⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[sokani]

I may not be wrong if I say that Manchester United cause of today's lose is Ruben Amorim. This is because he played without a striker, which is very much unusual.

I also might not be wrong if I say that the problem is Manchester United strikers, because even if they play, it is defenders and midfielders that score.

But I think Amorim would have played Hojlund still because even if he doesn't score, he pressures the opposition defence and make them vulnerable.

I don't understand what message Amorim is trying to send but I know it backfired on him. He played Mainoo as a number 10 in their last europa game against FCSB, United won and Mainoo was also the score sheet. And I think that's what prompted him to move Mainoo to the new striking role. But the question is are they strikers that bad? Whether they are or not, that was a poor decision and it's not going to be overlooked. He's going to be roasted by the media for this.

[pawel7777]

I haven't seen the game and I can't even see any decent highlights being available yet.
What the hell happened there? Has Man City got overly relaxed after scoring the equaliser? Were they really that bad from the 55th minute to allow Arsenal score another 4 goals, or was it just Arsenal being lucky?
Anyhow, judging by the score and game stats, it doesn't seem like the City is 100% back to their former selves.

[Justbillywitt]

Arsenal Vs Manchester City, Arsenal are up to a flyer as they take the early lead in just 105 seconds of kick off. A mistake from Akanji caused the goal, Odegard puts it at the back of the net cool and easy. Arsenal 1 Vs Manchester City 0. Let's see what happens as the game progresses.

Arsenal went ahead to defeat Manchester city with an emphatic scoreline 5:1, this is the worst defeat Manchester city has suffered in the hand of Arsenal in recent years. The game looked balance in the first half, even if Arsenal were already leading by a single goal. After the break, city managed to equalise as Erling Haaland headed home a cross from Savinho. Their celebration were cut short, when Thomas Partey intercepted a short pass from Phil Foden. Partey shot was deflected by Stones and the ball went inside the net. It was from that moment that Manchester city lost their control and Arsenal went on rampage. Mathieu Nunez was one of the spoiler of Manchester city football today. The guy was fucking slow to death. He wasn't pushing any attacks from his wings. It was really a huge loss for Manchester city and their fans today.

[sotelorene]

I may not be wrong if I say that Manchester United cause of today's lose is Ruben Amorim. This is because he played without a striker, which is very much unusual.

I also might not be wrong if I say that the problem is Manchester United strikers, because even if they play, it is defenders and midfielders that score.

But I think Amorim would have played Hojlund still because even if he doesn't score, he pressures the opposition defence and make them vulnerable.

I don't understand what message Amorim is trying to send but I know it backfired on him. He played Mainoo as a number 10 in their last europa game against FCSB, United won and Mainoo was also the score sheet. And I think that's what prompted him to move Mainoo to the new striking role. But the question is are they strikers that bad? Whether they are or not, that was a poor decision and it's not going to be overlooked. He's going to be roasted by the media for this.

Well you can not just blame him because he is still new in the team or club and off cause he doesn't know each player ability and perhaps their pattern of play so I think he is just using them randomly to see where each player will be fitted and maybe last time he played Mainoo at 10 the performance was not what he expected so maybe that is why he used him in a different position, remember every Coach or manager has in mind what a particular player should be doing. However, if you ask me I will say Manchester united has only one striker which Amad and the rest are semi striker because they are not as Smart, technical etc as Amad I just hope the team or club performance doesn't destroy his skills and ability.

[Slow death]

Arsenal Vs Manchester City, Arsenal are up to a flyer as they take the early lead in just 105 seconds of kick off. A mistake from Akanji caused the goal, Odegard puts it at the back of the net cool and easy. Arsenal 1 Vs Manchester City 0. Let's see what happens as the game progresses.

I confess that I am very shocked by the way Manchester City was defeated, they were very humiliated and the Manchester United defense players are to blame for all those goals that Arsenal scored. It seems that the Manchester United players have no motivation to play, I don't know what is happening with the Manchester City players off the field, but it seems to me that they are playing without focus on the field.

