And some of our wins could have gone the other way. Wolves, Leicester, Palace, Fulham, Newcastle on the opening day. All these teams probably kicked themselves that they didn't get anything from the games.
This season our performance level has dropped a lot. In the past our peak performance levels were arguably the best in the league and our average level was still very good - we won a lot of our games comfortably.
This season there is hardly much of gap between our average level and our bottom level. The Burnley loss actually was pretty similar to the Fulham and Newcastle wins where we struggled to create chances but snuck it at the end. Only this time it was the opposition who scored late on. Even the 3-1 win vs Southampton we were outplayed.
Apart from Chelsea and a short run in December we have been quite poor to watch. Not creating much but clinical with what we do.
I think people massively underestimate the Wembley effect. Was watching Chelsea yesterday thinking I wonder where they’d be if they had to play there every week. And I bet they’d be getting smaller crowds than us. I mean ridiculous thing up till Saturday we had the best away record in Europe top 5 leagues that’s actually bonkers. Luck wise I think we are about on par now. City and Liverpool we could easily have drawn, United we should have won, Watford and wolves we were 1-0 up in both at 60-70 mins and contrived to lose. I think we deserved a draw on Saturday. But yeah we’ve certainly scraped a few wins as well.