Opinion

With a new season on the horizon, The18 felt it was appropriate to create a Premier League table prediction for the 2022-23 season. We’ve already submitted our Premier League predictions for the winners and losers of the league. Now it’s time for the whole table.

The way this prediction worked was we had nine staffers/experts at The18 predict the table one through 20. The numbers from all nine tables were combined to form The18’s Premier League table prediction.

Mauricio Pochettino has delivered his first public comments since being fired by Paris Saint-Germain on July 5 and immediately replaced with Christophe Galtier. The 50-year-old Argentine came out firing, questioning the point of a project that can't even generate enthusiasm around a league title or follow any sort of longterm sporting plan.

Central Córdoba swept past Rosario Central 3-0 on Monday night in a match that featured a candidate for the Argentine Primera División's goal of the season.

In the 23rd minute, 25-year-old winger Francisco González Metilli opened the scoring off a driven cross-field switch from Renzo López. Metilli let the ball run across his body before unleashing a left-footed volley from 18 yards out that flew across the face of goal and inside the far post. 

The visual effect of Metilli's strike is basically just the Bundesliga logo — this is pure technique.

We are one week away from kicking off the 2022-23 Premier League season. As champion Manchester City celebrates and gets ready to defend its title, a slew of competitors will seek to dethrone it, headlined by Liverpool and new striker Darwin Núñez. Newly promoted Bournemouth, Fulham and Nottingham Forest will be finalizing their survival tactics, hoping to send down an established side instead.

Here in the good ol’ US of A, we’re in that terrible time of year where most sports are in the middle of their offseason. For action-starved Premier League fans, there's no NBA, no NFL and no NHL to turn to. Worst of all, there's no World Cup. On the soccer side of things, I would highly recommend giving the Women’s Euros, MLS and NWSL a chance if you haven’t already. But for fans looking to freshen things up, why not give Formula One a go?

On Friday, Aug. 5, you'll be doing yourself a favor by turning your TV to ESPN2 and casually checking in from time to time to see what sort of madness is being broadcast now as "ESPN8: The Ocho" takes over for 24 hours of continuous programming — "If it's almost a sport, we've got it here."