⚽ Premier League 2023/2024 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Strongkored]

Romeo Lavia's last condition has been announced and it looks like he won't be able to play in the remaining part of the season either. Chelsea are really unlucky with their transfers. They have been struggling with many injuries for a long time. If the injury problem wasn't this serious would they be better? I can't be confident about it as well.  


_{Lavia injury source: Transfermarkt}

It is like all that money spent is for nothing. They are still in the middle of the league standings. Zero difference between last 2 seasons...

I checked on Google and Roméo Lavia only played once for Chelsea and don't know for sure whether it was full time or just as a substitute so Chelsea have had no luck with player transfers this season because not only Roméo Lavia was injured but several of their new players experienced the same thing even though not a long injury like Roméo Lavia.

Chelsea felt a loss because the value of Roméo Lavia was quite high when Chelsea bought him and that was because there were two clubs who made offers to Southampton to get this player, with the long injury suffered by this defender, it is very possible for Chelsea to be aggressive again in the transfer market because so far their players have not performed as expected.

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[pawel7777]

(...)City have the biggest chances, but the three teams are not that different. This is really very exciting to watch.

Yeah, if Man City manages to score 3 points on Arsenal this Sun, they'll be the massive favourite to win the EPL. They will still have games against Villa (home) and Tottenham (away) to play, but overall they'll have easier games than Liverpool or Arsenal.
Currently, the odds of winning the league are:
Man City: 2.2
Liverpool: 3.0
Arsenal: 3.75

[Sunderland]

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Having games like;

Tottenham Hotspur against Manchester City and  Aston Villa against Manchester City is reason enough why nobody should write off Manchester United from qualifying for that top four position.

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Yep apart from Mancity, Aston also still has to face Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Brighton at home. And it looks like they might lose many points from these matches.
Meanwhile for Tottenham, they also still have to play against Chelsea, Mancity, Newcastle, Arsenal and Liverpool.
Manutd clearly still has a chance to be in the top 4 of the league at the end of this season, as long they dont waste any more points against relatively weaker teams.

[Toro iskandar]

Why does it have to be Gareth Southgate? Gareth Southgate might be considered an experienced coach and as we know he has coached the England national team for quite a long time but until now he has not had any good achievements that he can present. So I think Gareth Southgate is not the coach that Man United needs right now. Maybe it would be better if Man United tried to sign Xabi Alonso. He may not have much experience, but what I see is that he is a coach who has a winning mentality and I think this is the kind of coach that Man United should get.

Of course it doesn't have to be Southgate. I just talked about it because of the recent rumours going around.    There are surely better options with really good careers.

I have already mentioned Conte as an example. He is familiar with the Premier League already you know. He has a nice history with Chelsea like winning a Premier League and an FA Cup titles. Maybe he would be considered as one of the candidates in case of deciding to sack Erik ten Hag. However there are new rumours like Sir Jim Ratcliffe can give another chance to Erik ten Hag for next season. If this happens they had better make their transfers properly in the summer.

There are still many things that need to be considered in filling Ten Hag's position in the future as coach of the Manchester United club. Yes, even though many candidates have been mentioned, such as Roberto De Zerbi, Thomas Frank and Gareth Southgate, of course ESPN is still considering it carefully by looking at the credibility of each candidate to replace Ten Hag. This certainly won't be easy or fast.
If the rumors you convey above are true, then this will be a joy for the Manchester United players and their fans because during his time as coach, Ten Hag had a big influence on the progress and development of the Manchester United club during this time because he was under his guidance. Ten Hag's guidance, the Manchester United players performed enthusiastically and made the Manchester United club a popular club throughout the world.

[Farma]

You should also notice that Man United will also be playing against tough opponents like Liverpool and Arsenal, but with their current disposition, they might trip on much easier teams.
I think Aston Villa is probably already beyond United's reach, but, luckily, if the below source is correct, they only need to get to 5th place to play in the UCL next season:

ps. why do we have 2 EPL threads?

Manchester United hasn't lost to Liverpool though during the games they have played this season, but this final straw would mean alot since they'd be having players like Alexander Arnold and Diogo Jota returning and to be fit for the game against Manchester United, we will definitely come to that on the 7th of April.

