The Worst Premier League Predictions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- The Premier League season is over. You probably did know that, but what you didn’t know is that I did my Premier League predictions a long time ago, when I was living in Indianapolis, and I (shockingly) did not get them all right. I am aware that this may smash your perception that I know everything about soccer / football / whatever else you want to call it, but that is a risk I am willing to take, because this is funny.
It is notoriously difficult to stick the landing on Premier League predictions. Transfers happen, wonderkids emerge, and Man City eventually wins the whole thing, but a lot happens in between. Liverpool had a tremendous season and Manchester United didn’t, but every single team in the Prem had a goal this year, while few are able to actually meet that goal. Not getting relegated would have been a good start Norwich. Let’s see how I did.
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Cut Zealand some slack he has the "American" debuff, that's at least minus 12 ball knowledge. Truly playing from behind. :(
Hahaha
It's true, in a away you gotta respect the guys guts and determination to get out there and have a go being handicapped like that.
And yes, the same can be said of me and NBA, NHL and MLB. I'm alright with NFL. Kinda. It's rugby with 90lbs of padding, right?
@@patrickwilliams6143 more injuries per an nfl game then any other sport on earth "BTW it cause with pads on you actually can hit harder"
@@AiyukIsHim why have them?
As a Norwich fan, I was nice and optimistic before a ball was kicked this season...
Then we played ten seconds of Premier League football and all the trauma came rushing back to me.
Josh Sargent missing the open goal against Brighton was the real nail in the coffin.
Hahaha
After your 2nd match against us everyone knew you were going down already
It's all Billy Gilmour fault
0:26 “Didn’t miss it horribly” if 7 places off isn’t horrible then I can’t wait to see how bad the rest of the predictions were
Maguire in world class😂😂 the only world class he can be part of is a geography lesson
can't blame the lad, only one with a forehead big enough to pin the entire world map on
Poonited fans try not to blame one person for everything challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
@@menesebastiao2468 who says I'm blaming only Maguire, half the squad and staff are more useless than an air conditioner in Antarctica
To be fair, he’s given me so many great Memes and laughs this year. His epic dribbling, his Pogba head kick, own goals, missed tackles - he’s been world class.
He Is apart from last year .
Chelsea actually carried loads of momentum, were top until November then got James and Chilwell injured within a space of 3 games, as well as Lukaku at the same time too, who was never the same after coming back from that injury (and the interview he decided to give while off with that injury) and lost most of their attacking thrust.
If James/Chilwell stayed healthy for the whole season it would’ve been a three horse title race
No chelshit is just finished 🤡
@@cooperhoffman8303 Yup. Wingbacks are vital to Tuchel's system.
Excuses excuses
Honestly don’t feel too bad. Spencer from Hashtag United does a yearly prediction and keeps a point tally based on how far off you were for each team. Based off that tally I think you got 68 points Zealand which isn’t great but definitely isn’t awful. I’d love to see you make this a yearly thing and keep track of the points you get each year.
On Manchester United - "Going to struggle to find a better defence than that in world football..." A better...defence... than that...in world football. Finished with 57 goals conceded, the highest ever in their premier league history. I can forgive bad predictions but my god!
57 conceded while De Gea also had the 3rd most saves. 57 is a generous number and could have easily been 70+.
But half of those were from McGuire though. Best scoring central defender in the world!
@@sportsjefe it makes you wonder how bad it would have been without De Gea...
@@SpoonHurler Dead joke
The Utd review had me in tears 😭 Win league? World class defence? Ohhh. So good. 👍
As a Middlesbrough fan "Middlesbrough qualified for the playoff" did psychic damage
Can you imagine how off Zealand's United pick would be if it was filmed right after the Ronaldo transfer.
Zealand was Right about Southampton, just a year off
As a villa fan buendia was decent. Bailey has been a fragile flop , ings didn't start well but got slightly better
We should have been higher than 14th but all the teams around there were close
And now you have a full summer for Gerrard to do his thing. You'll finish top 10, probably 9th next season my guess
The Villa-Leeds back-to-back prediction flameout was perfect
1:04 as an Ipswich fan, the only fun we have in our sad existence is laughing at Norwich's 20th place
That KV Mechelen kit 😍 love me some Belgian representation on the Zealand channel
That Man U prediction was the best thing on TH-cam that I have ever seen, even better then the Cat playing the piano!!
