Manchester City's hot start catapults it to top of EPL Futures

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Manchester City was a 3 to 1 second choice to win the Premier League at the start of the season.

All of a sudden, just five matches in, Manuel Pellegrini and the gang are the easy odds on favorites to capture yet another EPL championship.

ODDS ANALYSIS

Manchester City -217

Arsenal +550

Chelsea +650

Manchester United +1394

Liverpool +4000

Field (Any Other Team) +12500

What an amazing jump we've seen over the course of the first month and a half of the season. This Manchester City side has the talent to be able to beat anyone else in the Premier League, something that it showed when it blew Chelsea away at home 3-0 in the second week of the campaign.

Now, the Citizens are a perfect 5-0-0 and +11 in goal differential, and they have a ton of games ahead which should be a given three points. That said, the important stat isn't so much the 15 points in five games. It's the fact that Man City already has five points on Arsenal, five points on Manchester City and 11 points on Chelsea.

The argument could be made here that Chelsea has the best odds of the bunch at +650 after being an odds-on favorite just a few short weeks ago.

That said, where are the Blues making up 11 points on what might be the best team in the league this year? You can only make up three points when these two meet at Stamford Bridge, and aside from that, but aside from that, it's going to be really tough, needless to say.

If Man City is going to hit a snag, it's going to be via injuries as was the case last year. Sergio Aguero suffered a knee injury over the weekend, and though he insists that it isn't a serious problem, you never know with a knee injury.

Still, City looks like the best team in England right now. Picking up Raheem Sterling (even though he's injured right now, too) might prove to be the best move any team in England has made all season long, and men like Yaya Toure and Fernandinho are playing some of the best soccer they have played over the course of the last several seasons.

Chelsea too, has major problems to deal with. Not only is it a shock to see this team sitting on just four points in five matches, allowing more goals than any other team in the Premier League in the process, but clearly, this team isn't playing with any confidence. Perhaps transferring Petr Cech to Arsenal wasn't the greatest move for Jose Mourinho. Thiabaut Courtois is out for an extended period of time now with a knee injury, and the Blues are scrambling without him.

It's still early in the season, but the argument could be made that the field might be the best bet right now over the big teams.

Leicester City is off to a great start with eight points in just four matches, and there is no team which has picked up more points in the last 16 matches than have the Foxes. Of course, it's really tough to believe that they have staying power in the top four, but Crystal Palace is playing as well as any team in the EPL at the moment as well.

It's not really about getting just Leicester City or just Crystal Palace in the field. It's just a matter if Manchester City comes back to the rest of the pack, someone is going to have to step up. Is it really going to be a Manchester United team which only has six goals in five matches, three of which came against Liverpool? Is it really going to be Arsenal, which has just five goals in five fixtures?

It's just too tough of a sell to trust anyone aside from Manchester City right now unless this is going to be that magical season when someone comes up big at 125 to 1 to challenge for the Premier League with the big boys.

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