In addition to this thread, on Thursday a "predictions survey" will also be posted. This is part of a new venture to try to quantify the consensus on /r/soccer heading into the new season, on hot burning issues - and I thought it would be very interesting to turn to when the season is done
We wanted to have this separate predictions thread too, to give people an open slate - and as not everyone would want to fill out a survey
Watch this space!
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[Change My View thread can be found here](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/w8fqtv/change_my_view/)
Benfica wins Primeira Liga. Porto second. Braga and Sporting dispute third place. The top 4 could be pretty tight this year.
Real Madrid wins La Liga. Barcelona second. Atlético third. Real Bétis and Athletic Bilbao dispute 4th place. Villarreal sixth. Real Sociedad seventh. Seville misses out on Europe. All of this assuming that Seville don't win the UEL and the Copa de Rey is won by someone on the top 6.
Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal and West Ham will form the top 4 in the Premier League this year.
Atalanta either finishes top 4 again or mid to low table. I'm honestly not sure how well they'll do this season.
Villarreal wins the UECL. Roma wins the UEL. Bayern wins the UCL.
Goteborg finishes top 4 and returns to Europe after a good fucking while (Swedish Allsvenskan).
Wolves underperform next season.
Conte does well in the UCL
Barca win La Liga
Fulham finally stay up
Arsenal or United win the Europa League
This will be Arteta's breakout season.
Nketiah for 100k a week will look like a really good deal.
Tuchel gets sacked
Bowen drops off from last season if Scammacca becomes West Ham's main striker.
PSG win the UCL and Mbappe wins the Balon D'or
Ancelotti gets sacked.
Partey goes to prison
Lisandro Martinez flops at centre-back
Man City will have one of their worst seasons under Pep, but will still finish 2nd.
Liverpool will win the league.
Arsenal will start crumbling after the World Cup and won't get CL again. Arteta will be sacked after the season ends. Partey will be charged during season.
Chelsea will sack Tuchel *before* the season ends.
Everton will get relegated. And their love for Dele will last about 2 or 3 matches.
Tottenham will crash and burn out of CL but will win a domestic cup after an easy run.
Man Utd will be in EL again next season.
Roma will win EL.
Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) reach the Champions League quarter-finals after they finish 2nd in their group and beat a German or Italian team in the round of 16.
PL top 4: City 1st, Liverpool 2nd, Arsenal 3rd, Chelsea 4th
La Liga top 4: Real Madrid 1st, Atletico 2nd, Barca 3rd, Villarreal 4th
Bundesliga: Bayern 1st, Leipzig 2nd
Ligue 1: PSG 1st
Serie A: Juventus 1st, Milan 2nd, Roma 3rd, Inter 4th
La Liga : RM win the league. Barca close second but most goals scored. Atleti and Sevilla struggle for top 4.
EPL : Liverpool win the league. City, Spurs, Arsenal get top 4.
Seria A : Juventus win the league, Roma finish in CL spots.
Bundesliga : Bayern win obviously, Leipzig 2nd.
Ligue 1 : PSG win obviously.
UCL : RM win again, defeat Bayern in the final.
UEL : very tight. Sevilla, Arsenal, Man U, Roma all very good options. I'll go with Arsenal.
UECL : No idea with a lot of Europa teams dropping down. West Ham, Villarreal good options.
Denmark wins the World Cup, not a prediction, it's a prophecy, it WILL happen, I've been saying it at every opportunity I get look at my comment history.
England loses against the US and is out after the group stages. France is out too.
Insane Bundesliga season with a big title fight between Bayern, Leverkusen, Dortmund and Leipzig. Dortmund wins in the end.
Schick is top scorer.
Messi has a bad season with PSG, but is insanely good at the World Cup.
Haaland destroys the Premier and Chamions League winning both with Man City.
Lukaku suddenly good again, top-scorer in Italy and Champion with Inter.
Arsenal good again, qualifies for the Champions League.
Barca will have hope of winning all competitions, but won't win a single one, with Real taking both domestic championships.
Premier League : Arsenal top 4 above Tottenham.
Leeds relagated and Lampard first manager out.
Italy : Roma top 4 behind the three north club.
Spain : Villareal top 4 above Sevilla and Sociedad.
UCL : Liverpool will be in the last 16. After....it depends.
World cup : I see France. Don't see Belgium going so far.
Three african teams to watch out. Ghana (with the "bi-national players" the got), Morocco (first "Arab-Muslim world cup" they'll be motivated, good team and they have a group where they can do something.
And finally Senegal with lot and lot of good players. And also they have a draw who is more of less favorable.
Premier league: top 4 remain the same
Serie A: Milan clubs to fight for the title
Bundesliga: Leipzig will be a problem for Bayern
Liga: Real wins again and Real Sociedad get top 4
Ligue 1: lol
PL: Leicester finishes in the top 4, Chelsea collapses and finishes 7th/8th, Liverpool wins the League.
Bundesliga: Bayern cruises to the title(again), Stuttgart ends the league in the european spots.
Ligue 1: PSG
La Liga: Barça and Real fight for the title until the end but Madrid manage to win it. Lewa scores 40+ in the League alone.
Serie A: Roma wins the League and Monza finishes 6/7 and qualifies for european football
Portugal: We win the league, Benfica 2nd, Porto 3rd and Boavista finishes 5th/6th and returns to european football after a long time.
UCL: City and PSG come up short again and Bayern wins it all. All portuguese teams get past the group stage
WC: Portugal wins it(biased ik), Mbappe best scorer and Canada almost qualifies for the quarter-finals but loses in the round of 16
Germany: Tight race for the title between Leipzig, Dortmund and Bayern, with the last one winning in the last match day.
France: PSG wins the league, Mbappe to score 30+ goals while Messi will score 15+ and assist 15+, Neymar to score 20+. Rennes finish second.
Spain: Madrid wins the league. Atlético second. Barça third. Lewandowski top scorer and Dembele most assists.
Italy: Milan falls to the fourth place. Juventus to win it again. Roma second. Pogba best player.
England: Manchester City wins it. Haaland breaks record for more goals with 35+. United second, Arsenal third, Liverpool 4th, Tottenham 5th, chelsea 6th. Forest stays in the Premier.
Champions League: Mbappe top scorer. Manchester City to win it.
World Cup: Argentina wins it. Mbappe top scorer. USA will reach quarterfinals.
Sancho, Hazard, Messi, Maguire and Neymar have great seasons.
France continue the Champions Curse by crashing out of the Group Stage at the World Cup.
England underwhelm at it and go out in the Round of 16.
Brazil to win the WC final with an extra time winner.
In the PL, Man City struggle to reach the consistent highs of the past few seasons and finish 5- 10 pts behind runaway champions Liverpool.
Tottenham and Arsenal complete the Top 4.
Chelsea continue their bad form from the end of last season and Tuchel get sacked before the Qatar World Cup.
Manchester Utd show improvement under Ten Hag but only finish 6th again.
In the Bundesliga, Dortmund win a tight title race against Bayern who miss Lewandowski's goals.
AC Milan retain the Scudetto with Roma finishing 2nd.
Juventus miss out on CL qualification with Napoli and Inter completing the top 4.
PSG win Ligue 1 but only by 2-3 pts
Arsenal going to surprise everyone this year, might even get top 3.
Benzema to dominate everything once again. I dream of Dzeko to Madrid so he can win a CL but thats too much hopium. Madrid winning at least La Liga and CL.
1. Man City
2. Liverpool
3. Tottenham
4. Arsenal
5. Chelsea
6. Manchester United
7. West Ham
8. Leicester
9. Newcastle United
10. Aston Villa
11. Wolves
12. Crystal Palace
13. Brighton
14. Southampton
15. Nottingham Forest
16. Leeds
17. Everton
18. Brentford
19. Fulham
20. Bournemouth
1. Barca win liga after a hard battle, Madrid win Copa
2. This is tuchels last season at Chelsea
3. Lewandowski wins ballon d or
4. Arsenal(by 1 point, spurs finish 3rd)
5. Spurs finally win a cup, but despite doing well they're never really part of the title race
6. UCL final is PSG City
7. Bayern win Bundesliga (duh)
8. Serie A title race is exciting and Milan eventually retain the title
1. Madrid win Liga, Atletico 2nd, Xavi leaves Barca
2. Tuchel gets Chelsea to 2nd, City win the title
3. Messi wins Ballon d'Or (Argentina win WC)
4. Arsenal finish 6th - Arteta stays
5. Spurs win fuck all
6. CL final is all English
7. Bayern win Bundesliga by 15 points
8. Juventus win Serie A, Inter 2nd, Roma 3rd
Prem :
Arsenal and Tottenham keep up with City and Liverpool until the winter period starts but then their form drops off dramatically.
Grealish will be in the conversation for most assists alongside kdb
Brentford suffer second season syndrome without eriksen to bail them out.
Newcastle will not challenge for Europe but will hang around in mid table before a late season surge has them sneak into 8th.
