⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Woodie]

Arsenal Vs Manchester City game is on, and so far Arsenal looking sharp as always especially that they are playing from home, but should the cityzens settle down and find their rhythm.. I expect City to dent Arsenals winning run as I think they are just a better team and the noisy neighbours just need a win to get back into that position of challenging for the EPL title...

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Haaland goal 🥅

Arsenal 0-1 City

[X-ray]

Arsenal Vs Manchester City game is on, and so far Arsenal looking sharp as always especially that they are playing from home, but should the cityzens settle down and find their rhythm.. I expect City to dent Arsenals winning run as I think they are just a better team and the noisy neighbours just need a win to get back into that position of challenging for the EPL title...

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Haaland goal 🥅

Arsenal 0-1 City

28 minutes passed, and you called Arsenal looking sharp while make 0 shots combined with 0 goal attempts. They have too many bad passes, and starting trossard is a joke. They being so clueless as they have no creator like when Ode was on the pitch. hmmm

[Merit.s]

Arsenal Vs Manchester City game is on, and so far Arsenal looking sharp as always especially that they are playing from home, but should the cityzens settle down and find their rhythm.. I expect City to dent Arsenals winning run as I think they are just a better team and the noisy neighbours just need a win to get back into that position of challenging for the EPL title...

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Haaland goal 🥅

Arsenal 0-1 City

28 minutes passed, and you called Arsenal looking sharp while make 0 shots combined with 0 goal attempts. They have too many bad passes, and starting trossard is a joke. They being so clueless as they have no creator like when Ode was on the pitch. hmmm

That was in the beginning because they started the match slowly. Currently, in the last ten minutes before the end of half time, Arsenal started pressuring City defense in order to equalize the goal with several opportunities but it was all in vain.

I believe that in the second half if City is not careful, Arsenal will equalize the goal and if possible win the match because City became weak towards the end of the first half. The first half is over and Haaland goal made the difference from both sides.

[Stable090]

I can't believe Chelsea only had one shot on target.. I haven't really checked their stats for that match, but that's a sign that Chelsea fumbled the whole match. Pedro Neto was man-marked and the rest of the flanks didn't even have a chance to beat the keeper. Casimero did a trick header, but also got a red card -- it was a tough game altogether!

What affected Chelsea in the match was just the red card which they received in the early minutes of the match. How I wish there was no red card in the match, then it would have been so interesting. Immediately Sanchez received red card, Maresca made substitutions under frustration, he wanted to play defense game, but things didn’t really work out well for him, he shouldn’t have made that decision which he made. Am sure if Maresca knows that Casimero will receive red card also in the match, am sure he won’t have made those substitutions which he made in the match.

[Mate2237]

Arsenal Vs Manchester City game is on, and so far Arsenal looking sharp as always especially that they are playing from home, but should the cityzens settle down and find their rhythm.. I expect City to dent Arsenals winning run as I think they are just a better team and the noisy neighbours just need a win to get back into that position of challenging for the EPL title...

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Haaland goal 🥅

Arsenal 0-1 City

I don't see anything Sharp about arsenal in this game especially in the opening minutes of this were they allowed city to score that goal looking at the build up to the goal the arsenal midfield was sleeping on duty and from the look of things arsenal is likely to lose this game.because I have not seen any thing special about arsenal after the goal from Manchester City.



Arsenal has to up their game if they hope to get any point from this game because it will not be a good one if arsenal lose this game after they lost to Liverpool , that means they have lost to two big teams and you can't be talking about winning the league when you can't hold your own against the big team.

[Tmoonz]

I had high hopes for Chelsea at the beginning of the season, but it looks like it's going to be that kind of team that is going to be very unpredictable throughout the season (win matches they are not expected to win, lose matches they are expected to win)
Tonight against United was the type of Match Chelsea would win given the issues Manchester United is going through but guess what… They got an early red card and that was it.

Smiles I was actually viewing it from your own angle, I was thinking maybe Chelsea will be some kind of threat to the English premier League teams but with the look of things reverse is the case, besides this Manchester United winning against them Chelsea haven't been playing up to expectations, and with the way they started this season I was like this team is up to something else this season but all of a sudden this whole impression came crumbling, I even believed in them to the extent I was seeing them a title contenders, and now this Cole Palmer's injury is gonna be a big disturb to them.

