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The Premier League is underway but for the time being its table does not exactly paint an accurate picture of the English footballing hierarchy… though if it does we are very much here for Bournemouth’s bid to be 2023 champions. So, while the top flight itself takes shape, here’s our assessment of the leading contenders to win the title, those clubs who’ll be battling against relegation and everyone in between.
The top tier
The teams that are in the race to win the Premier League this season.
1. Manchester City
Early doubts over Erling Haaland look like they are on course to be swiftly dispelled with the summer signing netting twice in the sort of clash against West Ham that might have been altogether more challenging without a magnetic presence up front. In so many ways he seems to offer something new to Pep Guardiola’s plans, most notably on Sunday, a direct thrust that makes for an intriguing counterbalance to the death by a thousand cuts of City’s passing interplay. It would appear that the champions have yet another way to beat the rest.
2. Liverpool
A point away to Fulham was all Jurgen Klopp felt like he deserved after a “performance [that] felt like a defeat,” certainly it was one where the positive that was an impressive cameo off the bench by Darwin Nunez was put into the shade by another injury in the midfield engine room. There is a long, long, long way to go before anyone at Anfield needs to feel panicked about Liverpool’s prospects of competing with City but somewhere in the region of a month without Thiago is cause for concern when injuries were already mounting in that position. When the standards are as high as those set by the Premier League’s top two, points lost in the early weeks of the season may yet loom large in the spring.
Champions League contenders
These are the clubs most likely to be vying for a top four finish.
3. Tottenham
It was only a Southampton side who look…
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