Premier League outright market tightens up after dramatic opening weekend

Bookies are already adjusting their Premier League title winner odds following a dramatic opening weekend of the new 2025-26 campaign.

It was an entertaining first round back for fans of the top division in English football. Liverpool and Crystal Palace provided a six-goal thriller in Friday night's curtain raiser that saw the Arne Slot's reigning champions eventually prevail as 4-2 winners.

Meanwhile, Manchester City stormed to the top of the table after the weekend's action thanks to a dominant 4-0 win at Wolves. There were also opening-we for Sunderland, Tottenham, Nottingham Forest and Arsenal.

Brighton, Fulham, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Crystal Palace and Newcastle are also off the mark after seeing their opening clashes finish level.

The Cottagers' point at Brighton was sealed in dramatic fashion thanks to Rodrigo Muniz's injury-time equaliser, while the other two games were goalless.

It was a disappointing start for a six sides who failed to even pick up a point from their first game.

Manchester United, Bournemouth, Brentford, Burnley, West Ham and Wolves all delivered varying performance levels – but all six of those sides are still searching for their first point of the season.

Premier League outright markets shaken up

The opening weekend of results has already had the bookies adjusting the Premier League outright markets.

Liverpool's price as favourites to win the title has drifted slightly from 7/4 to 2/1. The fact that they needed two late goals to beat Bournemouth at Anfield appears to have put doubts in the mind of punters and price-makers alike.

Conversely, City have shortened from 7/2 into 3/1. The manner of their 4-0 victory over Wolves on Saturday was a timely reminder of how good Guardiola's men can be when key players are fit and that showing appears to have convinced many to put their faith in the eight-time Premier League winners for glory.

Arsenal remain at a similar price after their laboured 1-0 win over Manchester United on Sunday afternoon. The Gunners remain 5/2 second favourites, but the criticism attached to Viktor Gyokores's low-key debut has led to doubts as to whether Mikel Arteta has solved his team's striker issue.

Relegation odds blown wide open

The Premier League relegation odds have also been severely impacted by the first round of league matches.

Pre-season relegation favourites Sunderland have seen their odds for the drop drift from 1/3 all the way out to 4/6 after impressively routing West Ham 3-0 at the Stadium of Light.

That defeat has seen the Hammers' price for relegation shorten dramatically – now just 3/1 for a return to the Championship.

Bookies have also chopped the prices of Brentford and Wolves to 9/4 and 12/5 respectively after both suffered heavy losses in their opening outings.

The Bees lost 3-1 away to Nottingham Forest while Vitor Pereira's side were hammered 4-0 at home to early leaders City.