2022–23 English Premier League Favourites
The 2022–23 English Premier League is home to some of the biggest football clubs in the world. The current season will start on 5th August and will be the 31st season of the English Premier League. This year the league will clash with the World Cup, so there will also be a mid-season break for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, with the last match on the weekend of 12–13 November 2022, and the first match after the World Cup on 26 December 2022, following the World Cup final on 18 December 2022.
Manchester City will be two-time defending champions, having won both the 2020–21 season and the previous season.
Teams
Twenty teams will compete in the 2022/23 Premier League – the top seventeen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the EFL Championship Or Sky Bet Championship.
The newly promoted teams are Fulham, Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest who haven’t been in top tier English football in 23 years, making it the longest absence in the Premier League era to date.
The three teams relegated from the League are Burnley, Watford and Norwich City. These three teams will drop back into the EFL.
The 20 competing teams are:
- Arsenal
- Aston Villa
- Bournemouth
- Brentford
- Brighton & Hove Albion
- Chelsea
- Crystal Palace
- Everton
- Fulham
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Liverpool
- Manchester City
- Manchester United
- Newcastle United
- Nottingham Forest
- Southhampton
- Tottenham Hotspurs
- West Ham
- Wolverhampton Wanderers
Rule Changes
As of the 2022–23 season, clubs in all major European Leagues – Bundesliga, Ligue 1, the Primeira Liga, La Liga and Serie A, will be able to make five rather than three substitutions. These substitutions can be made in three stoppages during game time, and additionally at half time.
The favourites
Manchester City
Man City and Liverpool were nearly 20 points ahead of the next best – Chelsea last season. Their performance puts them in pole position this season and it’s impossible to call between the two, who finished the season separated by one point.
Sportsbooks have Manchester City as Premier League favourites but only very marginally.
Liverpool
Liverpool lost the league by one point this year and are our choice for the 2023 title. Jorgen Klopps team will be hoping that the signing of Darwin Nunez will equalize the loss of winger Sadio Mane.
Tottenham
The north London team are 3rd favourite to win this season, a few big new signings have given bookies a lot of confidence in Tottenham. Antonio Conte’s side have signed some pretty big names to join the rest of the star power. Richarlison, Yves Bissouma, Ivan Perisic and Fraser Forster will arrive to join Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski, who arrived in January.
Chelsea
Even though Man City won last year, Chelsea made much more headlines! Russian ownership and sanctions meant the club was sold, while all this created a lot of turmoil at Chelsea, they still came 3rd in the Premier League. Which puts them in a very strong position for this season, however the loss of Romelu Lukaku, Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen could have a big impact.
The bookies have Chelsea priced in a distant 4rd.
Manchester United
Man U have not performed of late and the out of form team are priced out at 5th favourites on @25/1. If you don’t fancy these odds, try spielautomaten kostenlos spielen ohne anmeldung merkur.
Arsenal
The gunner s are not expected to end their dry run and are priced out at 40/1.
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