⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[ingiltere]

Fulham's rise continues and Tottenham's fall continues. Marco Silva intervened the game with the right moves. Muniz and Sessegnon are his late substitutes and both names scored the goals. Tottenham are far away from last season's game play. I wonder if Postecoglou will be able to finish the season. If they can't continue in the Europa League, his seat will be shaken.

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a very enjoyable first half to watch. merino's goal was very interesting. i don't think he even tried to score, if he did it on purpose it's very difficult to head it in that way.

arsenal led for most of the first half and chelsea pressed a lot in the last minutes. i think chelsea will get a goal in the second half.

I don’t think Chelsea would be able to get anything out of this one, neither will there be any more goals in this match. It’s going to be a 1 goal win match for Arsenal the way I see it. Chelsea isn’t having any much chance creation at the front, most of their attention is fixed on Pedro Neto and the Arsenal defense is well aware of the tactics.
Cucurella has been more forward these days and I’m very much impressed at his new found courage to push forward and try to make something happen with the ball but, it’s very unlikely they would get a goal here.

that's a great guess, i congratulate you.

i expected chelsea to score in the second half, but they couldn't go beyond their performance at the end of the first half. as a result, we can say that it was a nice 3 points for arsenal. i expected a draw, my prediction didn't work. your analysis was correct with almost 0 deviation.

[beerlover]

The win yesterday for Nottingham Forest was an important one for their Champions League qualification campaign and it also helped them close up the gap between second place and third place with just a point difference putting Arsenal under pressure. If Arsenal fail to win against Chelsea today it will mean that Nottingham Forest have an opportunity to overtake Arsenal if they slip up further.

In last season, Aston Villa done impressive job and have Champions League spot in this season Nottingham Forest already done enough work for having spot into top five which will give them chance to play Champions League in next season.

Even though their performance was on good level, but their attack was weak in top five teams which not able to score enough goals their defense give them good support for having performance like this in throughout season their difference of points from Chelsea and Manchester City are good which give them good advantage. In remaining season their matches can give them enough points to stay into top three which could be one of the best end for them while many teams are doing good job in this season which is clearly indicating Premier League competitiveness is much improved.

[MainIbem]

I don’t think Chelsea would be able to get anything out of this one, neither will there be any more goals in this match. It’s going to be a 1 goal win match for Arsenal the way I see it. Chelsea isn’t having any much chance creation at the front, most of their attention is fixed on Pedro Neto and the Arsenal defense is well aware of the tactics.
Cucurella has been more forward these days and I’m very much impressed at his new found courage to push forward and try to make something happen with the ball but, it’s very unlikely they would get a goal here.

that's a great guess, i congratulate you.

i expected chelsea to score in the second half, but they couldn't go beyond their performance at the end of the first half. as a result, we can say that it was a nice 3 points for arsenal. i expected a draw, my prediction didn't work. your analysis was correct with almost 0 deviation.

It was really a good speculations and more better if he'd predicted on it cause would've won, anyways I enjoyed the game it was an interesting London Derby and both teams were fierce but the best man won, Arsenal real deserved to win, they had more chances than Chelsea and played better although Chelsea won in possession but it wasn't enough since it takes finding the net to grab 3 points, Arsenal has managed to close the gap but a but but it's almost too late since the gap is more than 10points and Liverpool would do everything to win the Premier League since they just lost the Caraboa Cup to Newcastle few hours ago. Anyways the hopes of playing in the Champions League is not yet over for Chelsea if they continue winning till this season ends.

[Ryu_Ar1]

With results like this it looks like they are likely to be displaced again because with the acquisition of points owned at this time it is likely that Newcastle can seize the position owned by Manchester City now.

Yes, it's possible Newcastle can shift Manchester City to 5th place, but not anytime soon. Maybe next month after the international break.
There will be many possibilities for Manchester City not to compete in the Europa League zone in the next session because they have a problem with the lag squad. Pep can't continue to hold the performance without Rodri controlling the game. He needs a substitute which so far does not exist to cover the gap. They must be realistic to don't have target on this year. They just have to win the remaining matches, and wait another team slip if still want to compete on the Europa League zone.

Another match Chelsea also lost to Arsenal with a defeat of 1 goal this week which of course this is a very good thing for Newcastle if indeed they will later when doing week 28 they managed to get 3 points because indirectly when that happens then they will immediately be able to overtake Chelsea and Manchester City directly for now.

They today save their week 28 match because they have to face Liverpool in the EFL cup final but the results are clear they managed to get a victory while securing the trophy this season for the EFL Cup.