[Furious 7]

I haven't seen the game and I can't even see any decent highlights being available yet.
What the hell happened there? Has Man City got overly relaxed after scoring the equaliser? Were they really that bad from the 55th minute to allow Arsenal score another 4 goals, or was it just Arsenal being lucky?
Anyhow, judging by the score and game stats, it doesn't seem like the City is 100% back to their former selves.

I didn't see them relaxing too much in this match but indeed their defense was quite bad where mistakes were always made which in the end cost them in a match that was actually quite good to watch.

Their midfield is quite difficult to develop an attacking pattern which makes Mancehster City's situation quite monotonous in Pep's scheme and their poor defense without clear marking from several players because they still seem to rely on each other, it makes the conditions worse.

Pep was too ambitious with their attacking scheme which actually made a gap created in the midfield and defense which made Arsenal's counterattacks unable to be properly countered because they not only applied defense for the zone but they did not pay attention to the movement of opposing players because of poor marking which made a landslide score occur. Honestly, seeing City's defense in this match I was quite disappointed with what they did.

[Felicity_Tide]

I haven't seen the game and I can't even see any decent highlights being available yet.
What the hell happened there? Has Man City got overly relaxed after scoring the equaliser? Were they really that bad from the 55th minute to allow Arsenal score another 4 goals, or was it just Arsenal being lucky?
Anyhow, judging by the score and game stats, it doesn't seem like the City is 100% back to their former selves.

I watched the complete 90mins of the game, and all I can say is that Manchester city has lost almost everything that they've built. They've lost that relentless mindset that they've been building for years. They dominated and played well like the Manchester City we know IMO, but that striving mentality isn't just there anymore. Arsenal where obviously playing like it was personal, and of course, it was personal. Haaland was just so cold today because he knew this day would come, where he will have to pay for his words and actions against some players in the Arsenal team including Mikel Arteta.

From what I watched, it was brilliant goals from Arsenal all through. They created good chances and took them well. Partey's strike was just too incredible, and was a perfect response after City leveled the game at first. And the two young stars where on the score shit. Nwaneri was something else. He was literally running past Gvardiol, which Martinelli failed to do in the entire 80mins(I guess). Arsenal is quite lucky to get these two young stars that has proven that they can play in any game.

Congrats to the gunners. 5 goals doesn't look like a luck to me. I believe humbleland is already humble at this point because he failed to humble himself at the Etihad.

[LUCKMCFLY]

You are actually making sense dude, at first I thought Rud Van was the new Manchester united coach not until someone told me he is not and no doubt he was doing absolutely great and perhaps they would have given him a chance to see what he can do.

I dare say that if he had stayed at MU they would be in the UCL qualifying positions. For me Amorim is not bad, it's just that Amori has not done things properly but in his own way. It's understandable, he has to make his own strategies and implement his own way of playing , but it's not working for him. That's why he has put the team on the brink of relegation that shouldn't happen If they can correct this they can make a difference As for me , I think they can do more if they remember how they had their initial strategy before.

[BALIK]

You are actually making sense dude, at first I thought Rud Van was the new Manchester united coach not until someone told me he is not and no doubt he was doing absolutely great and perhaps they would have given him a chance to see what he can do.

I dare say that if he had stayed at MU they would be in the UCL qualifying positions. For me Amorim is not bad, it's just that Amori has not done things properly but in his own way. It's understandable, he has to make his own strategies and implement his own way of playing , but it's not working for him. That's why he has put the team on the brink of relegation that shouldn't happen If they can correct this they can make a difference As for me , I think they can do more if they remember how they had their initial strategy before.

After Amorim became the coach, Manchester United's performance is now a bit more organized. But their performance is not strong. Against Crystal Palace, we saw that Manchester United's players were able to create a lot of scoring opportunities. They were also able to attack a lot. And this was possible because of a good match strategy. But Manchester United could not score goals even after attacking a lot. This is because Manchester United's attacking players are not experienced enough.

If Amorim is given a long time, he will probably be able to change the overall situation of Manchester United. It is not possible to improve Manchester United's performance quickly. This requires big funds and a lot of time.

[SOKO-DEKE]

Arsenal Vs Manchester City, Arsenal are up to a flyer as they take the early lead in just 105 seconds of kick off. A mistake from Akanji caused the goal, Odegard puts it at the back of the net cool and easy. Arsenal 1 Vs Manchester City 0. Let's see what happens as the game progresses.

