⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[ITExpert]

Arsenal's problem is not their strikers they have excellent forwards, and they score plenty of goals. They have great stats and a solid defense, but their constant issue is that they can lose to any opponent, whether strong or weak. They go on a run of great matches where they destroy their rivals, but then suddenly lose a few games. I don’t know what exactly they’re lacking. Obviously, Arteta will now demand new transfers and will try to replace some players in certain positions, but I would first pay attention to their stability, to avoid their main mistake, these slumps during the season.

Arsenal team is a very good team and this time there is no doubt that they have scored very good points and goals and they are also they have a good striker rate but where there are strengths in any team there are also weaknesses so Same is the case with the Arsenal team because they also have some points where they need to improve themselves if they improve themselves then they can prove to be a better team. It is not necessary that if someone is playing very well then they are perfect we cannot find perfection in anything well if they want to improve their performence they should improve their weaknesses. So that they will set an example of weak to strong ones.

[Roseline492]

However is Bukayo Saka not a forwarder?, is Mikel Merino not also a forwarder? Of course they're forwarders including few others who are also commendable, so actually that isn't there problem but they just need upgrade.

Saka isn't a forward. He is a right winger. Merino is also not a forward. He is a central midfielder. Just because Arteta had no choice other than using Merino as CF, it doesn't mean he is a forward now.  


Today I'm also not waiting for any unexpected result. Chelsea and Aston Villa should be able to win their fixtures nicely.

It feels really awkward to talk about Tottenham and the Red Devils like this but they are really horrible in the Premier League unfortunately.

Arteta has his own way of using his players, they might appear on different position but they are doing more than that, even the Saka we are talking about sometimes he plays like a forwarder and also the right winger so it wouldn't be a mistake calling him a forwarder, meanwhile we have not also include Martinelli on the forwarder list because he is also someone as reliable as Bukayo Saka because even in the field his clearing and assisting Is not underrated. Meanwhile Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur deserve the word and they both might not make it out today because Aston Villa and Chelsea has chosen them both.

[Stable090]

I don't expect anything surprising in the Aston Villa vs Tottenham game tonight. Aston Villa are highly favoured for the win. Tottenham have no target left except the EL trophy.

Tottenham target right now is the Europa league, and as we can see they are performing poorly in premier league, but their performance isn’t so bad in the Europa league, maybe it’s because they haven’t faced any strong club in the Europa, but the Europa final is going to be a difficult one for d two clubs.

Aston villa will be facing Tottenham today, the match should be a easy win for Aston villa because they really need it, they want to qualify for the champions league, and if they don’t win todays match, they will find it difficult to qualify for champions league. Tottenham is at the bottom of the table, and they only want to win the Europa league right now, so they will focus on the Europa league match, and won’t really take todays match so serious.

[Adbitco]

I don't expect anything surprising in the Aston Villa vs Tottenham game tonight. Aston Villa are highly favoured for the win. Tottenham have no target left except the EL trophy.

As for the Chelsea vs Manchester United one, nothing changes. Chelsea are the clear favourites.    If we don't see an unusual result Chelsea should be able to keep themselves in top 5 easily at the end of this week...

Just keep your fingers crossed until after 90 minutes if not, football will humble you. Before today, I even thought that Tottenham won't survive Aston Villa, I felt that Aston was going to disgrace and dismantle Tottenham with lots of goals simply because Tottenham will focus mainly on their coming final with Manchester United. But here we are, first half and no goal, Tottenham has been able to hold off Aston Villa for 45 minutes without conceding a single goal. Although, Aston Villa is all over Tottenham in terms of play but they haven't found a way to break down the resistance and score a goal. We await second half again to see what will happen.

[Pumared]

Anyone else confident about Chelsea today? I bet on them and I believe Cole Palmer should score at some point, precisely because of the campaign he's been having with goals and assists. I was going to bet on Aston Villa vs Tottenham but I ended up missing the time. And from what I saw it didn't make much of a difference, the game so far has been calm and goalless.

[SUPERSAIAN]

I don't expect anything surprising in the Aston Villa vs Tottenham game tonight. Aston Villa are highly favoured for the win. Tottenham have no target left except the EL trophy.

As for the Chelsea vs Manchester United one, nothing changes. Chelsea are the clear favourites.    If we don't see an unusual result Chelsea should be able to keep themselves in top 5 easily at the end of this week...

