Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026

[Hardyrobust]

In the match against Crystal Palace at Anfield, there was no better attacking effort from Liverpool players. Liverpool managed only 8 shots throughout the match and only 1 was on target. Such a performance is disappointing for a team like Liverpool. In that ratio, Crystal Palace played very well and scored 3 goals. More bad times are waiting for Slot if those new players do not increase their abilities further. The most surprising thing is that the experienced players in the team are also not playing well.

Liverpool's veteran players should be able to help the new players adapt to the Premier League, as it's quite competitive, and anyone who comes there will inevitably have to adjust to the current tactics and conditions. I'm also quite surprised by Liverpool's slump this season, even though they haven't made many changes to their players and have only added a few new players to their squad. As a result, I'm starting to doubt Liverpool's ability to progress further in the Champions League and Carabao Cup this season.

with time the players will adopt  to the playing pattern in premier league and is not something someone should tell them. They need time to adopt to Liverpool pattern of play. The current performance of Liverpool shouldn't really be a thing of surprise to anyone, that is football for you. It just like Manchester city last season, they started the season with a good form all of a sudden, the team lose form and it was even under struggle that they were able to qualify for champions League.

[barisbilgili]

In the match against Crystal Palace at Anfield, there was no better attacking effort from Liverpool players. Liverpool managed only 8 shots throughout the match and only 1 was on target. Such a performance is disappointing for a team like Liverpool. In that ratio, Crystal Palace played very well and scored 3 goals. More bad times are waiting for Slot if those new players do not increase their abilities further. The most surprising thing is that the experienced players in the team are also not playing well.

Liverpool's veteran players should be able to help the new players adapt to the Premier League, as it's quite competitive, and anyone who comes there will inevitably have to adjust to the current tactics and conditions. I'm also quite surprised by Liverpool's slump this season, even though they haven't made many changes to their players and have only added a few new players to their squad. As a result, I'm starting to doubt Liverpool's ability to progress further in the Champions League and Carabao Cup this season.

Now Liverpool need only focus on the Premier League. It's difficult when a team is in such a slump like Liverpool's, with poor chemistry between the players. I even see a lack of trust in the Liverpool players, making the team's play disorganized when building attacks or defending.

The defeat against Crystal Palace knocked Liverpool out of the Carabao Cup this season. It's not particularly painful, given the prestigious competitions they're aiming for, the Premier League and the Champions League. However, if Liverpool can't bounce back quickly, I doubt they have a chance of winning the title this season.
This will be a tough task for Arne Slot.

[Adbitco]

With the current scandal of referees in the Turkish league generally, isn't it obvious for those that usually doubt about stuffs like no match fixing. I hope this will further open our eyes to the things happening underground on the football pitch. Sometimes you will place a bet and after full time you're seeing something else. Just imagine a ref has placed a bet, what exactly do you think he will to endure his option comes. Sometimes you will see ridiculous yellow and red cards for some offences that isn't worth and sometimes you will see offences that deserves a card and not will be doing about it. I'm not saying all refs are like hat, but this should be an eye opener for us, that certain decisions taken on the pitch has a hand in it and you shouldn't be killing yourself over wrong decisions from the refs.

[PokerDiceMan]

Liverpool's veteran players should be able to help the new players adapt to the Premier League, as it's quite competitive, and anyone who comes there will inevitably have to adjust to the current tactics and conditions. I'm also quite surprised by Liverpool's slump this season, even though they haven't made many changes to their players and have only added a few new players to their squad. As a result, I'm starting to doubt Liverpool's ability to progress further in the Champions League and Carabao Cup this season.

Regarding the condition of the Liverpool team, it is not the players' responsibility. It is entirely the coach's responsibility, as the coach is the one who determines the starting eleven and the game strategy. The players have also had enough time to adapt since the pre-season matches, so the coach should certainly be able to determine the starting eleven. For example, Alexander Isak or other players recruited from Premier League teams certainly understand the game in the English league, and yet Alexander Isak's performance was not as good as when he played for Newcastle United.

