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Have they, though?
I mean, you could look at Liverpool as 2 points dropped, but Liverpool aren’t a bad side despite their wobbles this year and they’ve got an excellent home record. Given the chances they had at the end you could equally see that as a point gained. West Ham was a shit show, no dispute that was 2 points dropped. Southampton…well, you could argue that if you’re 3-1 down at 88 minutes then rescuing a point isn’t bad…but you really shouldn’t be 3-1 down at home to the bottom side. So I’m more inclined to see that as silly points dropped. But you can offset that by games like Bournemouth where we got an important 3 points late on when it looked like we were going to lose. Overall it’s been 24 points in 10 games, it’s a points rate which over a season should win you the league or get you close. I can’t really fault our response to losing vs City.
But let’s say we had won all 3 of the above. We’d be 8 points above City and they’d have 2 games in hand. Which is basically 2 points. That’s only a draw when they win and they’d be above us on goal difference.
As we’ve seen in the head to heads they’re just better than us. They’re better than everyone, I don’t think anyone else has dominated us like that this season. And they’re just a relentless machine. I am disappointed we’ve made it easier for them than we should have but I can’t help feel they’d have run us down in the end anyway with our run in. As good as we’ve been we were in a slightly false position with 3 of the top 6 to play away in the run in.
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