The first half of the Tothenham Aston Villa match has ended, my expectation was that Aston Villa would dominate in the first half, but it didn't happen yet. Aston Villa dominated the game, Tothenham retreated to their own penalty area, they couldn't attack much during the first half.

Aston Villa, despite controlling the ball so much, were a bit slow in attacking and creating positions, Tothenham were completely defensive. As for the Chelsea - Manu match, Chelsea will easily win three points.

[Adbitco]

Anyone else confident about Chelsea today? I bet on them and I believe Cole Palmer should score at some point, precisely because of the campaign he's been having with goals and assists. I was going to bet on Aston Villa vs Tottenham but I ended up missing the time. And from what I saw it didn't make much of a difference, the game so far has been calm and goalless.

As expected both Aston Villa and Chelsea won there games respectively just as many of us expected. But the games didn't go to my own expectations because I had earlier played Aston Villa to win and ov 2.5 same as Chelsea to win and ov 2.5. The straight wins for both teams had very low odds so I opted for this other option. One would think the game was going to rain goals as both the two teams that's fighting for top 5 will want to score many goals so as to secure the 3 points. They both won but the game didn't just rain goals for me.

[Akbarkoe]

I don't expect anything surprising in the Aston Villa vs Tottenham game tonight. Aston Villa are highly favoured for the win. Tottenham have no target left except the EL trophy.

As for the Chelsea vs Manchester United one, nothing changes. Chelsea are the clear favourites.    If we don't see an unusual result Chelsea should be able to keep themselves in top 5 easily at the end of this week...

The first half of the Tothenham Aston Villa match has ended, my expectation was that Aston Villa would dominate in the first half, but it didn't happen yet. Aston Villa dominated the game, Tothenham retreated to their own penalty area, they couldn't attack much during the first half.

Aston Villa, despite controlling the ball so much, were a bit slow in attacking and creating positions, Tothenham were completely defensive. As for the Chelsea - Manu match, Chelsea will easily win three points.

Source; www.premierleague.com

the match between aston villa vs tottenham hotspur has ended with a score of 2-0 with a victory for the host, aston villa. The achievement of three very important points obtained by the host in the match, so that now for a while villa is in fifth position.

In the match, although for the first half aston villa dominated the course of the match, both in terms of ball possession and attack, but as you said that the attacks they made were quite slow, so that every attack and pressure given could be anticipated and suppressed well which made the first half end with a draw score of 0-0.

for the second half, aston villa who played as the host, but tried to increase their attacks and it proved to produce results where right in the 59th minute E. konsa managed to score a goal for villa and was followed by a goal scored by B. Kamara in the 73rd minute which made the score end with 2-0. Congratulations to Astn Villa for their win in this match, and hopefully they can maintain their position in 5th place to ensure that they will have a place in the champions league next season.

[baeva]

Arsenal's problem is not their strikers they have excellent forwards, and they score plenty of goals. They have great stats and a solid defense, but their constant issue is that they can lose to any opponent, whether strong or weak. They go on a run of great matches where they destroy their rivals, but then suddenly lose a few games. I don’t know what exactly they’re lacking. Obviously, Arteta will now demand new transfers and will try to replace some players in certain positions, but I would first pay attention to their stability, to avoid their main mistake, these slumps during the season.

Arsenal team is a very good team and this time there is no doubt that they have scored very good points and goals and they are also they have a good striker rate but where there are strengths in any team there are also weaknesses so Same is the case with the Arsenal team because they also have some points where they need to improve themselves if they improve themselves then they can prove to be a better team. It is not necessary that if someone is playing very well then they are perfect we cannot find perfection in anything well if they want to improve their performence they should improve their weaknesses. So that they will set an example of weak to strong ones.

Arsenal are undoubtedly good, they've been top for a few years now and it would seem that fans should be happy about that, but objectively fans already want the team to move on, hence the outrage that Arsenal finished the season in second place again. I think they would have been forgiven if they had won the Champions League, but no, they're out.

[pawel7777]

Two games of round 37 were concluded today, Aston Villa beat Tottenham 2-0 while Chelsea won against Man United 1-0.

Fixtures and odds (BC.Game) for the remaining games are as follows.