[Localhostspeed]

We don't fix things when the manager can't even move the club to a standard position. It's too early to say that Arne Slot failed Liverpool? But in his first season, he was in bed after Jurgen Klopp arrange the club with solid bedrock, Slot inherited everything and won the English Premier League title with the current squad of Jurgen Klopp, now it's his turn to make things right, knowing how unstable they've become is weigh out or the box. Arne Slot spend huge €500m upwards and where's the result Liverpool get other than experiencing major setbacks.

Do you know everyone now paints Arne Slot as one of the unseen fraud in Liverpool football? Arne Slot have made zero impact this season and this is absolutely not suitable for the club's standards. Liverpool are bigger team, they have taste for Greatness and not been jeopardizing with commercials errors in the space.

Before Jurgen Klopp left Liverpool, it wasn't Liverpool was in a bad shape and left, I think it was his decision to step down after many years of winning some incredible trophy for the club. On coming to the club by Arne slot, he made the same good players Klopp has trained so well and he max played them and was able to win Trophy in his first appearance, they had many run up in other leagues too but things are looking like they are falling apart for Liverpool.

What's the way forward, it's clear that Liverpool don't have that sparkling defensive stile of playing. The back line is weak, the midfield is worse and the forwawd are barely catching up with counter defense from other teams and that is why they find it very had to win games. As long as that problem remain not fix, more loss will emerge with future games, to think they have sign some players and not effective for both starter and bench players is not good for Liverpool.

[SFR10]

Shouldn't Arsenal and City be focusing on other tournaments, why are they winning their matches while Liverpool allows themselves to suffer such a defeat in front of their fans?

The main reason why both Arsenal and Man City can simultaneously compete in multiple competitions is their squad depth ^{[a lot of their bench players are on par or better than half of the first team players from other teams]}.
^{- The main issue is that Liverpool spent a lot on getting the best available players for a few spots while completely ignoring other positions (there's no balance and squad depth)!}

BTW, regarding tomorrow's Arsenal game, I think this is finally the game that they'd score a lot of goals in the EPL again, so I'm going with over 2.5.
^{- I'm expecting both Man City and Liverpool games to be over 3.5 (with BTTS), but I'm not placing bets on who'd be the winners.}

[Egii Nna]

In the match against Crystal Palace at Anfield, there was no better attacking effort from Liverpool players. Liverpool managed only 8 shots throughout the match and only 1 was on target. Such a performance is disappointing for a team like Liverpool. In that ratio, Crystal Palace played very well and scored 3 goals. More bad times are waiting for Slot if those new players do not increase their abilities further. The most surprising thing is that the experienced players in the team are also not playing well.

Liverpool's veteran players should be able to help the new players adapt to the Premier League, as it's quite competitive, and anyone who comes there will inevitably have to adjust to the current tactics and conditions. I'm also quite surprised by Liverpool's slump this season, even though they haven't made many changes to their players and have only added a few new players to their squad. As a result, I'm starting to doubt Liverpool's ability to progress further in the Champions League and Carabao Cup this season.

Liverpool have already been knocked out of the Carabao Cup, and if care is not taken, they might still get knocked out of the Champions League at the round of 16, just as it happened to them in the Carabao Cup. It’s actually disappointing because we all know that Liverpool have not made that many changes that should affect their performance this much. They just keep counting losses as if they are counting numbers. This was not what we expected from Liverpool. Imagine Crystal Palace knocking out Liverpool with a clean sheet and the painful part is that it was a home game for Liverpool.

[Futurexxx]

What's the way forward, it's clear that Liverpool don't have that sparkling defensive stile of playing. The back line is weak, the midfield is worse and the forwawd are barely catching up with counter defense from other teams and that is why they find it very had to win games. As long as that problem remain not fix, more loss will emerge with future games, to think they have sign some players and not effective for both starter and bench players is not good for Liverpool.

