⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[GiftedMAN]

The pressure keeps mounting on Arne Slot. Media are reporting that internal discussion has taken place in Liverpool and they decided on who the interim manager will be if Arne Slot is sacked. Allegedly it will be Steven Gerrard who would take the team over until new permanent manager is signed.

What is your opinion on Slot? He did lead the team to the Premier League title, but some could say it wasn’t much to his credit, as the team was built by Klopp and Slot just took it over. Then again, Klopp failed to reach the title in the few years prior to his departure, so Slot must have done something right.

Arne Slot from what I've learnt is just one bad result away from getting sacked. I personally think he should've been sacked long time ago but if the club still decides to sack him now if Liverpool fails to win their game this weekend, that'll be fine. However, I don't think appointing Steven Gerrard as Arne Slot's interim replacement will be a good decision.
Yes, Gerrard is till date a legend of the club and one of the best players in the history of the club but looking at Gerrard's journey as a manager, I strongly doubt that he has all it takes to help the club return to winning ways in a short period of time.

[Dr.Osh]

Looking at the last two matches, Guardiola's task is undoubtedly to improve Man City's back line. Their defense is extremely fragile, allowing opponents to easily score goals. If City doesn't improve their defense soon, and if their forward line struggles to score goals, it will be a disaster for them, and we can't even imagine a crushing defeat due to their fragile defense.

In this match, Man City shouldn't underestimate Südnerland. Even though they're newcomers to the Premier League this season, Südnerland's impressive performance is remarkable. In the last match, Sunderland managed to hold Liverpool to a draw. Although Man City's H2H record is higher than Südnerland's, this time Man City must remain at their best because Südnerland is different from previous seasons.

By the way, regarding this, Pep's comments regarding this match indicate that they are indeed ready for it. Their backline is also really good, perhaps they need to pay attention to their rhythm.

I can't imagine the result of the match between city and fulham being a draw, I didn't watch the whole match I only saw the numbers and fulham's revenge goal made me a little scared because the time between each goal was very close, city must learn from this match whoever the opponent is, they should not be underestimated

[Smartvirus]

In this match, Man City shouldn't underestimate Südnerland. Even though they're newcomers to the Premier League this season, Südnerland's impressive performance is remarkable. In the last match, Sunderland managed to hold Liverpool to a draw. Although Man City's H2H record is higher than Südnerland's, this time Man City must remain at their best because Südnerland is different from previous seasons.

Sunderland has become such a formidable team lately that, you just don’t get any assurances when going against them. They could turn the game on you at any minute, they are good in attack as well as defense. They’ve had an incredible season, coming up with surprising wins and with the experience of Xhaka, they could come up with such dangerous attacking even for Manchester City.

This fixture could easily be an under match or a both team score but, certainly not one you would hope to see Manchester City win easily.

[blue Snow]

The pressure keeps mounting on Arne Slot. Media are reporting that internal discussion has taken place in Liverpool and they decided on who the interim manager will be if Arne Slot is sacked. Allegedly it will be Steven Gerrard who would take the team over until new permanent manager is signed.

What is your opinion on Slot? He did lead the team to the Premier League title, but some could say it wasn’t much to his credit, as the team was built by Klopp and Slot just took it over. Then again, Klopp failed to reach the title in the few years prior to his departure, so Slot must have done something right.

Yeah, in fact, he won the Premier League trophy due to Klopp's squad legacy, not as squad he built. Now, in 2025, he built himself, but it look failed, the players he recruited (at high expense), and spent a hundred million euros, can't help Liverpool to compete with the top clubs. When I look at the situation today, I can say that Slot has failed completely manager. So, is it possible that we have to wait until next season? because they may not have adapted properly yet, maybe the scheme that has been Slot improved still needs to be refined.

I don't know if they are patient; maybe there will be good progress in the future.

[Oluwa-btc]

Sunderland has become such a formidable team lately that, you just don’t get any assurances when going against them. They could turn the game on you at any minute, they are good in attack as well as defense. They’ve had an incredible season, coming up with surprising wins and with the experience of Xhaka, they could come up with such dangerous attacking even for Manchester City.

This fixture could easily be an under match or a both team score but, certainly not one you would hope to see Manchester City win easily.

Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, and even Manchester United who won them didn't get it easily from them. They will be up and going against Manchester City, it should a must watch in my opinion. Considering how Manchester City has done slightly below what we expected against Leeds United and Fulham United, I hope we don't see the same when they host Sunderland. Sunderland by the way could lose five to six players during the upcoming AFCON, a drop in form could be witnessed if these players are gone because they're core members of the squad.

