Will Augsburg double bounce?

Certainly seems that last the champs from D5 are the clear favourites to win D4. A very strong attack, midfield and plenty of depth should be enough. Zenit are half a point behind but should be confident of at least auto promotion, they can claim a well balanced team that perhaps lacks depth. Their nearest rivals are Ajax and Lille who sit a fair chunk above the rest making an interesting battle for 3 & 4th. Lille have a potent midfield, attack and keeper so should fancy winning the possession game.  Ajax though could do with a better keeper , so I would make Lille the favourites from 3rd spot.

Around 219.5 should guarantee survival in D3 so any team down to Stuttgart who are the last “playoff” team could survive. They could be the team to spring a surprise into the top 3 with that strong attacking line up.

Down the wrong end of the table while hard to judge from last year 217.5 could be enough to survive.

Boca will fancy their chances , even if they lack a lot of depth, Santos will surely be bringing in a stronger keeper, which would punt them 3 or 4 places higher. Sassuolo won’t fancy double relegation, but can plucky Atalanta 1.7 points adrift survive? Div 4 is around 0.3 weaker than last season

 GKDEFMIDATTTop18AveETOTPre
Augsburg ©89.088.088.690.087.088.5220.901
Zenit Saint Petersburg88.088.888.689.085.087.9220.492
Ajax87.087.888.890.085.087.7220.383
Lille OSC R90.087.589.289.086.088.3220.334
Dynamo Moskva (P)87.089.388.288.086.087.7219.925
FC Twente88.087.888.689.086.087.9219.816
Stuttgart88.088.087.690.085.087.7219.747
Crystal Palace R88.087.587.490.087.088.0219.428
Bremen R88.087.588.688.086.087.6218.969
AS Roma88.087.388.288.083.086.9218.0810
Wolfsburg88.087.088.088.086.087.4218.0811
Lokomotiv Moskva88.087.587.488.086.087.4218.0012
Montpellier HSC88.087.587.288.086.087.3217.8413
AS Saint-Etienne88.087.387.688.085.087.2217.8414
Girondins Bordeaux (P)88.088.387.487.084.086.9217.7115
Sevilla88.087.887.487.086.087.2217.5516
Boca Juniors87.086.088.688.083.086.5217.2817
Santos FC82.087.587.488.084.085.8217.0418
US Sassuolo R88.087.087.088.083.086.6216.9219
Atalanta BC (PP)87.085.586.288.085.086.3215.2020

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