It’s the fifth weekend of the Premier League coming up and already there have been a whole host of talking points. We attempt to answer three key questions thrown up during the first month of the new campaign.

Can Manchester City maintain their flying start and win the league?

In a word, yes (City 2/1 – Premier League Outright). There were many who questioned City’s apparent defensive-minded approach under Roberto Mancini last season, when they often appeared to win ugly.

However, this season – so far at least – some of their attacking play has been mesmerising.

Plenty of fans and pundits alike will say it’s easy to look so good considering the amount of money lavished on the side by the club’s super-rich owners and, of course, spending nearly £70million on Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri is bound to make them look easy on the eye.

But City were often difficult to watch last term despite the millions spent 12 months ago, so there seems to have been a sea-change in the tactics at the Etihad Stadium.

Aguero has been the real difference so far and the Argentinian has enjoyed surely one of the best starts to life in the Premier League for a foreign player (7/2 – Premier League Top Goalscorer).

Can he keep it going? The rest of the league will hope not, but if he does, then the league title could be City’s to throw away.

Are Liverpool good enough to break back into the top four?

Seven points from 12 is a solid enough start for the Reds, but Kenny Dalglish’s side could arguably be mixing it with the Manchester clubs at the top with a perfect record so far if it wasn’t for some poor finishing and debatable refereeing over the past month (Liverpool 20/1 – Premier League Outright).

They began well against Sunderland on the opening day and were a Luis Suarez penalty miss away from being 2-0 up at half time, before a disappointing second-half display let the Black Cats back into the match.

Impressive victories over Arsenal and Bolton swiftly followed though, with Liverpool looking every inch a top-four side.

Defeat at Stoke last weekend has dampened down expectations somewhat, despite the fact they missed a hatful of chances to win the game, while Dalglish was very vocal in his insistence they should have had at least one penalty at the Britannia Stadium.

Those decisions tend to even themselves out over the season and, provided the Reds bounce back, Liverpool do appear to have enough strength in depth once again to secure a top-four berth.

Can Swansea, Norwich and QPR survive?

Well, Swansea need to score first before they can even begin to think about staying up (8/13 to be relegated). Four games without a goal is poor by anyone’s standards and, although they have faced Manchester City and Arsenal in that opening period, Brendan Rodgers’ side need to improve up front…..and soon.

Admittedly they have managed two goalless draws so far as well, but it’s not looking good for the Welsh outfit at the minute.

Norwich (8/13 to be relegated) have begun the campaign slowly as well and many people’s tips to finish bottom are sitting just outside the relegation zone after four games. Draws against Wigan and Stoke have been overshadowed by defeats against West Brom and Chelsea, but Paul Lambert’s side have shown signs they can hold their own among the big-boys.

A lack of top-flight experience in the Canaries’ squad is used as the reason to suggest they will not survive, and the fear among the Carrow Road faithful is that that prediction will ring true.

QPR look the most likely out of the promoted trio to keep hold of their top-flight status come next May (6/4 to be relegated).

Neil Warnock now has the backing of an owner prepared to give him funds to strengthen his squad and the transfer-window purchases of Joey Barton, Anton Ferdinand and Shaun Wright-Phillips have added considerable Premier League experience to his ranks at Loftus Road.

Provided these three can inspire the rest, then Rangers should accrue enough points over the course of the season to stay up.

So, to answer the question to this one – no, no and probably!

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