Why this Premier League season will be the goat: epic title race, guaranteed goals, promoted teams to the scrap

The Premier League is back and has all the ingredients in the mixture for this season to have a serious goat potential.

For most of us, the Premier League runs through our veins. Enter it, a small part of us have been missing for the past few months. It is part of the substance of society in this country – of why we all love this game.

Stadiums are packed when the world looks at. There is a reason for.

Epic rivals. Stories of heroes and villains. World -class talent. The best of the best competing about high efforts. And what it is equivalent to is that this league can produce moments like no other.

Wayne Rooney’s first Everton goal that meant his world would never be the same again. Thierry Henry turns it on against Liverpool and confused our very own Jamie Carragher along the way to keep Arsenal on track in the title race.

David Beckham from halfway. Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira. Colymore shuts in.

Aguerooooo.

Kevin Keegan loves it.

Andrea Bocelli, Claudio Ranieri and Leicester City.

It’s time to create new moments stamped in our memory banks as 2025/26 Premier League rolls into the city. And all the ingredients are added to the pot to make this season one of the stores.

Maybe the biggest one.

A four-way title scrap on the cards

Let’s not sugar coat what Arne Slot’s influence on Liverpool made last season’s title race for a non-event.

The title was all wrapped in February when Liverpool clearly roared in what was a one-horse’s race after beating Manchester City 2-0.

Not this season.

A more intense title match will be on the cards.

A look at the bet gives such evidence. Rarely do you see a larger league with four teams priced in single figures with Liverpool (13/8), Arsenal (2/1), Manchester City (3/1) and Chelsea (8/1), all of whom take up a huge percentage of the market.

Liverpool has gone back from a position of strength that has potentially signed the most exciting creative talent on the planet in Florian Wirtz, one City has rolled the dice on the market to try to start their new heritage, Arsenal has brought out their center and Chelsea, 20/1 shots before the club World Cup, has shown in the summer against Paris Saint-Gumain that they have talented and met with the best.

You can be sure that the 12 inventory involving both of these teams will be the ones to enjoy and already appear to have six-pointer vibes about them. Box-Office things.

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Center-Forward is back in fashion. And the best in the world stretch their stuff down the Premier League -catwalk.

This should have a positive impact on the league’s target output.

Chances were created last season but not taken. The 2024/25 season experienced more “great chances” that had missed than any other Premier League season. This figure was a total of 1201, as the average targets per Games fell from 3.28 in the 2023/24 campaign to 2.93 last season.

Expenses for new players of the Premier League clubs are approaching £ 2 billion. With still a few weeks left on what has been a meaty summer transfer window.

Manchester United secured their husband to lead Ruben Amorim’s system by spraying the cash to lure striker Benjamin Sesko. He is full of power, can receive and hold the ball up to an elite level, love a shot and is a nuisance for defense with constant races behind. Viktor Gyokeres did all these things and more on Sporting under Amorim, and he now has the urgent task of being the missing piece of the puzzle for Mikel Arteta in Arsenal.

There is also the excitement of Hugo Ekitike in Liverpool, which undoubtedly has the ceiling to go to another level in the Premier League. Already fast and skilled, he showed in Community Shield that his finishing and all-round games have already been developed. Throw Alexander Isak, Matheus Cunha, Erling Haaland, Omar Marmoush, Cole Palmer and Mohamed Salah into the mixture and you have yourself a league that guarantees target.

The rapid increase in fast break football – can PEP adapt?

Blink and you will miss it. Taking your eyes from a Premier League game at any time is not recommended as this league is now the place to look intense, counter-attack stactics. Teams are happy without the ball and jumps into devastating transitions.

This style of style has been a trend that takes over the Premier League in recent seasons. In the 2018/19 season, there were 389 quick breaks (OPTA expressions for counter-attack) registered. This figure rose to 775 last season. It’s almost doubled.

Of these 775 quick breaks, 112 of them ended with a goal scored – that’s 31 more than was scored in the 2023/24 season.

The best team on it? Champions Liverpool, who with Salah in the foreground recorded 52 shots and 14 goals scored from quick breaks. The best tracks from a team in any Premier League season in the last seven years.

Pep Guardiola has seen close to how his Manchester City team has fallen afterwards in this stylistic change. His possession -based games that are centered around control and lure the opposition to make rashes Pressing decisions has become easier for teams to crack the code.

Chaos is now embraced.

The increase of fast and powerful wingers along with intense midfield games has played a huge role in City’s recruitment. They are heading down this avenue with Jeremy Doku and Rayan Cherki.

Seeing if Guardiola can completely redirect this Manchester City team and embrace such chaotic football is one of the most exciting threads for this season, where the counter-attack will certainly be king again.

Newly promoted teams can black worries trend

The last two Premier League seasons have revealed a worrying theme for the three promoted clubs that are relieved right back to the championship.

So it’s not surprising to see Burnley, Sunderland and Leeds leader relegation markets, but things could just be different this year, and in any case, a sample size of two seasons is really enough to make such a sweeping statement that the gap between the championship and Premier League is impossible to bridge?

You only have to go back three years to show that Brentford, Bournemouth, Nottingham Forest and Fulham have recently shown that it can be done.

And all these three teams that come up have something in common: they can build their home ground to be a fortress, something Southampton, Ipswich and Leicester couldn’t do, and won only six matches between them.

Turf Moor, Elland Road and Stadium of Light are violent places for wake up when they swing. It could just be the difference this year and lead to a much more competitive relegation scrap, as teams that feel safe in the middle of the table could be pulled into a serious scrap.

Damage problems won’t be such a big factor

The lack of Liverpool’s closest title -bounders to keep key members in their team last season played a role in Arne Slots team that ran away with the Premier League.

Tottenham, Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal all ranked in the top five when it came to the value of players missing minutes due to injuries last season. Liverpool will be unlikely to have such a benefit this season despite the fact that the slot is a master of rotating his team and keeping his players relatively harmless.

An absence of a larger tournament last summer should bode well for players who are fresher and more robust in avoiding injuries. Just look at shape and injury record for Declan Rice, Phil Foot, Ollie Watkins, Cole Palmer and Bukayo Saka at various phases last season. Everyone went through different degrees of form wing after their long -lasting summer, which helped guide England to European championships.

The elite clubs should be able to get their big guns out in the field this season, which should mean Liverpool’s benefit form last season in that regard is reduced.

Carragher said, “Premier League is at a completely different level than anything else in the world’s football.”

And that is why an epic title match is waiting.

See you all on Friday.

Hear the new Sky Sports Premier League sound track by Kasabian FT. Cristale: ‘GED’ Friday night football. The song itself plays first at. 6.30pm Friday night, when the new title sequence in the Sky Sports Premier League plays for the first time.