[Velvet78]

I would like to congratulate Manchester City for their effort even though they couldn't win. Because after an early goal, they defended Arteta's students very well.

I was like that's it after seeing Eze - Saka both entering in the second half.    But even those two couldn't bring the equalizer to Arsenal early.

If Haaland stayed on the pitch for longer then maybe Manchester City might even have scored another who knows.

[Ndabagi01]

I had high hopes for Chelsea at the beginning of the season, but it looks like it's going to be that kind of team that is going to be very unpredictable throughout the season (win matches they are not expected to win, lose matches they are expected to win)
Tonight against United was the type of Match Chelsea would win given the issues Manchester United is going through but guess what… They got an early red card and that was it.

It is very disappointing to see such performance and result from them, but I think every mistake made in that match will be corrected in their coming matches and they won’t make such mistake again. Even after getting that red card, they still did their best and tried to equalized the match, so in essence I will say that they did brilliantly well and can do better in their coming games. Chelsea did well towards the end of the last season, so I see them already going to do better in this season, they don’t look like a poor team that can’t compete with top teams in the premier league, they will most definitely go for the trophy and win it if they remain the top of their game this season without too many blunders.

[Emjay24]

I had high hopes for Chelsea at the beginning of the season, but it looks like it's going to be that kind of team that is going to be very unpredictable throughout the season (win matches they are not expected to win, lose matches they are expected to win)
Tonight against United was the type of Match Chelsea would win given the issues Manchester United is going through but guess what… They got an early red card and that was it.

It is very disappointing to see such performance and result from them, but I think every mistake made in that match will be corrected in their coming matches and they won’t make such mistake again. Even after getting that red card, they still did their best and tried to equalized the match, so in essence I will say that they did brilliantly well and can do better in their coming games. Chelsea did well towards the end of the last season, so I see them already going to do better in this season, they don’t look like a poor team that can’t compete with top teams in the premier league, they will most definitely go for the trophy and win it if they remain the top of their game this season without too many blunders.

This Chelsea coach need to learn more how to handle pressure without disrupting his team efficiency. The way he handled the team was so poor from yesterday, I can comfortable say that he said he helped hand Manchester United a win with the kind of changes he made which is argued to be under pressure but that doesn't change the fact that it was a very poor one for a manage of his experience.

Arsenal match today was very entertaining, it was very beautiful to see Arsenal fight for an equalizer and getting it at injury time. They narrowly lost all points to Manchester City but Martinelli saved the day and ensured they shared points among themselves.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

I had high hopes for Chelsea at the beginning of the season, but it looks like it's going to be that kind of team that is going to be very unpredictable throughout the season (win matches they are not expected to win, lose matches they are expected to win)
Tonight against United was the type of Match Chelsea would win given the issues Manchester United is going through but guess what… They got an early red card and that was it.

It is very disappointing to see such performance and result from them, but I think every mistake made in that match will be corrected in their coming matches and they won’t make such mistake again. Even after getting that red card, they still did their best and tried to equalized the match, so in essence I will say that they did brilliantly well and can do better in their coming games. Chelsea did well towards the end of the last season, so I see them already going to do better in this season, they don’t look like a poor team that can’t compete with top teams in the premier league, they will most definitely go for the trophy and win it if they remain the top of their game this season without too many blunders.

Man, please be realistic and stop involving emotion in your statement/comment 🙄, there is no way Chelsea will win the premier league title this season, not when clubs like Liverpool are already leading the pack with 15 points while the closest of all the points is 10 from Arsenal, Tottenham and Bournemouth, that whooping 5 points gap already and we haven't even reach the middle of the season, the Chelsea we are talking about here is currently going with  just 8 points, this is 7 points behind the highest points achieved so far which is 15, are you trying to tell me now that Chelsea will all of a sudden start winning every single match they play so as to be able to recover all the points they've lost so far? And will other clubs simply fold their hands and watch Chelsea come up and take their position in the league table without them trying to fight back? This is not going to happen and you know it.