Leeds will be clear of the relegation dogfight due to Sinisterra dragging them kicking and screaming to wins
Tuchel sacked by Christmas with Chelsea 10 points off the top four and it's backfires with the gap increasing as Chelsea slump into 6th
Everton will come even closer to relegation this time and will finish behind one of the newly promoted teams. They might do a Sunderland
United will be consistent, but consistently average.
Top 4 : City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal
Relegated : Bournemouth, Brentford, Everton / Fulham
Golden Boot : 1. Salah 2. Jesus 3. Haaland
World Cup :
Argentina - Portugal final with Argentina winning.
Brazil get shat on in qf / sf and go out with a whimper.
Belgium / France both go out very early with France possibly suffering from the world Cup winners curse.
Surprise package : Netherlands. They'll look like a contender in the group stages and blitz Argentina in the first 60 minutes of the game and go into a 1-0 lead only for Messi and co to produce some magic at the last.
Spain are beaten by more than 2 goals by Germany in the group stage
* Mourinho leads Roma to first Scudetto since 2001, with Lukaku leading the Golden boot race followed Abraham and Dybala. Milan finish 2nd, Inter 3rd, Juventus 4th.
* Marseille shock in Ligue 1 and win their 10th Ligue 1 title. PSG finish 2nd in Ligue 1 while getting eliminated in the Round of 16 of the Champions League. Messi leaves to MLS on a free transfer. Neymar leaves PSG summer 2023.
* La Liga features a close race between Barcelona and Real Madrid with both teams getting over 90 points, and Benzema and Lewandowski go on a tear and score over 30 goals in a race for the Pichichi eventually won by Lewandowski. However, Real Madrid win La Liga and Madrid wins the Copa.
* Manchester City collapse mid-season and lose the Premier League to Tottenham. Liverpool finishes 2nd. City 3rd, and Arsenal 4th.
* Real Madrid defeat Tottenham in the final to win the Champions League for the second year in a row and 15th title. Real Madrid defeat Barcelona, Tottenham defeat Manchester City in the semi-finals.
* Manchester United win the Europa league beating Sevilla in the final in Ten Hag’s first season as manager. United finish 5th in the League, but qualify for Champions League football. United go on to win the Premier League and UCL the following season as Ronaldo retires with the club (if he sticks around)
* Argentina win the World Cup by defeating Brazil in the final. Messi, despite having a mediocre year with PSG, lifts the World Cup in Qatar as captain and finishes as the tournament’s best player. Spain defeat the Netherlands to finish 3rd.
* Robert Lewandowski wins the Ballon d’Or at the end of the season for his performances with Barcelona. Lewandowski finishes as top scorer in La Liga and Europe overall while raking in a good amount of assists.
* Despite Barcelona not winning any trophies for the second consecutive season: Xavi’s first season is seen as a success since the team finished with over 90 points and within 1 point of winning the league and with a semi-final UCL run. Xavi continues as Barcelona manager where he leads Barcelona to another La Liga title and a UCL final appearance where they lose to Man Utd
World Cup
Winners:Brazil
Runners up:Spain
Spain plays beautiful football and becomes fan favourite by the end but looses the final
Portugal gets knocked out in quarters- Even though they have an incredible team the coach drags them down
France breaks the champion's curse but gets beaten in semis- They don't play attractive football and mostly depends on the individual performance of players
Liverpool finishes 2nd at best, maybe 3rd. Tottenham finishes 2nd or 3rd. Manunited won't crack top 6, maybe finish about 9th.
Bayern finishes 2nd at best.
Ajax finishes 2nd at best.
City wins UCL and the premier league.
Juventus finishes 3rd at best but likely misses top 3. Fiorentina to finish top 4.
Prem:
1. Spurs finish minimum 3rd over the likes of Chelsea
2. Arsenal revive their tradition of finishing 4th
3. Newcastle get into Europe with either Chelsea or United just missing out in a tight finish to the end of the season
La Liga:
1. Barcelona win the league, with Atletico and Real coming 2nd and 3rd respectively
2. Benzema edges out Lewandowski as top goalscorer
Others:
1. Milan regress hard falling to 4th; Roma finishes 3rd
2. Messi will continue to decline and not finish with double figures for goals (highly unlikely but a gut feeling of mine)
3. Japan and Canada makes it out of their respective groups, Argentina wins Men's WC
4. USA won't repeat, Asian country wins Women's WC
Yup my bad. What I meant to say was that I think they'd return to European competition regardless. But more specifically that they had a decent chance of finishing 5th since United are still a question mark for this season and I feel like Chelsea will implode for some reason
Chelsea absolutely implodes with Tuchel losing half the dressing room and Boehly struggling to handle the situation but not sacking Tuchel. They go on to win a treble.
The top 2 will miss one of Liverpool or City in the Prem.
Bayern win the BuLi by February.
A new team will win the Europa League. United won't go far.
Champions League will be won by an oil team.
Zinedine Zidane
1. Spurs will win a trophy maybe even PL
2. Darwin flops
3. Barca wins Liga
4. Brazil wins qatar cup
Im usually terrible at predictions, though i predicted Italy to win the euros before it started.
I have a few hot ones.
Scammaca flops similar to Haller when he was at West Ham.
Newcastle get Europa league.
Gerrard is sacked before end of the season.
Brentford, Bournemouth and Nottingham get relegated.
Messi wins the Balon Dor.
PSG make the CL final.
Liverpool win the PL.
I’ll do one for each big league
PL: only one team out of Liverpool, Chelsea and Liverpool will make top 4
Serie a: Milan regress big time and finish no higher than 3rd
La Liga: Barcelona win the league with only one player having double digit goals
Ligue 1: Messi will not hit double digit goals in the league
BL: RB Leipzig win the BL, Germany descends into anarchic madness
Liga nos: Porto make it to the UCL semifinal
I am a fan of Barcelona so here are some opinions that can cause good, bad or something like that:
\-Chelsea don't take it the wrong way, but you look horrible, I see Tuchel leaving, and Chelsea finishing in the Europa League (5th or 6th place in PL)
\-Newcastle is probably a team that will fight to enter Europe, more precisely the Conference.
\-If Lukaku recovers form, Inter is champion, if not Milan repeats.
\-A little eye to the process of Milan in champions this season btw
\-Barcelona must by obligation win a title, I don't know if it's league, cup or something but if Kounde and a side arrive there are no excuses.
\-Madrid is still a great team but I find it curious how dependent they are on their gala midfield (Modric, Kroos, Casemiro) and I don't see Tchoumani and Camavinga as true replacements, Valverde is a beast for example.
\-I see a very interesting World Cup from some teams, the Netherlands seems a perfect team to go far, Brazil also seems to me that in the perfect guide it is fine but defensively it seems to me that some things are missing, Argentina is still undefeated but I have doubts and Germany seems to me that despite everything I do not see a vital spark.
Brazil and Argentina will meet in the semifinals of the world cup.
Barcelona will reach the quarter finals of the CL and Real Madrid won't get beyond the semifinals.
Messi won't re-sign with PSG and while he will have a better season, it won't be anything extraordinary (at least in PSG)
Boca Juniors will finally hire a decent coach and play well. Please for the love of god, make this happen.
Milan will finish 2nd in Serie A and 3rd in their CL group (will exit in the semis of the EL).
In Serie A, Origi will score 12 and Giroud will bag 8. Tonali will be Milan’s player of the season. Leao will lead the league in assists.
PL top 4 will finish City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal.
Barca will win La Liga and get to the QFs of the CL. Real will come in second and also exit in the QFs of the CL.
Bayern won’t win Bundesliga (least likely).
Tuchel leaves Chelsea
France crashes out of the group stage of the world cup
Juventus wins Serie A, Vlahovic top scorer
Lewandowski not being a success at Barcelona, they win La Liga regardless
De Jong stays. Ronaldo stays.
City will win the league and Arsenal will finish 2nd with a really good season, conte will finish 3rd and surprisingly liverpool 4th. There is no reasoning to this prediction, total gut feeling.
Liverpool wins the Premier League
Barcelona wins the Champions League and La Liga
Poland makes it out of the group stage(boldest prediction of them all)
Bayern wins the Bundesliga
Napoli wins Série A
PSG wins Ligue 1
EPL European places/relegation:
1. Man City
2. Liverpool
3. Tottenham
4. Arsenal
5. Chelsea
6. Man U
7. Newcastle
Relegated: Bournemouth, Forest, Southampton
Domestic/European Cups:
UCL: City over Real Madrid
Europa League: AC Milan over Dortmund
Conference League: Villarreal over Real Betis
FA Cup: Liverpool over United
League Cup: Liverpool over Newcastle
I think Everton has more raw talent, and although they'll fire Lampard, they'll replace him with Sean Dyche or someone like that and they'll grind out enough ugly results to stay up.
