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Assessing the Survival Credentials of the Premier League's Newly-Promoted Sides After 8 Matches

Ah, the Premier League, how we miss you so.

You battle and scrap your way out of the world's most competitive and topsy-turvy division, playing 46 (or 49 in Aston Villa's case) gruelling matches to escape the dreaded Championship and reach the promised land.

But you've not shed all of that blood, sweat and tears only to make up the numbers in an equally demanding Premier League. To paraphrase the in-the-know Beastie Boys, you gotta fight for your right to not get relegated.

Norwich City, Sheffield United and Aston Villa all earned their place in the 2019/20 top flight of English football, and the three teams have made differing starts to Premier League life.