⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Jossque]

Aston Villa managed to beat Liverpool at home. In a match where Ollie Watkins put in a legendary performance, Aston Villa defeated their rivals Liverpool 4–2 and climbed to fourth place with this victory. Ollie Watkins finished the match with two goals and one assist, whilst Morgan Rogers contributed one goal and one assist. For Liverpool, the goals came from Virgil van Dijk, with Szoboszlai providing the assists for both. With this victory, Aston Villa’s chances of finishing the league in 4th place have significantly improved.

[Lannakosa]

Today the FA Cup final will take place at Wembley Stadium between Chelsea - Manchester City, and in my opinion, City are the favorites in this match. Chelsea have been playing very poorly and losing a lot of games. If you don’t take into account their cup win over Port Vale, then from their last ten matches they have won only one and drawn one, and they lost all of the other eight games. So it’s obvious that they are simply in very poor form.

City, on the other hand, have been winning all of their matches, and the only thing spoiling their statistics is a draw against Everton. Therefore, I think City should beat Chelsea in the final today in regular time.

[Velvet78]

Aston Villa just destroyed Liverpool in score anyway unlike what the statistics of the game says... You should watch Rogers and especially McGinn's goals.

Liverpool is still continuing with Arne Slot for now as it seems. But I don't expect his credit to be another year if he starts next season like this as well.



I'm likely to take some risks for the remainder of the week. Total odds: 4.10

All of these selected teams still maintain their chances for a European tournament. Everton's chances are lower though but they need a one last push for it.

[AprilioMP]

Aston Villa managed to beat Liverpool at home. In a match where Ollie Watkins put in a legendary performance, Aston Villa defeated their rivals Liverpool 4–2 and climbed to fourth place with this victory. Ollie Watkins finished the match with two goals and one assist, whilst Morgan Rogers contributed one goal and one assist. For Liverpool, the goals came from Virgil van Dijk, with Szoboszlai providing the assists for both. With this victory, Aston Villa’s chances of finishing the league in 4th place have significantly improved.

There were several moments in the match that could have led to Liverpool's defeat at Villa Park. One of them came from Szboszlai.
Aston Villa's Champions League qualification was already secured. The victory over Liverpool also boosted their morale for the Europa League final in Turkey.

As for their position in the standings, it seems the focus is no longer on whether they will finish fourth or fifth, as their primary goal of playing in the Champions League next season has been achieved.
Liverpool's defeat to Aston Villa underscores Liverpool's overall performance throughout the season. The team shouldn't be blamed, but rather, it's up to them to see how they rebuild next season.

[Accardo]

Aston Villa managed to beat Liverpool at home. In a match where Ollie Watkins put in a legendary performance, Aston Villa defeated their rivals Liverpool 4–2 and climbed to fourth place with this victory. Ollie Watkins finished the match with two goals and one assist, whilst Morgan Rogers contributed one goal and one assist. For Liverpool, the goals came from Virgil van Dijk, with Szoboszlai providing the assists for both. With this victory, Aston Villa’s chances of finishing the league in 4th place have significantly improved.

Liverpool had a very poor decisive play in the mid-field, and Villa took that advantage to crumble their backline, Ollie Watkins leading goal after Van Dijk equalized was all the fault of the midfielders, and Slot wasn't able to fix the problem quickly, the game would have not gotten to the point of 4:2 had the midfield problem gotten fixed in the second half. Villa indeed is sure of the first five position in the league.

[len01]

Tomorrow it looks like Man United will strengthen their position in the top 3 by beating Nottingham. From the h2h record, in the last few seasons MU has often struggled to get full points against Nottingham. But the situation is different now since Carrick seems to understand what the MU squad really needs and they have been consistently getting good results at home. Meanwhile, Nottingham will miss several injured players, and their performance probably won’t be as strong as usual.