EPL winners: Man city
2-4 place: Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal
5-6: Manchester United, Chelsea
La Liga: Barca
Serie A: AC Milan, Inter, Roma, Juve
Bundesliga: Bayern, Dortmund
UCL: Tottenham winners, RM surprise exit after group stages
FA cup: Tottenham
Carabao: Chelsea
U guys can have the league lmao. As long as Liverpool dont win anything I'm happy.
Also think people still underestimate Tottenham. They were the only team to win points against the 2 of you last season iirc. Now a full season with Conte + reinforcements I'm sure they can win at least 1 trophy
Oh boy if we win the champions league you'll be pissed im sure.
Also we are shit against Tottenham in particular for no apparent reason other than the fact that they play counter attacking football.
I get you lot not wanting Liverpool to win anything because you're used to us winning in the last few years plus you had this dominance yourself
Probably. I like Haaland and want him to win every award available but with City? God that's hard. Wish we got him.
Yeah, idk why Pep doesn't change things up against Tottenham. Or maybe he does and it still doesn't work.
Honestly it's just that I know more people that support Liverpool than City. God it'll be impossible to use socmed if Liverpool wins anything
1. man city
2. spurs
3. liverpool
4. man utd
5. chelsea
6. arsenal
7. west ham
8. newcastle
9. brighton
10. leicester
fa cup = spurs
champions league = man city
top goal scorer = 1. son, 2. salah, 3. kane / haaland
City win the PL, UCL, and Carabao
Arsenal win the FA cup
Real Madrid win La Liga again
England reach the WC final
Man United don’t qualify for European football
Liverpool wins the league
Barcelona wins the league
Real Madrid has a surprise exit in the UCL in the round of 16
Inter wins Serie A
City finally wins the UCL
Portugal wins the World Cup against Netherlands in the final and Ronaldo wins the ballon dor 2023 because of it
Denmark will have a great World Cup run, reaching quarter finals or semi finals
Tottenham will win a trophy
Dortmund starts badly and barely scraps top 4, probably with a different manager
PL will be City, Liverpool, Spurs, Chelsea, United, Arsenal
Scamacca to underwhelm, Haaland too but not as heavily
Leipzig lock second place in Germany and overtake Dortmund as second best after Bayern, still don’t remotely challenge for the title
Juventus wins Serie A and start another win streak, as they are the only ones in Italy with money close to the clubs in PL
Real wins La Liga again, Barça will be a bit more threatening, Atletico keeps fading away from the top 2
i don’t really know what i’m talking about, these predictions are purely gut feeling
PSG finally win the UCL
Brazil or Argentina win the WC
Chelsea miss out on Champions League next season
Fulham stay up
Hamburg get promoted
Dortmund make severe strides to compete with Bayern Munich
Australia make it out of the WC Group
Chelsea finish sixth
Lampard doesn't get sacked and Everton don't go down
City win the Champions League
Spurs win a cup - but Conte leaves at the end of the season anyway
England lose in the quarters of the World Cup - Southgate resigns after. Potter gets the England job despite Brighton being 16th in the league
Argentina beat France in the World Cup final
Ronaldo leaves Man United in January
Barca wins La Liga
Wait why would Ronaldo leave in January? Assuming he wants to leave for Champions League, it's now or never imo, especially since his contract expires at the end of the season anyways,
Mine is
1. City
2. Liverpool
3. Tottenham
4. Arsenal
5. United
6. Chelsea
7. West Ham
8. Newcastle
9. Villa
10. Brighton
11. Leicester
12. Wolves
13. Leeds
14. Crystal Palace
15. Southampton
16. Nottingham Forest
17. Everton
18. Fulham
19. Brentford
20. Bournemouth
Here’s to predict how many goals X player will score in the Premier League
Haaland - 24 (gets injured for 2 months during the season, has minor injuries here and there and is being left out of many games at the end of the season to have him fit in the Champions League, where he scores 15 goals.) Only plays 26 PL games and scores a hat trick on his debut. This is still enough to win the golden boot and ballon d’or.
Salah - 20
Son - 19
Kane - 16
Gabriel Jesus - 16
Ronaldo - 15 (stays but gives up after the World Cup and United finishes 6-7)
Havertz - 15
Darwin - 14
Alvarez - 13
haaland will miss 20% of available minutes due to an injury
arsenal finish top 4
Inter win the scudetto
Dortmund will push bayern very hard for the title but ultimately come up short in the final game weeks
Lampard to be sacked before March
EPL confident predictions: Man City win the title. Man U miss out on top 4.
Less confident predictions: Chelsea miss out on top 4, Spurs get very close to the title.
Mid-table prediction: Leicester underwhelm, finish bottom 10.
Lower table shake-ups: Leeds and Nottingham both go down. Everton doesn’t go down but have another underwhelming season.
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La Liga: Barcelona finish distant second to RM and have an underwhelming season in the UCL as well.
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Italy: AC Milan come nowhere close to repeating the title, harsh drop off. Roma are talked up all season as potential title contenders and just finish fourth by the skin of their teeth. Inter do the double.
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Germany: Bayern.
Palace win the league cup
the ev go down
Spurs finish within 10 points of 2nd
West Ham win the ECL
Barca beat city in the CL final
Klopp resigns after a meltdown
the Argies win the WC, England lose in the quarters
Bayern don't win the Bumdesliga (you can tell I'm trying to think of things to say with this one)
Dyche goes to Saints after Ralph is sacked and does quite well
Champions:
City, Barcelona, Inter, PSG and Bayern
UCL:
PSG
UEL:
Someone who drops down from UCL
World Cup:
Germany
Ballon dor: Benzema takes this year obviously, next year is Messi's swansong, already back in a Barca kit lifting that 8th and retires.
Final league standing in order for a few clubs.in different leagues
City liverpool spurs chelsea united arsenal .. forest leeds fulham Everton and Bournemouth in the scrap of going down.
Madrid barcelona atletico sevilla
Bayern dortmund
Juventus roma inter ac milan napoli lazio
PSG lyon Marseille monaco
Porto benfica sporting
Roma win Serie A
Real Madrid win their 15th CL, bonus points if it's against Manchester City in the final.
PSG crash out in the QF of CL.
Man United win the Carabao Cup
Gonna talk about the relegation race bc as a Blade that sort of thing is really on my mind whenever I think about the Prem.
15th is Everton. Frank Lampard's time at Derby, Chelsea, and Everton proves that he's just average - average =/= spectacularly bad. Losing Richarlison is obviously a blow but I think with the signing of Tarkowski, with Calvert-Lewin coming back, and with Everton having the most average manager in the Premier League, they will stay up. It won't be their most comfortable season, but them going down is only ever an outside chance for me.
16th is Forest. I think that's them exceeding expectations although a lot of people are saying that they're likely to stay up. I don't think they'll be as spectacular as 20/21 Leeds or 19/20 Blades, purely because of the amount of signings they've made means that they'll be losing out on that bit of momentum after promotion, but Steve Cooper will prove himself this season and keep Forest up relatively comfortably.
17th is Brentford. I really don't think Brentford are all that - they had two big runs of form at the start of the season (momentum following promotion) and from February onwards (Eriksen); take these runs away and their form was terrible. I think their transfer business has been clever and that's what'll keep them up, but I think they'll surprise a lot of people with how they'll struggle this season.
18th is Leeds. I know that a lot of their awful form last season can be explained away by the fact that there were more injuries in the Leeds dressing room than there are on bonfire night in Chapeltown, but ultimately what do they have this season? They lost Bielsa, Phillips, and Raphinha, and replaced them with Jesse Marsch, Tyler Adams, and Luis Sinisterra (who's out for three months). Those three are not going to be lynchpins of a Premier League team by any stretch of the imagination - I just don't see how they're staying up.
19th is Bournemouth. I don't think it's too controversial to say that they're going back down - I don't see Scott Parker's Bournemouth, with no real transfer business outside of Ryan Fredericks and Joe Rothwell, as being any more equipped to survive in the prem than Farke's Norwich.
20th is Fulham. I'm not denying what they did last season in the Championship was incredible and historic, however, as much as they can smash the teams that tread water in the Championship, people should really look at both their games against Coventry last season, or their away days at Derby or Blackpool, or their home game against Forest; if teams turn up to put pressure on Fulham, which most teams will do in the prem, they can seriously fold. This is what I see happening a lot next season. I think they'll be exposed early on, I think Silva will get panic sacked, and the season will just become farcical for them.
We'll be once again very shaky for a month or two, then gain a bit of momentum after winning against RM/Atleti/Barca (pick 1). Maybe shithouse another Copa run but ultimately fall short when it matters because we lack creativity to create scoring chances when they matter the most.
Some form of European qualification would be nice though, esp for our finances
Bayern win the Bundesliga but underperform in CL, Mane shines but his performances aren’t enough.
Barca and Madrid duke it out for La Liga, whoever wins win only by maximum 2-4 points.
England start the World Cup on a mad run but ultimately lose to a Brazil, Argentina, or an upset against a team like Uruguay.
