⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Jegileman]

The Arsenal vs Sunderland match is so far ongoing and they’ve not been any goal from any side yet. The attacks are coming but Sunderland’s defence have been very strong which makes converting opportunities into goals for Arsenal very hard. Sunderland are really showing their best of performance in this match which makes it convincing enough that they really deserve the position they’re currently sitting on the table now.

Both are quite cautious, not playing at a fast pace. United and Tottenham both build attacks from the back, trying to create chances from the wings. But most of the time, they make their own mistakes when passing. 

Now United is taking advantage of the panic in Tottenham's backline when facing an attack. United leads by 1 goal and might be able to score another.

This match ended in a draw 2:2, it was such a very tight game and they’ve been a lot of pressure coming from both teams in this game. Manchester United took the first lead but Tottenham Hotspur came from behind in the second half towards the end of the game to equalise and also got another goal ahead of Manchester United to take the lead again. Just in injury time again, Manchester United were able to convert their last corner in the game to get an equaliser which the match ended in a draw. The match was very thrilling and I really commend the gameplay of both teams.

[aylabadia05]

This match ended in a draw 2:2, it was such a very tight game and they’ve been a lot of pressure coming from both teams in this game. Manchester United took the first lead but Tottenham Hotspur came from behind in the second half towards the end of the game to equalise and also got another goal ahead of Manchester United to take the lead again. Just in injury time again, Manchester United were able to convert their last corner in the game to get an equaliser which the match ended in a draw. The match was very thrilling and I really commend the gameplay of both teams.

There are several interesting facts here.
The first interesting fact from the Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester United match is that Amorim has continued the trend of being unbeaten in a row in the last five matches. Manchester United each managed to win three times in a row and draw twice against Nottingham Forest and Tottenham.

The second interesting fact is that Manchester United repeated the same result as when facing Nottingham. Taking the lead first, the opposing team reversed the score until finally at the end of the match Manchester United equalized the score which prevented Man United from losing.

This match against Tottenham was interesting and tight.
The third interesting fact, Manchester United have not been able to win over Tottenham during the 7 meetings in all competitions where the two of them have met.

[Just Say]

What is this going to be, it seems that Arsenal may be facing a lot of obstacles against a Sunderland team and it has become clear to us that they are already 1-0 down after half-time,Sunderland have already won everyone's hearts with this game of the new PL season today And they have already proven that they are worthy enough to finish second in the PL. Today, a very competitive game is underway between the two teams in first and second place in the Premier League perhaps this match will determine which team was more hardworking and had a more aggressive strategy even which team played elite football, for now I expect Sunderland to win this game.Even though the attacks are coming, but my idea Sunderland's defensive players are repelling them well.

[Franctoshi]

Slowly but surely Amorim is showing if he's not like what people talked last season. His team is still remain unbeaten in the last five games. He proven he can set up a club to score, though the last two games should have win games.
The only thing missed from him is that how he's still lacking of tactical awareness despite improved performance showed by his club.

I believe his club can get better result as long as he will have more creativity in term of tactic, not always use monoton tactic.

Any though about MU's performance right now?

Manchester united is beginning to pick form gradually, their today's performance against Tottenham Hotspur actually shocked me, if they can continue this way they obviously gonna end up somewhere around top 4 this particular season. Amorin is leaving up to expectations this particular season. Currently Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester city are not in their best forms, so it's a very good opportunity for them to do well. I hope United are able to pick back form starting this season and we begin to enjoy their football games once again.

Manchester United managed to secure a draw today but their performance was not very good compared to what we saw them do against Liverpool, Manchester United was the fast team to score they had some many chances to score more goals by they could not make good use of their chances and win Tottenham finally came back and scored two goals United struggled in the last minute but they were lucky to score the last goal to earn a point in the game. Ruben Amorim win the EPL manager of the month of October it shows that he is doing a good job and his them is a good evidence to show that he is doing well but they need to learn how to defend their goal when they can not score more goals when they are leading in a game.