Everton FC x1.4 Vs Southampton FC x7.6; Draw x4.7
West Ham United x2.78 Vs Nottingham Forest x2.52; Draw x3.4
Brentford FC x2.0 Vs Fulham FC x3.45; Draw x3.8
Leicester City x2.26 Vs Ipswich Town x3.0; Draw x3.6
Arsenal FC x1.96 Vs Newcastle United x3.75; Draw x3.6
Brighton & Hove Albion x2.6 Vs Liverpool FC x2.46; Draw x3.8
Manchester City x1.54 Vs AFC Bournemouth x5.6; Draw x4.4
Crystal Palace x2.26 Vs Wolverhampton Wanderers x3.25; Draw x3.3

Another loss by Man United doesn't change much for them, as the season is already wasted, but that's the worst league position for the club since the 70s, and speculations are piling up on whether Amorim will keep his job. Building a team takes time, but maybe he's preferred style is just not optimal for the Premier League. I wouldn't be very surprised if United were in talks with other managers, e.g. Xabi Alonso, who is leaving Leverkusen.

[Oluwa-btc]

I really like Viktor Gyokeres, for me is by far one of the best number 9 in the current season and he is a clasic number 9 not this new one number 9 who are more like a second forward.

He have a lot of potential, but i feel he choose a bad team, i hope to see him doing good but Arsenal..... can destroy his career.

This is a biased way to go about it truthfully. They're just a striker away from winning  the Premier league competition or a major competition in the top European competitions included. Arsenal is not a bad team, they're by far better than most of these top sides we see recently. I don't care if he ends up with them, but Champions qualification should be amongst whatever he considers before joining em.

[Spaceman1000$]

Anyone else confident about Chelsea today? I bet on them and I believe Cole Palmer should score at some point, precisely because of the campaign he's been having with goals and assists. I was going to bet on Aston Villa vs Tottenham but I ended up missing the time. And from what I saw it didn't make much of a difference, the game so far has been calm and goalless.

I already knew from the beginning and i already said it that Chelsea were more aggressive and are more ambitious to make sure they qualify for the Champions League than Manchester United who are more interested in winning the Europa League to qualify for the Champions League. Manchester united have literally Lost hope in winning premier League games, it's now looking like the only winning they only interested is with the Europa league.

[Amphenomenon]

Anyone else confident about Chelsea today? I bet on them and I believe Cole Palmer should score at some point, precisely because of the campaign he's been having with goals and assists. I was going to bet on Aston Villa vs Tottenham but I ended up missing the time. And from what I saw it didn't make much of a difference, the game so far has been calm and goalless.

Aston Villa won and Chelsea won but I would say that Chelsea needs to do better by the way and I wasn't impressed on our style of defence which was for time wasting.

We are bigger than that and to be honest Maresca needs to Improve on his tactics and choice of players especially when there are limited players available because why start George as St. I watched our conference league semi final second leg and would say after then I was thinking that guy wasn't clinical enough. He should have tried another option,to me George is not a good option for a striker but rather playing at the wing is better for him.

Anyway, good three points secured.

[kawetsriyanto]

the match between aston villa vs tottenham hotspur has ended with a score of 2-0 with a victory for the host, aston villa. The achievement of three very important points obtained by the host in the match, so that now for a while villa is in fifth position.

I'm not surprised that Aston Villa defeated Tottenham. Aston Villa performed better during this season, they also need 3 points to compete the top 5 position. Moreover, it is their home match. No doubt Aston Villa could play very aggressive and they really dominated the match. I even guessed Aston Villa would score more than 2 goals if they have a more accuracy in shooting. Well, it is not safe for Aston Villa, Man City can overtake them if Man City won the match against Bournemouth.

*Anyway it is better to take a picture from global source, mate.

~~ hence the outrage that Arsenal finished the season in second place again.

Arsenal even can finish in 3rd place if Newcastle can defeat them in the next match. So, Arsenal need to be more careful for the next match because it is a very crucial match. If they get a lose, the fanatic fans must be more unsatisfied.

[Odusko]

Anyone else confident about Chelsea today? I bet on them and I believe Cole Palmer should score at some point, precisely because of the campaign he's been having with goals and assists. I was going to bet on Aston Villa vs Tottenham but I ended up missing the time. And from what I saw it didn't make much of a difference, the game so far has been calm and goalless.

I already knew from the beginning and i already said it that Chelsea were more aggressive and are more ambitious to make sure they qualify for the Champions League than Manchester United who are more interested in winning the Europa League to qualify for the Champions League. Manchester united have literally Lost hope in winning premier League games, it's now looking like the only winning they only interested is with the Europa league.