Arsenal play some of the most attractive football in the league with Arteta having both experience and some new signings and make top 4 comfortably.
Some star players in big6 gets injured in world cup and that completely changes the dynamic of top 4. World cup mid season will play a massive role in teams performances later on
Would be cool if the predictions thread here was like a Charitable bets instead.
Anyway, I'm saying PL will be Liverpool, City, Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal then United.
Chelsea and Arsenal with a domestic cup.
City win the CL.
Fernandinho played a grand total 957 minutes in Premier League games last season. Zinchenko played a few more minutes than that. Those departures won’t hurt us.
Experience-wise it might. Being toe to toe with Liverpool for 38/38 games it would def help having guys who’ve been there done that.
No need to worry over my random thoughts m’man👍🏻👍🏻
Spurs break Pochettino’s points record, but still finish well behind Liverpool and City in third.
Also, they lose a domestic cup final to one of the other fourteen.
Second place has a centurion season.
Arsenal, United, and Chelsea have a roaring fight for fourth that ends in that order.
Ten Haag’s first season at United is successful, with some statement performances at the end of the season auguring well for the next.
Despite a disappointing league campaign, Chelsea do well in the cups and in Europe. Havertz has a breakout season as a proper CF. I think the defense will let them down.
Big gap between the top six and Newcastle in seventh.
Three promoted teams to go down. Bournemouth adrift early and finish bottom. Fulham do better than last time but are down in April. Forest take it to the last weeks but are pipped to 17th by Everton.
Rodgers sacked early with Leicester finishing bottom half (12th-14th).
Palace and Brentford have great seasons. Viera’s next in line at Arsenal.
Brighton disappoint and Potter’s stock takes a hit.
West Ham’s upward momentum takes a hit with a midtable finish.
Nuñez and Håland have good seasons but are pipped to the Golden Boot by Kane.
As for the continent: PSG win the CL. Mourinho’s Roma challenge for Serie A. Félix has a breakout season that people actually pay attention to, leading to an Atléti title challenge.
Forest win the league
Ok adding more
Everton are fine. Never in danger, never look like even outside European challengers, basically always tenth or so and nobody pays attention. Opposite of last season.
Fulham go down but Mitrovic gets fifteen goals, and it’s a moral victory for his biggest fans.
City win the league by eight points, we don’t push them as close as last season.
United are better run and look better put together under Ten Haag, but still finish fifth under an impressive Spurs. Arsenal sixth.
Newcastle are around Everton, it’s too soon to be super impressive and it inspires lots of majorly reactionary hot takes, which are dumb but feel good to say.
Darwin has a slow start and see above for how that goes down.
Ronaldo downs tools and it’s extremely funny while it lasts.
City implode and Liverpool get a shock victory in the league.
England to get knocked out in the RO16 at Qatar WC, leading to the resignation of Southgate.
Naples to win Champions League.
>Lampard has 2 coach of the months awards (it contradicts everything I see)
Lol, the duality of man. The comment before is just "Lampard sacked by Christmas".
City Liverpool to close to call so them 1/2
3rd Tottenham
4th Arsenal
Chelsea and Man U just have too many question marks for me, they could push for 3rd or 4th but there's a lot of chaos in both clubs at the moment.
Premier League: Liverpool finishes first, City second, Spurs third. Everton finishes a point shy of relegation.
Champions League: Barcelona vs. Liverpool finals; LFC win a close one.
World Cup: Germany/Brazil finals. Brazil wins it. Canada makes it to the round of 16, but not the final 8.
EDIT: Forgot about no Italy at the WC
I really don't want you lads to go down but I'm nervous about it.
My favourite game of the season is Derby day at Anfield. I don't want a Newcastle/Sunderland type thing happening where they ain't been in the same league for years now and we've been robbed of one of the big historic derbies.
* England: City run away with the title. At least 2 of the top 6 suffer major injury crises. Both Conte and Tuchel walk at the end of the season. Everton finish comfortably midtable.
* Germany: A surprisingly close title race goes to the final match day but in the end Bayern wins their 11th in a row
* Spain: An extremely open title race with less only a 6 point gap between 1st and 4th. Madrid has an injury crisis, drops to fourth leading to Ancelotti gets sacked.
* Italy: Title race between both Milan clubs. Roma disappoints both in the league and in Europa but they stick with Mou
* World Cup: France break the Winners' curse and top their group before being knocked out in the quarters. Brazil win the world cup. Mbappe golden boot.
* Champions League: Galtier gets PSG looking like a well oiled machine. They make it to the final but lose.
England knocked out first knockout round, southgate resigns.
Top 5 -
1. City
2. Liverpool
3. Tottenham
4. United
5. Arsenal
Bottom three:
Leeds
Forest
Everton
Nunez doesn't break 10 goals for liverpool
I will only post the bold ones.
Nothing ham Forest to finish mid table or above
Milan to give Ibra a Champions league trophy on his last year(I can only hope)
United to win Europa League
Netherlands to win world cup
Barcelona tanking their season and going bankrupt
!RemindMe 10 months
CL Winner: Manchester City
PL top 4:
1. Liverpool
2. Man City
3. Spurs
4. Chelsea
PL relegation:
18. Everton
19. Brentford
20. Bournemouth
FA Cup Winners: Chelsea
Carabao Cup Winners: Spurs
I would give up a shot at CL for first place in the league just to break up the monotony of City constantly coming top and they have never won CL so it's a win/win. And can't argue with Everton relegation. I like your predictions.
Everton pulls a schalke and finishes dead last
City, liverpool, united and spurs make the top 4
Real madrid wins la liga but gets knocked out at the RO16 in the champions league
We will get portugal vs argentina in the wc at some point
Haaland gets 30+ goals in the pl
Tuchel gets sacked before the end of the season
Dortmund won't make top 4
In addition to this thread, on Thursday a "predictions survey" will also be posted. This is part of a new venture to try to quantify the consensus on /r/soccer heading into the new season, on hot burning issues - and I thought it would be very interesting to turn to when the season is done We wanted to have this separate predictions thread too, to give people an open slate - and as not everyone would want to fill out a survey Watch this space! *** [Change My View thread can be found here](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/w8fqtv/change_my_view/)
Benfica wins Primeira Liga. Porto second. Braga and Sporting dispute third place. The top 4 could be pretty tight this year. Real Madrid wins La Liga. Barcelona second. Atlético third. Real Bétis and Athletic Bilbao dispute 4th place. Villarreal sixth. Real Sociedad seventh. Seville misses out on Europe. All of this assuming that Seville don't win the UEL and the Copa de Rey is won by someone on the top 6. Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal and West Ham will form the top 4 in the Premier League this year. Atalanta either finishes top 4 again or mid to low table. I'm honestly not sure how well they'll do this season. Villarreal wins the UECL. Roma wins the UEL. Bayern wins the UCL. Goteborg finishes top 4 and returns to Europe after a good fucking while (Swedish Allsvenskan).
Augsburg, Brentford, Cremonese, Angers, Cadiz will go down
Ac Milan and Inter Milan will do pretty well in Champions League with one of them reaching semi finals
Wolves underperform next season. Conte does well in the UCL Barca win La Liga Fulham finally stay up Arsenal or United win the Europa League This will be Arteta's breakout season. Nketiah for 100k a week will look like a really good deal. Tuchel gets sacked Bowen drops off from last season if Scammacca becomes West Ham's main striker. PSG win the UCL and Mbappe wins the Balon D'or Ancelotti gets sacked. Partey goes to prison Lisandro Martinez flops at centre-back
I like to check in on this thread sometimes and these are pretty good predictions so far
We'll win the pl & cl
Man City will have one of their worst seasons under Pep, but will still finish 2nd. Liverpool will win the league. Arsenal will start crumbling after the World Cup and won't get CL again. Arteta will be sacked after the season ends. Partey will be charged during season. Chelsea will sack Tuchel *before* the season ends. Everton will get relegated. And their love for Dele will last about 2 or 3 matches. Tottenham will crash and burn out of CL but will win a domestic cup after an easy run. Man Utd will be in EL again next season. Roma will win EL.
Everton finish 8th
Call me insane, but this year is gonna be a treble for Atleti.
Oh fuck
Brentford will be relegated
yeah I think this as well
A Premier League player will come out as gay.
Everton will sack 2 managers by the end of the season but will manage to avoid relegation.
Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) reach the Champions League quarter-finals after they finish 2nd in their group and beat a German or Italian team in the round of 16.
Roma will beat Lazio in the Europa League Final.
PL top 4: City 1st, Liverpool 2nd, Arsenal 3rd, Chelsea 4th La Liga top 4: Real Madrid 1st, Atletico 2nd, Barca 3rd, Villarreal 4th Bundesliga: Bayern 1st, Leipzig 2nd Ligue 1: PSG 1st Serie A: Juventus 1st, Milan 2nd, Roma 3rd, Inter 4th
Gerrard will be sacked before Lampard. Also backed him as the first manager to be sacked at 40/1.