I'm actually judging based on their overall performance this season. Normally that game would have been a lost game for them, as at 90+6 minutes into the second half, but they came back and equalized the 2 goals, which I thought was already a lost game at that point in the game, and regardless, what matters in a match is the point. Tottenham is not a small team, especially hosting this particular encounter. Manchester United would have lost the game normally if it were last season, but they didn't give up; that's the most interesting part.

[Abbatty]

Last week Manchester United was ahead untill the 80 plus minutes of which they were 2nd on the log before everything changed, this week again they were still 1 - 0 up same as last week and up till the 80th plus minutes, they were still second again and everything changed as well. But this time they concede two late goals and they were on the brink of losing all 3 points and De Light stepped in to rescue a point for his team. Now, is this beginning to be a pattern for the Red Devils? They have conceded late on twice in 2 weeks and turned games that they would have won to draws. That's 4 points lost in the process due to the fact that they couldn't defend their lead till the end. If you can't defend well, then try to score more goals so even if you concede late on, you will still win the match.

I know it really bad to allow points like this slip off but I still think in both match there is so much positive to take from it. When you look at Manchester United since the beginning of October you will see that their is lot of improvement, they are now getting very familiar with the new formation. It never easy it play away from home especially for a team like Manchester United who are struggling to get themselves back from a possibly poor start to the season.

Now they have a couple of few fixtures in which I feel they can take maximum points from. They just need to avoid losing any match at this moment so the momentum won’t drop. Let see how they manage the coming games.

[Iamgoat]

After watching Manchester United play in their last match falling behind managed to walk away with a point, I had faith in them to win against Tottenham today.
They are currently scoreless against the Hot Spurs after 25 minutes of play so defensively they are solid so far. They just lack a good enough attacker so to get those critical goals when needed.
Last match against Nottingham Forest showed they can score when they dig deep enough from their front line to find those goals. But from who is the question they are really looking to answer right now.

Both are quite cautious, not playing at a fast pace. United and Tottenham both build attacks from the back, trying to create chances from the wings. But most of the time, they make their own mistakes when passing. 

Now United is taking advantage of the panic in Tottenham's backline when facing an attack. United leads by 1 goal and might be able to score another.

From the way you analyzed this it was already obvious a draw was going to be inevitable as both teams played almost in the same direction and same pace, the pressure were not well felt or let me say they were both sided and a 2 goals to 2 goals could easily be anticipated. I wish the Manchester United could have won this game it would have made much sense because they would have been at a better position in the table standing right now but it is better to draw than to have lost their game to the Tottenham Spurs.

[ITExpert]

It will take alot of grace for Liverpool to be able to win Manchester city. They have had there ways with Aston villa and Madrid but the possibilities with Manchester city isn't there. Manchester city won't really give them that chance, there performance lately has been splendid. The best outcome of that match if Manchester city is unable to being is draw since both teams has been doing well lately.

This is going to be an intense and interesting match. Because both teams will try to overcome each other. This is true that Liverpool's performance was not too good in this season and they lost more matches than won. But it is also true that the performance of Liverpool in the last season was outstanding but they dropped it at the end of the season. So, in this context the team is really unpredictable they will be the best and they will be the worst at the same time. And Manchester city is also a good and strong team they will also try their core performance to win this match. And according to the comparison of the performances of both the teams apparently Manchester City has more chances to win this match. But what will actually happen can be seen after the match. And if there is a bet on this match I will bet on Manchester city.

[Issa56]

Amorim joined Manchester United around 2024 and this is the first time he has won the Manager of the Month award for October. It seems his three Premier League wins last month were the deciding factor. At the time, he was under immense pressure due to lack of immediate results and a slow season. But do you agree with Amorim's award?

