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Predicting the rest of the Premier League for United

I think we'll survive, just about πŸ˜…

Yuveer Madanlal
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2/1/2025
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5 min read

As we are halfway through the campaign in season 24/25 of the Premier League, I thought I'd take a feather out of Sir Alex Ferguson's cap and try to predict our next 19 fixtures and see how many points we end up with.

At the moment, it ain't looking good brev.

14th in the table, just 22 points, we've lost our last three and scored 0 goals in that time, our team look bereft of confidence and appear as if they couldn't care less, the new manager has just the 3 wins in 11 games since being appointed in November, and so on and so forth.

This job for Ruben Amorim was always going to be difficult but this difficult well, even he didn't think it was going to be so hard despite knowing the monumental task ahead of him.

But with a new year comes new possibilities. Everyone sees the 1st of January as a new start and boy, do we need one at United. The new year also signals the start of the January transfer window and we need to make moves there as well which will help us for the second leg of this season.

Here's the table as it stands and as you can see, we have to go quite far down to view United. That record...

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To start this new year, we've been given the hardest fixture of them all: Liverpool at Anfield.

Unfortunately, they are the team of the season and it looks like they will equal our tally of 20 league titles this year as they are streets ahead of anyone else in the league. They could even win the Champions League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup with the way they are going.

This is a loss. There's no point even playing this game as we should just give them a 2-0 win now and save ourselves the embarrassment.

I'm triple captaining Salah in FPL, that's how confident I am of them putting us to the sword.

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Southampton at home is probably one of the bankers even for us giving us 25 points.

That is followed by Brighton at home and that is perhaps another loss. We know they've have our number in recent years and we haven't beaten them in a while. Brighton have also won on their last two visits to Old Trafford.

Fulham away is a game that I can see us getting a draw. This will put us on 26 points after match 23.

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Palace at home is another difficult match but I do believe we will get a win. 29 points.

Spurs away is a defeat (they've already beaten us twice this season) but we should be getting at least a draw at Everton. 30 points.

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Ipswich at home is another one where we should be winning and we'll need to because following that is the visit of Arsenal who will most likely beat us. 33 points after match 28.

Between Leicester and Forest in the following two matches, I can see a win away at the Foxes and then a defeat at high-flying Forest who beat us at Old Trafford not so long ago. 36 points.

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A home derby to follow and after already getting the 3 points at the Emptihad, I believe we can get another win at home although this will also depend on whether City are still terrible or if they've found some form.

Newcastle away is a definite loss let's not even bother. Wolves at home could be a win which will give us 42 points heading into the final five games.

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However, three of those five are away to Bournemouth, Brentford and Chelsea. Those are probably losses as well. Bournemouth are brilliant, Brentford at the moment are the second best team at home and Chelsea are better than us. I don't see the current United getting anything from these matches.

West Ham beat Man Utd 2-1 in what turned out to be Erik ten Hag's final game in charge | Photo by Catherine Ivill - AMA/Getty Images via The Busby Babe

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The final two home games of the season is West Ham and Villa. I believe we should be winning both which will give us a total of 48 points.

That will mean we avoid relegation as the 40 point mark usually signifies safety.

WE WILL PLAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALL NEXT SEASON πŸ™Œ!

Well, at least according to my predictions.

But should we get that total of 48 points or fewer, it will be our lowest-ever in the PL and we will most likely finish in our lowest position in top flight history.

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These are just my own personal thoughts on where we will end up based on our current state. Hopefully we can sign some players in January that will help improve us and we can get to a respectable points haul in the table although whatever we end up with from here probably won't be respectable at all.

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Recap of my predictions:

Liverpool (A) - loss (22 pts)

Southampton (H) - win (25 pts)

Brighton (H) - loss (25 pts)

Fulham (A) - draw (26 pts)

Palace (H) - win (29 pts)

Spurs (A) - loss (29 pts)

Everton (A) - draw (30 pts)

Ipswich (H) - win (33 pts)

Arsenal (H) - loss (33 pts)

Leicester (A) - win (36 pts)

Forest (A) - loss (36 pts)

City (H) - win (39 pts)

Newcastle (A) - loss (36 pts)

Wolves (H) - win (42 pts)

Bournemouth (A) - loss (42 pts)

Brentford (A) - loss (42 pts)

West Ham (H) - win (45 pts)

Chelsea (A) - loss (45 pts)

Villa (H) - win (48 pts)

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What do you think will happen from now until the end of the league campaign?

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Background Images: Bruno Fernandes | Creator: Carl Recine | Credit: Getty Images Copyright: 2024 Getty Images via Man Utd News

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Yuveer Madanlal

Yeah, I can talk and talk and talk about the things I love, like football and United, as you can see in this post. Once I get on a roll, it's pretty hard to stop me. This is all coming from a guy who doesn't talk that much. How weird.

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