⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[MArsland]

After Chelsea's disappointing performance in the English Premier League last season, Mauricio Pochentino was brought to the club to help significantly improve their performance this season as well as making sure that they finish in the top four of the league table at the end of the current season but considering what we've seen so far from the team, I don't think that there's any possibility for the Blues to finish in the top four of the league table.

After their humiliating defeat at Anfield two days ago, it became very clear to the club's fans and management that the best they can do at the moment is to finish in the top six which I also think will be very difficult for the London club

Pochentino apart from forcing himself to manage his own club, is also actually under pressure because the Premier League is a much more difficult competition and will always be a challenge for him to develop. However, with Chelsea condition, which can be said to be building from scratch, don't expect too much for the first season with a transition and composition of players like this. The point is for Blues fans they have to be patient because the club in Boehly hands will find it difficult to develop, after all he doesn't understand football. It would be a different story if it were still held by Abramovich, under whose control Chelsea is very structured and can manage the club well, especially regarding player selection. Currently in 10th place, Chelsea can only finish at least 6th or 8th at the end of the season even if in the future they can show changes for the better but if on the contrary it continues to decline then it does not rule out the possibility of Chelsea finishing 13th or 15th in the standings.

[Kristiyana]

It's match week 23, and we are here again with some exciting fixtures for today.

Feb 3rd Fixtures

Everton VS Tottenham Hotspur - 12:30

Brighton VS Crystal palace - 15:00

Burnley VS Fulham - 15:00

Newscastle VS Luton - 15:00

Sheffield VS Aston Villa - 17:30

Review
Since the English Premier League has become very tough and uncertain to make accurate predictions, I would prefer to make predictions base on the last performance of each teams.
Everton's match against Tottenham is definitely going to be an interesting match knowing how well Everton competes against big teams. But I feel Tottenham might be stealing all 3points considering the current fitness of the team.
With the shocking loss to Luton in just less than a week, de zerbi's side would be looking forward to achieving something from this, but that doesn't mean crystal palace should be underated either, so this might likely end in a draw.
Burnley seems to be a side struggling to attempt any form of impact in the league, which makes Fulham the rightful candidate.
Newcastle will be in action against Luton without Isak. We can't neglect the fact that Luton happens to be a side that knows how to bite bigger teams. Maybe Newcastle might just be winning this base on home advantage.
After lossing to Newcastle earlier this week, Aston villa might just bounce back with this game and get all important 3points.

[bots1]

Manchester United are so short of players this season that they cannot perform well without the right players. Of course, Manchester United needs a star while the defense is strong, but the attack is not so strong. So it definitely needs a star in the attack department.

Indeed, one of the causes of Manchester United's unstable performance this season is due to the large number of injured players, which has forced Erik Ten Hag to reshuffle the composition of players in the defense and midfield which ultimately damaged the team harmony that had been built. However, now several important players have started to return from injury and Manchester United's attack is starting to get stronger again, where when they beat Wolverhampton, Manchester United was able to score 4 goals. Therefore, if this positive trend can continue, then Manchester United will most likely finish in the top four of the EPL.

[uchegod-21]

Manchester United are so short of players this season that they cannot perform well without the right players. Of course, Manchester United needs a star while the defense is strong, but the attack is not so strong. So it definitely needs a star in the attack department.

Indeed, one of the causes of Manchester United's unstable performance this season is due to the large number of injured players, which has forced Erik Ten Hag to reshuffle the composition of players in the defense and midfield which ultimately damaged the team harmony that had been built. However, now several important players have started to return from injury and Manchester United's attack is starting to get stronger again, where when they beat Wolverhampton, Manchester United was able to score 4 goals. Therefore, if this positive trend can continue, then Manchester United will most likely finish in the top four of the EPL.

This is a problem that I saw so many times ago when Manchester United was seriously under performing. Many people saw it but they were unable to acknowledge that it was a cause of the poor performance of Manchester United. There is nothing much a coach can do when his first 11 is unavailable for almost more than half of a season, even when the team does not have a good depth.

In the Manchester United last match, we could see some kind of composure in the midfield because of the return of casemiro. Scoring much goals is not the problem, if the opposing will end up countering such goals by scoring theirs. If the defence is nice, even if the attack does not score much goals, the team will be fine.

[piebeyb]

Manchester United are so short of players this season that they cannot perform well without the right players. Of course, Manchester United needs a star while the defense is strong, but the attack is not so strong. So it definitely needs a star in the attack department.