Zealand overrating United only slightly less than Football Manager does
lol... every season you see united get worse IRL and you think, surely this year their player attributes will get lower this season. my guess is there's united fans in SI devs.
And underrate Liverpool just like the FM
Really because United never wins anything in my saves how is that overrated that seems about right to me.
@@kingjamestres true but thats because city and liverpool usually dominate the prem on FM. But uniteds players still have stupidly high attributes.
he also underrated Southampton and West Ham just like the game
Awesome video Z, too funny. Cant wait until the 22/23 predictions!
"Harry Maguire is a world class center back"
Zealand 2021
Love your content Z!
The logic behind the Leeds call wasn't terrible, if it hadn't been an absolute bin fire at board level, that team could've kicked on and it was unreasonable to expect Bielsa to turn water into wine with the same players 4 years in a row. Early impressions of the summer are that mistakes are being learned from and Jesse Marsch will benefit from much better recruitment. I don't think we'll pull up trees like we did in the first year but I certainly don't expect another disaster class like this year. You were right about the home atmosphere btw, I got to 12/19 games at ER this season and it's been absolutely rocking all year 👌
Always love these prediction review videos, fun to see you have a laugh at yourself
Oh no Z... Just got to the bit of the video where you claim Maguire as a worldclass CB.... I don't know how you come back from that shocker
The KV Mechelen shirt is just amazing. Love from Belgium!
The general consensus back in August mirrors quite a lot of these predictions
Everyone had their predictions based primarily on the previous season. And if there's anything to learn about long term premier league is that it basically has a re-roll on how teams perform every six months. Leeds and Forests could fall and Blackburns and Leicesters could rise in the blink of an eye!
Brentford has been one of the best managed clubs in the world for a while, I predicted they'd avoid the drop by 10 points. And as a Southampton supporter, literally everyone predicts us to go down year after year and we never really get that close to the bottom 3. People underestimate Ralph as a coach, even despite our limited finances
I love Hasenhuttl, I think he's a great manager, but I also had you guys to go down this year. Fair play though, there's always next year ;)
I think it's a decent prediction, i mean the manager turmoil this season is crazy, who would have thought Coutinho would end up at Aston Villa, or Conte would manage Spurs. But Liverpool ? Come on dude, you should know the reason they end up 4th last season was because Van Dijk injured, with full force these guys are winners
Liverpool ended up 3rd in 2020-21
We got third with every senior CB injured.
This was hilarious!! I had to pause to laugh at united, and then 5 seconds later I had to pause again at Maguire
I enjoy predictions videos. Think about making predictions for every league from top 5
Can’t wait for next season’s predictions
Honestly, your Smith Rowe take wasn’t that far off. He started off extremely hot but cooled off to the point where he wasn’t selected a lot towards the end of the season. Definitely one for the future but not a world breaker this season so I don’t think you were completely wrong there. Can’t defend your Maggie take though, I agree his confidence is absolutely shot and the pressure from captaining United is too strong for him but he’s just such a bonehead there’s just no defending him anymore tbh
You weren't that far off on Southampton the positions look miles apart but they were only 2 points above Leeds who only stayed up in the last day.
Tbf I really feel like Southampton has just stopped trying after they felt they were safe
@@jorregritter3669 yeah I remember West Brom doing something similar they were 6th with 41 points in early February or something and ended up finishing 15th/16th with less than 50 points. Pretty sure they went down soon after. As Zealand said about Everton those bad runs can escalate into a new season.
@@jorregritter3669 Southampton have done that the last 3 campaigns. 40 points then they're done for the season.
Points wise it was close but Southampton were never in any danger of relegation throughout the season so it was a poor pick
Thanks Zealand for both a great video and stroking my national-pride-bone by wearing a KV Mechelen jersey.
Your predictions were better than a lot of YTers I've seen... apart from Leeds and Norwich. lol.
Rocking our epic away shirt, greetings from the city of Mechelen!