The real problem of this Liverpool side is their defensive set up, and Arne slot playing some key players out of position like szoboszlai playing at right back, and with the work rate that guy in particular has, his absence in midfield weakens this Liverpool team to an extent in midfield, and it's also because of that McAlister isn't playing his best football since he is mostly isolated in midfield, so all these are what Arne slot really needs to fix very fast, if not, the pressure might build to the extent that the board are forced to fire him.

[JeffBrad12]

By fielding a reserve squad against Crystal Palace, I suspect this is also a tactic to get out of a competition they feel is less of a priority. Liverpool's primary focus right now is improving their league position and maintaining their chances of qualifying for European competition next season. They can still set aside other competitions, especially given the tight schedule and high risk of injury to first-team players, Arne Slot simply doesn't want to risk it.

What a non sense excuse to call the lost in the Carabao as a tactic to focus in other league. That's BS and i will never believe it. in my belief, the more trophies win by the team, the better mentality they get. Winning a trophy obviously boosting team's performance. callin Liverpool's lost as a tactic to get out of less priority competition don't make any sense.
In fact, they're also poor in UCL and EPL. That's saying Liverpool binning Carabao caused by it's a minor trophy is obviously wrong.

If you're a football player, you will be proud of when your team can win as many trophies as possible in a season.

[Kaliandra]

Arne Slot tried to build his own game scheme by recruiting the players he needed but the results were actually not good, even though if Arne Slot still stuck with the same players as Jurgen Klopp scheme, Liverpool performance might be more regular and still strong than they have to spend a lot of money to recruit several players, indeed most people's expectations this season after Arne Slot built his own scheme will make Liverpool performance stronger because from what I see the players he recruited also have good performance but it seems Arne Slot needs time to fix all of this I hope they don't experience a very drastic decline this season.

Indeed, if Arne Slot had maintained the old formation, it would have the potential to make Liverpool better than they are now. However, everything has already happened, and Arne Slot certainly did not expect this to happen because the players Liverpool bought are good players. So, we cannot blame Arne Slot because he has tried his best to build Liverpool to perform better this season.

Yes, it seems like I also predicted that Arne Slot would need time to improve the performance of Liverpool's players. Now, Liverpool has already played 9 matches, and there are still many matches to come. Arne Slot still has plenty of time to improve Liverpool, and it's possible that Liverpool's performance will improve soon. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

[Toro iskandar]

Burnley - Arsenal
Nottingham Forest - Manchester United
Manchester City - Bournemouth
Liverpool - Aston Villa
Tottenham - Chelsea

I was thinking about some matches for a parlay bet and I asked some people here for their opinions on them.
Can all of these matches achieve over 2.5?
Or is it better to choose only a few matches?
Share your predictions

[m4r1o]

Liverpool have already been knocked out of the Carabao Cup, and if care is not taken, they might still get knocked out of the Champions League at the round of 16, just as it happened to them in the Carabao Cup. It?s actually disappointing because we all know that Liverpool have not made that many changes that should affect their performance this much. They just keep counting losses as if they are counting numbers. This was not what we expected from Liverpool. Imagine Crystal Palace knocking out Liverpool with a clean sheet and the painful part is that it was a home game for Liverpool.

Liverpool will hardly be able to advance in the Champions League, we are talking about a team that is facing a long recovery process and this will take time and resources to ensure that the team is reborn from its ashes, the players are there, they just have to believe in it

[giorgione]

Indeed, it seems Liverpool aren't particularly focused on competing in the Carabao Cup, so they've only fielded their reserves to maintain the fitness of their core players for the upcoming Premier League match against Aston Villa. Given their current dire situation, Liverpool clearly need to prioritize more crucial matches. With their declining form and four consecutive defeats, they certainly don't want to risk losing again to Aston Villa.
But still, this defeat was devastating for Liverpool, as it came in front of their own fans, and it was still an embarrassing one.

