“You only secure your Premier League standings at the end of the day,” is advice that you may not realize is important unless you look at the current standings of the competition.
Liverpool occupies the lead in the English Premier League standings with 31 points, followed by Manchester City with 23 points, and everything that is behind Manchester City aspires to be among the first 4 clubs in the standings, especially to ensure participation in the European championships in the new season, which is also not guaranteed unless… At the end of the competition.
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Musical chairs confuse the English Premier League
In the following lines, we highlight the degree of closeness between the clubs in the ranking table, as Manchester City is now closer to West Ham than Liverpool, which is in first place.
With the end of Newcastle’s match with West Ham, which was held yesterday evening, Monday, this was the 13th time in the month of November alone that a team lower in the standings defeated a team higher than it in the English Premier League.
Surprisingly, nearly half of this month’s 30 matches ended with the lowest-placed club winning all three points, and if you ignore the results of leaders Liverpool, the statistics support the teams lower in the standings.
The gap between second and fifth place, currently occupied by Manchester City and Brighton respectively, is the smallest ever after 12 rounds of matches, and there is only one point between the two teams.
If we look down the table, we can see that Manchester City are now closer to West Ham than they are behind Liverpool, if we include goal difference plus the eight points difference in both directions.
Three clubs are grouped directly below Manchester City with 22 points, with a very small goal difference that keeps Chelsea in third place, above Arsenal and then Brighton.
A fierce race to Europe
The bad news for those 3 teams competing for a Champions League spot is that they have very little breathing room during the current period.
The gap between second and tenth place is the lowest ever at this stage of the season, and only five points separate Manchester City from Newcastle, who would have been closer to Pep Guardiola’s team had they managed to win for the third time in a row on Monday evening.
The volatile nature of the 2024/25 season also means clubs could go from a dangerous situation to an apparently calm one with just one result.
After just one round, West Ham are still in 14th place, but their six-point gap to the relegation zone is smaller than their four-point gap to sixth, thanks to their impressive win on Tyneside.
Surprise among the top four
There are other factors that give hope to another team in reaching the top four this season, as 6 of the clubs that have appeared in the Champions League in recent years (Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Newcastle and Manchester United) have collected fewer points in this stage. Compared to last season, continuity is therefore key, but we have not seen many clubs back down from this approach.
Only Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, Villa and Nottingham have managed to win three games in a row.
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