Arsenal went ahead to defeat Manchester city with an emphatic scoreline 5:1, this is the worst defeat Manchester city has suffered in the hand of Arsenal in recent years. The game looked balance in the first half, even if Arsenal were already leading by a single goal. After the break, city managed to equalise as Erling Haaland headed home a cross from Savinho. Their celebration were cut short, when Thomas Partey intercepted a short pass from Phil Foden. Partey shot was deflected by Stones and the ball went inside the net. It was from that moment that Manchester city lost their control and Arsenal went on rampage. Mathieu Nunez was one of the spoiler of Manchester city football today. The guy was fucking slow to death. He wasn't pushing any attacks from his wings. It was really a huge loss for Manchester city and their fans today.

Honestly, despite knowing that Manchester City are not in better form currently, I never thought that Arsenal could score five goals against Manchester City in today's game. Even Arsenal are not in serious form currently. In fact, this season, Arsenal have not been scoring many goals, even against weak teams. So today, I was really surprised by how Arsenal managed to score five goals against Manchester City. Arsenal did not play anything special in today's game; Manchester City was the team controlling the pitch.

This issue of Manchester City conceding many goals is now becoming more serious. It seems that even their midfielders are not really doing their work because, if they were, Manchester City would not be conceding so many goals. I feel Manchester City need to work on that midfield.

[Hyphen(-)]

I haven't seen the game and I can't even see any decent highlights being available yet.
What the hell happened there? Has Man City got overly relaxed after scoring the equaliser? Were they really that bad from the 55th minute to allow Arsenal score another 4 goals, or was it just Arsenal being lucky?
Anyhow, judging by the score and game stats, it doesn't seem like the City is 100% back to their former selves.

It was a quick response from Arsenal after Manchester City’s equalizer; Arsenal had an opportunity from a wrong pass through Manchester City player, and Thomas Partey strike from outside the box to give Arsenal the lead, and few minutes letter, Miles Lewis Kelley gave Arsenal a comfortable chance by diving into the Manchester City’s defense to make it three.
After then, Arsenal were comfortable in the game and they keep playing well until they made it five before the final whistle.

It is obvious that Manchester City cannot compete for the Premier League title this season, they are yet to be completely stable in their performance and the team is still missing Rodri.

[MainIbem]

I haven't seen the game and I can't even see any decent highlights being available yet.
What the hell happened there? Has Man City got overly relaxed after scoring the equaliser? Were they really that bad from the 55th minute to allow Arsenal score another 4 goals, or was it just Arsenal being lucky?
Anyhow, judging by the score and game stats, it doesn't seem like the City is 100% back to their former selves.

It was a quick response from Arsenal after Manchester City’s equalizer; Arsenal had an opportunity from a wrong pass through Manchester City player, and Thomas Partey strike from outside the box to give Arsenal the lead, and few minutes letter, Miles Lewis Kelley gave Arsenal a comfortable chance by diving into the Manchester City’s defense to make it three.
After then, Arsenal were comfortable in the game and they keep playing well until they made it five before the final whistle.

It is obvious that Manchester City cannot compete for the Premier League title this season, they are yet to be completely stable in their performance and the team is still missing Rodri.

Manchester City are still yet to recover fully even after signing new players, I was thinking they would help them improve both no the team still make errors or should I say Arsenal played better and immediately corrected their error after conceding. Well they're on of Liverpool's strongest competitors this season and am not suprised they beat Manchester City but what suprises me most is that it was an embarrassing defeat and Pep Guardiola would be very sad about this defeat and I know he'll express his anger on his players in their dressing room. Anyways it's a big victory for Arsenal and it's shown how strong they're if only they'll keep up with the momentum and try to win the league this season rather than finishing as runners-up as they've been doing for a couple of years now.

[Proty]

I haven't seen the game and I can't even see any decent highlights being available yet.
What the hell happened there? Has Man City got overly relaxed after scoring the equaliser? Were they really that bad from the 55th minute to allow Arsenal score another 4 goals, or was it just Arsenal being lucky?
Anyhow, judging by the score and game stats, it doesn't seem like the City is 100% back to their former selves.