Pavel Kubicek
9 months ago in comments
Regardless of yesterday's result of the match, I am sure that Brentford will hold on and will be at worst 14. That team works great. It has style, atmosphere. Super coach. When they avoid injuries because he doesn't have a very wide team. Better than Watford, Burnley, Brighton, Newcastle, Crystal Palace or Norwich. Trust them
I was also not right with CP and Brighton.... i did not also predict Leeds and Everton bee so bad.
melodic_eZ0
1 minute ago
what?
Great video. Will you ever do a prediction for other leagues?
This is how Reese feels editing every Zealand video
KV MECHELENNNNNNNNNNNNN love to see you in our shirt again haha
A youtuber wearing my clubs shirt, was not expecting that to see today :D
To be fair, a lot of those position predictions are off by like 3/4 points. Being off on a league position based on 1 win is not bad by any stretch.
But aston villa and leeds lol.
They didn’t
Even qualify lmao
Forest are coming for all of em next season.
Need this for all the top 5 leagues
By the way...you have to do this again for next season. I'm going to get mine in early...
1. Man City - Can only see Haaland improving them (if it doesn't mess up Pep's strikerless tactics)
2. Liverpool - Everyone stays fit and a bit of investment up top with Mane & Origi leaving, they will challenge, but Haaland will keep City in front.
3. Chelsea - New owners, apparently are more like Henry at Liverpool and won't spend as freely as Abramovic.
4. Newcastle - These owners however, will spend freely. I can see a bonkers summer, ala City's first big money-spending summer.
5. Spurs - Unlikely Kane is going to go now, he's turning 29 pre-season and nobody is going to pay Levy's valuation of £150mil for an injury prone 29 year old.
6. Arsenal - Arteta is building something, but currently lack the real quality of some other squads in the PL. Young prospects are exciting.
7. West Ham - Moyes is a solid manager, if he stays and they have a bit of investment on a pretty exciting season then they will be around European spots again.
8. Man United - Who knows? Could finish 2nd; equally could be 10th. Truly terrible this season, a lot of dead wood needs to go, it'll be interesting to see what ETH does.
9. Brighton - Potter is always improving, better and more investment in the squad could really see them do something.
10. Leicester - Really underperformed this season, Vardy has had a lot of injuries and they definitely miss him. He'll be drawing his pension soon so they need to invest.
11. Aston Villa - Another unknown entity, Gerrard is definitely doing something. The capture of Coutinho is a coup and if the rumours are to be believed; he's trying to get in Luis Suarez.
12. Crystal Palace - Could easily be higher, Vieira is doing a great job, the only worry is outside of the core they really lack talent. Need to get Eze back fit - he only managed 13 games this season.
13. Wolves - Never know what to expect from Wolves. On paper an excellent side but never make many ripples. Fabio Silva still looks raw, getting him honed in will really improve them.
14. Everton - They will definitely improve but I'm struggling to put them higher...injuries massively hindered them last season though.
15. Brentford - Performed way above everyone's expectations last year. I suspect largely due to Thomas Frank; keep him and they'll be alright again next season.
16. Leeds - Another side that were absolutely beset by injuries. Now murderball has gone hopefully this will improve. Need way more strength in depth. Need to stop getting players sent off.
17. Southampton - Drew way too many games last season, a couple of those into wins and they would have been comfortably mid-table.
18. Fulham - Fulham score, a lot. But my worry is they also lose a lot; 10 games last season, that's a lot for winning the league - the most since Reading 2012. The step up will be too much.
19. Bournemouth - Dom Solanke has been tried in the PL on a few occasions and can never step up... a worrying sign given he was their leading goal scorer last season.
20. Nottingham Forest - Since PL formation those that have been promoted via the playoffs survive 43% of the time. Take that as you wish...I love Forest for the nostalgia though.
Message from arsenal supporter, one shut up, two we might sign Jesus from city, three we need a new right back so yeah so i geuss your correct but i think well get fifth, But really NEWCASTLE, DO YOU BLOODY PLAY FIFA THINKING THEY WILL BEVOCME THE BETS TEAM, WOWW
@@alexdunatov3718 so my opinion isn't valid and I've got to shut up because you don't agree with me? Well done. Everything I said about Arsenal was pretty kind given that they totally blew a nailed on champions League spot. That "might" doth butter no parsnips sunshine.