The highest I think Chelsea may likely be able to achieve in this season's premier league is possibly ending the season in the top 4 or 5 club, but as for winning the premier league title this season, it will take only a miracle for such to happen

[EL MOHA]

It is very disappointing to see such performance and result from them, but I think every mistake made in that match will be corrected in their coming matches and they won’t make such mistake again. Even after getting that red card, they still did their best and tried to equalized the match, so in essence I will say that they did brilliantly well and can do better in their coming games. Chelsea did well towards the end of the last season, so I see them already going to do better in this season, they don’t look like a poor team that can’t compete with top teams in the premier league, they will most definitely go for the trophy and win it if they remain the top of their game this season without too many blunders.

First of all Chelsea have been using this red card as justification but let’s be sincere with ourselves they were absolutely poor and were able to get away with such a score line simply because they were playing against a team that are not too serious or ambitious if not the scoreline wouldn’t be anything to talk about. Prior to the Roberto Sanchez red card Manchester United were still in control that’s was even cause of the red card and yet they dominated the game but as usual where not clinical at the final third. Without even the red card Manchester United would have still dominated that game because seriously Chelsea haven’t be looking consistent and that has heavily be because of their defensive set up.

Chelsea just like yesterday showed that a club might be well organized in attack and midfield but once the defense is not solid then it is difficult to actually win anything like the league the title. Not that I am actually counting them out of fighting for the league title but with this porous defense it will be very hard for them to go all the way on in the league because as they say the defense is what actually wins you trophy while the attack scores goals and Chelsea hasn’t

[Princess Leah]

I had high hopes for Chelsea at the beginning of the season, but it looks like it's going to be that kind of team that is going to be very unpredictable throughout the season (win matches they are not expected to win, lose matches they are expected to win)
Tonight against United was the type of Match Chelsea would win given the issues Manchester United is going through but guess what… They got an early red card and that was it.

It is very disappointing to see such performance and result from them, but I think every mistake made in that match will be corrected in their coming matches and they won’t make such mistake again. Even after getting that red card, they still did their best and tried to equalized the match, so in essence I will say that they did brilliantly well and can do better in their coming games. Chelsea did well towards the end of the last season, so I see them already going to do better in this season, they don’t look like a poor team that can’t compete with top teams in the premier league, they will most definitely go for the trophy and win it if they remain the top of their game this season without too many blunders.

Yes dear, i don't know if you're a Chelsea fan but if you're, i love the spirit. The error have been made, from Chalobah's poor pass to the keepers blunder down to the coaches wrong choice of decision so the entire team have their own share of the blame but the major focus should be how to correct those errors so it doesn't repeat again nextweek, Chelsea would have to correct the errors with a wonderful performance and winning their next fixtures.

 If i keep remembering everything that occured on the pitch it could piss me off so I'll just move past it and hope that the team would do better in their next game, i know they're putting all their effort but they'll have to do better and make we the spectators proud of supporting them in the next fixture, i wish all the players good health ahead of the next match.

[Berry2d]

It is very disappointing to see such performance and result from them, but I think every mistake made in that match will be corrected in their coming matches and they won’t make such mistake again. Even after getting that red card, they still did their best and tried to equalized the match, so in essence I will say that they did brilliantly well and can do better in their coming games. Chelsea did well towards the end of the last season, so I see them already going to do better in this season, they don’t look like a poor team that can’t compete with top teams in the premier league, they will most definitely go for the trophy and win it if they remain the top of their game this season without too many blunders.

With or without the red card it won't have being easy for Chelsea to win the based on their performance on the game against Manchester united, from all indication it have being clearly understood that Manchester United's team where a bit clinical in chance creation, opening and conversion of Chelsea's dangerous attack in there favour. In the game yesterday against Chelsea Manchester United's players where balanced and curious to rewrite their wrongs maybe it was because they are adapting to the system or willingness to the prove a point the reasons was what I can't tell all we know is there was improvement in the teams spirit

[RockBell]

First of all Chelsea have been using this red card as justification but let’s be sincere with ourselves they were absolutely poor and were able to get away with such a score line simply because they were playing against a team that are not too serious or ambitious if not the scoreline wouldn’t be anything to talk about. Prior to the Roberto Sanchez red card Manchester United were still in control that’s was even cause of the red card and yet they dominated the game but as usual where not clinical at the final third. Without even the red card Manchester United would have still dominated that game because seriously Chelsea haven’t be looking consistent and that has heavily be because of their defensive set up.