It was a quick response from Arsenal after Manchester City’s equalizer; Arsenal had an opportunity from a wrong pass through Manchester City player, and Thomas Partey strike from outside the box to give Arsenal the lead, and few minutes letter, Miles Lewis Kelley gave Arsenal a comfortable chance by diving into the Manchester City’s defense to make it three.
After then, Arsenal were comfortable in the game and they keep playing well until they made it five before the final whistle.

It is obvious that Manchester City cannot compete for the Premier League title this season, they are yet to be completely stable in their performance and the team is still missing Rodri.

Manchester City are still yet to recover fully even after signing new players, I was thinking they would help them improve both no the team still make errors or should I say Arsenal played better and immediately corrected their error after conceding. Well they're on of Liverpool's strongest competitors this season and am not suprised they beat Manchester City but what suprises me most is that it was an embarrassing defeat and Pep Guardiola would be very sad about this defeat and I know he'll express his anger on his players in their dressing room. Anyways it's a big victory for Arsenal and it's shown how strong they're if only they'll keep up with the momentum and try to win the league this season rather than finishing as runners-up as they've been doing for a couple of years now.

Well mancity defeat was something I never anticipated, although I knew the match is going to be a very tough one for mancity but I never expected that the match is going to end this way. There was so many defensive errors in the game just imagine the nonsense mistake Akanji made that leads to the first goal, it  was as if he was not fit. Even the midfield was not working, I wonder how they will face real Madrid with this kind of poor performance.

[MK-74]

It was a very easy match for Arsenal, they won very easily and crushed M.City. Arsenal's young talents came to the fore with their goal contributions tonight.
Arsenal players showed the fans and spectators very nice goals tonight.

M.City's bad performance continues. We should not expect any success from M.City this year.

[Egii Nna]

I haven't seen the game and I can't even see any decent highlights being available yet.
What the hell happened there? Has Man City got overly relaxed after scoring the equaliser? Were they really that bad from the 55th minute to allow Arsenal score another 4 goals, or was it just Arsenal being lucky?
Anyhow, judging by the score and game stats, it doesn't seem like the City is 100% back to their former selves.

The remaining 4 goals came like a nightmare to Manchester City after they scored their equaliser goal. Although I was not hoping for Manchester to win in this game because based on their performance, I don’t think they will be able to win against Arsenal in the game, which is the same thing that came out as the outcome, although the game was not easy for Manchester City because at the end of the game, it was like Arsenal's defence was harder for Manchester City to break through, so they will have to accept the defeat against Arsenal.

[Adbitco]

I haven't seen the game and I can't even see any decent highlights being available yet.
What the hell happened there? Has Man City got overly relaxed after scoring the equaliser? Were they really that bad from the 55th minute to allow Arsenal score another 4 goals, or was it just Arsenal being lucky?
Anyhow, judging by the score and game stats, it doesn't seem like the City is 100% back to their former selves.

The remaining 4 goals came like a nightmare to Manchester City after they scored their equaliser goal. Although I was not hoping for Manchester to win in this game because based on their performance, I don’t think they will be able to win against Arsenal in the game, which is the same thing that came out as the outcome, although the game was not easy for Manchester City because at the end of the game, it was like Arsenal's defence was harder for Manchester City to break through, so they will have to accept the defeat against Arsenal.

Nice revenge for Arsenal considering the fact that apart from last season, they lost 11 times in a row to Manchester City, this is the perfect opportunity for Arsenal to give them a heavy blow so it can also be on record. Arsenal were incredible especially after the equaliser from City which made it 1 - 1 they had to out and run riot because they needed this win in order not to be too far away from the league leaders. Arsenal still giving Liverpool the chase, really nice.

[Ryu_Ar1]

I also expect Arsenal to get 3 points in this match but indeed this will definitely be a little difficult even though for now Arsenal are still better in terms of standings but it cannot be denied that this is a big match where prestige sometimes becomes a fixed price that must be maintained. In addition, currently Manchester City is also starting to show good performance for now so in the end there could be a difference where Manchester City makes some difference with 3 points they get back in this match.