Stopped giving a fuck when you put Newcastle 4th tbh.
@@ChrisTravelss that's good to know 👍
@@Scottwilson374 it was a joke,, sorry you took it the wrong way. My point is I think arsenal will get fifth again because there’s going to be some challenges especially with man city signing Haaland, but Ive been following arsenal transfer news lately and i think if we sign Gabriel that could take us to top 4. Sorry about the message before
I was at the Emirates for Arsenal-Chelsea early this season. Lukaku was -amazing-, I remember thinking he'd walk on the PL. His first touch was spot on, his movement off the ball was deadly and obviously he was physically dominant, over both White and Gabriel. No idea what happened to him. This lad is definitely PL top material.
He was dominant against Holding and Mari, two back up centre backs that aren't good enough for the PL and were walked over by lesser forwards. Everyone overhyped Lukaku, he was good, but the defending was awful
Tbf on the Brentford one. While they were no where near 20th potential. They did seem to be in the relegation contention until Eriksen sparked new life (heh) in them
My Toffees were so poor this season man 😭😭 but I have faith in Lampard and Thelwell to get us on track to be at least a decent team for the next couple years like maybe Leicester or Wolves
I trust in Lampard and Thelwell but it’s Moshiri and Kenwright that’s the issue. I don’t trust them to keep out of the transfers and sink us further into the mud. Hopefully lessons from the past few years have been learnt after this season however they’re so stubborn i’d be very surprised if they were.
@@ebmedia9163 you’re definitely right and we can really only be optimistic on the situation, I just want to see our squad improve and make smarter financial decisions. Then maybe in the future we can make a push towards Europe or at least consistent top 10 finishes
If you think EPL Predictions are tough! Try the EFL Championship, as it’s infamous on how difficult it is to predict!
The only trail that Zach Steffan blazes is the one from the fridge to the bench.
You didn’t account for second season syndrome for Leeds haha, expect a similar effect on Brentford next season as they try to consolidate their position.
Tons of injuries to key players didnt help Leeds' case either. How many games did they even have their full strength 11 for last season?
Their horrible goal difference is an issue too.
They need a bigger squad
I don't think you've done too badly - as Utd fan, I kinda hoped we'd be more competitive to the point of a title challenge after signing Varane & Sancho...
I also had Brentford to go down as they just screamed 'reach exceeds their grasp' after coming up through the playoffs, having not been in the PL since I can remember etc.
Mind you, I had Leicester to be relegated the year they ended up winning the title so I clearly know nothing.
Nobody saw the Everton tire fire. Not to that extent
Zealand love the mechelen top
Norwich always do well in FM though
Many had Brentford to go straight back down. Maybe I was clouded by my history with them as they were the first team I saw live and have done school projects at Griffin Park, but always said they were better than atleast 4 other teams in the league.
Even now, many aren't giving them their flowers. They got more points than Watford and Norwich combined and could have finished top 10 with a win on the final day.
I think they'll go down next season though :(
@@lukeduale1403 will depend on who they lose and recruit this summer in my opinion, but I'd still say they're currently a better squad than the three promoted sides.
Kinda says it all when you call Uniteds defence one of the best in the world. Made me laugh way to much xD
To be fair it says so much about United that most of us were putting them in contention to rival Liverpool yet they absolutely crumbled. With the squad they had would you argue that they weren't the biggest underachievers of the season?
First person who gets maguire . He carried that defence for so long. Second best interceptions, tackles and clearances. 3 years
Looking at other predictions the Everton prediction is pretty damn good.
17:00 Just let that one sink in for a moment.
How about each season, you try to predict a different league? Start with the top 5, then try out some 'almost there' leagues ^^
Excited to see where you place Forest for next season, please don't be harsh on us :(
Tottenham were tricky to predict. Add Conte since the very beginning and they might have finished third, stick with Nuno and they'd probably have finished in the second half of the table...
You might be correct with southampton 19th next season saying how poor they ended the season
Maguire ?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
Wolves had a weird season, they had one of the worst attacks in the league and only scored more goals than the three relegated teams. However, their defense was very solid, and specifically Jose Sa in goal was the best keeper in the league in terms of goals prevented (9.2 prevented over the season), which meant they conceded fewer goals than Arsenal, Man United, West Ham, or Leceister above them in the table.
