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A SUPERCOMPUTER has predicted the final Premier League table – and it’s great news for Arsenal fans.The Gunners cruised to a 4-1 win over Newcastle on Saturday to pile the pressure on title rivals Manchester City and Liverpool.
Arsenal earned a convincing 4-1 win over Newcastle at the weekendCredit: Getty
The supercomputer predicts Mikel Arteta’s side will win the Premier LeagueCredit: EPA
Man City are predicted to drop down to thirdCredit: Getty
They have now scored 25 league goals and conceded just three since the start of the year.
And Bettingexpert’s supercomputer BETSiE has predicted Arsenal will continue their impressive run of form.
According to BETSiE, Mikel Arteta’s side will WIN the Premier League this season.
Liverpool are predicted to finish second, with Man City dropping down to third.
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Two points currently separate the top three teams, with Liverpool leading the title charge.
The Reds took a break from Prem action on Sunday to face Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final.
Jurgen Klopp’s side won 1-0 following a dramatic late Virgil van Dijk winner in extra time.
However, Liverpool’s current injury crisis – which worsened when Ryan Gravenberch was stretchered off during the final – could have an impact on their league form.
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Arsenal are predicted to win the Premier League
Aston Villa are expected to complete the top four, with Tottenham just missing out.
BETSiE predicts Manchester United will finish down in sixth following Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Fulham.
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The Red Devils are expected to end the campaign 17 points worse off than last season.
Meanwhile, Chelsea are set to climb the table – but only up to seventh.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side currently sit 11th with 35 points from 25 games, but the supercomputer has tipped them to end the campaign with 56.
That would be an improvement on last season when the Blues finished 12th with a total of 44 points.
At the bottom of the table, the three promoted teams are forecast to return to the Championship.
Nottingham Forest are expected to avoid the drop, with Luton 18th, Burnley 19th and Sheffield United 20th.
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Everton are expected to stay clear of the drop zone after having their points deduction reduced from 10 points to six.
The Toffees were teetering on the brink of the relegation zone before having four points returned, but they have now moved five points clear and up to 15th.
Man Utd are expected to finish sixthCredit: Getty More

ERIK TEN HAG may win the title as the most ruthless manager in the Premier League according to ex-Ajax star Noa Lang.The winger was given a rocklicking by Ten Hag when he played under the Red Devils manager at Ajax – the boss never text back Lang which led to stars exit from the Allianz Arena.
Noa Lang grabbed his bag and walked out of Ajax after a brutal text to Erik ten HagCredit: Getty
Lang, 24, has reflected on his time at Ajax when playing under Ten Hag.
And according to the winger the pair did not see eye to eye with eachother which forced Lang’s departure form the club in 2021 after Ten Hag did not respond to his message.
Lang said in a doctumentry about his life: “I can show you the text messages.
“I still have them here. I sent Ten Hag text from the bible and said ‘you should just let me go, just stop demoting me.’
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“He Ten Hag also never wished me luck or anything after that. Not even a text message, nothing at all.
“I thought, ‘okay, not even good luck, to your own player.’
“I then just grabbed a bag at Ajax, put all my boots in it and said I’m not coming here anymore, man.’
“In my heart I wanted to stay at Ajax, but my mind told me to leave.”
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The fued began with the pair after Lang had a spat with former Southampton winger Dusan Tadic back in 2019 in a Dutch Cup game was picked up by TV cameras.
And this ended up with Ten Hag branding the star as a troublemaker which led to him letting the winger’s transfer to Club Brugge in 2020.
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Lang continued: “I know I am a type that can get the blood under your nails, because I say what I think.‌
“That can’t always be easy for a coach but I am just a winner. That is where my bad reputation started.
“I was the one who got the rollicking – and right in front of a TV camera and microphones.
“But I don’t care who you are, even though I was nineteen at the time. If I am wronged, I just say so.”
A similar outburst from the Ductchman who now plays for PSV Eindhoven was seen again by fans after his former side Brugge drew 2-2 against Cercle Brugge in February 2023.
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A HALF-NAKED Newcastle fan performed a lewd act with an Arsenal scarf at the end of their match on Saturday.The travelling Magpies did not have much to cheer as their side were thrashed 4-1 at The Emirates.
A Newcastle fan performed a leud act with an Arsenal scarf
But one fan brightened up the mood in the away end after an Arsenal scarf dropped from the upper tier.
The Newcastle supporter picked up the scarf and dropped his trousers before performing a lewd act involving his bare bottom.
His fellow Mags loved the performance and cheered him on with enthusiasm, but some fans on social media were not impressed.
One reacted saying: “Genuinely this is so strange.”
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Another added: “Very weird behaviour to say the least.”
A third wrote: “A grown man by the way that’s just embarrassing.”
