Well, its finally here. The start of the new season. It doesn’t seem like too long back that Chelsea hammered United to seal the premier league title. After one glorious World Cup, we are back to club football!
The EPL starts this weekend and here are our predictions for the top 5 positions this year. Maybe V and I can go through (and possibly revise) these predictions during Christmas.
#5 Tottenham Hotspur
Strengths: Strong team spirit and good depth.
Weaknesses: Too many squad players.
Despite two great buys in the transfer market — Zokora and Berbatov — I don’t see Tottenham breaking into the top 4 this season. I don’t know why. Maybe we have just gotten used to seeing Tottenham screw up every single season.
#4: Arsenal:
Strengths: Thierry Henry, a young squad, and a great manager.
Weaknesses: Lack of depth and too much depends on one man.
Just don’t see Arsenal doing too much this season. They will easily beat the bottom half teams thanks to goals from Henry. Will struggle against the top teams. They haven’t addressed their problem at the centre of defence or in the strikers and their midfielders role. Let’s see if Wenger can spring another surprise. Will end up 4th and will struggle in Europe.
#3 Manchester United
Strengths: Defence looks solid.
Weaknesses: No squad depth whatsoever.
If Manchester United can avoid major injuries this season I see them challenging Chelsea all the way. However, over the course of 38 games its stupid not to expect injuries and this is going to prove their biggest undoing. An injury to Carrick means that O Shea and Giggs will be playing in the centre of the park. Not the best bet against Ballack and Makelele, right?
Its easy to forget that the team scored 83 points last year. But such was Chelsea’s dominance that it wasn’t enough. A great start is a must. Will end up losing to Milan or Barcelona in Europe.
#2: Liverpool
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Article comments
1 - Douglas Mays
Good job on your picks. I would agree. It should be a great year for the EPL. the Brits. didn't make it as far as they would have liked to in the WC. But the EPL is the best league play on the planet.
2 - Hugh
It will be really interesting to see how Sheva shapes up, he's been great so far in his career but the transfers from the rest of europe to england have always been difficult because there's a different flow to the game there. I'd like to see Chelsea win again though, they've certainly got the best all around squad to do it. Superb defensive line (especially now with cole) midfields second only to liverpool, and +40,000,000 pounds worth of striking power. Not to mention one of the worlds top goal keepers.
3 - John
haha.. your prediction totally wrong.
4 - danny meehan
Good try but Liverpool only concentrates on Europe and Chelsea showed they have weaknesses (egos).
5 - Christopher Rose
Oops! 100 per cent wrong with these predictions.
Manchester United are deservedly champions again and in the process have shown that they play better football than Chelski, who only won the title in the two previous seasons because they had no injuries at all and we were rebuilding the team.
Next season is going to be the most competitive for some time, with a still developing United chased all the way by Chelsea and the resurgent teams of Arsenal and Liverpool.
6 - Sadab
Arsenal iz da best...
7 - e-Soccer
You probably need to include Manchester City this season :)
8 - Adolf Peterson
this year i am betting on man city too..
9 - Dr Dreadful
We'll see. So far they've been all mouth and no trousers, as my grandma used to say.