Man United are currently leading Tottenham 0-1. Mbeumo scored a beautiful goal with a header from Diallo's cross.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cyv89dj34m6o

Amorim performance has been so bad since he joined Manchester United, but right now there is little improvement in Manchester United performance. At least they are beginning to win some matches right now. There is improvement in Amorim performance, but that doesn’t mean Amorim is the best coach for Manchester United.

I feel Amorim deserves the award, he won the three matches which he played last month, and people never expected him to win those matches because Amorim have been losing most of his matches, so winning all his matches for that month was a surprise, because I can’t really remember when Manchester United win 3 matches in a row if not last month.

I knew Manchester United won’t be able to win Tottenham even before the match started, I expected a win from Tottenham, but Manchester United were able to get a draw in the match.

[Zoomic]

Sunderland 2:2 Arsenal
This was a real good drama that played out. Honestly, among everything that happened, I wasn't expecting Sunderland to equalize this match. This gets to show how serious Sunderland is as they are currently occupying the 3rd position in the EPL table.

In the absence of injuries, I refuse to count Sunderland out of the title race. Sunderland can fit in, besides they are not playing any match in the European level. This is an opportunity to shake EPL and before they could realise, what Leicester did years ago will be repeated.

[Cookdata]

What is this going to be, it seems that Arsenal may be facing a lot of obstacles against a Sunderland team and it has become clear to us that they are already 1-0 down after half-time,Sunderland have already won everyone's hearts with this game of the new PL season today And they have already proven that they are worthy enough to finish second in the PL. Today, a very competitive game is underway between the two teams in first and second place in the Premier League perhaps this match will determine which team was more hardworking and had a more aggressive strategy even which team played elite football, for now I expect Sunderland to win this game.Even though the attacks are coming, but my idea Sunderland's defensive players are repelling them well.

See, let's be clear and put Arsenal in their place, they are full of nonsense. I was saying the other time that Arsenal will do everything to go occupy the first place and give every teams the confident that they are fit to lift the trophy but when everyone expect them to the needful, they begin to display their level of foolishness. You see what they played today with Sunderland? I don't have words to describe them but they failed and I'm not sure they are going to escape what's coming for them.

I'm not sure what Manchester city are going to display with Liverpool but Etihad will not accept defeat in this match. If they win, that's an advantage and opportunity to take over as Arsenal are beginning to show their weakness, their last 3 games isn't bad to accept any defeat in Etihad. I want them to win and make them pay for what they did this night.

[IceLincoln]

Amorim joined Manchester United around 2024 and this is the first time he has won the Manager of the Month award for October. It seems his three Premier League wins last month were the deciding factor. At the time, he was under immense pressure due to lack of immediate results and a slow season. But do you agree with Amorim's award?

Man United are currently leading Tottenham 0-1. Mbeumo scored a beautiful goal with a header from Diallo's cross.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cyv89dj34m6o

Well he’s been under lots of pressure, scrutiny, criticism and all that and he finally managed to step up a bit with United winning those games and not lost a match in a while now. When you criticise someone you also need to praise him when he does well, so it’s well deserved.
Even Bryan Mbeumo deserves some praise, he’s been quite impressive with this United side even when they aren’t getting good results he’s always putting in the work and getting the numbers, a good signing for United he’s proving his worth.




I Must Commend SUNDERLAND they’ve been super impressive this season and I’m sure no one would have predicted they’ll perform this good in the premier league. They’re going into every game without fear or respect for the big teams…… These guys are the Vikings of premier league right now.

[Tungbulu]

Manchester United managed to secure a draw today but their performance was not very good compared to what we saw them do against Liverpool, Manchester United was the fast team to score they had some many chances to score more goals by they could not make good use of their chances and win Tottenham finally came back and scored two goals United struggled in the last minute but they were lucky to score the last goal to earn a point in the game. Ruben Amorim win the EPL manager of the month of October it shows that he is doing a good job and his them is a good evidence to show that he is doing well but they need to learn how to defend their goal when they can not score more goals when they are leading in a game.

