2025-26 English Premier League Discussion Thread

[MaliBrah]

Perhaps Mr. Salah would like to spend the ramadan in a muslim country?

You know if you can't beat them join em

Salah and Osimhen in the UCL knockouts sheesh

[El Turco]

Perhaps Mr. Salah would like to spend the ramadan in a muslim country?

You know if you can't beat them join em

Salah and Osimhen in the UCL knockouts sheesh

Sane is rounding into form too

[doogie_hauser]

Checking in as a long suffering Leeds fan to lol at Liverpool

[doogie_hauser]

Heartbreaking loss at Villa, but not unexpected.
Regroup, recuperate the injured players and get back on track.

Every teams is bound to lose points this season. It's just important not to sob too much about it.

Oh please, this is not the first time in the past few seasons that Arsenal have blown a commanding lead/gap at the top of The Premier League.

Gooners are done. Man City will be champions again

[MaliBrah]

Heartbreaking loss at Villa, but not unexpected.
Regroup, recuperate the injured players and get back on track.

Every teams is bound to lose points this season. It's just important not to sob too much about it.

Oh please, this is not the first time in the past few seasons that Arsenal have blown a commanding lead/gap at the top of The Premier League.

Gooners are done. Man City will be champions again

we've only blown a good lead 1 time and that was to a treble winning team after we had to bring Rob Holding back into the side after Saliba got hurt lol. Truly we weren't ready to win that season. The other time we lost the title we clawed it back going 16-1-1 in the last 18 and still lost because City are freaks and went 1 better. I blame that season on Arteta and playing havertz at CM for the first 6 months and throwing a bunch of points.

we're not done but we're not gonna win away games at tough grounds like Villa Park against really good teams without our best players lol. City lost there as well too. Schedule easing up and we have a bunch of tough away grounds out the way and players returning lol.

Second loss all season , City have already lost 4 don't look that good away from home like us (even have had a easier away fixtures to) they can lose more , They're not as infallible as before we seen them against leeds and fulham.

[Pipp33]

Knew it lol. We're dead on our feet now and Villa ran through us, Credit to them. Schedule gets a big easier now , hopefully Saliba is back for Everton and then Gabriel not long after

Our shooting has to improve lol , the amount of times we just shoot right at Keepers man lol.

Great win for us, and I thought it was a quality game.

2 comes away froma very busy week with 9 points from 3 games is outstanding, especially the comeback over Brighton at Brighton.

We've still got a tough December schedule, so need to keep going. But the turnaround from the first month has been phenominal. Emery truly is a wizard

[MaliBrah]

Knew it lol. We're dead on our feet now and Villa ran through us, Credit to them. Schedule gets a big easier now , hopefully Saliba is back for Everton and then Gabriel not long after

Our shooting has to improve lol , the amount of times we just shoot right at Keepers man lol.

Great win for us, and I thought it was a quality game.

2 comes away froma very busy week with 9 points from 3 games is outstanding, especially the comeback over Brighton at Brighton.

We've still got a tough December schedule, so need to keep going. But the turnaround from the first month has been phenominal. Emery truly is a wizard

thank god you guys took the first 6 games of the season off!

We were quite lucky a bit to keep it at 1-1 and i was praying for the final whistle

[Pipp33]

Knew it lol. We're dead on our feet now and Villa ran through us, Credit to them. Schedule gets a big easier now , hopefully Saliba is back for Everton and then Gabriel not long after

Our shooting has to improve lol , the amount of times we just shoot right at Keepers man lol.

Great win for us, and I thought it was a quality game.

2 comes away froma very busy week with 9 points from 3 games is outstanding, especially the comeback over Brighton at Brighton.

We've still got a tough December schedule, so need to keep going. But the turnaround from the first month has been phenominal. Emery truly is a wizard

thank god you guys took the first 6 games of the season off!

We were quite lucky a bit to keep it at 1-1 and i was praying for the final whistle

Yes, to be where we are after not scoring a goal for the first month is pretty incredible. Especially with our only true striker having only scored 3 goals all season, and 2 of them were this week.

