The Champions League group stage has not yet ended, has the Premier League demonstrated its dominance in European football?

The first round of the Champions League has not yet ended. Is it too early to assert that the European football landscape? The answer is yes. But this doesn't stop us from analyzing the game at all, right!

The first round of the Champions League was regarded as an excellent window to observe how the depth of the Premier League affects the balance of strength in European football.

Although Barcelona may still create surprises in Newcastle away games, the third, fourth and fifth teams in La Liga last season have all fallen under the Premier League opponents who are not in the best form.

Arsenal performed rarely in a mess and dragged the game, and finally defeated Athletic Bilbao by relying on the bench - you should know that this team swept the Europa League group stage and knockout stage last season, and was not wiped out by Manchester United until the semi-finals.

This gap has already appeared last year: Chelsea won the European League championship with almost no effort, facing various third-rate teams in Europe, like playing with elementary school students; what is more dramatic is the Europa League final, Tottenham and Manchester United temporarily forget the difficulties of the domestic league to meet in the final, and Tottenham only won the championship with a performance of "less than Manchester United".

Even in the Champions League where Premier League teams failed to top the top, their exit was quite valuable: Manchester City performed mediocrely throughout the season, but eventually eliminated Real Madrid; the other three representatives of England lost to Paris Saint-Germain in three consecutive knockout rounds - and this Paris team easily defeated Inter Milan in the final, which is enough to prove that its struggle in the knockout stage is just an illusion.

Core conclusion: There may still be one or two teams in other leagues that can challenge the top Premier League teams, but they are no longer able to match them in terms of overall depth.

Among the top 24 Champions League knockout stages this season, Premier League teams occupy a quarter of the seats (i.e., 6 teams) are extremely likely, and it is even a high probability event.

In the first round of group matches, four of England's six representatives encountered La Liga opponents, which provided early clues for observing the power comparison between the two traditional football powers:

Tottenham: Send 6 Champions League debut players and rookie coaches, and it is almost impossible to organize effective offenses in the whole game. However, this Villarreal, who scored only last season's La Liga goal number was second only to the "two of the Spanish Super League", failed to pose an effective threat to the goal guarded by Vicario after his goalkeeper gave Lucas Bergvar a mysterious gift to let Lucas Bergvar score early.

Liverpool: Although he was scored two goals in 6 minutes by Atletico Madrid at home, he finally reversed with injury time - now, Klopp's successor Slot seems to have given the Reds control of the script "Dig a hole first and then fill the hole": This season, there were three reversals in just 4 rounds of the league, including a dramatic scene of 83 minutes of winning and a 95-minute tie.

It is worth noting that none of these Premier League teams have shown their best form, but they can still win tough battles.

For them, the Champions League group stage is no different from the Premier League - except for a few real European giants (such as Bayern led by Kane can cause trouble for Chelsea), even the competitiveness of the upstream teams in La Liga is no longer as competitive as that of ordinary Premier League events.

Bornemouth has caused Liverpool as troubles as Atletico Madrid, and Tottenham's struggle against Villarreal is far better than their performance in the league against underdogs.

The financial gap is difficult to reverse

The economic gap between the Premier League mid-range teams and the non-top giants in the European continent has become so large that it is difficult to bridge.

The start of the Europa League next week may bring new variables: Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest may not be able to replicate the easy advancement of Tottenham and Manchester United last year, but are they really weaker than "Erlangzi" Tottenham and Manchester United? That may not be...

, and Crystal Palace is expected to replicate Chelsea's winning path in the European League.

The English team's ending in the European game last season was nothing more than four: winning the championship, being eliminated by other Premier League teams, losing to the best team in the Champions League history (Real Madrid), or losing to the final champion Paris.

Signs at the beginning of the season indicate that this trend will continue to strengthen - even the most "nervous knife" giants in the Premier League can only miss when facing their own opponents or a very small number of top European teams.