THE Premier League season is quickly approaching an exciting run-in as clubs battle to finish as high up the table as possible.
A supercomputer has predicted the final standings of the current season following the weekend’s results.
After Arsenal’s comprehensive win over Leeds, they have been predicted to win the title but roughly three points.
This is despite Man City’s impressive 4-1 win over Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium.
With the current gap between the two title chasers standing at eight points, the Citizens are expected to push the Gunners all the way before falling just short.
In terms of the top four, the race to qualify for next season’s Champions League has heated up.
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Following Newcastle’s 2-0 win over Man United at St James’ Park on Sunday, the Magpies have been backed to finish in third place.
While Erik ten Hag’s side have been put down to finish the season occupying the final Champions League spot in fourth.
This means that Tottenham and Liverpool would have to settle for spots in the Europa League and Europa Conference League.
Brighton are expected to claim the second spot in Europe’s second premier competition and finish above the Reds after they fought back three times to claim a draw against Brentford.
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While Chelsea’s decision to sack Graham Potter has been suggested not to have an immediate impact, as the Blues are predicted to finish the season in a lowly 11th place, 19 points off of Man United in fourth.
At the other end of the table, after losing to West Ham at the London Stadium, Southampton are expected to come rock bottom of the table.
While Everton and Nottingham Forest have been calculated to drop down to the Championship.
The projections were made using bettingexpert’s supercomputer BETSiE, which takes into account multiple data points, including expected goals, expected goals against and runs the simulation 100,000 times.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
