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Is the world ready to admit the Premier League might be the best in the world, but it’s facing something of a crisis? The biggest problem I, and many other soccer fans, have with Germany’s Bundesliga is that, while there are plenty of exciting teams and players in the league, Bayern Munich win it every year. While Bayern are tied for first entering the weekend, they have outscored opponents 16-2 through four matches.
Manchester City have won the Premier League in four of the last five seasons, and even though Liverpool won the league by 18 points in 2019-20, City finished with a higher xG (expected goals) and a lower xG allowed. In other words, advanced metrics suggest Liverpool might have been the beneficiary of some luck that year, and it looks like Liverpool — and everybody else — will need a lot more of it to overcome City this season.
Even with City currently in second place, they have outscored opponents 19-5 through five matches. Erling Haaland has already scored nine goals. Liverpool, the team seen as City’s primary challenger, are already five points behind in the table. Chelsea are six back. Arsenal are the only Premier League team with a perfect record, but their “best” win came against eighth-place Fulham, who were just promoted from the Championship this season. Until Arsenal face the big clubs, it’s hard to know how good they truly are.
And even if they’re better, can we expect an Arsenal team that improved by adding players who couldn’t get regular minutes at City (Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko) to be better than City over 38 matches?
It’s the first weekend of September, and it already seems City will run away with the league and win their third straight Premier League title and fifth in six seasons. There’s no scenario in which one team being that dominant is good for a league.
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