Premier League season kicks off with Liverpool vs. Bournemouth in what figures to be a three-team race

The Premier League returns with a healthy number of new faces in new places, largely because the Elites of England spent their summer with the renewal of their squadrons with De Hoop to win the title. Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal were among the most aggressive teams in the transfer window and the three teams that would most likely compete for the first place as the only three teams with a double digit opportunity to achieve the performance, By the supercomputer of the OPTA.

There is of course the small issue of which one of these three will actually cross the line. There is a mandatory argument for each of those three, as well as a reasonable case to make why each of them fails. At this stage, Opta is in favor of Liverpool – the ruling champions have a chance of 28.5% to repeat, although Arsenal is at 24.3% and the city is 18.8%. James Wenge tends to agree and writes that the Reds have just enough to surpass the others in his prediction of the Premier League rankings.

• Curvature: “Much will depend on whether the shape of their two large veterans holds. If Liverpool leaves two defenders, but one of them is a Virgil van Dijk, something like his prime, their defense will be good enough. In the meantime, if Mohamed Salah is even 95% of the player, Liverpool is the best attack in the sport.”

In the meantime, Arsenal hopes that they have finally put together all the pieces they need to climb from second place after three seasons of finish second. Martin Zubimendi will be counted to anchor midfield, but after they have become one of the best defensive teams in Europe, all eyes will be on the attack of the Gunners. Noni Madueke and Viktor Gyokeres have been recruited to make up for their desperate need for a real goal scorer Last campaign, with Gyokees perhaps a make-or-break player in their title heap. He returns to England after a failed enchantment with Brighton and Hove Albion, but made a productive pit stop in the championship with Coventry City for his buzzworthy Stint with Sporting Lisbon. The seconds are impressive, but the jury is still out how well Gyokees actually goes to the Premier League, or at least how fast he will.

As far as Manchester City is concerned, Pep Guardiola tries to map a salvation arch in nine years after the team’s first trophy season, but there is uncertainty about what their ceiling is. Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders will be useful new additions and the return from Rodri to Fitness is a big plus, but there is a novelty in this version of the city, and that is without considering the reports that connect them with movements for Paris Saint-Gianluigi Donnarumma and Real. They can cook something special in Manchester, but whether or not it comes together immediately is a different question.

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