And another commented: “Keep it classy lads.”
The Newcastle fan was not the only Toon man subject to criticism as Alan Shearer tore into centre-back Sven Botman.
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The pundit said of the Dutchman’s performance: “If you look, you have three or four players of Newcastle standing and watching in passive [for Arsenal’s second goal].
“You have got to get up. You have to put pressure on the ball, otherwise, with the players Arsenal have, really, really good players, talented players, they are going to hurt you.
“Trippier is all over the place at the back. Botman’s all over the place at the back and they end up getting a tap-in.
“Really good from Arsenal, but terrible from Newcastle. Where is the pressure? Where is the desire to go and close someone down?
“You are being battered by a very good team, so you have to roll your sleeves up and you have to put up a bit of a fight. None of that from Newcastle.
“Botman had his worst game in a Newcastle shirt, he gave the ball away and they couldn’t recover.”
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THERE is increasing desperation in Erik ten Hag’s words.He tries to convince us of certain things when the evidence in front of our own eyes suggests otherwise.
Erik ten Hag is under pressure with Manchester United’s top four chances not looking goodCredit: AP
Ten Hag has set unwanted records this campaign
For example how his team showed “great character” in Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat by Fulham.
That was the last thing this observer could identify as the recent corner they had turned reverted back to square one.
Yes, they were missing their in-form striker Rasmus Hojlund.
But that was no excuse for United’s disjointed ramshackle display from which only ­Alejandro Garnacho emerged with any credit.
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At the final whistle, 19-year-old Garnacho whacked the ball into the advertising hoardings and stormed off straight down the tunnel.
That was more passion than the rest of his United team-mates had shown all game.
And it raised plenty more questions — or worryingly for Ten Hag maybe provided more answers — for new part-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
He was not at Old Trafford but his stony-faced right-hand man Sir Dave Brailsford witnessed it all.
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United’s new governors can forget about getting into the top four. Absolutely no chance.
They are eight points behind Aston Villa now with 12 games to go — having lost their TENTH game of 26 this season.
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Everton have lost only one more!
Only twice in the Premier League have United lost more games — 12 in both 2013-14 and 2021-22 — so expect that record to tumble.
They have got the derby with Manchester City to play at the Etihad — after the midweek FA Cup trip to Nottingham Forest — so you might as well make that 11 losses now.
Fulham had won only once on their travels in the Premier League this season but were easily the better team at Old Trafford where they hammered in 17 shots.
United have now conceded 417 shots in the Premier League this term — only three clubs in the Prem can vouch for more.
And 100 of those shots have come in the last five games, four of which Ten Hag uses to claim how far his team have come. They had been on a decent little run, but the wins at Aston Villa, Luton and Wolves had more than a bit of fortune about them.
Ten Hag had spent part of his pre-match press conference defending the £85million spent on Antony, claiming he would come good.
Well he was given a minute of injury-time to prove it on Saturday.
The attempt to blood 19-year-old winger Omari Forson into the Premier League with his first start backfired.
He will be good, but he is clearly not ready yet.
Not that he was helped by those around him.
Ten Hag tried to cling to the fact that his team did not give in after Calvin Bassey’s 65th-minute strike gave Fulham the lead.
It took until the 89th for United to draw level through Harry Maguire and then they poured forward believing they would get the winner in the nine minutes of injury time.
A big mistake.
Maguire said: “In hindsight now we can say we should have been more cautious, we were far too naive.
“In the end, we’ve probably just thrown too many bodies forward, left the middle of the pitch open, and they have punished us with a clinical counter-attack.”
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United and Maguire were caught on the break one last time and it proved decisive.
The centre-back wonders whether he should have stopped it in its tracks by taking one for the team as Adama Traore roared past him before Alex Iwobi ultimately found the net.
But Maguire was already on a yellow card.
He said: “In hindsight, maybe I should have just brought him down but then you miss next week. It is easy to say now.
“We can look back and assess it in terms of areas we can improve on but ultimately over the 90 minutes we didn’t do enough to win the game.”
Marcus Rashford ambled through the game as the No 9 in Hojlund’s absence.
Bruno Fernandes disappeared.
The moment he went down screaming and holding his ankle after a shot, before jumping back up when nobody took any notice, is embarrassing and doing the rounds on social media.
Victor Lindelof proved he is no left-back in the absence of Luke Shaw.
Casemiro failed to impose himself on the midfield before a clash of heads saw him withdrawn early in the second half.
Ten Hag will continue to lean on last season and the run they had before this setback as proof the trajectory is good.
To think this time last year he was lifting silverware in the form of the Carabao Cup at Wembley and all seemed well with the world.
A look at the league table now suggests otherwise.
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Still, Ten Hag claims: “The bigger picture looks very good.”
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