The 2024/ 2025 Premier League begins on Friday, August 16. As tradition goes on, Top sports media outlets, Pundits, and former footballers make their Predictions for the upcoming season, specifically the Premier League winner, top four, and relegation finishes.
Michael Owen has backed Arsenal to finally clinch the Premier League after being pipped to the title by Manchester City in the last two seasons in the final five matches of the season.
The former Balon d’Or has backed Liverpool to finish second, Aston Villa to finish third, and defending Champions Manchester City to finish fourth in his top-four predictions. Owen has also tipped the three promoted clubs to struggle in the Premier League and possibly be relegated.
What is Michael Owen’s Prediction for the 2024/2025?
The former England forward predicted via Casino Hawks: “Arsenal and Manchester City will go in virtually everybody’s top four predictions, and I think Liverpool will probably be in there as well despite there being some questions over how well Arne Slot will fit in.
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“I had a thought about Newcastle but Aston Villa are solid and look to be still improving. In terms of the order, my thought process is if City are not gonna win it, they could actually drop away a little bit.
“It’s almost like if City are not gonna be really in the race after 10 games then their priority could go elsewhere – I think there could be a big surprise this season. I’m going to go for Arsenal first, Liverpool second, Aston Villa third and Manchester City fourth.”
Owen continued: “The title is Manchester City’s to lose, but I think they could slip up this year. They have really put their foot down when they have needed to and went on an incredible run last year, but at some point they’re going to fall short.
“When other challengers get stronger and wiser it’ll get tougher for them and I wouldn’t rule out that being this season. They’ve also got the investigation hanging over them and Pep Guardiola is not going to be there forever. This could be his last season.
“There’s always things that test you throughout the season and they’ve navigated that so far, but something might knock them off the rail this season. With Arsenal being so good last season and with no signs of them going away with more signings coming in, they are viable challengers again.”
On his relegation prediction, he added: “I can see the three promoted teams struggling in the Premier League as a trend going forward. The three that came up went down last season, and if it wasn’t for the points deductions suffered by Everton and Nottingham Forest, it would’ve been even more convincing.
“They made a fight of it and everybody really enjoyed watching Luton play for example, but if Forest didn’t have points taken off then it would’ve been done earlier.”