For Arsenal, they have always got the better of Manchester United firbsine seasons, maybe Manchester United can try to challenge them this second leg. They lose the first game so I see no ho they'd want to repeat same lose against Arsenal. Anyways, Gunner's still remains my favorite club to win the Premier League Competition even if I'm fond of Manchester United.

I can't give a response to that honestly, but since it's kickin' smoothly without spammers, good then. We'd hope Manchester United overtakes Aston Villa then. Lol

The match on April 7th will be different, Liverpool will have much greater motivation because they are competing fiercely in the race for the title this season and it is also very likely that several of Liverpool's main players will recover from injuries, making it possible to make the Liverpool team's performance much stronger than in several matches this season. this was against Manchester United.

That is more realistic because Manchester United has been very inconsistent this season, and I see that in terms of strength Arsenal is much better than Manchester United this season and that must be admitted so I think Manchester United will be beaten by Arsenal again.

I think your expectations are too high.lol
Manchester United's performance has been very inconsistent throughout this season so it is also possible that this will continue to happen in the remaining matches of this season, and now Manchester United is very far behind Aston Villa, 9 points with 10 games remaining is not an easy thing to catch.

[redsun114]

Both teams have too many players that are doubtful, and usually when players are doubtful that is more likely for them to not play and rest to make sure they are doing fine. I get that it may look like they might play too, and if they really need one of them, they may force him to give it a try but that would only work if the player feels okay to play as well.

All in all, this is exactly why I believe that Liverpool will win the league, not because they have no injured players, sometimes they do, and they are missing Alisson as the most important one if I remember right, so it is not that Liverpool is 100%, but at the same time we need to remember that they play very well no matter who is missing, it is a team ball that they play.

[tusandii]

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Guardiola being confidence in beating Arsenal is reasonable if we look at how Manchester City reacted to ending season games. They were always so strong in the ending phase of a season. Manchester City's consistency teamwork indeed make them favorite to the title race. The familiarity and synergy among the players from the previous season can be a significant advantage in maintaining momentum and pushing for success.

Competitors like Liverpool and Arsenal have their own strengths and aspirations, and the title race is likely to be fiercely contested until the final whistle of the last match. Placing confidence in Manchester City's prospects to win the league is just common sense given their track record and current form. Three horses race till the end makes things complicated for each team, because one mistake can cost big by being overtaken by the other two.

In fact, what is more accurate to say is that Pep Guardiola confidence is simply that he has a more reliable squad than Arteta troops and without me explaining, everyone here understands the comparison of the players that Pep Guardiola is currently relying on the most Pep Guardiola still has skills and is younger in age while Arsenal might also have an attacking player but not as reliable as the attackers that Manchester City has.
I will never hesitate to always say that Manchester City can always beat Arsenal and overtake Liverpool.
Even though there are currently strong challengers such as Arsenal and Liverpool, Manchester is still the favorite as the club holding the title this season.

[Oluwa-btc]

Of course it doesn't have to be Southgate. I just talked about it because of the recent rumours going around.    There are surely better options with really good careers.

I have already mentioned Conte as an example. He is familiar with the Premier League already you know. He has a nice history with Chelsea like winning a Premier League and an FA Cup titles. Maybe he would be considered as one of the candidates in case of deciding to sack Erik ten Hag. However there are new rumours like Sir Jim Ratcliffe can give another chance to Erik ten Hag for next season. If this happens they had better make their transfers properly in the summer.

Manchester United will be damned if they think that Gareth Southgate would do a better job than Erik Ten Hag in the long run, then they must be fucking blind.
England manager and he is yet to win a single trophy with the national team. Is this the so called coach that would defeat Manchester City, Liverpool and also win Manchester United the Premier League and the Champions League Competition? They shouldn't forget that no English Coach has ever won the Premier League Competition and Gareth Southgate would be of no good use. Both Michael Carrick and David Moyes are far better than him.

Antonio Conte works with already made players, I see that the plans of Manchester United would be to develop youngins just as Sir Alex Ferguson did with the 92 set of players and ahead.
Erik Ten Hag or Roberto De Zebri would do grand. But how good is Zebri if he handles a top club like Manchester United?