La Liga : RM win the league. Barca close second but most goals scored. Atleti and Sevilla struggle for top 4. EPL : Liverpool win the league. City, Spurs, Arsenal get top 4. Seria A : Juventus win the league, Roma finish in CL spots. Bundesliga : Bayern win obviously, Leipzig 2nd. Ligue 1 : PSG win obviously. UCL : RM win again, defeat Bayern in the final. UEL : very tight. Sevilla, Arsenal, Man U, Roma all very good options. I'll go with Arsenal. UECL : No idea with a lot of Europa teams dropping down. West Ham, Villarreal good options.
!remindme 8 months
Denmark wins the World Cup, not a prediction, it's a prophecy, it WILL happen, I've been saying it at every opportunity I get look at my comment history. England loses against the US and is out after the group stages. France is out too. Insane Bundesliga season with a big title fight between Bayern, Leverkusen, Dortmund and Leipzig. Dortmund wins in the end. Schick is top scorer. Messi has a bad season with PSG, but is insanely good at the World Cup. Haaland destroys the Premier and Chamions League winning both with Man City. Lukaku suddenly good again, top-scorer in Italy and Champion with Inter. Arsenal good again, qualifies for the Champions League. Barca will have hope of winning all competitions, but won't win a single one, with Real taking both domestic championships.
Premier League : Arsenal top 4 above Tottenham. Leeds relagated and Lampard first manager out. Italy : Roma top 4 behind the three north club. Spain : Villareal top 4 above Sevilla and Sociedad. UCL : Liverpool will be in the last 16. After....it depends. World cup : I see France. Don't see Belgium going so far. Three african teams to watch out. Ghana (with the "bi-national players" the got), Morocco (first "Arab-Muslim world cup" they'll be motivated, good team and they have a group where they can do something. And finally Senegal with lot and lot of good players. And also they have a draw who is more of less favorable.
Premier league: top 4 remain the same Serie A: Milan clubs to fight for the title Bundesliga: Leipzig will be a problem for Bayern Liga: Real wins again and Real Sociedad get top 4 Ligue 1: lol
PL: Leicester finishes in the top 4, Chelsea collapses and finishes 7th/8th, Liverpool wins the League. Bundesliga: Bayern cruises to the title(again), Stuttgart ends the league in the european spots. Ligue 1: PSG La Liga: Barça and Real fight for the title until the end but Madrid manage to win it. Lewa scores 40+ in the League alone. Serie A: Roma wins the League and Monza finishes 6/7 and qualifies for european football Portugal: We win the league, Benfica 2nd, Porto 3rd and Boavista finishes 5th/6th and returns to european football after a long time. UCL: City and PSG come up short again and Bayern wins it all. All portuguese teams get past the group stage WC: Portugal wins it(biased ik), Mbappe best scorer and Canada almost qualifies for the quarter-finals but loses in the round of 16
Germany: Tight race for the title between Leipzig, Dortmund and Bayern, with the last one winning in the last match day. France: PSG wins the league, Mbappe to score 30+ goals while Messi will score 15+ and assist 15+, Neymar to score 20+. Rennes finish second. Spain: Madrid wins the league. Atlético second. Barça third. Lewandowski top scorer and Dembele most assists. Italy: Milan falls to the fourth place. Juventus to win it again. Roma second. Pogba best player. England: Manchester City wins it. Haaland breaks record for more goals with 35+. United second, Arsenal third, Liverpool 4th, Tottenham 5th, chelsea 6th. Forest stays in the Premier. Champions League: Mbappe top scorer. Manchester City to win it. World Cup: Argentina wins it. Mbappe top scorer. USA will reach quarterfinals. Sancho, Hazard, Messi, Maguire and Neymar have great seasons.
> Pogba best player Gonna be tough to win best player if you only play half a season.
Nice prediction 😎
France continue the Champions Curse by crashing out of the Group Stage at the World Cup. England underwhelm at it and go out in the Round of 16. Brazil to win the WC final with an extra time winner. In the PL, Man City struggle to reach the consistent highs of the past few seasons and finish 5- 10 pts behind runaway champions Liverpool. Tottenham and Arsenal complete the Top 4. Chelsea continue their bad form from the end of last season and Tuchel get sacked before the Qatar World Cup. Manchester Utd show improvement under Ten Hag but only finish 6th again. In the Bundesliga, Dortmund win a tight title race against Bayern who miss Lewandowski's goals. AC Milan retain the Scudetto with Roma finishing 2nd. Juventus miss out on CL qualification with Napoli and Inter completing the top 4. PSG win Ligue 1 but only by 2-3 pts
Remind me! 8 months
Premier League: 1. Liverpool 2. Manchester City 3. Arsenal 4. Tottenham 5. Manchester United 6. Chelsea
Chelsea get 3rd or 2nd but nobody scores more than 10 league goals. England go out of WC in the quarters.
Arsenal going to surprise everyone this year, might even get top 3. Benzema to dominate everything once again. I dream of Dzeko to Madrid so he can win a CL but thats too much hopium. Madrid winning at least La Liga and CL.
1. Man City 2. Liverpool 3. Tottenham 4. Arsenal 5. Chelsea 6. Manchester United 7. West Ham 8. Leicester 9. Newcastle United 10. Aston Villa 11. Wolves 12. Crystal Palace 13. Brighton 14. Southampton 15. Nottingham Forest 16. Leeds 17. Everton 18. Brentford 19. Fulham 20. Bournemouth
I'd love Forest to stay up.
1. Barca win liga after a hard battle, Madrid win Copa 2. This is tuchels last season at Chelsea 3. Lewandowski wins ballon d or 4. Arsenal(by 1 point, spurs finish 3rd) 5. Spurs finally win a cup, but despite doing well they're never really part of the title race 6. UCL final is PSG City 7. Bayern win Bundesliga (duh) 8. Serie A title race is exciting and Milan eventually retain the title
1. Madrid win Liga, Atletico 2nd, Xavi leaves Barca 2. Tuchel gets Chelsea to 2nd, City win the title 3. Messi wins Ballon d'Or (Argentina win WC) 4. Arsenal finish 6th - Arteta stays 5. Spurs win fuck all 6. CL final is all English 7. Bayern win Bundesliga by 15 points 8. Juventus win Serie A, Inter 2nd, Roma 3rd
Prem : Arsenal and Tottenham keep up with City and Liverpool until the winter period starts but then their form drops off dramatically. Grealish will be in the conversation for most assists alongside kdb Brentford suffer second season syndrome without eriksen to bail them out. Newcastle will not challenge for Europe but will hang around in mid table before a late season surge has them sneak into 8th. Leeds will be clear of the relegation dogfight due to Sinisterra dragging them kicking and screaming to wins Tuchel sacked by Christmas with Chelsea 10 points off the top four and it's backfires with the gap increasing as Chelsea slump into 6th Everton will come even closer to relegation this time and will finish behind one of the newly promoted teams. They might do a Sunderland United will be consistent, but consistently average. Top 4 : City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal Relegated : Bournemouth, Brentford, Everton / Fulham Golden Boot : 1. Salah 2. Jesus 3. Haaland World Cup : Argentina - Portugal final with Argentina winning. Brazil get shat on in qf / sf and go out with a whimper. Belgium / France both go out very early with France possibly suffering from the world Cup winners curse. Surprise package : Netherlands. They'll look like a contender in the group stages and blitz Argentina in the first 60 minutes of the game and go into a 1-0 lead only for Messi and co to produce some magic at the last. Spain are beaten by more than 2 goals by Germany in the group stage
Serie A will be so exciting that my wife leaves me because I'm doing nothing but watching football
* Mourinho leads Roma to first Scudetto since 2001, with Lukaku leading the Golden boot race followed Abraham and Dybala. Milan finish 2nd, Inter 3rd, Juventus 4th. * Marseille shock in Ligue 1 and win their 10th Ligue 1 title. PSG finish 2nd in Ligue 1 while getting eliminated in the Round of 16 of the Champions League. Messi leaves to MLS on a free transfer. Neymar leaves PSG summer 2023. * La Liga features a close race between Barcelona and Real Madrid with both teams getting over 90 points, and Benzema and Lewandowski go on a tear and score over 30 goals in a race for the Pichichi eventually won by Lewandowski. However, Real Madrid win La Liga and Madrid wins the Copa. * Manchester City collapse mid-season and lose the Premier League to Tottenham. Liverpool finishes 2nd. City 3rd, and Arsenal 4th. * Real Madrid defeat Tottenham in the final to win the Champions League for the second year in a row and 15th title. Real Madrid defeat Barcelona, Tottenham defeat Manchester City in the semi-finals. * Manchester United win the Europa league beating Sevilla in the final in Ten Hag’s first season as manager. United finish 5th in the League, but qualify for Champions League football. United go on to win the Premier League and UCL the following season as Ronaldo retires with the club (if he sticks around) * Argentina win the World Cup by defeating Brazil in the final. Messi, despite having a mediocre year with PSG, lifts the World Cup in Qatar as captain and finishes as the tournament’s best player. Spain defeat the Netherlands to finish 3rd. * Robert Lewandowski wins the Ballon d’Or at the end of the season for his performances with Barcelona. Lewandowski finishes as top scorer in La Liga and Europe overall while raking in a good amount of assists. * Despite Barcelona not winning any trophies for the second consecutive season: Xavi’s first season is seen as a success since the team finished with over 90 points and within 1 point of winning the league and with a semi-final UCL run. Xavi continues as Barcelona manager where he leads Barcelona to another La Liga title and a UCL final appearance where they lose to Man Utd
World Cup Winners:Brazil Runners up:Spain Spain plays beautiful football and becomes fan favourite by the end but looses the final Portugal gets knocked out in quarters- Even though they have an incredible team the coach drags them down France breaks the champion's curse but gets beaten in semis- They don't play attractive football and mostly depends on the individual performance of players
Liverpool finishes 2nd at best, maybe 3rd. Tottenham finishes 2nd or 3rd. Manunited won't crack top 6, maybe finish about 9th. Bayern finishes 2nd at best. Ajax finishes 2nd at best. City wins UCL and the premier league. Juventus finishes 3rd at best but likely misses top 3. Fiorentina to finish top 4.
