Poundland Haaland above Genuine Haaland, that’s shocking.

players’ stat plots - https://i.ibb.co/fX3MGzj/image.png

tbh Haaland is well clear of the rest, a pure striker.

Rice is more safe passer than Partey and Xhaka (last season’s CMs), it gives higher control, at cost of some creativity. I enjoy control, so I like this change from last season.

Sancho will like this, and sleep like a baby today with a smile on his face.

That’s a scary line-up from Man Utd; if Pep doesn’t win comfortably vs this, he should resign after the game.

Easily. Kane was also the best last season, but too much emphasis of Messi’s world cup & Haaland’s Treble/golden boot. In terms of ability alone, Kane was ahead of them both, only ignored because he was at Spurs, who didn’t win a trophy.

Despite so many injuries, and key players resting, Arsenal’s looks formidable. This season, Arsenal have the depth to go all the way through.

Cole Palmer, with near zero PL experience prior to this season, is Chelsea’s best player.

Alvarez, Haaland, Doku, Foden, Lewis, Gvardiol - they look like will shape City for years to come, ridiculous young talent.

They have faith in their army of Harvard lawyers.

Look at defense ie chances conceded, bud; best after City, level with Newcastle. Defense is the key to success, Liverpool, Spurs will suddenly fall behind ~10 points when he encounter a dry spell, due to their flimsy defense.

Willian vision is quite good, he is creating chances for fun, only to end in a lame finishing job.

Guardiola, Xavi & Arteta are going to dominate football this decade; incredible managers.

Interestingly xG-performance-wise, Emery’s 1st season ie 18/19 is comparable to Ten Hag’s current season.

https://i.ibb.co/f2b7KNM/image.png

Goals & xG plots of PL teams since 17/18 - https://i.ibb.co/f2b7KNM/image.png

What a win! Ten Hag is going to destroy Guardiola next week.

if that’s a yellow, every small foul is a yellow.

If Utd loses more games, it’s Ten Hag who’ll face exit; then Sancho can apologise to him.

Best squad + best league manager. City’s PL points avg. for last 6 seasons is 91.2 points; it’s hard to beat such consistency.