{"id":151215,"date":"2020-10-05T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=151215"},"modified":"2020-10-05T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:12:08","slug":"liverpool-still-epl-favorite-despite-7-2-battering-at-villay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/liverpool-still-epl-favorite-despite-7-2-battering-at-villay\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Still EPL Favorite Despite 7-2 Battering at Villa on Day Soccer \u2018Went Crazy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool<\/a> remains the favorite with bookmakers<\/a> to retain the English Premier League title, despite the team receiving an unlikely hiding on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"Liverpool
The EPL\u2019s weirdest ever score writ large: Aston Villa shocked Liverpool and the world on Sunday. (Image: Associated Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Liverpool is\u00a0 among the best soccer teams in the world — arguably the best — but that meant squat after Aston Villa\u2019s seventh goal sailed into the back of the net in the 75th minute at Villa Park on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

In fact, everything you ever thought you knew about soccer suddenly turned on its head. The game finished 7-2, but it could have been ten or eleven.<\/p>\n

A team that had escaped relegation last season by a single point, and who were 9\/1 to cause an upset going into the game, outplayed and outclassed one of the truly great EPL teams — and scored seven goals.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This was the most bonkers result in the league\u2019s history \u2013 or, at the very least, since Spurs beat Manchester Utd 6-1 just hours earlier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In fact, those two results \u2013 along with West Ham\u2019s eyebrow-raising victory at Leicester \u2013 meant this was perhaps the strangest day in league history, or \u201cthe day football went crazy,\u201d as one British tabloid newspaper had it.<\/p>\n

Unpredictable Season<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After its victory against Arsenal last week, Liverpool was an odds-on favorite to win the league. Now, it\u2019s a slightly less surefire 5\/4.<\/p>\n

Manchester City is not too far behind at 6\/4, and the Sky Blues would likely have usurped the champions as favorites had they not had a lukewarm start to the season of their own.<\/p>\n

Which means the only team that still has a 100 percent record is perennial mid-tabler Everton.<\/p>\n

Could this be the most unpredictable season since Leicester ran away with the title in 2016, having begun the year as a 5,000 to 1 outsider? Or will the natural order be restored as the long run sets in?<\/p>\n

One off?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

And if you decided to put your money on Liverpool at the beginning of the season for a reasonable chance of a small ROI, how safe now is your stake? Not even Liverpool\u2019s German manager Jurgen Klopp could provide an answer.<\/p>\n

\u00a0What should I be now?\u201d he asked traumatized Liverpool fans in a statement on the team\u2019s website. \u201cCompletely outraged or something like that? Is it only a one-off? I would think so, I would like to think so, but that I cannot prove tonight. If people want to hear it, I can say it: that\u2019s a one-off. The proof for that will be in the next couple of weeks and months and not because I say it tonight. A game like tonight should not happen.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Was it just a bizarre case of every single player in the team having an off day? Liverpool play local rival and league leader Everton next Saturday, so we\u2019ll soon find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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