For me both Manchester United and Chelsea played so well that only luck separated them, most of us predicted the match to en in a draw, but along the line in the 65 minutes when I saw that Manchester United, midfielders started less aggressive approach to stop Chelsea striker from penetrating their 18 line, I cashed out at and luckily in the 70 minutes the goal came in for Chelsea, so yeah congratulations to Chelsea tonight.

[TelolettOm]

Another loss by Man United doesn't change much for them, as the season is already wasted, but that's the worst league position for the club since the 70s, and speculations are piling up on whether Amorim will keep his job. Building a team takes time, but maybe he's preferred style is just not optimal for the Premier League. I wouldn't be very surprised if United were in talks with other managers, e.g. Xabi Alonso, who is leaving Leverkusen.

Yes, the defeat will only make their position still at the bottom, the same as Tottenham who also experienced a similar defeat, so that their ranking is now at number 2, and that is very encouraging, but not surprising. no need to expect much from both of them in the EPL, only 1 match left. Both will only focus on the final of UEFA Europa League, so, this really doesn't make big matter to their position, only by winning the UEL, they can have the space for UCL.


But the result of this match is very influential for Chelsea and also Aston Villa, because they are competing with Newcastle and also Man City to secure the UCL qualification position.

Source: Chelsea and Aston Villa have defeated the Europa League Finalists

[EL MOHA]

Aston Villa won and Chelsea won but I would say that Chelsea needs to do better by the way and I wasn't impressed on our style of defence which was for time wasting.

We are bigger than that and to be honest Maresca needs to Improve on his tactics and choice of players especially when there are limited players available because why start George as St. I watched our conference league semi final second leg and would say after then I was thinking that guy wasn't clinical enough. He should have tried another option,to me George is not a good option for a striker but rather playing at the wing is better for him.

Anyway, good three points secured.

Many people usually just make assumptions without actually understanding the reasons behind it, if you have been watching Chelsea match of recent and that of Manchester United and with the line up that Manchester United has put up together it was logical for them to actually be set up as they did today, Manchester United fiddle in their best squad today with nothing much to take from this game but yet they still wanted to win this against Chelsea so the best thing is nothing other than actually playing safe from the back.

As for George he is the best thing they have currently in that squad after Jackson and Nkuku and with his work rate of tracking back I think he was picked ahead of others for that. This tactics actually worked because it forced Manchester United back and failed to get the best out of themselves because they won

[Ryu_Ar1]

Many people usually just make assumptions without actually understanding the reasons behind it, if you have been watching Chelsea match of recent and that of Manchester United and with the line up that Manchester United has put up together it was logical for them to actually be set up as they did today, Manchester United fiddle in their best squad today with nothing much to take from this game but yet they still wanted to win this against Chelsea so the best thing is nothing other than actually playing safe from the back.

They came out with a squad that might even be the best they have but they were unable to create a single chance on target which is a bit too much.

Manchester United were quite good in terms of possession at least in this match that is all they can be proud of but otherwise they were completely outclassed by Chelsea because in terms of mentality, attacking scheme and overall performance on the pitch they were completely outclassed.
Luckily there is no reason for them to prepare for the Europa League final because if there was a reason like this then I would probably laugh at it lol

Manchester United had a bad end to the season even if you look at their statistics now, their last 8 matches in the EPL continuation they have not even tasted victory and brought 3 points from what they played.

[ajanwalker]

Manchester and Tottenham have completely given up on the league. Both lost in their matches yesterday. The UEFA Europa League Cup is the only goal and whoever loses the cup will lose the whole year.

Their position in the league is shameful for both teams.

Tottenham lost 2-0 away to Villa

Manchester lost 1-0 away to Chelsea. Both teams played their matches yesterday because their final match was on May 21.

[Jaycoinz]

Manchester and Tottenham have completely given up on the league. Both lost in their matches yesterday. The UEFA Europa League Cup is the only goal and whoever loses the cup will lose the whole year.

Their position in the league is shameful for both teams.

Tottenham lost 2-0 away to Villa

Manchester lost 1-0 away to Chelsea. Both teams played their matches yesterday because their final match was on May 21.

They already know their faith so the best is to prepare and wait for the deal day for the final because that's their only hope of salvaging a good record for the next season ahead because with this type of position finished in the league I guess it would be kinda difficult to some extent for them to sign some players that would love to play European football for example player like osimien that have been rumored to have link with Manchester united.