[QueenVera]

The match on April 7th will be different, Liverpool will have much greater motivation because they are competing fiercely in the race for the title this season and it is also very likely that several of Liverpool's main players will recover from injuries, making it possible to make the Liverpool team's performance much stronger than in several matches this season. this was against Manchester United.

That is more realistic because Manchester United has been very inconsistent this season, and I see that in terms of strength Arsenal is much better than Manchester United this season and that must be admitted so I think Manchester United will be beaten by Arsenal again.

I think your expectations are too high.lol
Manchester United's performance has been very inconsistent throughout this season so it is also possible that this will continue to happen in the remaining matches of this season, and now Manchester United is very far behind Aston Villa, 9 points with 10 games remaining is not an easy thing to catch.

The game between Manchester United and Liverpool is one rivalry that never gets old and this one which will probably be Klopp’s last against Man United will be one that a lot of the Anfield fans will come out to watch. Also the fact that Liverpool haven’t gotten a victory over Man United this season makes this match view to get increased.

 Manchester United haven’t had the best of their form but yet still were able to eliminate Liverpool out of the FA Cup and were also able to hold them to a draw in the first leg of the league. Heading into the second leg which is in a week time, a lot expect United to still keep that momentum but I’m scared they might not be able to.

 ⁠The league is being chased by Liverpool and before that match they’ll be having the return of the likes of Trent and Jota who Are major players for this Liverpool sjde and as such will be going all out to get all 3 points to be able to still keep their title hopes alive. Manchester United too are in a bid to get to UCL spot for next season and as such this match will have all the excitements.
 
 Moreover, the match between United and Arsenal I believe if United can get serious they might be able to spoil the party for this Arsenal side as United haven’t won this Arsenal side this season and wouldn’t consider losing to them again the second time. United have some key matches in their run for UCL Spot next season and as such you can tell how much work and effort they need to put in to achieve something at least.

[AprilioMP]

All in all, this is exactly why I believe that Liverpool will win the league, not because they have no injured players, sometimes they do, and they are missing Alisson as the most important one if I remember right, so it is not that Liverpool is 100%, but at the same time we need to remember that they play very well no matter who is missing, it is a team ball that they play.

There are still 10 matches to be played by Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City. If it weren't for Liverpool having a player on the injury list, it might be because Liverpool would be facing a team that is weaker in quality. If you really consider this, I think it could be the reason they are more favored to win the EPL title.

Rather than Liverpool or Manchester City, I want Arsenal to win the EPL title this season to break the curse of never lifting the EPL trophy for a very long time. So with Arteta as Arsenal coach, let Arsenal party even though in the remaining 10 matches Arsenal will face a team that might be considered stronger.

[Hanadawa]

Yep apart from Mancity, Aston also still has to face Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Brighton at home. And it looks like they might lose many points from these matches.
Meanwhile for Tottenham, they also still have to play against Chelsea, Mancity, Newcastle, Arsenal and Liverpool.
Manutd clearly still has a chance to be in the top 4 of the league at the end of this season, as long they dont waste any more points against relatively weaker teams.

United also still have tough games against Newcastle, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal. Tottenham still has 1 match left against City and United will only face mediocre teams. I think United will have to work hard if they want to get fourth place. They are 6 points behind Tottenham and 9 points behind Aston Villa. They also still have some tough games ahead. I think position 4 will be a competition between Tottenham and Aston Villa. United's chances are very small. It looks like they will not play in international competitions next season.

[Farma]

All in all, this is exactly why I believe that Liverpool will win the league, not because they have no injured players, sometimes they do, and they are missing Alisson as the most important one if I remember right, so it is not that Liverpool is 100%, but at the same time we need to remember that they play very well no matter who is missing, it is a team ball that they play.

There are still 10 matches to be played by Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City. If it weren't for Liverpool having a player on the injury list, it might be because Liverpool would be facing a team that is weaker in quality. If you really consider this, I think it could be the reason they are more favored to win the EPL title.