A little unlucky for Liverpool actually because of the inevitable fatigue factor they had to lose and could not get the trophy even though their momentum was actually quite good but it looks like for now the EPL is likely the only trophy they will get this season.
Although it is still very good but on the other hand this is a notice for Slot which is actually their chance to get more than 1 trophy this season is quite open but mistakes at the end are always a problem that makes them fail to get more trophies this season.

[doomloop]

Fulham's rise continues and Tottenham's fall continues. Marco Silva intervened the game with the right moves. Muniz and Sessegnon are his late substitutes and both names scored the goals. Tottenham are far away from last season's game play. I wonder if Postecoglou will be able to finish the season. If they can't continue in the Europa League, his seat will be shaken.

Today two London derbies won by home teams Arsenal securing their second spot in League table and Fulham trying to have European competition chance with their impressive run things were not favorable for bot visiting teams as they were not able to score goals.

Arsenal is surely having good momentum and their chances are quite high for staying here while their game against Real Madrid is going to be challenging for both clubs, but they still needed to be had aggressive approach if they want to jump at top. Tottenham is surely miserable as they fail to impress with their chances are also not good to have end of this season in top half of league table because their defense and attack both are playing brainless games, but their chances in European Cup are good for having spot into final.

[BITCOIN4X]

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Today two London derbies won by home teams Arsenal securing their second spot in League table and Fulham trying to have European competition chance with their impressive run things were not favorable for bot visiting teams as they were not able to score goals.

Arsenal is surely having good momentum and their chances are quite high for staying here while their game against Real Madrid is going to be challenging for both clubs, but they still needed to be had aggressive approach if they want to jump at top. Tottenham is surely miserable as they fail to impress with their chances are also not good to have end of this season in top half of league table because their defense and attack both are playing brainless games, but their chances in European Cup are good for having spot into final.

I think it is very difficult to expect Arsenal to qualify for the semifinals of the Champions League when they meet Real Madrid in the quarter-finals. Real Madrid are more favorites in the Champions League than Arsenal, but we both don't know what will happen this season. Both teams have advantages and disadvantages, so anything is still possible because both have home and away games.

Today Arsenal's victory over Chelsea didn't change anything, I mean Liverpool are 12 points ahead of them. Arsenal is only trying to maintain its position as runners up, but the chances will increase if Liverpool really loses the consistency of their performance in the remainder of the season. Today Liverpool failed in the Paiala EFL final, that was a little disturbing of course.

[PremiumcryptoHub]

Manchester United is still on the winning path until the 95th minute of today's match, basically in this match we can see that Manchester United is going to defeat Leicester City. So far one goal has come from the feet of Garnacho, Bruno Fernandes, and Hojlund in this match, meaning that these three players were absolutely perfect against Leicester City. I've been watching their matches over the past few weeks but there's a great desire to move forward within Manchester United. Manchester United had a remarkable performance last week as they drew against Arsenal and today as a bettor I'm happy that they are able to win 3-0 against Leicester City.

[blue Snow]

Manchester United is still on the winning path until the 95th minute of today's match, basically in this match we can see that Manchester United is going to defeat Leicester City. So far one goal has come from the feet of Garnacho, Bruno Fernandes, and Hojlund in this match, meaning that these three players were absolutely perfect against Leicester City. I've been watching their matches over the past few weeks but there's a great desire to move forward within Manchester United. Manchester United had a remarkable performance last week as they drew against Arsenal and today as a bettor I'm happy that they are able to win 3-0 against Leicester City.

Yes, MU performed well to maintain winning. Bruno has shown his quality as a playmaker today. his role in this match is very important to bring MU to middle standing. His assist to Hojlund provided the first goal for that striker after being barren for so long a time. And this win has shown also that Amorim is more worthy to be MU coach than Ruud Van Nistelroy. I think Amorim is decent enough, we have given applause to him because MU so far is never undefeated on the last 4 match, they only lost when meet Fulham on FA Cup. We also hope MU can maintain their track and continue their performance after the international break.

[asriloni]

Fulham's rise continues and Tottenham's fall continues. Marco Silva intervened the game with the right moves. Muniz and Sessegnon are his late substitutes and both names scored the goals. Tottenham are far away from last season's game play. I wonder if Postecoglou will be able to finish the season. If they can't continue in the Europa League, his seat will be shaken.

It's Tottenham was shite, not Fulham who risen. They never play comfortably against any opponent, and this is how they lose against Fulham today. It's also completely expected result about they way how they bottled three points. No team work, no creativity, and no intention to win the game.

