Preseason English Premier League Outright Odds Analysis

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00:00 Okay, now Kyle, let's move over to the EPL, the English Premier League, where it has been

00:07 Manchester City's to lose pretty much for a long time.

00:10 As we take a look at the odds to win this thing, Arsenal is five to one, Liverpool plus

00:15 850, Manchester United, who we're going to talk about here, they're 13 to one, Chelsea

00:19 14 to one, Newcastle 16 to one.

00:22 But I know the focus here is a little bit of Manchester United not playing their best

00:28 right now as it stands.

00:29 So what's going on here?

00:31 Yeah, they've lost three straight preseason friendlies to Wrexham, which is a silly and

00:38 weird result because they played a lot of kids mostly in that game.

00:42 Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund.

00:45 Preseason friendlies, the results really don't matter.

00:48 Guys are at weird stages and different stages of their fitness, you know, ramping up to

00:55 the season, just like a pitcher would in spring training for baseball.

01:00 There's just a lot more than the result that is important for these preseason fixtures.

01:06 But when you lose three in a row, then there are questions about what's to come.

01:12 There's not alarm bells going off, but it is a little worrying.

01:17 This is a team that is supposed to be on the up.

01:21 Eric ten hog is very well liked as manager there.

01:24 He impressed in his first season with the club.

01:29 They've made a couple of big money moves in the offseason.

01:33 You've got Mason Mount.

01:34 You've got Andre O'Nana in goal, so they've replaced David de Gea and now they just got

01:39 Rasmus Huljand, who's a Danish striker, highly rated young number nine.

01:46 So they've got high expectations at Manchester United and these slips are worrying.

01:54 Defensively, they've been a mess.

01:56 The starters, the backups, whoever it's been not ideal defensively.

02:02 It takes a little longer to get things going in preseason than offensively.

02:07 So it again, alarm bells not going off, but if they really want to challenge Manchester

02:12 City and Arsenal and Liverpool at the top of the league, they've got to sort things

02:17 out defensively because there's not a lot of room for error when you've got especially

02:23 Man City, a team that just wire to wire the past few years has been unbeatable.

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