester City regaining, wining Chelsea today has just paste it on the wall, it was a tiring one for the players but wining 3:1 is a recovery medication for them.

[rahmad2nd]

It was a really exciting match, and this is how it should be when two big teams face each other. Just as the match was underway, Chelsea surprisingly managed to score a quick goal after Maduake successfully found the net in the 3rd minute. Man City's new defender has got off to a really bad start as he made a blunder that resulted in a goal for Chelsea, and hopefully, he doesn't get caught up in that unpleasant impression because he was signed to be the solution to Man City's back line (instead of being another problem).

Maybe City's new defender was a little unconfident in his first match, especially since he was a young player. in this match Pep played two of his new arrivals, Abdulkodir Khusanov and Omar Marmoush. I think Pep was quite reckless in playing his two new arrivals, maybe this was because Man City's core players did not satisfy what the coach wanted. in this match Chelsea was able to take the lead first with a quick goal created by Madueke, but unfortunately the advantage did not last long which was replied by Gvardiol until the score became a draw. if in City Abdulkodir Khusanov played with poor performance, while in Chelsea's camp two players, Colwill and the goalkeeper played Underperform. initially I thought the result of this match would end in a draw or City would lose again, but the final result was City who won this match with a final score of 3-1. Man City is now back in 4th place, while Chelsea is in 6th place. on City's side, a good start to victory after a bad match in the Champions League. Meanwhile, Chelsea still have the opportunity to break into the top 4 of the standings, even though the points difference with the team above them is not that obvious.

[Felicity_Tide]

The two games that I will be looking forward to watching is the Bournemouth/Forest, and Manchester City/Chelsea game.

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I picked these two games for a reason, and I didn't regret myself watching them.
Like I said, the Bournemouth/Forest game is the game between two underdogs. I was never in a hurry to making predictions because I know the results could go in favor of any side. Though, I was expecting goals from both sides, but Bournemouth was never going to let that happen. Another week to praise Kluivert again. He's such a addition to the Bournemouth team, scoring another outside 18yards goal after doing that In their last game if I remember correctly.

And as for Manchester city/Chelsea. What a perfect response from their last defeat, though I can't say that they are fully back on form. Taking that early lead was never enough for Chelsea, as Manchester City ended up returning 3 goals. As it stands, City is currently sitting in top four, which should be something for everyone to start taking note of.

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        Wolves vs Arsenal


Arsenal ended the first half with ten men after Lewis-Skelly got a red card on the 43rd minutes of the game for a reckless tackle on Matt Doherty on his right foot ankle. Arsenal is now in a tight corner to win Wolves away from home, because Wolves was also trying their best to see how they can score Arsenal even with their complete players.

It's it's unfortunate, Gomes from Wolves has also been issued red card, after intentionally commiting a rough foul on William Salina, making both clubs now having an equal ten players on the game play, which is literally going to be of better advantage now for Arsenal players. Because I just noticed that just 4 minutes after Gomes was issued red card and Left the field, Arsenal has been able to capitalize on that advantage and scored it's first goal by Calafiori at 74 minutes into the game. But however, let's see what the outcome will be, as I could noticed both wolves and Arsenal really having a tough time at the moment.

It's clear that Arsenal will win this match because the games is balanced based on the number of players, and Arsenal has taken the lead on the 74th minutes. Arsenal almost scored their second goal but it was a weak shot. Raya is doing a great job for his team to secure three points in this match.

The match is now on an additional five minutes and Wolves is pressuring Arsenal defense, but I don't think it will be possible for them to equalize the goal before the end of stoppage time.

And I'm very happy Mikel Arteta and his boys were able to secure today's game three point which I predicted and gambled on, despite the one man down, because to be frankly speaking, we could confess that Wolves did actually played a very fantastic game today, and also having the most ball possession and shots on target, only just that they weren't lucky enough to have won, of which Calafiori took great advantage of, placing Arsenal as second with 47 points, just 6points away from Liverpool taking the lead table with 53 points. However, it was quite an interesting game to watch.