Basically they had a relegation attack, but a Europa League level defense because they had the best shot-stopping keeper in the league. Don't think your statement that they could finish below 13th sounds that crazy in that context. Had Sa not had such a good season they would have been lower mid table or possibly even in the relegation battle.
In your defense on Wolves, they had TERRIBLE xG numbers and Jose Sa spent an entire year standing on his head.
I may have mocked your Watford prediction on the original video after we beat Aston Villa. Oops. We were SO bad, possibly our worst Prem campaign ever (yes, even worse than the Boothroyd one).
I can't even remember what Ashley Fletcher looks like, are you sure that's him in the video?
Honestly don't think your Spurs prediction was as bad as you say, would have been impossible to predict their Conte hiring and turnaround. They weren't on course for CL before that.
Never doubt the bees🔥
This is very easy to say after the season has finished but how anyone predicted Norwich to finish anywhere outside the bottom 3 baffles me.
"Worst premier league predictions"
Something Sky should name the pre-season talk with Gary Neville.
we missed you yesterday ❤
Tbf Man utd did finish 2nd and Liverpool did finish 4nd the previous season, Chelsea where champions League winners and did buy Lukaku who had just had a phenomenal season, I don't think your predictions were that unjustified, hindsight is a skill we humans will never master, but that's a good thing, makes life more unpredictable and that's half the fun
On Man United...you were kinda right about Pogba and no one could have guessed what would happen with Be A Good Person. If those two aren't clowns, how different is United's season?
"Sean Dyke" 🤣🤣🤣
As a norwich fan... that hurt
at 15:29 I saw Liverpool in 4th, with united ahead and I was just disappointed, so disappointed
What was FM's opinion on the matter?
My beloved Boro got a mention = :)
It was to remind of our failure of a final day = :(
At least you didn't think Everton would finish near Europe or in Europe like most
Us Everton fans didn't think Europe was even a possibility. Most of us had us tipped for an average 12th place finish. Even we didn't anticipate the absolute collapse lol
I too thought Norwich would stay up and Brentford would finish bottom. Though I thought Southampton would have a good season- guess we were both wrong.
In the football community you give yourself a point for each position out a team was. (lower score the better)
Meaning you got 68 Points. not a great score. below 60 is considered decent. Show your score next year
(for context)
Pieface = 44
Stateman Dave = 44
Miniminter = 46
Thogdad = 48
FNG = 54
Rabona TV = 56
Spencer FC = 58
Danny Aarons = 60
StuntPegg = 60
Thogden = 60
ME = 64
Vizeh = 64
Maowell = 64
James Alcott = 68
Sharky = 68
Ben Foster = 69
MattHDgamer = 70
Irish Guy = 70
Adam Mckola = 88
Tbf who would’ve thought Brentford would sign Eriksen, and he’d go on a tear
Did I miss something? Why does he have a KV Mechelen shirt? xd
Watford will be back up! We'll get relegated the season after and by that point have at least 3 managers, but we'll still do it 😂
The Southampton shout will come true this year
How do you own a KV Mechelen shirt?
i wish you were right about leicester!
16:30 He probably thinks that Fred is world class as well
How can i send u a save to save ?
Think Chelsea played very well to start; the Chilwell and James injuries kind of derailed the whole season
That Maguire confidence...
Sure, you were off on Brentford, but that was really exacerbated by Christian Eriksen coming in for the second half of the season. They were somewhat better than you thought before that, but after that they really took off. It was hard to see coming.
Spot on. The lad had a heart attack only a couple of months before this was filmed, and but for his arrival, there was a genuine chance of Brentford going down.
I'm a boro fan and I've taken this personally
united being a dumpster fire wasn't entertaining for me zealand :(
"Maguire is a world class centre back."
stopped slandering boro. ashley fletcher was released from boro not poached anyways so he was poor, but we’ve won a domestic trophy and made a european final in the 21st century - this is as a small town in the north east of england.
You should have rated the manages
Next video to this your prediction for next season once the fixture list for the new season is released now with new owners are in a Chelsea