[Wisky4life]

We beat the worst team in the league or ever!

Ill take it

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[wco81]

Salah missed a real good chance, might have changed the recent narrative.

But the supporters must have been behind him all match, as he applauded them afterwards.

[wco81]

Just barely escape dropping points to a team which is likely to get relegated again.

Oh wow, I thought the winning goal came from DeJesus but it's an own goal. Yeah I was going to say they still have a problem with finishing all the chances they generate.

[Baphomet]

Well that was catastrophically ****.

At least the Spurs beat the Thunder last night so my weekend wasn't completely ruined.

[Baphomet]

Spurs played a pretty good game against Liverpool with a man and then two man disadvantage, but our indiscipline is becoming a serious problem. Gifted them the game, really.

[wco81]

The City machine is back.

[wco81]

Arsenal scrape by at Everton.

67% possession, only 2 shots on goal. They still seem to have the same problems as back in the Wenger days, possess and keep the ball most of the matches but not score enough. Team is at the top of the league about half way through the season. But City has scored 10 more goals.

Who is their best player? Saka hasn't had double-digit goals in a season in 2 years, though last year he only played 20 matches. He may or may not get more than 10 goals this season. He doesn't seem to be beating defenders to score or get the ball into the best scoring positions like he used to.

So maybe this team relies more on defense and the best players would be Raya, Saliba or Gabriel, also Rice.

They are second in the league at 31 goals but it's been scoring by committee, several players with 4 and 3 goals.

They may yet come up short again at the end of the season, because they seem to have a much thinner margin of error.

[The_Brecht]

Arsenal scrape by at Everton.

67% possession, only 2 shots on goal. They still seem to have the same problems as back in the Wenger days, possess and keep the ball most of the matches but not score enough. Team is at the top of the league about half way through the season. But City has scored 10 more goals.

Who is their best player? Saka hasn't had double-digit goals in a season in 2 years, though last year he only played 20 matches. He may or may not get more than 10 goals this season. He doesn't seem to be beating defenders to score or get the ball into the best scoring positions like he used to.

So maybe this team relies more on defense and the best players would be Raya, Saliba or Gabriel, also Rice.

They are second in the league at 31 goals but it's been scoring by committee, several players with 4 and 3 goals.

They may yet come up short again at the end of the season, because they seem to have a much thinner margin of error.

Tbf, twice on the post, which isn't counted as a shot on target.
Did you watch the game, because the win was never in doubt.
Also, I don't think Arsenal had their best eleven available most of the time, especially the last couple of months.
31 goals and at one point all three strikers were out, so it's normal the goals are spread out around the team.

Man City are a Haaland injury away from big problems. Luckely for them, he's almost never injured.

We're in for another nice title race, that's for sure.

[wco81]

Never in doubt? They scored on a PK, one of the only 2 shots on goal.

Everton were lobbying for a late game PK, which I believe went to VAR.

They could have dropped 2 points.

[stormi]

So Wirtz has undoubtedly been stamped the worst ever transfer in EPL history right?

No league goals & 1 assist in six months.

Constantly being bullied on the pitch looking physically and mentally fragile and stacking up performance expected of an academy lad.

Zero burst, acceleration or any other sort of rare trait to compensate.

His first good moment of the season was an assist that led to the record signing striker breaking his leg.

Never seen something like it.

[Bobbcats]

You say that right after a solid performance. I think he'll adapt eventually, but it's getting harder and harder to believe Bundesliga forwards levels outside of Germany.

Completely unrelatedly Cherki is doing exactly what I thought he would do with strong teammates, can't believe he went for so cheap. He's always done this too even with mediocre options, Lyon and French U21 have had an affinity for hardass managers who hate non robotic play (peak was Grosso who was going to get Lyon them relegated or Henry refusing to play him in gold medal match) but he always bailed them out when they'd finally give him minutes. He's finally going to destroy teams with Haaland and Mbappe

[The_Brecht]

23 shots, +3 xG but this game went to penalties.
Our attacking players need to be more clinical, urgently.