The Carabao Cup is a cup that Liverpool were not interested in, it certainly doesn't interest them at the moment, they have other problems to face and the ahhano understood, now they just have to understand how to recover the energy and resources to face the next matches

[Adbitco]

Liverpool is off the EFL cup and it happened at the hand of Crystal Palace, this is the third consecutive time they are losing against this very team. Next up in the league is against Aston Villa. Liverpool has been awful of late and they have managed to be consistent at it. It's going to be a busy first week of November for Liverpool, After meeting Aston Villa, they will be up against Real Madrid in the champions league and after that they will also meet Manchester City in the league. It's not going to be funny but they need to wake up and start winning games.

It's a shame that things have to turn out this way for them. They were in cruise control few weeks ago and suddenly everything changed and now they are finding it difficult to change the course of their games. When they won against Frankfurt I really thought they are back because winning with such margin should be able to bring back their confidence.

Crystal Palace are now very confident and comfortable when playing against Liverpool and everytime they somehow find a way to come out victorious. Their next fixtures is very difficult fixture, I don't know who is the home team against Aston villa but I don't think it matters anymore. They will struggle and the chances of Liverpool winning the game is low because the same Aston Villa won against Manchester City last weekend so the match will definitely be difficult for this struggling Liverpool team.

I won't want to talk about facing Real Madrid or Manchester City yet until they are over Aston Villa maybe their performance will improve.

I listened to one guy saying something online few weeks ago about Liverpool and I kind of agree with him. Liverpool were not showing signs and playing like champions, their first few games which they won, which is good, but if you watch the game, you will notice that Liverpool struggled in those games. They were having narrow wins and we thought maybe it's them still looking for means to win and now it's turned the other way and teams has figured out a way to beat them. They now loss with 2 or more goals score line.

[Xcode7]

Burnley - Arsenal
Nottingham Forest - Manchester United
Manchester City - Bournemouth
Liverpool - Aston Villa
Tottenham - Chelsea

I was thinking about some matches for a parlay bet and I asked some people here for their opinions on them.
Can all of these matches achieve over 2.5?
Or is it better to choose only a few matches?
Share your predictions

Choosing a parlay bet with all the same options isn't a good idea. I'm not confident all of these matches will end with odds over 2.5, so it's better to choose something else.

Burnley vs Arsenal
This match shouldn't be difficult for Arsenal, as they're in great form. So, they'll want to continue this trend to maintain their consistent form and secure their position at the top of the Premier League table. Therefore, I'm confident Arsenal will win easily.

Nottingham Forest vs Manchester United
This is a match I've been looking forward to. I want to see Manchester United win again. They're currently on a high after winning three in a row, so I'm confident Manchester United will win.

Manchester City vs Bournemouth
This will be a tough match. Bournemouth are in pretty good form right now, while Manchester City are inconsistent, so I think it's a tough match to predict.

Liverpool vs Aston Villa
There's not much to expect from Liverpool, even though they're playing at home.

Tottenham vs Chelsea
The London derby always presents a fierce and unpredictable match, with anything possible.

[verdinio]

We don't fix things when the manager can't even move the club to a standard position. It's too early to say that Arne Slot failed Liverpool? But in his first season, he was in bed after Jurgen Klopp arrange the club with solid bedrock, Slot inherited everything and won the English Premier League title with the current squad of Jurgen Klopp, now it's his turn to make things right, knowing how unstable they've become is weigh out or the box. Arne Slot spend huge ?500m upwards and where's the result Liverpool get other than experiencing major setbacks.

Do you know everyone now paints Arne Slot as one of the unseen fraud in Liverpool football? Arne Slot have made zero impact this season and this is absolutely not suitable for the club's standards. Liverpool are bigger team, they have taste for Greatness and not been jeopardizing with commercials errors in the space.