I think Man U performed pretty well in the first Half of the game, I was positive that there was gonna be a goal in that first half, I even had to make a live bet of 0.5 goals in the first half just few minutes before Man U scored their first game, and yeah I got lucky.  Now back to the discussion, I was expecting that Man U would continue with the same spirit in the second half, but it appeared they got too comfortable with the one goal they had and felt the game would end that way, while Tottenham Hotspur on the other hand mounted even more pressure and when they managed to score that goal, that was literally when Man U started to wake up to reality but it was almost too late for them.
Man U was just lucky today, else it would’ve been huge loss for them today.

[Pablo-wood]

Sunderland 2:2 Arsenal
This was a real good drama that played out. Honestly, among everything that happened, I wasn't expecting Sunderland to equalize this match. This gets to show how serious Sunderland is as they are currently occupying the 3rd position in the EPL table.

In the absence of injuries, I refuse to count Sunderland out of the title race. Sunderland can fit in, besides they are not playing any match in the European level. This is an opportunity to shake EPL and before they could realise, what Leicester did years ago will be repeated.

I am just wondering if Sunderland can keep up with this pace till mid season. They are just 1 point above Spurs, Liverpool, Bournemouth and Manu then 2 points above Chelsea which poses a big threat to their current standing.

Sunderland being able to equalise at the dieing minutes shows some level of composure and determination for the season but I doubt if this will really last. I'm only seeing their current form as a temporal progress.

[Zoomic]

Sunderland 2:2 Arsenal
This was a real good drama that played out. Honestly, among everything that happened, I wasn't expecting Sunderland to equalize this match. This gets to show how serious Sunderland is as they are currently occupying the 3rd position in the EPL table.

In the absence of injuries, I refuse to count Sunderland out of the title race. Sunderland can fit in, besides they are not playing any match in the European level. This is an opportunity to shake EPL and before they could realise, what Leicester did years ago will be repeated.

I am just wondering if Sunderland can keep up with this pace till mid season. They are just 1 point above Spurs, Liverpool, Bournemouth and Manu then 2 points above Chelsea which poses a big threat to their current standing.

Sunderland being able to equalise at the dieing minutes shows some level of composure and determination for the season but I doubt if this will really last. I'm only seeing their current form as a temporal progress.

You get to see it from this angle;
Arsenal is currently the best team in England;
The best team was leading against Sunderland and Sunderland found a way to equalize;
That's really a great achievement. What this further means is that, Sunderland is able to come back against any team in England now, since they were able to come back against the best team in England.
I don't know how you see it, but that's how I am seeing it.
So, till injury interrupts the team, they are capable of remaining in the top 4 for now.

[FanEagle]

Liverpool finally got couple of wins back to back, first Real Madrid but also the league game too, that type of big losses in a row was bad, six out of seven games were a loss, and that was terrible but they look like they are back. If they can also win this game then they are going to look much better, like whatever the issue was then they fixed it and this is what they are aiming at.

City on the other hand had no problems like that, just plain old averaged this much, nothing bad on the middle, four wins out of last five games in the league, quite good, literally opposite of Liverpool who lost four out of last five. We are going to see a team that is on average this much, and a team that is much worse or much better consistent, it all depends which Liverpool we get, good one or bad one.

[Adbitco]

Just 2 shots on target for Sunderland was enough for them to use and score 2 goals against Arsenal. The match was very tight for Arsenal, if not it would have ended in their favour as other matches so far this season. Although, they were in a better position to win Sunderland but the resilience of the home team didn't allow that to happen. Arsenal was the clear favourites to win this match, apart from that, they played better, created more chances to score many goals but the defence was up to the task.

[Victorybit1]

Just 2 shots on target for Sunderland was enough for them to use and score 2 goals against Arsenal. The match was very tight for Arsenal, if not it would have ended in their favour as other matches so far this season. Although, they were in a better position to win Sunderland but the resilience of the home team didn't allow that to happen. Arsenal was the clear favourites to win this match, apart from that, they played better, created more chances to score many goals but the defence was up to the task.