Secondly, Bournemouth did actually surprised me today, winning Nottingham with 5 goals to nil, a clear clean sheet, which we least expected. Hence, placing them 7th on the league table with 40 points.

[Sexylizzy2813]

In as much as City won with that awful display from Chelsea I'd like to know what is Enzo Maresca doing as a manager with Jackson on the pitch, starting him every single game? This is something both the board and the fans need to question Enzo Maresca of because this man Jackson has been killing the build up of Chelsea since the beginning of this season, if he had converted some of those chances including the ones that was ruled out for offside I see no reason why the defense of Manchester City shouldn't be scared of him whenever he's with the ball and you'd agree with me that Chelsea should have won this game if he had been up to standard, he should be ashamed of himself and Enzo on the other hand is not acting as a strict manager as he claim to be.

[BIT-BENDER]

I actually haven't seen Manchester City in the premier League choosing to waste time an run the clock down when they are winning 3-1, this shows how down the confidence of the team is. Naturally Manchester City would still dominate the game and possibly score again but today it feels like they were surprised to be winning. In between congratulations to them it wasn't an easy match because I think Chelsea were in a better position to win the game.

[iBaba]

Although the match was entertaining with many goals for Bournemouth, it was a little upset to see the result where Nottingham forest could not score a goal which in the end the bet had to lose.

I'll get over it because this is all that's at stake.

Well, even though they have a good record, this defeat is like Forest is nothing so I'm a little surprised with the 5-0 result which is a lot out of the ordinary.

Today's Bournemouth game was full of entertainment considering how they were able to lash the Nottingham with 5 goals to none as well as taking the possession from them. Bournemouth haven't gotten this opportunity to win the Nottingham side with this margin before, but seeing this great outing today will serve as a morale booster for them while it makes the Nottingham chances slimmer in the league table.

Manchester City showed us the best of their football quality today, holding to their ground and showing the visitors what they are made of. From one goal down, they took the lead and won the match. Chelsea opened the scoreline but couldn't score any other goal after that, instead they lost focus and allowed themselves to be outplayed by City who kept on pressuring their defense till they scored three goals.

After the first goal scored by Madueke, I thought Chelsea was going to win this game today until I saw the goal scored by Gvardiol at the 42nd minute of the game in the first half and that equalizer was a turning point for the Manchester City. I enjoyed the way Haaland grinded the Chelsea side with the swift goal scored by him while Foden was able to score another mouthwatering goal at the 87th minute of the game.

This match that was won by the Manchester City guys have seen the club with 3 points and a rise at the table standing to the 4th position of the EPL table. Still below the Nottingham Forest who are 3 points ahead. After a significant win of 6 goals to none against the Ipswich side, the Manchester City guys have done it well enough again.

The next fixture will be against the Arsenal side and I really hope that they will be able to win Arsenal since Arsenal hasn't been so consistent lately. If Arsenal is able to win against the Manchester City, it will boost their chances of closing the gaps against the Liverpool who are taking the leading position right now.

[Marvelockg]

Madueke scored the opening goal for Chelsea. Mikel Obi will have a lot to say about Jackson in his next podcast. Nicolas Jackson has missed two clear goal opportunities in 30 minutes of the first half. Chelsea are a good club, I love what Enzo Maresca is building with this team but they need to sign a striker that can guarantee them goals because Jackson is not dependable.

Edit: Manchester went on to win the match 3-1. They completely dominated the second half, I didn’t expected Chelsea to fall that easily.

Mikel Obi always have something negative to say, no one tells him the crab he says. He was also in the club and i wondered what really did he make for the club, just tired of seeing  bunch of retired plebs call out others when they are seemingly same.

this is the premier league for crying out loud, you don't want to be baby sited for ages when other teams are scoring more goals and getting the result their club is looking for. i might not be a fan of the Mikel obi and definitely, obi result at Chelsea might not place him at a better position to speaking to Jackson but even at that, truth is that Jackson is not the kind of player that can lead Chelsea to even the top four let alone winning the league. the last time Mikel obi went at him, at least he took the challenge and started scoring goals, he needs to step up his game and do that very fast or else there will be no alternative that getting him out of the team and looking for a replacement asap.