Indeed, one of the causes of Manchester United's unstable performance this season is due to the large number of injured players, which has forced Erik Ten Hag to reshuffle the composition of players in the defense and midfield which ultimately damaged the team harmony that had been built. However, now several important players have started to return from injury and Manchester United's attack is starting to get stronger again, where when they beat Wolverhampton, Manchester United was able to score 4 goals. Therefore, if this positive trend can continue, then Manchester United will most likely finish in the top four of the EPL.

Yes, it's true that Manchester United did win by scoring 4 goals against Wolves, but don't forget that Manchester also conceded 3 goals, that's not something that needs to be overlooked, it should also be a concern that there is something not good about their goalkeeper, Onana, he can't be expected to be a goalkeeper at Manchester United and also Manchester United's lack of defense which means they conceded 3 goals, that's really not good even though the result is Manchester United winning.

Ten Hag must seriously think about adding new players in the summer, at least it is important to strengthen their back line, including the goalkeeper, because if their front line is good, it won't be good if in the end they concede easily too, I do admit that Manchester United It's slowly recovering a bit and is quite good now, but Ten Hag still can't rotate his players well, so there is a lack of unity on the field which makes the players play very well and are able to finish the match with encouraging results.

[IvugeoEvolutionCoin]

Yesterday in the Premier League match Wolves vs Man United, Man United team won by 4 goals in the match between the two teams. The performance of the Man United team players was very good. The Wolves team did not perform well before halftime. But after the halftime, the Wolves team scored 3 goals. Wolves  If the players of the team can perform well before the halftime, maybe the Wolves team would have won this match. I placed a bet in support of the Wolves team but I could not win the bet.

[TastyChillySauce00]

For Chelsea's target of finishing in the top 4 or 5, I don't think it will ever happen, they don't deserve it, they still have a lot to fix and it's possible that won't be possible this season.

Actually, the statement to say whether it is appropriate or not is not worth pinning down because all clubs deserve to be there, but on the other hand, there is truth in what you say, that it is better to focus on improving yourself for next season, if this season you only finish in the bottom of the top ten, it will not work. disturbing the club's reputation because everyone knows that Chelsea is in difficult times, it's not surprising that Chelsea often lose points in important matches, but from their last five matches they only lost two times, the remaining three wins are positive things that Chelsea has shown in my opinion.

After Chelsea's disappointing performance in the English Premier League last season, Mauricio Pochentino was brought to the club to help significantly improve their performance this season as well as making sure that they finish in the top four of the league table at the end of the current season but considering what we've seen so far from the team, I don't think that there's any possibility for the Blues to finish in the top four of the league table.

After their humiliating defeat at Anfield two days ago, it became very clear to the club's fans and management that the best they can do at the moment is to finish in the top six which I also think will be very difficult for the London club

The appointment of Argentine professional football manager Mauricio Pochettino has not been able to change Chelsea's fortunes. Chelsea is currently in 10th place.  In their last five matches they have won 3 and lost 2. Chelsea's lack of performance of the players is adding more problems of the manager Pochettino's. It is very difficult to imagine a top four in the position they are staying right now. Almost every team has completed 22 matches so far. The team that is in the top 4 of the points table has 43 points and Chelsea's current point is 31. Here it is easy to understand that Chelsea is far behind by a large point gap.

Pochettino has been failed on chelsea. I think that it's useless to keep him much longer in the club while chelsea will able to get a new appoinetment to be a new coach for chelsea. Im concerning the performance from chelsea is not even having good progress. I was seeing chelsea is still running in the same place right now.
I prefer to see him to be sacked by chelsea caused by he was useless coach. It's really bad to keep him in the club much longer. I prefer to see him to be terminated as soon as possible. Chelsea will be impossible in entering the top 4 without get winning streak.
It's caused by the club have been performing so badly even since pochettino was coming to the club. I can't even tolerate pochettino even longer caused by he does zero impact to the club. The way he was coaching the club is also very confusing for me.

[Docnaster]

Manchester United are so short of players this season that they cannot perform well without the right players. Of course, Manchester United needs a star while the defense is strong, but the attack is not so strong. So it definitely needs a star in the attack department.

Indeed, one of the causes of Manchester United's unstable performance this season is due to the large number of injured players, which has forced Erik Ten Hag to reshuffle the composition of players in the defense and midfield which ultimately damaged the team harmony that had been built. However, now several important players have started to return from injury and Manchester United's attack is starting to get stronger again, where when they beat Wolverhampton, Manchester United was able to score 4 goals. Therefore, if this positive trend can continue, then Manchester United will most likely finish in the top four of the EPL.