When I tell people that there performance was poor against Manchester united and now Chelsea are using the red card to just justify there action which is actually very poor so if they are a strong team that they claim they should not have a problem then and there clubs that can manage there game even with red. Roberto Sanchez did not even matter, but I was surprised with the way Manchester United took on Chelsea because of Manchester United's instability, they were looked down by Chelsea and the outcome resulted in what they did not expect so they are putting blames on the red card but Manchester united also did a great job taking advantage of the situation

Chelsea just like yesterday showed that a club might be well organized in attack and midfield but once the defense is not solid then it is difficult to actually win anything like the league the title. Not that I am actually counting them out of fighting for the league title but with this porous defense it will be very hard for them to go all the way on in the league because as they say the defense is what actually wins you trophy while the attack scores goals and Chelsea hasn’t

yes they were able to prepare there attack and midfield and not focusing on defense and they forgot that they are suppose to keep there all section active and is this the Chelsea that they were saying is going to win the premier league and the champions league and it will be hard for them to do that so lets still underestimate them but they aint winning shit.

[Showlove01]

I had high hopes for Chelsea at the beginning of the season, but it looks like it's going to be that kind of team that is going to be very unpredictable throughout the season (win matches they are not expected to win, lose matches they are expected to win)
Tonight against United was the type of Match Chelsea would win given the issues Manchester United is going through but guess what… They got an early red card and that was it.

It is very disappointing to see such performance and result from them, but I think every mistake made in that match will be corrected in their coming matches and they won’t make such mistake again. Even after getting that red card, they still did their best and tried to equalized the match, so in essence I will say that they did brilliantly well and can do better in their coming games. Chelsea did well towards the end of the last season, so I see them already going to do better in this season, they don’t look like a poor team that can’t compete with top teams in the premier league, they will most definitely go for the trophy and win it if they remain the top of their game this season without too many blunders.

This Chelsea coach need to learn more how to handle pressure without disrupting his team efficiency. The way he handled the team was so poor from yesterday, I can comfortable say that he said he helped hand Manchester United a win with the kind of changes he made which is argued to be under pressure but that doesn't change the fact that it was a very poor one for a manage of his experience.

Arsenal match today was very entertaining, it was very beautiful to see Arsenal fight for an equalizer and getting it at injury time. They narrowly lost all points to Manchester City but Martinelli saved the day and ensured they shared points among themselves.

I want to believe Chelsea Coach has learnt his lesson because the substitution was wrong not that he was not supposed to do substitution but he would have done it wise and better and he should not have sub player like Cole palmer because he is a good midfielder and he has ball control, I believe if Cole palmer played that First half full he would have really disturbed Manchester united and there was no one to help and support Joao Pedro. I will just say it was really Manchester united day to have victory because everything happened so fast.

[Richbased]

The three premier league games that played today ended in draw. Bournemouth - Newcastle ended 0:0, Sunderland - Aston Villa ended 1:1 and Arsenal - Manchester City ended 1:1 which was the most interesting match of the week. Arsenal battled to a draw with Manchester City. The match was intensifying indeed and Arsenal almost lost but Martinelli rescued them from a home defeat when he scored in stoppage time. I recognize Manchester City's Erling Haaland because dude is really maintaining consistency in goal scoring as he has now scored 6 goals after 5 games, bravo to him.

[Issa56]

I want to believe Chelsea Coach has learnt his lesson because the substitution was wrong not that he was not supposed to do substitution but he would have done it wise and better and he should not have sub player like Cole palmer because he is a good midfielder and he has ball control, I believe if Cole palmer played that First half full he would have really disturbed Manchester united and there was no one to help and support Joao Pedro. I will just say it was really Manchester united day to have victory because everything happened so fast.

