Sounds easy? Away from there. None of them are right.
Although 8 experts chose Liverpool as champion, only Ruud Gullit received all four groups, and they were all in the wrong order.
Matthew Upson deserves a round of applause for placing three of the 4 in their proper positions and 10 other experts included 3 smart picks in total.
You can see below the 4 pre-season predictions for each.
So why is it so difficult to decide that Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea end up in that order?
Tottenham’s turbulent crusade after four consecutive results in the top 4 attracted 22 people, as did the immediate disappearance of Arsenal’s former renaissance chief, Unai Emery, after a promising first year and thrilling signings in the summer: thirteen of the 24 ideas that would.
Similarly, only six experts expected Frank Lampard to succeed in the Champions League positions in his first season as Chelsea manager, especially as the club was under a movement embargo and had just sold Eden Hazard when he was named last summer.
United was back in shape in 2020 with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer also surprised almost everyone.
At the beginning of the season, only seven experts think they would be among the four most sensitive, adding Karen Carney, who was the only one I expected the three most sensitive to do.
However, few other people who read this can say quite sincerely that they knew much better.
Thousands of you made your predictions about how the table would end on the BBC last August, and two-thirds of the electorate elected City as champions, followed by Liverpool, Spurs and United in second, third and fourth place.
Better next time, everybody.
The experts’ predictions were made on the basis of the team’s formation on Thursday, August 8, after the deadline for incoming moves, but with the option of players leaving to the end of the window of moves in the rest of Europe at the end. August.
Six groups were in the four most sensitive, and only Manchester City and Liverpool were in the 24 most sensitive.
As for who would win, Manchester City was the favourite, with 16 votes. Liverpool got the other eight.