Manchester City is the strongest candidate to win the EPL trophy again this season. Manchester City, which was unstable in the previous few matches, has shown a good comeback to take the top of the standings from Liverpool. Premier League teams will find it difficult to stop Manchester City from becoming champions this season because they are very eager to repeat what they did last season.
Manchester City is always a strongest candidate to win Premier League last six seasons because they won five titles during those six seasons. This season, they are continuing to be one of strongest candidates together with Liverpool. It seems Arsenal have already shown some down performances and they even won't be able to repeat their success in the past season.
Liverpool and Manchester City are only 2 points apart at the moment. Well, if Liverpool cannot be consistent in continuing to win then their ranking will be crossed by Manchester City in the upcoming match. Liverpool will face Bournemouth in the upcoming match, of course this is quite a difficult match because Bournemouth often makes it difficult for big teams to get 3 points when facing them.
It is very narrow difference and the season is still long enough to see flip between two candidates for a few times. The recovery and strong return of Kevin De Bruyne gives Pep Guardiola and Manchester City a very powerful attacking support. Maybe Kevin will not be able to play in a full match too soon because he just came back but Pep can choose necessary time to send Kevin in and make big changes in important matches. With time, Kevin will adapt to matches and will have increase total minutes he can play in each match.
Liverpool has an advantage against Manchester City, they won't have to play in Champions League and can focus more on Premier League. Hopefully it will help Liverpool to win Premier League to break a domination of Manchester City. It's worth to remind that last six seasons, only Liverpool took over the trophy from Manchester City.