The first half was disaster. They do it a bit better at second half, but still awful. At this point, they manager deserve to be sacked. They have no more chance to at least finish at the top 10 with their performance now.

Their season is a write off now. Their biggest achievement this season has been lowering their fans expectations and i could not even more agree with it.

[Fuso.hp]

Until last season Manchester City was a strong team so betting on Manchester City in any Premier League competition would have given them a chance to win but now the statistics are completely different. In this season we can see that Manchester City is not performing well and also if any other team is playing against Manchester City and if the bet is in favor of Manchester City against that opposition team then many times it is seen that the gambler has to lose money in that match. Manchester City has lost a lot of trust to gamblers. Until Manchester City can improve their performance, I don't think the Premier League competition will be bet on them. Gamblers should be careful about betting because when the team is doing well, bet on that team be it Manchester City or Real Madrid or any other team.

Before the start of this season,  In the place we usually watch matches most of us had already said Manchester City will retain the title. I said same too back then because, I personally don't see Arsenal as a team that can challenge for the trophy, so I already ruled them out. Liverpool was going to be having a new a coach, so in my opinion I thought he was going to struggle at first then come alive and he would qualify for top 4. Chelsea on the other hand was not a serious team again after the take over so I ruled them out too. Manchester City on the other hand were in a rink of making another history, eyeing 5 Premiership in a roll, bit right now, most of us were wrong about City and didn't see this sudden decline coming.

It's normal for everyone to think like this because they started this season with the same team that Manchester City won the title with last season, but why their performance has been so random this season is not clear to us. They started the season with a poor performance and continued with that poor performance and have not bounced back very well from there till now. Although they are currently in a good position from the position of their point table before, it is assumed that this season at least if Manchester City cannot retain the title, they will at least qualify for the Champions League next season. It would have been a shame for Manchester City if they had not qualified for the Champions League. We may not be able to understand the weaknesses of the team from the outside, but the team manager should work on these issues and if he finds any obvious weaknesses, work on those weaknesses to bring the team back to good performance.

[Judith87403]

Manchester United is still on the winning path until the 95th minute of today's match, basically in this match we can see that Manchester United is going to defeat Leicester City. So far one goal has come from the feet of Garnacho, Bruno Fernandes, and Hojlund in this match, meaning that these three players were absolutely perfect against Leicester City. I've been watching their matches over the past few weeks but there's a great desire to move forward within Manchester United. Manchester United had a remarkable performance last week as they drew against Arsenal and today as a bettor I'm happy that they are able to win 3-0 against Leicester City.

Manchester united did absolutely well in yesterdays  match, you know if not for the fact that they have not being in their best performance for some time now of course leicester is not always a threat for them. But due to there inconsistency made it look as if leicester can be a threat to them, But is so nice to see that manchester united really proved to them that they still remains the manchester united they used to know before.

However, I think Bruno deserve to be awarded as the man of the match because his performance was indeed a great one. He made two assist and also score one goal, though I don't watch the match till the end so I don't know who was giving the award.

[JeffBrad12]

Manchester United is still on the winning path until the 95th minute of today's match, basically in this match we can see that Manchester United is going to defeat Leicester City. So far one goal has come from the feet of Garnacho, Bruno Fernandes, and Hojlund in this match, meaning that these three players were absolutely perfect against Leicester City. I've been watching their matches over the past few weeks but there's a great desire to move forward within Manchester United. Manchester United had a remarkable performance last week as they drew against Arsenal and today as a bettor I'm happy that they are able to win 3-0 against Leicester City.

It's easy win for Manchester United. They were not performing that good, but looked so sharpness in this game. They created 5 goal attempts, and 3 successfully converted to the goals. They started looked like a proper football team again, but i may be too early in taking such conclusion consider they only fought leicester.

My credit goes to the Bruno, he created 6 goals from two games is absolutely insane. No doubt he's the only guy who carried the club. He's always cooking in any game.

I know the result is not a big take away, but quite impressed with how they secured three points with cleansheet.

[SatoPrincess]

Manchester City situation has now gone complex far beyond my understanding. When they made signings in the January transfer market I expected to see positive changes in their performance and results but it seems nothing has changed or just a little improvement has happened. I fear City will miss out on champions league football with the way they are playing which will also be a slap in the face of the club. They really need to do better at this point.

[sotelorene]

Manchester City situation has now gone complex far beyond my understanding. When they made signings in the January transfer market I expected to see positive changes in their performance and results but it seems nothing has changed or just a little improvement has happened. I fear City will miss out on champions league football with the way they are playing which will also be a slap in the face of the club. They really need to do better at this point.