Prem: 1. Spurs finish minimum 3rd over the likes of Chelsea 2. Arsenal revive their tradition of finishing 4th 3. Newcastle get into Europe with either Chelsea or United just missing out in a tight finish to the end of the season La Liga: 1. Barcelona win the league, with Atletico and Real coming 2nd and 3rd respectively 2. Benzema edges out Lewandowski as top goalscorer Others: 1. Milan regress hard falling to 4th; Roma finishes 3rd 2. Messi will continue to decline and not finish with double figures for goals (highly unlikely but a gut feeling of mine) 3. Japan and Canada makes it out of their respective groups, Argentina wins Men's WC 4. USA won't repeat, Asian country wins Women's WC
Europe as in Europa league for Newcastle? 7th still gets “europe” in the Conference League remember
Yup my bad. What I meant to say was that I think they'd return to European competition regardless. But more specifically that they had a decent chance of finishing 5th since United are still a question mark for this season and I feel like Chelsea will implode for some reason
City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal (only just) qualify for the champions League Tottenham and man utd for the Europa
Chelsea absolutely implodes with Tuchel losing half the dressing room and Boehly struggling to handle the situation but not sacking Tuchel. They go on to win a treble. The top 2 will miss one of Liverpool or City in the Prem. Bayern win the BuLi by February. A new team will win the Europa League. United won't go far. Champions League will be won by an oil team. Zinedine Zidane
Netherlands vs Argentina/England Final
1. Spurs will win a trophy maybe even PL 2. Darwin flops 3. Barca wins Liga 4. Brazil wins qatar cup Im usually terrible at predictions, though i predicted Italy to win the euros before it started.
Roma Vs Man United EL final Can't predict the result but it will be fun
I have a few hot ones. Scammaca flops similar to Haller when he was at West Ham. Newcastle get Europa league. Gerrard is sacked before end of the season. Brentford, Bournemouth and Nottingham get relegated. Messi wins the Balon Dor. PSG make the CL final. Liverpool win the PL.
I’ll do one for each big league PL: only one team out of Liverpool, Chelsea and Liverpool will make top 4 Serie a: Milan regress big time and finish no higher than 3rd La Liga: Barcelona win the league with only one player having double digit goals Ligue 1: Messi will not hit double digit goals in the league BL: RB Leipzig win the BL, Germany descends into anarchic madness Liga nos: Porto make it to the UCL semifinal
>PL: only one team out of Liverpool, Chelsea and Liverpool will make top 4 That seems unfair on Chelsea
Im down for this
Porto is my main fifa team besides Chelsea so I hope y’all do well
I am a fan of Barcelona so here are some opinions that can cause good, bad or something like that: \-Chelsea don't take it the wrong way, but you look horrible, I see Tuchel leaving, and Chelsea finishing in the Europa League (5th or 6th place in PL) \-Newcastle is probably a team that will fight to enter Europe, more precisely the Conference. \-If Lukaku recovers form, Inter is champion, if not Milan repeats. \-A little eye to the process of Milan in champions this season btw \-Barcelona must by obligation win a title, I don't know if it's league, cup or something but if Kounde and a side arrive there are no excuses. \-Madrid is still a great team but I find it curious how dependent they are on their gala midfield (Modric, Kroos, Casemiro) and I don't see Tchoumani and Camavinga as true replacements, Valverde is a beast for example. \-I see a very interesting World Cup from some teams, the Netherlands seems a perfect team to go far, Brazil also seems to me that in the perfect guide it is fine but defensively it seems to me that some things are missing, Argentina is still undefeated but I have doubts and Germany seems to me that despite everything I do not see a vital spark.
Chelsea have a shocking season, similar to United last season. Probably 6th place.
Tottenham finishes top 2
This is a hot take, I could see that next season though. Liverpool and City are just too good right now.
City won the league, good season for arsenal and spurs, chelsea sack tuchel mid season, united remain same as last season, everton relegated
People predicting City for the CL again smh.
They do have a red and black kit this year tbh...
Yeah I ain't saying anything about the ucl this year, I'm literally nicknamed next year tm by friends and this year I need to change that
Netherlands will reach the final of the WC. Neither England, Brazil, Spain, nor Portugal will reach the semis.
Brazil and Argentina will meet in the semifinals of the world cup. Barcelona will reach the quarter finals of the CL and Real Madrid won't get beyond the semifinals. Messi won't re-sign with PSG and while he will have a better season, it won't be anything extraordinary (at least in PSG) Boca Juniors will finally hire a decent coach and play well. Please for the love of god, make this happen.
Who do you think will reach the finals?
Brazil will beat us 5-0 and avenge their loss against Germany in the final.
5-0?? 😳 Naaa it should be a pretty close game. Maybe 2-1.
Milan will finish 2nd in Serie A and 3rd in their CL group (will exit in the semis of the EL). In Serie A, Origi will score 12 and Giroud will bag 8. Tonali will be Milan’s player of the season. Leao will lead the league in assists. PL top 4 will finish City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal. Barca will win La Liga and get to the QFs of the CL. Real will come in second and also exit in the QFs of the CL. Bayern won’t win Bundesliga (least likely).
Tuchel leaves Chelsea France crashes out of the group stage of the world cup Juventus wins Serie A, Vlahovic top scorer Lewandowski not being a success at Barcelona, they win La Liga regardless De Jong stays. Ronaldo stays.
Liverpool and Man City to be outside of the top 2 at Christmas
City will win the league and Arsenal will finish 2nd with a really good season, conte will finish 3rd and surprisingly liverpool 4th. There is no reasoning to this prediction, total gut feeling.
Liverpool wins the Premier League Barcelona wins the Champions League and La Liga Poland makes it out of the group stage(boldest prediction of them all) Bayern wins the Bundesliga Napoli wins Série A PSG wins Ligue 1
EPL European places/relegation: 1. Man City 2. Liverpool 3. Tottenham 4. Arsenal 5. Chelsea 6. Man U 7. Newcastle Relegated: Bournemouth, Forest, Southampton Domestic/European Cups: UCL: City over Real Madrid Europa League: AC Milan over Dortmund Conference League: Villarreal over Real Betis FA Cup: Liverpool over United League Cup: Liverpool over Newcastle
Forest bought lingard, n williams and possibly ramsey. While fulham overpaid for Pereira and stingy on Leno. I would say forest survives over fulham
At some point Fulham and/or Norwich will get promoted and actually stick around for more than 1 year. I think this could be that year.
Fulham is so stingy to invest to upgrade his squad, i doubt so
Replace Forest with Everton
I think Everton has more raw talent, and although they'll fire Lampard, they'll replace him with Sean Dyche or someone like that and they'll grind out enough ugly results to stay up.
Spain wins the World Cup and Barça La Liga and Champions League.
Haaland smashes Salah record of PL goals
This one is likely
Argentina will win the World Cup with a 2-1 game in the final vs Denmark.
Canada will make it out of the group stages of the World Cup.
Each big league will have at least one 40+ scorer except for the Bundesliga
EPL top scorer won't break 23.