Rather than Liverpool or Manchester City, I want Arsenal to win the EPL title this season to break the curse of never lifting the EPL trophy for a very long time. So with Arteta as Arsenal coach, let Arsenal party even though in the remaining 10 matches Arsenal will face a team that might be considered stronger.

in fact currently Liverpool has to face the same/repeated problem since the start of the season with many or many of their main players being injured.
And Kloop has been able to overcome this problem so far, so I won't underestimate Liverpool in the title race even though many of their main players are injured.

Everyone's desires will be different, but I think it will be very difficult for Arsenal to win the Premier League this season, even in percentage terms, between Liverpool and Man City, I put Arsenal at the bottom of the list.
My reason is quite simple, this team hasn't had a good mentality since last season and I don't think Arteta has been able to fix that this season.

[Xxmodded]

Yep apart from Mancity, Aston also still has to face Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Brighton at home. And it looks like they might lose many points from these matches.
Meanwhile for Tottenham, they also still have to play against Chelsea, Mancity, Newcastle, Arsenal and Liverpool.
Manutd clearly still has a chance to be in the top 4 of the league at the end of this season, as long they dont waste any more points against relatively weaker teams.

Aston Villa has to face many difficult teams with potential losing points, against Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool is not easy match and I don't sure will Villa can get three points against Liverpool and Arsenal?
For Chelsea seems not problem and the same for Brighton Albion, many crucial left matches fighting for top fourth race and Tottenham Hotspur still has the same difficult opponent teams against Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City.
So Manchester United will take chance to finish on top fourth or Aston Villa will proof their achievement become big four team for playing in Champion League next season.

[blue Snow]

Aston Villa has to face many difficult teams with potential losing points, against Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool is not easy match and I don't sure will Villa can get three points against Liverpool and Arsenal?

Maybe facing Chelsea isn't that difficult for them because Chelsea performance is not good for this session. they turn into unstable team for this session, so that situation Aston villa will be able to get 3 points on villa park at 28 April 2024. While Arsenal and Liverpool, even they play at emirates, Arsenal is on fire right now, Aston villa will face difficulties to get 3 points, we don't know what the future holds, their players really struggled on this session, maybe there will be injuries to their core players which makes their performance decrease and lost when meet Liverpool on villa park.

[len01]

Maybe facing Chelsea isn't that difficult for them because Chelsea performance is not good for this session. they turn into unstable team for this session, so that situation Aston villa will be able to get 3 points on villa park at 28 April 2024. While Arsenal and Liverpool, even they play at emirates, Arsenal is on fire right now, Aston villa will face difficulties to get 3 points, we don't know what the future holds, their players really struggled on this session, maybe there will be injuries to their core players which makes their performance decrease and lost when meet Liverpool on villa park.

schedule for Aston Villa match against Chelsea is still very far away and changes could occur such as injured players who always provide surprises.
If there are no changes between the two teams, I'm not too sure if Chelsea will be able to defend their goal against Aston Villa, who are currently in a much stronger condition than Chelsea and without thinking about anything, everyone will definitely bet on Aston Villa winning.
and regarding the Arsenal vs Liverpool match, perhaps it is too early to discuss this match because both teams are both in a positive trend so I won't be too sure about whatever results I say at this time, but I hope Liverpool can be at the top of the standings, beating Arsenal.

[Distraction]

Aston Villa has to face many difficult teams with potential losing points, against Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool is not easy match and I don't sure will Villa can get three points against Liverpool and Arsenal?

It will be a top work by Emery if Aston Villa finish the season in top 4. Because this was never Aston Villa's main goal at the beginning of the season. But here we are witnessing another 'Emery effect'.    He is really good at carrying average teams to much higher levels. Doing this in the most quality league realy deserves applause.

However their remaining fixture includes really challenging matches such as Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. Besides both of Tottenham and Manchester United have a missing match to play also.

Do you think Emery will manage to complete this mission by a CL qualification?    I think they deserve it.

[yudi09]

Newcastle will welcome West Ham United as the opening match of week 30 after the international break.
In the first match of the season at the London Stadium, West Ham United and Newcastle drew 2-2.
As for the results of the round 30 match, we cannot be certain even though there is a chance for West Ham United after I studied it.