Undoubtedly, Manchester United players have suffered series of injuries that's kept them sidelined for too long this season and that's what many people have been pointing out to as the cause of the club's poor performance this season.
However, I'm of the opinion that the club could've still achieved more they've achieved so far if the club manager Erik ten Hag had been better with his tactical approaches to games. For instance, Manchester United failed to progress from the group stage of this season's UEFA Champions League competition because of the manager's poor tactical moves in the games they were leading in but still failed to win. They scored four four goals against Wolves in the midweek game they played but still conceded three on that game. That's not how a big team like Manchester United should be built defensively

[ILuckyGuyI]

While having a season with many ups and downs it is nice to see some improvement by Rashford and Hojlund lately. They both made important contributions to their team against Wolves. The games are still going on tough for the Red Devils of course. Because their defending is just horrible... 

When Martinez returned I hoped to see stronger defending. It didn't take Martinez a long time to start performing nicely after a lasting injury. But Varane is still really bad.

Would we see Varane being sent to another team at the end of the season you think?

[Zanab247]

Everton vs Tottenham Hotspur game has started and Tottenham Hotspur has scored the first goal at twenty something minutes to lead the game 0:1, which is a sign that they will still score more goals before the end of the first half and their players are well organized to disgrace Everton in their home today.

Can Everton score a single goal from this game because, Tottenham Hotspur player want to use this game as an example to other teams that they have fully recovered from their injuries to battle for the first or second position in the premier league which they are capable to use this game as an example to beat Everton 0:4.

[X-ray]

Yesterday in the Premier League match Wolves vs Man United, Man United team won by 4 goals in the match between the two teams. The performance of the Man United team players was very good. The Wolves team did not perform well before halftime. But after the halftime, the Wolves team scored 3 goals. Wolves  If the players of the team can perform well before the halftime, maybe the Wolves team would have won this match. I placed a bet in support of the Wolves team but I could not win the bet.

If you were not sure with what you bet then you can take less risky choice like double chance. The match between wolves against united was so hard to predict. I was seeing both of teams are equal at this time. Manchester united was only good on its defensive line but other lines are performing so poorly . United was almost losing if mainoo was not coming as savior for the club.
That's amazing to see that how mainoo has been successfully scoring at the late game through his solo. this is why he has been talked by so many united fans on X. He took the big risk by going to the penalty box alone but he made it.
The match has passed then forget it.

The match between totenham vs everton is still happening right now. Totenham has been scoring another goal through richarlison with his accurate shoot. Totenham is still leading the game right now with two goals against everton. Everton is still having chance to change the situation. The chance for this club to be relegated is very big right now.
Totenham looks very strong even though it must be playing away against everton. Totenham is still controlling the game, and it was also consistently attacking everton. The goal from richarlison was pretty good tough.

Everton is being threatened to be relegated if it will not be collecting more points. This is why everton must win the game against totenham but seeing the statistic makes me feel doubt of totenham will able to win the game against everton.
I think that draw may be possible to happen in this match.

[Oluwa-btc]

Manchester United are so short of players this season that they cannot perform well without the right players. Of course, Manchester United needs a star while the defense is strong, but the attack is not so strong. So it definitely needs a star in the attack department.

Indeed, one of the causes of Manchester United's unstable performance this season is due to the large number of injured players, which has forced Erik Ten Hag to reshuffle the composition of players in the defense and midfield which ultimately damaged the team harmony that had been built. However, now several important players have started to return from injury and Manchester United's attack is starting to get stronger again, where when they beat Wolverhampton, Manchester United was able to score 4 goals. Therefore, if this positive trend can continue, then Manchester United will most likely finish in the top four of the EPL.

This is a problem that I saw so many times ago when Manchester United was seriously under performing. Many people saw it but they were unable to acknowledge that it was a cause of the poor performance of Manchester United. There is nothing much a coach can do when his first 11 is unavailable for almost more than half of a season, even when the team does not have a good depth.

In the Manchester United last match, we could see some kind of composure in the midfield because of the return of casemiro. Scoring much goals is not the problem, if the opposing will end up countering such goals by scoring theirs. If the defence is nice, even if the attack does not score much goals, the team will be fine.

Exactly, they should have at least taken a look back to what Erik Ten Hag did with Manchester United last season and check both his winning rate and also how he got to qualify them for the Champions League Competition and also win them a trophy. These Manchester United fans are too impatient as they forget good things does takes time.