We know Jackson for always missing chances, but all needs is to motivate and not criticize any player in the team.

and what does it do to the team? they always suffers for it because it is never easy to get some clear chances against a team as city, when you have one, all you need do is to burry it at the back of the net, that is what Jackson lacks the ability to doing and no amount of encouragement will make him better at it. what he needs is just competition so he knows that every opportunity to play should be made the best of. it is a tough spot to be as an attacker but if he wants to remain relevant in big league, he has to make himself useful for the team.

[Amphenomenon]

Just after Erling Haaland scored to put Manchester City ahead, Phil Foden added Manchester City's third three minutes before the end of normal time. Chelsea failed to make good use of their chances in the second half ajd because Manchester City were able to equalize before the break, I wasn't expecting Chelsea to get the better of Manchester City tonight. Enzo Maresca's overall performance for Chelsea this season I don't think is an impressive one and his failure to know which players that should be benched I think is another reason Chelsea have lost some points in the league this season. Chelsea current first choice goalkeeper Sanchez isn't playing with enough confidence hence the series of errors that's led to goals so I think Maresca should turn his attention to the second choice goalkeeper

People will soon start questioning Enzo Maresca decision to be honest and I may be among them though currently not now but soon expect this begins to change.

Before this game, our rate of converting chances to goals were few and we mainly or only blame Jackson maybe because he is often the one missing clear chances but some of our attackers/wingers needs to do more also while others still need opportunities but the annoying thing when some of them are given these chances in the EPL some fail to utilise them consistently.

Robert Sanchez has always been disappointing overall causing us so much although I don't entirely blamed him for the Haaland goal rather the entirely CB. Aside thus he is still disappointing that he is still our main goalie, there was a reason Pochettino dropped him and then stick Petrovic last season as the number one, we need a better goalie, even Kep wasn't this disappointing consecutively.

[red4slash]

If Chelsea had not scored at the beginning of the match, they would have played much more offensively. I wonder if their strategy will be successful, we are entering the last 20 minutes of the match and the match is still a draw. Both teams will take a little more risk, I think we will watch 1 more goal in this match and the match will not end in a draw. but both teams can make mistakes and both teams can score

Edit: They scored with Haaland, Chelsea may have no chance anymore

Chelsea are currently losing three goals to one and now it's at extra time. There's no hope for a comeback, Chelsea has often find it difficult to get a win against Manchester City since we recently started declining after our Champions League victory against them in 2021.

Even the current unstable City team are still able to be the better team against us tonight sadly and Haaland do often enjoying getting in the scoresheet against us.

Significant changes occurred because the difference in performance was very visible in the first half and the second half where Manchester City did something different and finally succeeded in making Chelsea surrender in this match.

In the first half, Chelsea was quite good, especially after Madueke's quick goal made them more motivated to add goals to secure their margin of advantage. But for the second half, it seemed that Manchester City had full control in this match even though Chelsea tried to make a difference several times, but it cannot be denied that Manchester City's superiority was very different in this second half.
A very good comeback and at the same time made their condition continue to improve over time in the EPL, which of course made Manchester City more confident in other matches because slowly but surely Manchester City is now back in the top 4 position which has been lost for a long time.

[Charles-Tim]

They are almost  in the same range in the game  but Bournemouth 3-0 Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth is leading the game at home. Bournemouth has played 20 games so far and they won 4-1 against Newcastle United last weekend which was an interesting game from them. 10 were home and 10 were away. 9 wins, 5 loses and 6 draws. J. Kluivert is the man of the match for now as for me. The game is getting more impressive and those Bournemouth strikers are mad on the field.

Bournemouth later won 5 to 0. It was really a bad match for Nottingham. It would have been good if Nottingham can score some goals but the club scored nothing. That is very bad of the club. I hope the club weakness is not known today but very possible some clubs will checkout the match to look for Nottingham weaknesses. It is true that Bournemouth has been so impressive lately.