Newcastle wants 3 points and their desire is very appropriate because Newcastle failed to win in the last two matches.
According to circumstances, West Ham does not want to fail even though in two Premier League matches they only shared points against lower-class teams and were held to a draw by Aston Villa.

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in fact currently Liverpool has to face the same/repeated problem since the start of the season with many or many of their main players being injured.
And Kloop has been able to overcome this problem so far, so I won't underestimate Liverpool in the title race even though many of their main players are injured.

Everyone's desires will be different, but I think it will be very difficult for Arsenal to win the Premier League this season, even in percentage terms, between Liverpool and Man City, I put Arsenal at the bottom of the list.
My reason is quite simple, this team hasn't had a good mentality since last season and I don't think Arteta has been able to fix that this season.

The quality and performance of Liverpool at this time we cannot doubt even though they previously continued to be hit by a storm of injuries including having to lose Salah, but in fact Liverpool were able to rise and now only Only the goal difference that separates the Reds from Arsenal in the Premier League standings, Klopp's ability to see the position of players and place them in other positions so far has helped Liverpool to continue to compete for the EPL trophy along with Arsenal and Manchester City, this season Liverpool deserve not to be underestimated because when 10 of their players are injured but they can still continue to compete in the championship, I think if that many injuries had happened to Arsenal and Manchester City of course we would see them out of the top 4 at this time.

Arsenal did have a pretty good performance and so far they are still stable in winning, but what you say is quite true because indeed Arteta has not really been able to raise the mentality of the Arsenal players at the moment, although now Arsenal are at the top of the table but as usual we will only see Arsenal end up in 2nd and 3rd position in end season, while to get the champion is still very difficult for them as happened last season.

[piebeyb]

Newcastle will welcome West Ham United as the opening match of week 30 after the international break.
In the first match of the season at the London Stadium, West Ham United and Newcastle drew 2-2.
As for the results of the round 30 match, we cannot be certain even though there is a chance for West Ham United after I studied it.

Newcastle wants 3 points and their desire is very appropriate because Newcastle failed to win in the last two matches.
According to circumstances, West Ham does not want to fail even though in two Premier League matches they only shared points against lower-class teams and were held to a draw by Aston Villa.

If you look at the statistics and current standings, West Ham is far superior to Newcastle. After several matches, Newcastle got bad results, now they are stranded in 10th place in the current standings, even though at the start of the season they played quite well, it's just that they don't have enough players. quality so that several of their important players were injured, Howe was unable to rotate players well and ended up getting unsatisfactory results this season and Newcastle must be able to accept that.

They haven't really recovered because from the last five matches alone they have still suffered two defeats, currently Newcastle doesn't look any better and West Ham also often draw and defend so it's not surprising that from the last two matches they got a draw, I think playing at Newcastle's home ground doesn't mean Newcastle can beat West Ham just like that because they are good enough and play optimally to maintain their position in the standings, I think the result will be a draw but it's possible that if Newcastle appeared more confident they could win narrowly against West Ham

[Sunderland]

Yep apart from Mancity, Aston also still has to face Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Brighton at home. And it looks like they might lose many points from these matches.
Meanwhile for Tottenham, they also still have to play against Chelsea, Mancity, Newcastle, Arsenal and Liverpool.
Manutd clearly still has a chance to be in the top 4 of the league at the end of this season, as long they dont waste any more points against relatively weaker teams.

United also still have tough games against Newcastle, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal. Tottenham still has 1 match left against City and United will only face mediocre teams. I think United will have to work hard if they want to get fourth place. They are 6 points behind Tottenham and 9 points behind Aston Villa. They also still have some tough games ahead. I think position 4 will be a competition between Tottenham and Aston Villa. United's chances are very small. It looks like they will not play in international competitions next season.

The Premier League will most likely get 1 additional spot for the Champions League next season, depending on the achievements of the English clubs in all European competitions this season.
So the 5th position in the league shall join in the Champions League and the 6th position in the Europa League.
Manutd still has a big chance to take part in European competitions, because England has 5 clubs competing in all European competitions now.