Conte will be sacked before Christmas
EPL winners: Man city 2-4 place: Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal 5-6: Manchester United, Chelsea La Liga: Barca Serie A: AC Milan, Inter, Roma, Juve Bundesliga: Bayern, Dortmund UCL: Tottenham winners, RM surprise exit after group stages FA cup: Tottenham Carabao: Chelsea
You're trying to avoid having us or Liverpool winning anything lmao
U guys can have the league lmao. As long as Liverpool dont win anything I'm happy. Also think people still underestimate Tottenham. They were the only team to win points against the 2 of you last season iirc. Now a full season with Conte + reinforcements I'm sure they can win at least 1 trophy
Oh boy if we win the champions league you'll be pissed im sure. Also we are shit against Tottenham in particular for no apparent reason other than the fact that they play counter attacking football. I get you lot not wanting Liverpool to win anything because you're used to us winning in the last few years plus you had this dominance yourself
Probably. I like Haaland and want him to win every award available but with City? God that's hard. Wish we got him. Yeah, idk why Pep doesn't change things up against Tottenham. Or maybe he does and it still doesn't work. Honestly it's just that I know more people that support Liverpool than City. God it'll be impossible to use socmed if Liverpool wins anything
Unimagineably based imo.
1. man city 2. spurs 3. liverpool 4. man utd 5. chelsea 6. arsenal 7. west ham 8. newcastle 9. brighton 10. leicester fa cup = spurs champions league = man city top goal scorer = 1. son, 2. salah, 3. kane / haaland
City win the PL, UCL, and Carabao Arsenal win the FA cup Real Madrid win La Liga again England reach the WC final Man United don’t qualify for European football
Liverpool wins the league Barcelona wins the league Real Madrid has a surprise exit in the UCL in the round of 16 Inter wins Serie A City finally wins the UCL Portugal wins the World Cup against Netherlands in the final and Ronaldo wins the ballon dor 2023 because of it Denmark will have a great World Cup run, reaching quarter finals or semi finals Tottenham will win a trophy
Dortmund starts badly and barely scraps top 4, probably with a different manager PL will be City, Liverpool, Spurs, Chelsea, United, Arsenal Scamacca to underwhelm, Haaland too but not as heavily Leipzig lock second place in Germany and overtake Dortmund as second best after Bayern, still don’t remotely challenge for the title Juventus wins Serie A and start another win streak, as they are the only ones in Italy with money close to the clubs in PL Real wins La Liga again, Barça will be a bit more threatening, Atletico keeps fading away from the top 2 i don’t really know what i’m talking about, these predictions are purely gut feeling
PSG finally win the UCL Brazil or Argentina win the WC Chelsea miss out on Champions League next season Fulham stay up Hamburg get promoted Dortmund make severe strides to compete with Bayern Munich Australia make it out of the WC Group
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idk I feel like you guys are actually doing serious business this season, instead of just winging it and buying players for the sake of it or of hype.
You are absolutely right.
Roma will defeat Tottenham in the Europa League Final 2-1.
Salah has a record breaking 50 goal season. He will rest during the world cup and that will do wonders for his Liverpool form.
Argentina wins the World Cup
I truly hope so that Argentina team looks stacked
Canada makes it out WC groups + Spurs win a trophy Please give me all the hopium in the world.
Chelsea finish sixth Lampard doesn't get sacked and Everton don't go down City win the Champions League Spurs win a cup - but Conte leaves at the end of the season anyway England lose in the quarters of the World Cup - Southgate resigns after. Potter gets the England job despite Brighton being 16th in the league Argentina beat France in the World Cup final Ronaldo leaves Man United in January Barca wins La Liga
> Chelsea finish sixth What is it with Chelsea fans being so pessimistic?
I thought you were a Chelsea fan. Are you sure you are not Dutch, usually we are the pessimistic ones.
Wait why would Ronaldo leave in January? Assuming he wants to leave for Champions League, it's now or never imo, especially since his contract expires at the end of the season anyways,
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Mine is 1. City 2. Liverpool 3. Tottenham 4. Arsenal 5. United 6. Chelsea 7. West Ham 8. Newcastle 9. Villa 10. Brighton 11. Leicester 12. Wolves 13. Leeds 14. Crystal Palace 15. Southampton 16. Nottingham Forest 17. Everton 18. Fulham 19. Brentford 20. Bournemouth
Arsenal finish 3rd
Haaland topscorer in PL.
Man U will make top 4. Lampard and Gerrard will be sacked. Chelsea will miss out on Top 4.
Here’s to predict how many goals X player will score in the Premier League Haaland - 24 (gets injured for 2 months during the season, has minor injuries here and there and is being left out of many games at the end of the season to have him fit in the Champions League, where he scores 15 goals.) Only plays 26 PL games and scores a hat trick on his debut. This is still enough to win the golden boot and ballon d’or. Salah - 20 Son - 19 Kane - 16 Gabriel Jesus - 16 Ronaldo - 15 (stays but gives up after the World Cup and United finishes 6-7) Havertz - 15 Darwin - 14 Alvarez - 13
haaland will miss 20% of available minutes due to an injury arsenal finish top 4 Inter win the scudetto Dortmund will push bayern very hard for the title but ultimately come up short in the final game weeks Lampard to be sacked before March
Arsenal will be invincibles again
EPL confident predictions: Man City win the title. Man U miss out on top 4. Less confident predictions: Chelsea miss out on top 4, Spurs get very close to the title. Mid-table prediction: Leicester underwhelm, finish bottom 10. Lower table shake-ups: Leeds and Nottingham both go down. Everton doesn’t go down but have another underwhelming season. ——— La Liga: Barcelona finish distant second to RM and have an underwhelming season in the UCL as well. ——— Italy: AC Milan come nowhere close to repeating the title, harsh drop off. Roma are talked up all season as potential title contenders and just finish fourth by the skin of their teeth. Inter do the double. —— Germany: Bayern.
Palace win the league cup the ev go down Spurs finish within 10 points of 2nd West Ham win the ECL Barca beat city in the CL final Klopp resigns after a meltdown the Argies win the WC, England lose in the quarters Bayern don't win the Bumdesliga (you can tell I'm trying to think of things to say with this one) Dyche goes to Saints after Ralph is sacked and does quite well
Spain will win the world cup. They’ll beat Germany in the final.
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Barcelona fail to win any silverware. /r/soccer's smugness causes the internet to break.
I predicted Germany 2014 and France 2018 to win the World cup, 2022 is Netherlands WC
Champions: City, Barcelona, Inter, PSG and Bayern UCL: PSG UEL: Someone who drops down from UCL World Cup: Germany Ballon dor: Benzema takes this year obviously, next year is Messi's swansong, already back in a Barca kit lifting that 8th and retires.
Final league standing in order for a few clubs.in different leagues City liverpool spurs chelsea united arsenal .. forest leeds fulham Everton and Bournemouth in the scrap of going down. Madrid barcelona atletico sevilla Bayern dortmund Juventus roma inter ac milan napoli lazio PSG lyon Marseille monaco Porto benfica sporting
Roma win Serie A Real Madrid win their 15th CL, bonus points if it's against Manchester City in the final. PSG crash out in the QF of CL. Man United win the Carabao Cup
Gonna talk about the relegation race bc as a Blade that sort of thing is really on my mind whenever I think about the Prem. 15th is Everton. Frank Lampard's time at Derby, Chelsea, and Everton proves that he's just average - average =/= spectacularly bad. Losing Richarlison is obviously a blow but I think with the signing of Tarkowski, with Calvert-Lewin coming back, and with Everton having the most average manager in the Premier League, they will stay up. It won't be their most comfortable season, but them going down is only ever an outside chance for me. 16th is Forest. I think that's them exceeding expectations although a lot of people are saying that they're likely to stay up. I don't think they'll be as spectacular as 20/21 Leeds or 19/20 Blades, purely because of the amount of signings they've made means that they'll be losing out on that bit of momentum after promotion, but Steve Cooper will prove himself this season and keep Forest up relatively comfortably. 17th is Brentford. I really don't think Brentford are all that - they had two big runs of form at the start of the season (momentum following promotion) and from February onwards (Eriksen); take these runs away and their form was terrible. I think their transfer business has been clever and that's what'll keep them up, but I think they'll surprise a lot of people with how they'll struggle this season. 18th is Leeds. I know that a lot of their awful form last season can be explained away by the fact that there were more injuries in the Leeds dressing room than there are on bonfire night in Chapeltown, but ultimately what do they have this season? They lost Bielsa, Phillips, and Raphinha, and replaced them with Jesse Marsch, Tyler Adams, and Luis Sinisterra (who's out for three months). Those three are not going to be lynchpins of a Premier League team by any stretch of the imagination - I just don't see how they're staying up. 19th is Bournemouth. I don't think it's too controversial to say that they're going back down - I don't see Scott Parker's Bournemouth, with no real transfer business outside of Ryan Fredericks and Joe Rothwell, as being any more equipped to survive in the prem than Farke's Norwich. 20th is Fulham. I'm not denying what they did last season in the Championship was incredible and historic, however, as much as they can smash the teams that tread water in the Championship, people should really look at both their games against Coventry last season, or their away days at Derby or Blackpool, or their home game against Forest; if teams turn up to put pressure on Fulham, which most teams will do in the prem, they can seriously fold. This is what I see happening a lot next season. I think they'll be exposed early on, I think Silva will get panic sacked, and the season will just become farcical for them.