[ancafe]

Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, and even Manchester United who won them didn't get it easily from them. They will be up and going against Manchester City, it should a must watch in my opinion. Considering how Manchester City has done slightly below what we expected against Leeds United and Fulham United, I hope we don't see the same when they host Sunderland. Sunderland by the way could lose five to six players during the upcoming AFCON, a drop in form could be witnessed if these players are gone because they're core members of the squad.

The last few matches haven't shown good results for Sunderland, suggesting that this team is no longer able to perform consistently. In fact, Sunderland has shown promise in the past, having beaten or drawn with strong teams like Arsenal and several others. The loss of several players could be a factor, leaving the team without a complete squad, which could pose a slight problem. Sunderland will face Manchester City and Newcastle in their next matches, making it difficult for them to pick up maximum points, which could have a significant impact on their standings.

[Nightwatchmare]

Arsenal winning the title this season is not yet 100% sure, the pressure used in playing against Brentford was very low probably due to the first set of players. Arsenal will defeat Aston Villa tomorrow and I expect a very competitive match unlike Chelsea against Arsenal, the possibilities of Arsenal winning tomorrow is so high just hope they don’t fail. Arsenal are striving hard to win a title especially the premier league title and viewing every effort put to win every match shows they’re really ready for any team, for a fact Aston villa did great last season wondering what’s happening now? Let’s all consider this match as a tough one because I don’t expect Aston villa to back down at home.

Mikel have already done the best for the club and leading them to pathway to trophies would be the dreams of these clubs. Gunners will become an elite stabled recognized team when they finally lift major trophies. Time to rewrite history. I don't see any oppositions stopping Arsenal this season atleast not any time soon. Gunners are capitalizing their efforts to win the English Premier League title and wouldn't settle for defeats.

I am happy with the work Mikel Arteta is currently doing in Arsenal because it has helped Arsenal compete for the premier league title for a long time, but Mikel Arteta's failure to win the premier league title for Arsenal has made people be little his great work in Arsenal. Arsenal is already an elite club in the premier league, and even if Mikel Arteta win the premier league title for Arsenal this season, it will not add any other thing to Arsenal because Arsenal has already won the premier league title so many times in the past. If all the big teams continue playing the way they are playing and Arsenal maintain their current performance, they can win the premier league title, but since the season is still long, let's just keep calm and watch how the battle for the premier league title will end.

[Miles2006]

Arsenal winning the title this season is not yet 100% sure, the pressure used in playing against Brentford was very low probably due to the first set of players. Arsenal will defeat Aston Villa tomorrow and I expect a very competitive match unlike Chelsea against Arsenal, the possibilities of Arsenal winning tomorrow is so high just hope they don’t fail. Arsenal are striving hard to win a title especially the premier league title and viewing every effort put to win every match shows they’re really ready for any team, for a fact Aston villa did great last season wondering what’s happening now? Let’s all consider this match as a tough one because I don’t expect Aston villa to back down at home.

You sound like one of the optimistic Arsenal supporters who are always believing that Arsenal will win the League because of their impressive starts to the season but gets disappointed when they fall short of expectations towards the end of the season. The truth is Arsenal is a very good team and have been the most consistent team in Europe this season, they've been exceptionally brilliant both in the league and UEFA Champions League competition so it's absolutely fine for their fans to dream but when you also consider how Arsenal does underperform towards the end of the season, you'll agree with me that it's too early to say they're "100% gonna win the league this season". It's my wish that Mikel Arteta finally wins the league but I'll not be concluding now because of how inconsistent Arsenal can be

I clearly mentioned not yet 100% sure but, no matter the pressure there’s always something to say most common Arsenal might bottle the league again. Well it’s fine to think that way due to past performance Arsenal didn’t perform well towards the later time, I think it’s time we focus on this season and leave other past season basically  Arsenal squad this time around seems really impressive and everyone knows about that, even when key players can’t compete as a result of injury the team still manage to play really nice just to secure points, if the team can win consistently I see nothing stopping them from winning the title this season, else who’s available? Manchester city or Liverpool? Oh c’mon you can clearly see there’s no team at the moment.

[asriloni]

Just a few hours before Arsenal's game against Villa. So here i'm coming with another bet. BTTS is my choice cuz my reason is clear i believe Arsenal will win the game, but Villa often made a surprise for them. We have seen how Arsenal very often struggled to beat Villa.

The last time they got draw as the result. Things are gonna be harder for them when Villa is also at their top performance by sitting at the third place of EPL tabs. So i'm sure my bet is totally make sense considering how good Villa is. I don't rule out Villa's chance to score in this game.

