The Premier, a cult spectacle

It was summer in Brighton, when, before the start of the 2023/24 Premier League, the league’s chief executive, Richard Masters, heralded a new season full of emotion. “That’s the great thing about the Premier League: you never know what’s going to happen,” he said at the launch of the new season in the coastal city in the south of England, which he chose because the Brighton & Hove Albion It represents the Premier’s growth paradigm and its economic possibilities, with good sports and financial management. The surprise factor to protect from the praised English football.

Just four months and 15 days later, and the fun offered by Premier League matches continues to grow, with days of plenty of goals and entertainment to delight the thousands of fans in the stadiums and the millions of million fans watching them. They continue all over the planet on television. If the goal of the managers of the Premier League is to maintain the highest competitiveness this year to keep the following and the audiences, the amazing average of 3.1 goals per game, along with the parity leading the competition, went further than that. Also in controversies, as the decisions of the video referee ignited the spirit of coaches and players.

In the last four days there have been five games with six or more goals, which will probably be included in the list of the most exciting in the entire history of the Premier. Chelsea-Manchester City (4-4), Liverpool-Fulham (4-3), Manchester City-Tottenham Hotspur (3-3) and Luton Town-Arsenal (3-4) They will be confrontations that are difficult to forget because of their unpredictable results and with goals in the time limit or in the long final stoppage time. “What we experienced at Anfield is indelible,” admitted the German. Jurgen Kloppeuphoric after the final whistle, after his players returned with goals from Wataru Endo and Alexander-Arnold, within two minutes of the attacking outburst, a game which Fulham won 2-3 almost with time running out. He has a similar passion Mikel Arteta after the purpose of Declan Rice, on Luton’s rough Kenilworth Road. “It was pure emotion,” he confessed.

The first weaknesses of the city

That in the month of December alone four teams (Arsenal, Liverpool, Aston Villa and Manchester City) are separated by only six points on the head and another four (Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle, Manchester United and Brighton) who are also chasing European positions promises the most open championship in recent years, with Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola It is imposing its law, with three titles in four seasons, but it is already showing the first symptoms of weakness. An indication of the interest and even score of the matches is that last Sunday 24 goals were scored in just five matches, which is a new Premier record to the delight of the English league and Sky Sports, the network that has the television . rights, and saw audiences increase by 40%.

The early weaknesses shown by the mighty City are also fueling the championship, predicting a fierce competition for the title. He Aston Villa, who had few expectations for the match, also joins it. With the victory of the ‘villains’ of Unai Emery 1-0 on Wednesday night at Birmingham, City managed just two shots on goal, the fewest ever by a team from Pep Guardiola. He also received 22 shots, the highest rate allowed by city in Premier. These are records that show an excessive display of countryin another match that will be remembered for the abundance of play, and that shows the way for all those who want to drop the ‘skyblues’.

The 2023/24 season could break all records in recent Premier League history. Since matchday 8, with the tie between Crystal palace and Nottingham Forest (0-0), never a goalless match. In the last two days, 34 and 38 have been achieved, with an average of 3.16 goals per gamethat puts the season on track to break the record for most goals from 1992-93 (1,222, in 42 games), 2.6 goals per game.

Less defense and longer game

The arrival of foreign coaches in the Premier with an offensive profile and the increase of time played in long minutes of stoppage time are arguments that justify the defeats and the cult spectacle experienced in all English fields . Offensive football is on the rise. Longer games, beyond 100 minutes, also mean more late goals and ensure drama at the end. The average overtime was 11 minutes and 49 seconds. The paradigm of glorified spectacularity is that experienced at Stamford Bridge, where Chelsea and City of Manchester They tied (4-4), with the replicas furious and continuing to attack.

Premier is more alive than ever and forging success stories like the Brighton & Hove Albion and its growth in Italian hands From Zerbi. Aston Villa has been the revelation of this season and Unai Emery it’s fake. Meteoric rises of growing clubs, with good sports management, which is a big part of the following success of the English league. Along with its other secret, is the protected factor of uncertainty and surprise. The calendar also helps with a flawless script. The Villains, who have won 14 games in a row at Villa Park, host leaders Arsenal on Saturday in Birmingham. If they win, they will reduce the gap to just one point. More emotion for the best possible rivalry.