This shows how precise and accurate this Sunderland team can be because they matched the offensive play of arsenal with just two counters on goal and they scored all. The fact that Sunderland even scored them twice shows that this team is more than capable of making it far this season in the English premier League and they have continued to show their prospects and resilience.

[Iroh]

I know it really bad to allow points like this slip off but I still think in both match there is so much positive to take from it. When you look at Manchester United since the beginning of October you will see that their is lot of improvement, they are now getting very familiar with the new formation. It never easy it play away from home especially for a team like Manchester United who are struggling to get themselves back from a possibly poor start to the season.

Now they have a couple of few fixtures in which I feel they can take maximum points from. They just need to avoid losing any match at this moment so the momentum won’t drop. Let see how they manage the coming games.

Looking back at their poor start to the season, the performance of Man United has surely increased. As well as getting more familiar with the formation, I think they're getting more in sync as a team, generally increasing morale amongst the lads.
With the game against Tottenham, I thought Man united has the opportunity to win the game with the opportunity they had and missed with Śeśko who unfortunately, now sufferers a knee injury.

Hopefully, we would see more better performance and wins from United in their next features. They do need to avoid losing any game to keep and perhaps increase the morale of the players and supporters as well.

[Slow death]

Sunderland 2:2 Arsenal
This was a real good drama that played out. Honestly, among everything that happened, I wasn't expecting Sunderland to equalize this match. This gets to show how serious Sunderland is as they are currently occupying the 3rd position in the EPL table.

In the absence of injuries, I refuse to count Sunderland out of the title race. Sunderland can fit in, besides they are not playing any match in the European level. This is an opportunity to shake EPL and before they could realise, what Leicester did years ago will be repeated.

I took the time to watch the game because I bet on Arsenal to win, but to my surprise, and because I didn't expect to see Sunderland playing so well, it didn't seem like they were facing the league leaders, it seemed like they were also fighting for the title.

It's unbelievable that they are in 4th place fighting against great teams. It seems to me that they won't easily leave the Champions League qualifying position, and if that happens we'll see a lot of competition this season, because Chelsea is also playing well and won today's game, and are now provisionally in 2nd place.

[PokerDiceMan]

Sunderland 2:2 Arsenal
This was a real good drama that played out. Honestly, among everything that happened, I wasn't expecting Sunderland to equalize this match. This gets to show how serious Sunderland is as they are currently occupying the 3rd position in the EPL table.

In the absence of injuries, I refuse to count Sunderland out of the title race. Sunderland can fit in, besides they are not playing any match in the European level. This is an opportunity to shake EPL and before they could realise, what Leicester did years ago will be repeated.

I am just wondering if Sunderland can keep up with this pace till mid season. They are just 1 point above Spurs, Liverpool, Bournemouth and Manu then 2 points above Chelsea which poses a big threat to their current standing.

Sunderland being able to equalise at the dieing minutes shows some level of composure and determination for the season but I doubt if this will really last. I'm only seeing their current form as a temporal progress.

You get to see it from this angle;
Arsenal is currently the best team in England;
The best team was leading against Sunderland and Sunderland found a way to equalize;
That's really a great achievement. What this further means is that, Sunderland is able to come back against any team in England now, since they were able to come back against the best team in England.
I don't know how you see it, but that's how I am seeing it.
So, till injury interrupts the team, they are capable of remaining in the top 4 for now.

Just leading the temporary standings doesn't mean it's the best team. It's only considered the best if they win at the end of the season, and even then, they can't be said to have the best squad in terms of player quality. Sunderland might have just surprised at the beginning of this season, but as time goes on and more matches are played, Sunderland will likely be in the middle of the standings, which is a decent result for a team in the middle at the end of the season. This is because Sunderland is a newly promoted team and doesn't have many star players in their squad.