Do you guys i pick the right bet?

[Bobrox]

I am happy with the work Mikel Arteta is currently doing in Arsenal because it has helped Arsenal compete for the premier league title for a long time, but Mikel Arteta's failure to win the premier league title for Arsenal has made people be little his great work in Arsenal. Arsenal is already an elite club in the premier league, and even if Mikel Arteta win the premier league title for Arsenal this season, it will not add any other thing to Arsenal because Arsenal has already won the premier league title so many times in the past. If all the big teams continue playing the way they are playing and Arsenal maintain their current performance, they can win the premier league title, but since the season is still long, let's just keep calm and watch how the battle for the premier league title will end.

All Arsenal's fans really happy with Mikel Arteta working currently help Arsenal consistent at the top standings in premier league and wonderful performance for this season leading top standing in premier league and champion league. Really great work of Mikel Arteta but one big challenge for him would bring Arsenal win premier league for this season? Several favorite winning team have weakness performance for this season and only Manchester City is team competitor for Arsenal to win premier league.
Focus for playing well every match is better ideas for Arsenal's fans than high expected as last two season in a row after leading top position more longer finally Manchester City become the winner. Arsenal only finish at 2nd position and almost three season in a row failed become the premier league winner.

[Velvet78]

We start the day with a wonderful game between Aston Villa and Arsenal!     The odds of the game are like:

- Aston Villa: 4.40
- Draw: 3.60
- Arsenal: 1.87

Would I bet on Arsenal in such a tough game? No. If the game was to be played at Emirates then yeah I would trust them. But while Aston Villa are the most in-form team in the league and playing at home, I can't take this risk.

Instead I might go for BTTS @1.91. I hope we don't watch a boring cautious game from both sides.

[Son Of Blockchain (SOB)]

I clearly mentioned not yet 100% sure but, no matter the pressure there’s always something to say most common Arsenal might bottle the league again. Well it’s fine to think that way due to past performance Arsenal didn’t perform well towards the later time, I think it’s time we focus on this season and leave other past season basically  Arsenal squad this time around seems really impressive and everyone knows about that, even when key players can’t compete as a result of injury the team still manage to play really nice just to secure points, if the team can win consistently I see nothing stopping them from winning the title this season, else who’s available? Manchester city or Liverpool? Oh c’mon you can clearly see there’s no team at the moment.

I see this game as one of the big test Arteta has to face this season, Aston Villa has been in an impressive form lately, after losing to Liverpool they went on to win 6 games in a row including the domestic league and external competitions and they're currently sitting in 3rd position on the table. Well Arsenal is capable of defeating them but let's not deny that Villa is a threat and should be handled carefully.
 Anyways let's not conclude that Arsenal would or might bottle the league yet. So far they've shown strong signs that they're ready to win a trophy this season, look what they're doing in all competitions they're participating in, you can see the seriousness from the manager down to his players and it would be very shameful that they end up going trophyless after such stunt, i don't think that's what they want cause when I watch them play I see players hungry for a trophy, players doing their all to make their coach and fans proud and I'm proud of them.

[Pulsar77]

Saliba and Gabriel both are still out. Will there be another Hincapié - Mosquera duo as centre-backs today or not? I read something like Mosquera also has some injury and he is doubtful for the match today.

It looks like Arteta will never be able to relax about these injuries.    Playing away against Aston Villa is already tricky while they are in superb shape. Let's see how Arsenal deal with it. I feel a draw here, do you think so as well?

[aylabadia05]

We start the day with a wonderful game between Aston Villa and Arsenal!     The odds of the game are like:

- Aston Villa: 4.40
- Draw: 3.60
- Arsenal: 1.87

Would I bet on Arsenal in such a tough game? No. If the game was to be played at Emirates then yeah I would trust them. But while Aston Villa are the most in-form team in the league and playing at home, I can't take this risk.

Instead I might go for BTTS @1.91. I hope we don't watch a boring cautious game from both sides.

Looking at the odds, I don't think betting on Arsenal is the right choice, even though Arsenal is in great form.
Unfavored Aston Villa also has a chance to secure full points because their form is also on a good track. The bookmakers don't see Aston Villa as capable of winning this match, so they're giving them such odds.
If I'm willing to take the risk of betting on Aston Villa, I'm sure I'm just a gambler prepared to lose.

BTTS is the fairest bet given the various scenarios analyzed. I'm only willing to bet on BTTS.

