We dropped points in only 10 games last season and we’re already at 6 now. I guess you can attribute that to the fixture difficulty so far but dropping points from winning positions in the big games is something we rarely did last season, more often than not we got the job done when it mattered. This season we have regressed and are not the same team, it is messy and not anywhere near as ruthless.

We’ll know for sure after the break if this team can challenge again because if we don’t string together some wins it’s almost certainly over regardless of what Liverpool are doing.