They had a good midfied trio which was what lead to that thriving midfied against Wolverampton during the last game played. I believe they'll do better with how they fought until ninty minutes of the game. Westham United tommorow, it'll be one hard game. Hopefully they bury the game quickly they get a goal or two.

[asriloni]

Manchester United are so short of players this season that they cannot perform well without the right players. Of course, Manchester United needs a star while the defense is strong, but the attack is not so strong. So it definitely needs a star in the attack department.

Indeed, one of the causes of Manchester United's unstable performance this season is due to the large number of injured players, which has forced Erik Ten Hag to reshuffle the composition of players in the defense and midfield which ultimately damaged the team harmony that had been built. However, now several important players have started to return from injury and Manchester United's attack is starting to get stronger again, where when they beat Wolverhampton, Manchester United was able to score 4 goals. Therefore, if this positive trend can continue, then Manchester United will most likely finish in the top four of the EPL.

The positive trend is set to continue for the attacking line, but unfortunately, the defensive line is not experiencing the same success. The defenders consistently perform poorly, and to make matters worse, Onana's performance was even worse than before. Im also questioning myself about what manchester united defenders are doing for 24/7. Do they train to imrpveo their performance or what?Im wondering it caused by manchester united defenders never had good performance and it can be counter easily how many times the defenders of united perform better. This sucks to see united conceded more than 50 goals till this time.

Im guessing that the easiest way to predict the result from united's match will be total over. The weak defensive line has been also making united to perform even worse than before. This is also pressuring onana which is a bad goal keeper to perform even worst. Onana doesn't have good defenders to help him like when he was in intermilan.
He needs to put more effort to block any ball by himself now. Poor onana and this guy is not having good performance in manchester united. My thoughts on this matter are that he should no longer be given an opportunity in the main squad, although it should be noted that Manchester United currently lacks a competent goalkeeper other than him.

[Oluwa-btc]

While having a season with many ups and downs it is nice to see some improvement by Rashford and Hojlund lately. They both made important contributions to their team against Wolves. The games are still going on tough for the Red Devils of course. Because their defending is just horrible... 

When Martinez returned I hoped to see stronger defending. It didn't take Martinez a long time to start performing nicely after a lasting injury. But Varane is still really bad.

Would we see Varane being sent to another team at the end of the season you think?

Rapheal Varane, Harry Maguire and Aaron Wan Bisakka are the possible names that'll be leaving even if I'm not happy Rapheal would be on that list. Tjeya need get a player like him and who's much younger, I'd say De Ligt for Bayern Munich simce he's no longer in a good mood to stay with em anymore.

A great and good player would not take time to settle back into a team. So much confidence from him when you watch him, good passer of the ball and good team player who's been pushing his teammates ahead.
They did do well, No?
Marcus Rashford should learn to pass the ball more for Rasmus Hojlund and Amad Diallo would be more effective on the right win than Antony amd Garnacho. Hopefully he gets a start against West Ham United.

[QueenVera]

Pochentino apart from forcing himself to manage his own club, is also actually under pressure because the Premier League is a much more difficult competition and will always be a challenge for him to develop. However, with Chelsea condition, which can be said to be building from scratch, don't expect too much for the first season with a transition and composition of players like this. The point is for Blues fans they have to be patient because the club in Boehly hands will find it difficult to develop, after all he doesn't understand football. It would be a different story if it were still held by Abramovich, under whose control Chelsea is very structured and can manage the club well, especially regarding player selection. Currently in 10th place, Chelsea can only finish at least 6th or 8th at the end of the season even if in the future they can show changes for the better but if on the contrary it continues to decline then it does not rule out the possibility of Chelsea finishing 13th or 15th in the standings.

Well Poch is under pressure and I feel he should be used to this kind of pressure because he’s been in charge of a Premier League club in the past and this isn’t new to him. The only difference is that this team is trying to build from the scratch and the fans should try and be patient.

 But whilst they’re patient and trying to understand that doesn’t give him the room to make some wild and crazy changes especially with the costly mistake of a line up he did with liverpool. If it was under Roman’s Era, I don’t think Poch will probably still be in the club because he’s not looking like he can carry the club past 10th rather it’s even looking like they could finsih below 10th though. Well I think the new owner doesn’t understand much of football and that’s why he doesn’t know how to effect changes but rather wait till ge fans start kicking before he effects changes. If Poch isn’t productive then get him out of the club and get an experienced coach for these players.