The 1x2 odds are quite good but I for the match want to try for both clubs to score because indeed this might be a good thing for betting with a greater probability than 1x2 besides that if you look at the productivity of the two clubs that feel over 3 is also still possible to do if you want to bet on this match.

Last season too we saw one of the most competitive matches in the English Premier League between Arsenal and Manchester City but nothing like that is happening this season. Manchester City was a strong team last season and this season they have become a weak team so there is no chance of Arsenal having a tough competition with Manchester City at least this season. Now if there is a match between Arsenal and Manchester City, Arsenal can easily be ahead. I will favor Arsenal to win this match and I believe Arsenal will definitely get full points against Manchester City. If Arsenal get full points in this match against Manchester City, they will go a little further on points and Liverpool will be only 6 points ahead of them.

The match was very interesting as the intensity of the attack was actually quite good to watch but Manchester City lost so much momentum that they were troubled by their own game which made them lose very strikingly in this match.

I actually think that one of them will win by a close score but in this match it seems that the striking conditions made a big difference in the final result.

Arsenal were good at taking advantage of the momentum when Manchester City's defense was poor they could maximize it with excellence but instead Manchester City who controlled the ball always entered the Arsenal trap which in the end this situation made Arsenal more comfortable in their attack and scored easily.

I made a bet on Over 3 and the results were as expected where indeed this ended in a sweet victory.

[RockBell]

I confess that I am very shocked by the way Manchester City was defeated, they were very humiliated and the Manchester United defense players are to blame for all those goals that Arsenal scored. It seems that the Manchester United players have no motivation to play, I don't know what is happening with the Manchester City players off the field, but it seems to me that they are playing without focus on the field.

Like this is the most happiest day since this season started because I was scared that arsenal might lose to Manchester City but look at what eventually happened arsenal gave them a flawless finish and I was not expecting anything like this ti happen, and they humiliated Manchester City and even there fans don't have anything to say because they have made so many comments of how arsenal is bad and look at the way they are defeated 5:1 and I was very happy.

And just 2 minutes of the game and a goal was already  know that Manchester City will be in trouble because no one expected Manchester City to lose to arsenal this way and I won't even lie Manchester City needs to seriously works on there self they are losing confidence and it is seriously affecting there performance who would have thought that the all mighty Manchester ciy will lose at this point and that is one of the reasons why you can not always be the king when it comes to football, they even have the players but there performance is zero so who is going to save Manchester City.

[Issa56]

I confess that I am very shocked by the way Manchester City was defeated, they were very humiliated and the Manchester United defense players are to blame for all those goals that Arsenal scored. It seems that the Manchester United players have no motivation to play, I don't know what is happening with the Manchester City players off the field, but it seems to me that they are playing without focus on the field.

Today’s game came as a surprise to everyone, people that predicted Arsenal to win the match didn’t expect Arsenal to score so many goals in the match. I was expecting Arsenal to get a win in the match, but I wasn’t so sure about that, but what surprised me most in the match was the amount of goals Arsenal scored in the match, I never expected Manchester City to concede that amount of goals. Manchester City's performance has gotten worse, they were able to get a win against Chelsea because Chelsea didn’t play well also in the match, so most people were expecting maybe a similar thing was going to happen against Arsenal today, but Arsenal ended up humiliating Manchester City in the match.

[|MINER|]

Today’s game came as a surprise to everyone, people that predicted Arsenal to win the match didn’t expect Arsenal to score so many goals in the match. I was expecting Arsenal to get a win in the match, but I wasn’t so sure about that, but what surprised me most in the match was the amount of goals Arsenal scored in the match, I never expected Manchester City to concede that amount of goals. Manchester City's performance has gotten worse, they were able to get a win against Chelsea because Chelsea didn’t play well also in the match, so most people were expecting maybe a similar thing was going to happen against Arsenal today, but Arsenal ended up humiliating Manchester City in the match.

In my case, it was different. I expected Manchester City to win that match. Because during that match, Manchester City was in the top form of the English Premier League. And the Arsenal was in the third rank maybe.

But in reality, the atmosphere changed a lot after the match started. I thought Manchester City would be able to recover after half time, but they performed even worse in the second half. Although they held the ball position more in the match, their strikers could not kick at the right time.