I think exactly that Arne Slot was lucky enough to inherit a great team with which he won the championship easily. Now it's up to him to put things right and they're getting more and more difficult. If he succeeds, everyone will say he's the best, but if he continues like this, they'll kick him out.

[tottong]

In the match against Crystal Palace at Anfield, there was no better attacking effort from Liverpool players. Liverpool managed only 8 shots throughout the match and only 1 was on target. Such a performance is disappointing for a team like Liverpool. In that ratio, Crystal Palace played very well and scored 3 goals. More bad times are waiting for Slot if those new players do not increase their abilities further. The most surprising thing is that the experienced players in the team are also not playing well.

This was due to Arne Slot's attempts to rotate players, which resulted in his strategy not working well, as most players were unable to perform at the desired level.
This is a particular concern for coaches, as sometimes trying to use rotation to maintain player fitness for Premier League matches can be problematic. Furthermore, Liverpool are currently under immense pressure after a series of consecutive defeats in previous matches.
When a strategy doesn't work well, even experienced players will struggle to keep up because so many others are likely to make mistakes, as happened against Crystal Palace.

[Oluwa-btc]

Burnley - Arsenal
Nottingham Forest - Manchester United
Manchester City - Bournemouth
Liverpool - Aston Villa
Tottenham - Chelsea

I was thinking about some matches for a parlay bet and I asked some people here for their opinions on them.
Can all of these matches achieve over 2.5?
Or is it better to choose only a few matches?
Share your predictions

Arsenal for the win, Strong fixture, but Manchester United for a win or draw against Nottingham Forest, win for Manchester City,  A win or draw for Liverpool, Chelsea definitely getting three points.  There could be a high possibility of that happening trust me. I'm still certain Arsenal will be retaining the top spot. I will agree with this particular predictions for Arsenal but not completely for all them top clubs innit.

[Frankolala]

We don't fix things when the manager can't even move the club to a standard position. It's too early to say that Arne Slot failed Liverpool? But in his first season, he was in bed after Jurgen Klopp arrange the club with solid bedrock, Slot inherited everything and won the English Premier League title with the current squad of Jurgen Klopp, now it's his turn to make things right, knowing how unstable they've become is weigh out or the box. Arne Slot spend huge ?500m upwards and where's the result Liverpool get other than experiencing major setbacks.

Do you know everyone now paints Arne Slot as one of the unseen fraud in Liverpool football? Arne Slot have made zero impact this season and this is absolutely not suitable for the club's standards. Liverpool are bigger team, they have taste for Greatness and not been jeopardizing with commercials errors in the space.

I think exactly that Arne Slot was lucky enough to inherit a great team with which he won the championship easily. Now it's up to him to put things right and they're getting more and more difficult. If he succeeds, everyone will say he's the best, but if he continues like this, they'll kick him out.

This was what I said in one of my previous post. Flick was lucky to enjoy from the fruit of Klopp because last season victory wasn't by is own doing but due to the solid foundation that Klopp has laid down before he left. Let Slot prove this by bringing back the team to form so that they can start winning their matches. I will be surprised if Liverpool didn't finish on top four this season.

[Altryist]

This was due to Arne Slot's attempts to rotate players, which resulted in his strategy not working well, as most players were unable to perform at the desired level.
This is a particular concern for coaches, as sometimes trying to use rotation to maintain player fitness for Premier League matches can be problematic. Furthermore, Liverpool are currently under immense pressure after a series of consecutive defeats in previous matches.
When a strategy doesn't work well, even experienced players will struggle to keep up because so many others are likely to make mistakes, as happened against Crystal Palace.

The worst thing would be if they lose the match against Aston Villa, and I'd say that's possible, as their recent matches show they're gradually getting back into form, and the win over City is a good example of that. Liverpool's management hasn't commented on the team's internal affairs yet, but it's clear this isn't the result they were expecting when they spent so much money on transfers. And if Liverpool loses again tomorrow, I think it could be Slot's last match with the team.