The players Manchester city signed are good but I keep wondering what is the cause of there poor performance and almost all the players that win treble are there so what is the cause. is it that Pep Guardiola is not doing well anymore, is it that he doesn't ginger and talk to them like he use to..., there performance is not encouraging at all, they would have been in a better position if they would have win Brighton but right now the chance that they will qualify for next season champions league is very small if at all they will qualify though they still have a little hope because the point difference is not much.

[Black Mbaye]

Fulham's rise continues and Tottenham's fall continues. Marco Silva intervened the game with the right moves. Muniz and Sessegnon are his late substitutes and both names scored the goals. Tottenham are far away from last season's game play. I wonder if Postecoglou will be able to finish the season. If they can't continue in the Europa League, his seat will be shaken.

The manager's life doesn't seem very long at Tottenham, to be honest. Because they are really bad this year. Most of us are not used to this because we usually see Tottenham in the race for the top. Their ranking this year is disappointing. They are still performing well in the Europa League, but their opponents there are not easy. They have been matched with Frankfurt, one of the strong teams in the Bundesliga, and it is not certain that they can pass this match. If they are eliminated from the Europa League, the manager can be dismissed from the team.

[Spack17]

Liverpool are still empty-handed...

FA Cup : eliminated very early
EFL Cup : eliminated in the finale
Champions League: eliminated during last 16

Now there is only the Premier League left to win. We can already call them as the champions here though. Because the gap is 12 points with Arsenal so I don't think even Arteta believes in their chance anymore. 

Do you call Arne Slot successful for this year? I think winning a Premier League trophy is a good start at least. He is about to end Liverpool's thirst for this title - the last one achieved was in the 2019-20 season.

[BlackBoss_]

Liverpool are still empty-handed...

FA Cup : eliminated very early
EFL Cup : eliminated in the finale
Champions League: eliminated during last 16

Now there is only the Premier League left to win. We can already call them as the champions here though. Because the gap is 12 points with Arsenal so I don't think even Arteta believes in their chance anymore. 

Do you call Arne Slot successful for this year? I think winning a Premier League trophy is a good start at least. He is about to end Liverpool's thirst for this title - the last one achieved was in the 2019-20 season.

They are repeating same fall in last months of season like the past one with Klopp. In this season, they are more lucky with sudden crisis of Manchester City and lack of severe challenge from Arsenal, so it's likely Liverpool will still win Premier League title. They deserve to win Premier League title as they are the best club in this season, but how they lost and left Champions League and EFL Cup need to be assesed internally, and they have to learn many things from those defeats, to prepare for a next better season.

Slot is still very deserved with applause with many great jobs he has done for Liverpool in his first season at Anfield stadium and in Premier League.

[X-ray]

Liverpool are still empty-handed...

FA Cup : eliminated very early
EFL Cup : eliminated in the finale
Champions League: eliminated during last 16

Now there is only the Premier League left to win. We can already call them as the champions here though. Because the gap is 12 points with Arsenal so I don't think even Arteta believes in their chance anymore. 

Do you call Arne Slot successful for this year? I think winning a Premier League trophy is a good start at least. He is about to end Liverpool's thirst for this title - the last one achieved was in the 2019-20 season.

I do and why not? I know it's painful to see how his team still empty handed even when his team still at peak performance, but their chance to win PL is just getting even closer. If his team can win at least a trophy this season, it can be considered as a very big achievement.

EPL is far bigger than EFL, and not so many managers were able in winning it. Look at how Arteta has been managing Arsenal for more than 5 years, but never win PL.

Arne is doing big as long as he can win his first PL. It's even bigger than Arteta's whole career at Arsenal.

[KTChampions]

Liverpool are still empty-handed...

FA Cup : eliminated very early
EFL Cup : eliminated in the finale
Champions League: eliminated during last 16

Now there is only the Premier League left to win. We can already call them as the champions here though. Because the gap is 12 points with Arsenal so I don't think even Arteta believes in their chance anymore. 

Do you call Arne Slot successful for this year? I think winning a Premier League trophy is a good start at least. He is about to end Liverpool's thirst for this title - the last one achieved was in the 2019-20 season.

The most obvious sign that Liverpool have already won the title is that bookmakers are not accepting bets on it.
As for next season, it will be a different team - Arnold will leave, Salah may leave, Van Dijk too, etc. It's too early to talk about next season as we don't know what kind of team Slot can put together plus we don't know what the competitors can do.