NFL Preseason Opportunities + Return of Premier League

In today’s newsletter…

• Leading Off: Premier League soccer is back

• MLB: Freddie Freeman is 8 for 17 against today’s opposing pitcher

• Column: NFL teams under most pressure

• NFL: Dallas might be too big of an underdog

• Soccer: Arsenal could start season with clean sheet

• UFC: Gamrot has advantage in UFC 305

• News: USWNT back to #1

The Premier League kicks off today with Manchester City shooting for its fifth championship in a row and seventh in eight seasons. Leicester City and Southampton are back after spending a season in the Championship, while Ipswich Town earned promotion to the top league for the first time in 22 years. Five clubs will start the campaign with new coaches: Liverpool (Arne Slot), Chelsea (Enzo Maresca), Southampton (Russell Martin), Brighton (Fabian Hurzeler) and Ipswich (Kieran McKenna).

Sam Farley is back this season to give his Premier League analysis each Friday from across the pond. For today, I also wanted to point out some futures that FanDuel is currently running with:

• Man City is +135 to win the league, with Arsenal just behind at +165. They are followed by Liverpool (+650), Manchester United (+1900), Chelsea (+2000) and Tottenham (+2100)

• Erling Haaland is the heavy favorite to be the top goalscorer (-160). Mohamed Salah is +1100, Alexander Isak is +1500, and Ollie Watkins is +1700

• Kevin De Bruyne to finish with the most assists is at +220, with Salah (+1000), Cole Palmer (+1100), and Son Heung-Min and Bukayo Saka (+1300) following

Switching to American football, we’ve got some predictions coming to you next week: College football on Monday and the NFL on Wednesday. All of our experts have made conference champion and College Football Playoff picks, along with how they think the upcoming NFL season will turn out.