I will say Maresca was just confused after the red card that his player received, he never expected the red card, and it was the goalkeeper that received the red card which is not something that often happen. If it wasn’t sanchez that received a red card in the match, then am sure he won’t have made the substitutions which he made in the match. After Sanchez received a red card, Maresca would have been calm, but he was frustrated and wanted to play defense games. I noticed he started making substitutions and was bringing in defender, but even with the defense game which he wanted to play, he conceded two goals in the match.

[Balmain]

I almost turned off watching the match thinking Manchester City had won and secured the three points. The match began with Haland initiating the attack, then sprinting, receiving a pass, and finishing the goal. You could say Haland was responsible for almost all of the goal. Arsenal exerted significant pressure and attempted attacks throughout the match. They finally got the results of their attempts in the 90+3 minute, relentless, and at least snatched a point.

[Slow death]

I had high hopes for Chelsea at the beginning of the season, but it looks like it's going to be that kind of team that is going to be very unpredictable throughout the season (win matches they are not expected to win, lose matches they are expected to win)
Tonight against United was the type of Match Chelsea would win given the issues Manchester United is going through but guess what… They got an early red card and that was it.

It is very disappointing to see such performance and result from them, but I think every mistake made in that match will be corrected in their coming matches and they won’t make such mistake again. Even after getting that red card, they still did their best and tried to equalized the match, so in essence I will say that they did brilliantly well and can do better in their coming games. Chelsea did well towards the end of the last season, so I see them already going to do better in this season, they don’t look like a poor team that can’t compete with top teams in the premier league, they will most definitely go for the trophy and win it if they remain the top of their game this season without too many blunders.

Man, please be realistic and stop involving emotion in your statement/comment 🙄, there is no way Chelsea will win the premier league title this season, not when clubs like Liverpool are already leading the pack with 15 points while the closest of all the points is 10 from Arsenal, Tottenham and Bournemouth, that whooping 5 points gap already and we haven't even reach the middle of the season, the Chelsea we are talking about here is currently going with  just 8 points, this is 7 points behind the highest points achieved so far which is 15, are you trying to tell me now that Chelsea will all of a sudden start winning every single match they play so as to be able to recover all the points they've lost so far? And will other clubs simply fold their hands and watch Chelsea come up and take their position in the league table without them trying to fight back? This is not going to happen and you know it.

The highest I think Chelsea may likely be able to achieve in this season's premier league is possibly ending the season in the top 4 or 5 club, but as for winning the premier league title this season, it will take only a miracle for such to happen

and to add that in the next game Chelsea will play against Brighton & Hove Albion FC who despite being a team that is having a terrible start to the season having played 5 games and only won one, they were a big problem for Chelsea last season:



https://livescores.biz/h2h/brighton-vs-chelsea

What I mean is that Chelsea has a high risk of losing points in the next game and Chelsea's bad luck may not end with just the next game. After the game against Brighton & Hove Albion FC, Chelsea will play against Liverpool. This will be a very important game because if Chelsea loses again, they will fall far behind many teams. I honestly see Liverpool, Arsenal, and Manchester City as the only teams fighting for the title. I had some expectations about Chelsea before the Premier League started, but after that, I no longer had them. I see them not even finishing in 4th place, they will probably finish in 6th or 7th place.

[Cyber_warrior]

I almost turned off watching the match thinking Manchester City had won and secured the three points. The match began with Haland initiating the attack, then sprinting, receiving a pass, and finishing the goal. You could say Haland was responsible for almost all of the goal. Arsenal exerted significant pressure and attempted attacks throughout the match. They finally got the results of their attempts in the 90+3 minute, relentless, and at least snatched a point.

When Manchester city scored their first goal, I was expecting them to score nothing less than 2 goals in the match, and I was thinking they will conveniently wining the match, but immediately the first half of the match ended, and Manchester city couldn’t score more goals, and Arsenal dominated the match, then I knew the second half of the match won’t be easy for Manchester City.

Immediately Arteta started making substitutions in the match, then I gave up on Manchester City to win, I knew Arsenal will equalize, but I was thinking Arsenal will win, but Manchester city were just lucky for the match to end as draw, they ended up playing defensive game in the match.