⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[TelolettOm]

And what's remarkable is that Aston Villa won this match away from home. I don't know why Chelsea performed like this, and I'm quite disappointed. But I admire Aston Villa performance; they're performing even better than last season. I think they have a chance to compete for the title if they can maintain this momentum. Let's wait and see, because the real battle will come closer to the end of the season.

Aston Villa played very well. They defeated Chelsea away from home, while Chelsea were humiliated by Aston Villa at home. Ollie Watkins overwhelmed the Chelsea players, scoring two goals in the second half. Chelsea turned the tables, having initially led with a goal from Joao Pedro.

With Aston Villa's victory, they managed to stay in third place, with a winning streak still unbeaten recently, like Man City.
Aston Villa won not because of pure luck, but they deserved the win because their performance was very good, especially Watkins who was incredible.

Source: Ollie Watkins

[SatoPrincess]

With each passing round it becomes clearer that Chelsea is unfortunately far from fighting for the title despite the large investment they have made in signings.



I wonder what the point is of a team making many signings and not fighting for the title, and being overtaken by Aston Villa who didn't make the same high level of signings. It seems like the problem isn't money in Chelsea's case, but somewhere else. I don't know what the management's objectives are with the coach, but I highly doubt Chelsea fans are celebrating Chelsea's current performance, and I hope things don't get worse, because there's a greater chance of things getting worse than better.

Chelsea are not doing too bad if you ask me. They can still make it to the Champions League next season, but there’s no chance that Chelsea are title contenders this season. It’s laughable how they spent so much in transfer signings but didn’t think to get a world class striker like Victor Osimhen to strengthen their attack. IMO this ideology that the sporting directors have about building a team of young players is not helping the progress of the club.

[Tonimez]

With each passing round it becomes clearer that Chelsea is unfortunately far from fighting for the title despite the large investment they have made in signings.



I wonder what the point is of a team making many signings and not fighting for the title, and being overtaken by Aston Villa who didn't make the same high level of signings. It seems like the problem isn't money in Chelsea's case, but somewhere else. I don't know what the management's objectives are with the coach, but I highly doubt Chelsea fans are celebrating Chelsea's current performance, and I hope things don't get worse, because there's a greater chance of things getting worse than better.

Chelsea are not doing too bad if you ask me. They can still make it to the Champions League next season, but there’s no chance that Chelsea are title contenders this season. It’s laughable how they spent so much in transfer signings but didn’t think to get a world class striker like Victor Osimhen to strengthen their attack. IMO this ideology that the sporting directors have about building a team of young players is not helping the progress of the club.

Chelsea has received their own share of the Aston villa hits this time. Aston villa is gradually becoming a torn in the flesh of teams and I'm so surprised too. Aston villa coming from behind to deliver the hit on Chelsea is even the most impressive aspect of the fun. I was thinking that Chelsea was about breaking the Aston villa winning streak after Pedro's goal but no, it didn't work! Unai Emery had a plan and Ole Watkins was watching, haha. Premier league is a funny sight to behold and I hope this drama doesn't end soon.

Arsenal has a fire behind, a very hot flame burning. Manchester city is not giving up and I don't know how arsenal plans to deal with it. Should Manchester city top the table, the arsenal is forever out of the race. Arsenal and Arteta has really worked so hard since over this 6 years of building the almighty team but I don't know when that result everyone is expecting will finally show up. When will arsenal win this league? Every season they end in the second place, head to the champions League and still loose out. Don't smile, give up and set your expectations low as an arsenal fan because this two points ahead of Manchester city is a delicate one.

Liverpool funds it's way to top four scoring two goals in one minute and keeping the pressure for the rest of the game. Congratulations to them, I hope they retain the spot.

[reagansimms]

And what's remarkable is that Aston Villa won this match away from home. I don't know why Chelsea performed like this, and I'm quite disappointed. But I admire Aston Villa performance; they're performing even better than last season. I think they have a chance to compete for the title if they can maintain this momentum. Let's wait and see, because the real battle will come closer to the end of the season.

Aston Villa played very well. They defeated Chelsea away from home, while Chelsea were humiliated by Aston Villa at home. Ollie Watkins overwhelmed the Chelsea players, scoring two goals in the second half. Chelsea turned the tables, having initially led with a goal from Joao Pedro.

With Aston Villa's victory, they managed to stay in third place, with a winning streak still unbeaten recently, like Man City.
Aston Villa won not because of pure luck, but they deserved the win because their performance was very good, especially Watkins who was incredible.

Aston Villa victory at Stamford Bridge was due to Unay Emery's ingenuity. He immediately moved quickly to overhaul his strategy after being 1-0 down in the first half. The substitution allowed Aston Villa to dominate the match in the second half and successfully stage a comeback after Ollie Watkins scored in the 63rd and 84th minutes. Aston Villa have now won 11 games in a row in all competitions and the extra 3 points at Stamford Bridge keeps them in the title race, currently they are only 3 points behind leaders Arsenal.

The victory over Chelsea further completes the positive results when facing big teams, previously they had beaten Arsenal, Man City, Man United and Tottenham, if Unay Emery can maintain his team's performance like this, it is not impossible that Aston Villa will win the EPL trophy like Claudio Ranieri once did with Leicester City.

[asriloni]

And what's remarkable is that Aston Villa won this match away from home. I don't know why Chelsea performed like this, and I'm quite disappointed. But I admire Aston Villa performance; they're performing even better than last season. I think they have a chance to compete for the title if they can maintain this momentum. Let's wait and see, because the real battle will come closer to the end of the season.

The reason is simple. Chelsea is not a serious club. Imagine starting Badiashile instead of Westley Fofana who is available. It's already a big mistake by them. The lack of depth in the CB position is really harming them at this moment.

All of their defenders are also getting low football IQ when it comes to defending from setpieces. They often conceded from set piece at the crucial time. They always leave man unguarded, and do nothing.

Their defense was the reason why they looked so garbage now. If they wanna improve, signing quality defender is a must especially in CB position.