[Kristiyana]

Unbelievable with Everton success made come back tonight against Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspurs took the lead twice but Everton was able to equalize and achieve 1 point. Jarrad Branthwaite saved Everton from defeat after a goal in injury time made the score 2-2 and Tottenham Hotspur failed to win after winning twice through Richarlison's goals.

[Docnaster]

Unbelievable with Everton success made come back tonight against Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspurs took the lead twice but Everton was able to equalize and achieve 1 point. Jarrad Branthwaite saved Everton from defeat after a goal in injury time made the score 2-2 and Tottenham Hotspur failed to win after winning twice through Richarlison's goals.

The result of the English Premier League game between Everton and Tottenham Hotspur today was surprising if you ask me because to many, they had already thought that the visitors were gonna easily win the game and take all three points home. Everton twice came from behind to draw level and that's the true mark of a team who's determined to make a difference. Richarlison have easily been Tottenham Hotspur's best player since Son Heung-Min left the club to go join his national team and participate in the ongoing Asian Cup. Tottenham Hotspur are doing their best to make sure they finish in the top four of the league table but I think it'll be very difficult for them since Aston Villa are also doing well this season.

[BigBos]

Unbelievable with Everton success made come back tonight against Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspurs took the lead twice but Everton was able to equalize and achieve 1 point. Jarrad Branthwaite saved Everton from defeat after a goal in injury time made the score 2-2 and Tottenham Hotspur failed to win after winning twice through Richarlison's goals.

Tottenham mistake in this match was the difficulty in dealing with Everton's set pieces.
It is quite unfortunate indeed when they have been 2 times ahead through the brace scored by Richalrison but instead it must be lost in extra time because Everton aerial duel is quite good besides that Tottenham is inconvenient in anticipation when the chaos is in front of goal.
This should be of more concern to Postecoglou because now even though there is a good moment where Richalrison provides an answer when Son is not in the squad but the mistakes that are sometimes made make Tottenham just like wasting opportunities that they should be able to maximize well in the match that took place.

[Palakka]

Indeed, one of the causes of Manchester United's unstable performance this season is due to the large number of injured players, which has forced Erik Ten Hag to reshuffle the composition of players in the defense and midfield which ultimately damaged the team harmony that had been built. However, now several important players have started to return from injury and Manchester United's attack is starting to get stronger again, where when they beat Wolverhampton, Manchester United was able to score 4 goals. Therefore, if this positive trend can continue, then Manchester United will most likely finish in the top four of the EPL.

The coaching method has a fairly high level of selfishness so that there are often bad incidents between players and coaches. It is true that at the start of this season several Manchester united players suffered injuries but now it seems they have recovered and are back playing. But there is no change in their performance because Manchester United is still unable to consistently win.

Erik Ten Hag must be able to improve the quality of his team performance in every match, especially for Rashford because he was one of the key players who performed brilliantly last season. So Erik must be able to provide a lot of support and trust for Rashford to find his best form. Manchester united are still stumbling in the middle of the standings, They are even far behind the top 4 teams, So they need consecutive win if they want to achieve their hope of finishing in the best place.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Everton vs Tottenham Hotspur game has started and Tottenham Hotspur has scored the first goal at twenty something minutes to lead the game 0:1, which is a sign that they will still score more goals before the end of the first half and their players are well organized to disgrace Everton in their home today.

Can Everton score a single goal from this game because, Tottenham Hotspur player want to use this game as an example to other teams that they have fully recovered from their injuries to battle for the first or second position in the premier league which they are capable to use this game as an example to beat Everton 0:4.

Totenham was not lucky enough this time caused by everton was scoring another goal at the end of game. Everton was playing quite well and unexpected goal must be happening at the end of game. I do see that how totenham's players are feeling surprised with the second goal from everton at the end of match. Jarrad brantwhite has become savior for everton caused by his last goal has helped the club a lot to get 1 point. Everton must be performing consistently like that. The chance to leave from the relegation zone was still there and i hope totenham will always be bottling any of its matches. many people are feeling happy by seeing totenham him but not until everton scored the second goal a few minutes before the end of game.
The spurs must admit that if everton played very well in this game even though the attackers have been so wasteful. They were missing so many chances to score and that's what im thinking about the club like everton only lack of good attacker with good positioning.
This is the same like what happened to the chelsea caused by the club has no good striker to play in the club. The youngstar striker was totally useless and wasteful. At least two goals being scored by everton against totenham. It proves that everton can still be called as a strong team too.