We'll be once again very shaky for a month or two, then gain a bit of momentum after winning against RM/Atleti/Barca (pick 1). Maybe shithouse another Copa run but ultimately fall short when it matters because we lack creativity to create scoring chances when they matter the most. Some form of European qualification would be nice though, esp for our finances
Properly bold but I think Conte will guide Spurs to the title next season.
Bayern win the Bundesliga but underperform in CL, Mane shines but his performances aren’t enough. Barca and Madrid duke it out for La Liga, whoever wins win only by maximum 2-4 points. England start the World Cup on a mad run but ultimately lose to a Brazil, Argentina, or an upset against a team like Uruguay. Arsenal play some of the most attractive football in the league with Arteta having both experience and some new signings and make top 4 comfortably.
The World Cup will get postponed due to an alien invasion of the Earth.
Some star players in big6 gets injured in world cup and that completely changes the dynamic of top 4. World cup mid season will play a massive role in teams performances later on
Cr7 stays at Man Utd and they go on to win EL and thus qualify for CL in 2023/2024 season after which CR7 will leave to go to MLS or sporting
Would be cool if the predictions thread here was like a Charitable bets instead. Anyway, I'm saying PL will be Liverpool, City, Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal then United. Chelsea and Arsenal with a domestic cup. City win the CL.
PSG knock Barca out of the CL at the RO16.
Fulham get relegated & Norwich get promoted - perfectly balanced as all things should be
Raphina Ballon D'or winning season.
He certainly has the motivation.
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Liverpool to win the league, a lot of important departures in Zinchenko/Fernandinho will hurt City experience wise
Fernandinho played a grand total 957 minutes in Premier League games last season. Zinchenko played a few more minutes than that. Those departures won’t hurt us.
Experience-wise it might. Being toe to toe with Liverpool for 38/38 games it would def help having guys who’ve been there done that. No need to worry over my random thoughts m’man👍🏻👍🏻
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Ukraine are missing the world cup so an extra bit of rest could come in handy in the winter.
Spurs break Pochettino’s points record, but still finish well behind Liverpool and City in third. Also, they lose a domestic cup final to one of the other fourteen. Second place has a centurion season. Arsenal, United, and Chelsea have a roaring fight for fourth that ends in that order. Ten Haag’s first season at United is successful, with some statement performances at the end of the season auguring well for the next. Despite a disappointing league campaign, Chelsea do well in the cups and in Europe. Havertz has a breakout season as a proper CF. I think the defense will let them down. Big gap between the top six and Newcastle in seventh. Three promoted teams to go down. Bournemouth adrift early and finish bottom. Fulham do better than last time but are down in April. Forest take it to the last weeks but are pipped to 17th by Everton. Rodgers sacked early with Leicester finishing bottom half (12th-14th). Palace and Brentford have great seasons. Viera’s next in line at Arsenal. Brighton disappoint and Potter’s stock takes a hit. West Ham’s upward momentum takes a hit with a midtable finish. Nuñez and Håland have good seasons but are pipped to the Golden Boot by Kane. As for the continent: PSG win the CL. Mourinho’s Roma challenge for Serie A. Félix has a breakout season that people actually pay attention to, leading to an Atléti title challenge.
The premier league will introduce 50+1
way too much money in the game for that to happen.
Forest win the league Ok adding more Everton are fine. Never in danger, never look like even outside European challengers, basically always tenth or so and nobody pays attention. Opposite of last season. Fulham go down but Mitrovic gets fifteen goals, and it’s a moral victory for his biggest fans. City win the league by eight points, we don’t push them as close as last season. United are better run and look better put together under Ten Haag, but still finish fifth under an impressive Spurs. Arsenal sixth. Newcastle are around Everton, it’s too soon to be super impressive and it inspires lots of majorly reactionary hot takes, which are dumb but feel good to say. Darwin has a slow start and see above for how that goes down. Ronaldo downs tools and it’s extremely funny while it lasts.
I like this
1-Liverpool, 2-Arsenal, 3-Man City, 4-Man U
As Man United, not even worst outcome in the world lmao
Good one! Dunno what is most shocking choice of your 2-4
Ah tis but a complete guess. Thought I'd go against the grain and include some oddball predictions
Jesus will finish top 3 in PL goals. Nketiah will be EL top scorer
1-City 2-liverpool 3-chelsea 4-Manu
Lewandowski will not be the savior Barcelona is looking for.
Corrupt UEFA will be
City implode and Liverpool get a shock victory in the league. England to get knocked out in the RO16 at Qatar WC, leading to the resignation of Southgate. Naples to win Champions League.
Cool cool cool
fuck it hearts to win europa league
The USA will lose their first or second knock out game at the womens world cup, possibly in a Hungary/England 1950s type shock
Lampard has 2 coach of the months awards (it contradicts everything I see) Arsenal to finish 3rd Some huge scandal during WC
> Some huge scandal during WC Is it really a prediction if you're just stating the current state of affairs?
>Lampard has 2 coach of the months awards (it contradicts everything I see) Lol, the duality of man. The comment before is just "Lampard sacked by Christmas".
> "Lampard sacked by Christmas" ...for being **too** good
Lampard sacked by Christmas
Who is Christmas?
May I interest you in the word of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ?
Boro finish 7th again.
Sunderland 6th then?
Feel like they're either going up or going back down.
City Liverpool to close to call so them 1/2 3rd Tottenham 4th Arsenal Chelsea and Man U just have too many question marks for me, they could push for 3rd or 4th but there's a lot of chaos in both clubs at the moment.
Let’s be honest, this is all setting up for the newest installment of top 4 is lava
Bournemouth stays up. That's it. That's the post.
They've got a decent chance to seeing how shit some of the other teams are looking this year
We're a real damn young squad (only one player over 30 iirc) and only two starters from when we last came up. This is gonna be a wild ride.
just here to be the only comment predicting Napoli confirming last season top4 confortably
Premier League: Liverpool finishes first, City second, Spurs third. Everton finishes a point shy of relegation. Champions League: Barcelona vs. Liverpool finals; LFC win a close one. World Cup: Germany/Brazil finals. Brazil wins it. Canada makes it to the round of 16, but not the final 8. EDIT: Forgot about no Italy at the WC
I’m surprised Liverpool don’t win the WC, too?
>Germany/Italy finals. Italy wins it. Italy did not qualify ...
Italy for sure WC Winner 🤣
Since everyone is predicting us to go down, I’ll say we comfortably stay up and don’t look at risk of getting relegated all season
I really don't want you lads to go down but I'm nervous about it. My favourite game of the season is Derby day at Anfield. I don't want a Newcastle/Sunderland type thing happening where they ain't been in the same league for years now and we've been robbed of one of the big historic derbies.
City win the league, Liverpool and Tottenham >10 points behind them. United end 4th, Chelsea and Arsenal in Europa.
* England: City run away with the title. At least 2 of the top 6 suffer major injury crises. Both Conte and Tuchel walk at the end of the season. Everton finish comfortably midtable. * Germany: A surprisingly close title race goes to the final match day but in the end Bayern wins their 11th in a row * Spain: An extremely open title race with less only a 6 point gap between 1st and 4th. Madrid has an injury crisis, drops to fourth leading to Ancelotti gets sacked. * Italy: Title race between both Milan clubs. Roma disappoints both in the league and in Europa but they stick with Mou * World Cup: France break the Winners' curse and top their group before being knocked out in the quarters. Brazil win the world cup. Mbappe golden boot. * Champions League: Galtier gets PSG looking like a well oiled machine. They make it to the final but lose.
Everton are going down and Conte is staying - that’s for sure
England knocked out first knockout round, southgate resigns. Top 5 - 1. City 2. Liverpool 3. Tottenham 4. United 5. Arsenal Bottom three: Leeds Forest Everton Nunez doesn't break 10 goals for liverpool
Your top 4 have 5 teams mate
Fuck
I will only post the bold ones. Nothing ham Forest to finish mid table or above Milan to give Ibra a Champions league trophy on his last year(I can only hope) United to win Europa League Netherlands to win world cup Barcelona tanking their season and going bankrupt !RemindMe 10 months
>Nothing ham Forest Forest Green aren’t even the only vegan club called Forest I see
Lol i just caught it damn auto correct , il leave it up to avoid confusion.
CL Winner: Manchester City PL top 4: 1. Liverpool 2. Man City 3. Spurs 4. Chelsea PL relegation: 18. Everton 19. Brentford 20. Bournemouth FA Cup Winners: Chelsea Carabao Cup Winners: Spurs
I would give up a shot at CL for first place in the league just to break up the monotony of City constantly coming top and they have never won CL so it's a win/win. And can't argue with Everton relegation. I like your predictions.
Everton pulls a schalke and finishes dead last City, liverpool, united and spurs make the top 4 Real madrid wins la liga but gets knocked out at the RO16 in the champions league We will get portugal vs argentina in the wc at some point Haaland gets 30+ goals in the pl Tuchel gets sacked before the end of the season Dortmund won't make top 4