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The 2022/23 Premier League season is the 31st of the Premier League era, with new faces coming into the English top-flight over the transfer window, which is still ongoing, the three promoted sides from the EFL Championship and new goals and ambitions for many over the new season. This season will be very different from seasons gone by, with the World Cup disrupting the season as the competition starts on November 21st. Making the start of this coming season important for everyone. Nevertheless, he's the season prediction for the 22/23 Premier League from 20th to 11th. AFC BOURNEMOUTH - 20TH After two seasons in the Championship, AFC Bournemouth is back in the Premier League. Much has changed for the Cherries when they got relegated in 2020. Long-serving manager Eddie Howe left the job, key players for their during their stay in the Premier League also left and they failed to win promotion at the first time asking, losing to Brentford in the playoffs. Last season under former Fulha...

SOUTHAMPTON. FINAL POSITION: 10TH Southampton finished 11th last season but following their 9-0 home defeat to Leicester City, staying up for the Saints would have been enough to make it a successful season. They did not get themselves in a relegation battle as Southampton finished the season on a high. Ralph Hassenhuttl has already made plans for the coming season, signing Ghanaian defender Mohammed Salisu and English defender Kyle Walker-Peters. They have lost midfield stalwart Pierre-Emile Højbjerg to Spurs, Mario Lemina moved to Fulham, Cédric and Maya Yoshida have all moved away from St. Mary. Danny Ings had an incredible season, scoring 22 goals with only Jamie Vardy scoring more. However, he was the only Saints player to score ten goals or more with James Ward-Prowse and Stuart Armstrong the next top scorers with only 5 each. Much more will have to come from Che Adams, who had a poor debut season in the Premier League but finished off last season quite well. Hassenhuttl has ...

Newcastle United. Potential Finish: 19th. Final Position: 13th Steve Bruce was appointed following the departure of Rafa Benítez. It was an unpopular choice as Steve Bruce have not managed a Premier League team in four years and Benítez was a popular figure on Tyneside. The former Sunderland manager was able to shut down his critics as the Magpies finished comfortably in mid-table without any fear of relegation. The football was not pleasing for everyone with Newcastle playing an ultra-defensive style of play and only scored 38 goals. Only Norwich, Watford and Crystal Palace scored less goals. Allan Saint-Maximin gave Newcastle fans some excitement with his trickery while Joelinton has been a massive flop following his £40 million pound move from Hoffenheim. There seems to be changes going on at Newcastle with a massive takeover from a Saudi consortium which means that Steve Bruce will be fighting to keep his job next season if the takeover goes through. Everton. Potential Fini...

The Premier League will make it's return on the 9th of August and we continue the preview of the upcoming season with the next seven teams based on their potential final position come May next year. Burnley. Final Position: 13th No one expected Burnley to replicate what they did in 2017/18 when they finished 7th and qualified for Europe for the first time in 50 years. Despite getting eliminated very early, they were poor last season and were in the relegation dogfight last season but managed to stay up, finishing 15th.  They have brought in Jay Rodgríuez and Erik Pieters and have let go of Tom Heaton and Stephen Ward. Sean Dyche's will trouble teams throughout the season and while they are not catchy on the eye, they are one of the lowest ranked teams in terms of goals and possession, they are effective at what they do, which will give them a mid-table finish this season. Bournemouth. Final Position: 12th Bournemouth are the little club from the south coast th...

2018 is about to go past us as it has been an eventful year in the game. The Premier League and Serie A continued their league season with the final league matches of 2018 as the Serie A will have their winter break. Here are the highlights from the final weekend of 2018. Arsenal annihilated at Anfield Liverpool capped off their final league game of the year with a resounding 5-1 win against Arsenal at Anfield. Anfield was stunned when the Gunners opened the scoring from Ainsley Maitland-Niles but after five minutes, they were 2-1 down. Arsenal couldn't handle the speed of Liverpool plus the comical defending from Arsenal which made things a lot easier for Liverpool to exploit as they were awarded two penalties. Liverpool remain unbeaten after 20 games and now face their biggest test in this title race, playing Manchester City at the Etihad on Thursday. Milik's brace downs Bologna Napoli made it four wins in their last five and remain unbeaten at the San Paolo aft...

We are now approaching the festive period of games and the halfway point of the season which can help where teams are likely to finish and see what they can improve by the new year. Here are the highlights from the weekend. Shaqiri scores twice to thump United Liverpool returned to the summit of the Premier League table after beating archrivals Manchester United 3-1 at Anfield. Liverpool clearly domainted with 36 shots against the Red Devils, the most amount of shots from Liverpool this season. With United getting a goal from an error from Alisson, Liverpool needed to find something different which Xherdan Shaqiri answered by scoring a brace from the bench to seal a first win in eight from the Reds and Jürgen Klopp's first victory against United. Still unbeaten. Austin ends Arsenal's unbeaten streak Charlie Austin scored his fifth goal in five games against Arsenal to inflict Arsenal's first defeat since August losing to Southampton 3-2 at St. Mary's. Dann...