[abhiseshakana]

Just a few hours before Arsenal's game against Villa. So here i'm coming with another bet. BTTS is my choice cuz my reason is clear i believe Arsenal will win the game, but Villa often made a surprise for them. We have seen how Arsenal very often struggled to beat Villa.

The last time they got draw as the result. Things are gonna be harder for them when Villa is also at their top performance by sitting at the third place of EPL tabs. So i'm sure my bet is totally make sense considering how good Villa is. I don't rule out Villa's chance to score in this game.

Do you guys i pick the right bet?

This is going to be a very interesting match, and with both teams in good shape, then this match will be fierce, or this could be a bit of a stalemate. Arsenal is still the favorite in this match because they have more points than Aston Villa, so it can be considered that Arsenal has been more consistent so far. But Aston Villa still has a good chance in this match as they have the advantage of playing at home.

Arsenal come into the match full of confidence, having been unbeaten in their last 11 Premier League games, and they have only conceded 7 goals so far, which shows that they indeed have a solid defense line. Frankly, I can't wait to see how these two will fight, whether they will share the points or one of them will get a defeat.

[Adiljutt156]

City vs Fulham was such a great football game, that it made me remember why I love this sport. I get that City is a great team and normally we do not see games like these, but in rare cases where this happens it's incredible.

Not only we had 9 goals in the game, which is already low chance enough, but we also saw Gvardiol got his team off a tie at the last second. Imagine that ball going on, at 98th minute the game becomes 5-5 after Fulham was down 5-1, that would have been the most epic comeback we have seen. This is why I love this game so much, because anything can happen and that makes it so much fun. City could be a big team, and be 5-1 ahead and even then the yare not guaranteed to win, if Gvardiol failed, we would have been talking about something else.

The match is a very interesting match, but it's also a serious worry for Manchester City fans, because I don't understand how  team that is winning 5-1 will later end the match 5-1. Fans might praise them for scoring a lot of goal, but they also have to be worried that they conceded 4 goals which is not good for a title contender. Manchester City has conceded 6 goals in their last 2 matches,  which in my opinion is very worrisome for them. Liverpool has the same episode and Manchester City is on the same track right now. They really have to do something about their defense before its too late.

We saw tough competition between these two teams because both teams did goals in this match and we saw 9 goals in this match and one team did 5 goals in this match and opponent team did 4 goals in this match. Foden was a person who played brilliant in this match and he did his first goal at 44 minutes of the match and he did his second goal at 48 minutes. In the first half of the match, match was In the side of Manchester City  because they did back to back goals in this match and opponent team score was zero and after that we saw good slap by opponent and they did Back to back goals in this match but they could not win this match because they did 4 goals in this match.

[Sim_card]

Aston Villa deserves all three points and I applaud them for that because they were able to play Arsenal with confidence and attacked ruggedly till they finally got a dying minute goal to seal up their victory and move up to second position on the table. Aston Villa didn't start the season well but look at them now in a super form. I will love to see them finish on top four this season. The match ended 2-1.

[Moreno233]

We start the day with a wonderful game between Aston Villa and Arsenal!     The odds of the game are like:

- Aston Villa: 4.40
- Draw: 3.60
- Arsenal: 1.87

Would I bet on Arsenal in such a tough game? No. If the game was to be played at Emirates then yeah I would trust them. But while Aston Villa are the most in-form team in the league and playing at home, I can't take this risk.

Instead I might go for BTTS @1.91. I hope we don't watch a boring cautious game from both sides.

You are lucky to have avoided betting on Arsenal to win, you would have followed us to lose today. My calculation was that Arsenal would win the match to maintain their 5 points lead over Manchester City, but the loss today changes everything for them as it has put them in a very tight corner regarding winning the league this season. Today Manchester City will surely win Sunderland to bring the point between them and Arsenal to two which is really disappointing for Arsenal. I wanted Arsenal to win the league this season but the way it stands now, it is not certain that they will win the league.

[Woodie]

Arsenal's wings have finally been clipped and now the panick will kick in!!

Who thought, the Gunners would fall at the hands of a wounded Aston Villa.. and now the log is opening up for new challenger's and I want to see how odds for Arsenal to win the Premier league will drop and make other clubs among the favourites..

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Another upset loading for the day

[rdbase]

Can't believe how Arsenal lost that game against Aston Villa just now.
They were in the box with four players missing the ball and all the sudden in the last few seconds left of injury time Emi Buendía scoring the goal lifting it into the back of the net!

Here is that game winning goal:
https://x.com/tekkersfoot/status/1997311413816270909

Unbelievable in a great win for Villa to scorn the number one team of the Premier league leaderboard handing them a loss.