The new, much-awaited, Premier League season is round the corner for the 2024/25 season along with higher stakes and sensational league cup fixtures to give football lovers a complete footballing package. Looking at the forthcoming start of a new season for Manchester United and Manchester City, we will discuss various factors and specific problematics each team is going to experience. Here is a breakdown of what will happen in the course of the opening weekend of the football league table.
Manchester United: A Critical Beginning for Ten Hag
First Encounter with Fulham
Manchester United’s new season opens with a Friday’s home spectacle against Fulham. This match is significant for Erik ten Hag, the Dutch tactician who appointed at the United in the middle of the last season, and led it to against all the odds FA Cup final triumph over Manchester City United.
However, the Red Devils finished the previous season in the 8th place that situation calls for Ten Hag to start strongly.
New Signings and Building of the Team
During the summer, United signed close to 150 million (£) of fresh talents, including Leny Yoro and Joshua Zirkzee and major signings being Matthijs De Ligt and Nousaair Mazraoui. These are signings that are believed to strengthen the team’s squad but the onus on Ten Hag will be to assimilate them into the first team.
Fulham’s Recent Win Against Old Trafford
Fulham, who stunned United with a victory on the latter’s home ground for the first time in 20 years in the recent past, specifically in February, will be expecting a repeat of that performance again. If United re-produces that kind of football again next season they will have fans worrying about another poor season.
New Era for Liverpool under Arne Slot
There are few better ways to make an impression in the Premier League then to score in your debut against Ipswich Town.
In the first, Liverpool led by Arne Slot plays against newly promoted Ipswich. This will be the first match for the new Man, City manager, Slot who will be succeeding Jurgen Klopp and will be aiming at having a victory from his debut match. Though the Rodgers had failed to aquite new faces in the team during the transfer window.
Liverpool had a splendid pre-season fixtures which included victories over such teams as Arsenal, United and Sevilla.
Ipswich return to the top flight
Ipswich has been on form having been promoted from two seasons earlier and the third-tier League Two after a 22-year absence. Their defender, Axel Tuanzebe affirmed that his team has a perfect record when they host other teams at Portman Road and therefore, Liverpool will find it extremely hard to beat them when they meet at the newly fashioned ground.
Liverpool’s Comfortable Fixture Run
If Liverpool is to defeat Ipswich, it faces an easy schedule of matches up to the break for international team games in October. It could also enable Slot to gather steam and have his conceptualization accepted by the team.
Chelsea’s Turbulent Pre-Season
Chelsea begins the campaign in a complete mess, they hired a new trainer – Enzo Maresca, who must go against his previous team Manchester City. Maresca was an assistant of Pep Guardiola at City’s side before he went on to take Leicester City to the Championship season, and now he takes over a side in distress. Chelsea currently maintains a huge first team squad that exceeds 50 players and there is a lot of indecision about the number of players that will remain with the team next season.
Manchester City’s Stability
On the other hand, Manchester City has had a rather quiet summer, with signing of only Savinho, the Brazilian winger. The club did lose Argentine forward Julian Alvarez to Atletico Madrid for the U$16m but the major part of the team that won the Argentine under Guardiola is still intact.
Three out of City’s England regulars – Kyle Walker, John Stones & Phil Foden – plus Spain’s Rodri, were only back in training after featuring in the Euro 2024 final, and they are likely doubts for the game against Chelsea.
Chelsea’s Pre-Season Struggles
Chelsea’s problems were revealed during a turbulent pre-season, such as a loss to Manchester City with a score of 4-2 in the United States of America. This match was the wake-up call for this team and Maresca has a monumental task of trying to bridge that gap before their first match inw the English Premier League Games.
The roadmap as to What Lies Ahead for the Premier League Giants
Manchester United: A Season to Prove
This season is not just about the wins in camp of Manchester United but it is about rebuilding the pride and the feeling of believing in the club. Ten Hag’s new signings have no choice but to perform from the onset and the team needs to learn to play the managers’ tactics to the end for them not to end the season so poorly.
The first match could dictate the pace of play which the coming matches of the season would follow.
Liverpool: New Leadership: A Transitional Process
Liverpool begins a new era with Arne Slot and its lack of new signings might worry some supporters but the teams excellent pre-season displays should reassure fans. The game against Ipswich will suggest the first indication of whether Slot has got what it takes to succeed as a manager in the Premier League and to keep up the tradition already set at Liverpool.
Chelsea: Managing Chaos
This strangulated structure of preparations, and a kind of tropical overheated squad of Chelsea represents a major problem for Enzo Maresca. Manchester City is stable, and successful and they will be able to give Maresca a baptism of fire when the two teams play. As such, how he would approach this problem could well define the destiny of Chelsea for the rest of the season.
Manchester City: The goal or target of continuity
From the perspective of Manchester City, the analysed case is all about staying on the top of the Premier League. Manchester City had a quite inactive transfer period; however, they remain the most consistent team for the next season and likely to retain the title. Chelsea is one of the early matches of the preparation for the new season for Tottenham.
Man city premier league has been consistent.
Conclusion
When the Premier League 2024/25 season is started, interest will be shifted to the teams’ dawn fixtures of the world cup fixture times. Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, and Manchester City all have specific obstacles in front of them and the way that they approach them may determine the rest of the year. From United’s search for renewal to Liverpool under new orders, Chelsea’s efforts at control and City’s push for more of the same, the stakes are set high and the season only beginning.
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