Among soccer nerds, it’s generally accepted that we can start making confident statements about team performance once we hit the 10-game mark of the Premier League season.
It’s a random, low-scoring sport where conversion rates fluctuate massively from game to game, and the same is true for individual and team-level performances. Throw in unbalanced, lopsided schedules from team to team that don’t even out until we get to the end of the season, and there are so many ways you can get out over your skis by drawing too many conclusions before we get to Halloween.
But we’re only a couple of weeks away from putting our costumes on, so we’ve definitely learned some new things about the Premier League already. The question is: How do we figure out what’s real and what’s not?
To try to sift through the noise, Bill Connelly and Ryan O’Hanlon are back with the first edition of their Premier League power rankings since the season began. As always, they’ve each ranked the entire league from 1 to 20, combined their rankings, averaged them together, and come up with the final list.
How much have things changed over the first two months? Read on to find out
The updated Premier League team rankings
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Arsenal have easily been the best team through the first seven matches, and unless you think that all of Arsenal’s best players aren’t actually that good, and that Gyökeres is going to start scoring less often than he currently is, then Mikel Arteta’s team should get even better.
They’re not certainties to win the Premier League — there’s a long way to go — but we’re getting close to the point where the Gunners deserve to have greater title odds than the rest of the league put together. — O’Hanlon
