Ten matchweeks into the Premier League season, we can now tell who's actually good and who's not, so let's revisit our rankings of all 20 teams and rank them all again.
It's been a rocky season for Manchester United -- and a closer look suggests they've actually been overperforming based on some performance metrics, which means it could get even worse for them. Who are we kidding? That hasn't stopped you -- and it hasn't stopped us. However, the 10-game mark is right around here, and it's traditionally when teams start to look like we might expect them to look for the rest of the season.
Here's the Premier League, sorted across two metrics: non-penalty expected-goal differential and strength of schedule: I said it at the time, but the fact that Postecoglou had to work his way up the ladder -- proving himself through success in Australia, Japan and Scotland -- meant that he was more likely to be a successful coach at a big club than some big-name player with no experience or a guy with just one or two jobs coaching teams with much more talent than their competitors.good. No other team in the Premier League is beating Tottenham's xG totals by even two full goals on both ends of the field.
Villa averaged 1.96 points per game after hiring Unai Emery as manager on Nov. 1 last season, and it was enough to sneak them past Spurs and into seventh place. It earned them a spot in the Conference League, where they started with a dud but have since won two in a row.
Man United are the Everton of the super-clubs, then. The Deloitte Money League rankings, which purport to calculate the revenues of the 30 richest clubs in the world each season, have never put United below fifth since they were first published in 1997. Only have a higher average rank than United's . Despite that, United haven't won the Premier League in any of the previous 10 full seasons, and they never even genuinely challenged for the title in any of them either.
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