cwick (Chadwick Matlin, deputy editor): Hello, and welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s soccer chats! They’re like our football chats, but about the other football, the better football. Every other week or so we’ll be discussing what’s happening in the English Premier League and Champions League. And who is that we? Three Liverpool fans and a Gunner. My […]
Everton looks like a drastically different team than it did two months ago, which is to say that Everton looks exactly as it has for much of its time in the Premier League — aspirational, but hardly among the league’s elite. Since legendary Italian manager Carlo Ancelotti took the reins after Christmas, the Toffees have […]
Through its first 22 games back in the Premier League, Sheffield United has amassed 32 points and sits in sixth place, ahead of both Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur. It’s the best 22-game start to a Premier League season for a newly promoted team since Birmingham City picked up 33 points in as many games in […]
The Chelsea Football Club played extremely well for the first 12 matchweeks of the 2019-20 Premier League season. After matchweek 12, Chelsea trailed league leaders Liverpool by just 8 points and had accumulated more points than defending champions Manchester City. Though the club looked to be in turmoil before the season began, Chelsea had somehow […]
If Liverpool wins its game against Crystal Palace at London’s Selhurst Park on Saturday, it will remain at least 8 points clear of its nearest title challenger at the top of the Premier League table. Only three teams in league history have built equal or larger gaps at the top of the table through match […]