There's a very solid chance -- about 50-50, depending on where you get your projections -- that this European soccer season ends with both Napoli's first Serie A title since 1990 and Arsenal's first Premier League title since 2004. Neither of these clubs is a Leicester City, but considering what we've grown accustomed to in this sport, with entrenched power and rich-get-richer tendencies, those two results would represent quite the tectonic shift.
Consider some of the other things that remain on the table (with far greater than 0% odds) as we enter the season's home stretch:
- Liverpool's worst league season since 2012
- Chelsea's worst season since 1991
- An end to Bayern Munich's 10-year Bundesliga title reign
- Brighton and Union Berlin making the Champions League for the first time
- Real Sociedad and/or Real Betis making it for the first time since 2014 and 2006, respectively
- Napoli winning the Champions League
We knew this could be a pretty odd season, what with the whole "worse-than-normal fixture congestion in the fall, followed by a long World Cup break" thing.