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SUIYHA

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This deserves it's own thread.

19 games. 50 points. An unbelievable run over half a season's worth of games that I never thought I'd see from a Tottenham side. As the mathematicians amongst you can work out, if we'd kept this up for the entire season we'd finish on 100 points which has never been done before in the PL.

This isn't the first time in the Premier League that a team has taken 50 points from 19 games. But it is exceptionally rare. To put it into context, not even Arsenal's "invincibles" or either of Man Utd's European Cup winning sides managed that level of consistency in the league. Neither Liverpool nor Man City have ever reached that mark in the Premier League era, at least not over a single season.

Now let me put this into context specifically as a fan of Tottenham Hotspur. In the 21 full seasons that the Premier League became a 38 game season, we have finished all 38 games with 50 points or less in eight of them - that's more than a third (and we've finished with 53 points or less in more than half of the seasons). Now most of these were in the dark days of 1996-2004, where we averaged 48 points a season over the eight years. As recently as the 07/08 season when we had Berbatov, Keane, Lennon, Bale, Woodgate and King in the squad, we finished with only 46 points, and only 51 the following year.

50 points from half a season's worth of games. That is absolutely insane. If you are young enough to have missed out on Francis, Gross, Graham, Hoddle and Pleat, take a moment to realise how lucky you are to be watching this Tottenham side.
 

Col_M

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Feb 28, 2012
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Shows you how good Chelsea has been too unfortunately. Dropping only 7 points over 19 games and we still haven't caught them.
 

arunspurs

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If this stat is outstanding, it is because of this stat : 'Spurs have kept now 17 cleansheets in 34 PL games, thats a 50% rate'

On a side note Lloris hasn't conceded a PL goal for 5 games now. Last was conceded against Southampton on Mar 19.

For all the goals we scored from our front4 , we are where we are due to our defensive game.
 

arunspurs

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Shows you how good Chelsea has been too unfortunately. Dropping only 7 points over 19 games and we still haven't caught them.

we did catch them by 6 points. The 4 consecutive draws in Oct has hurt us.
 

St José Dominguez

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Sometimes it's all about timing. We're gonna be so unlucky not to win the league this year. If we win 3/4 more games in pretty much every season it would have been enough. Could argue we're winning all these games in a row cos chasing Chelsea but still think we've been unlucky to have another team who won so many games in a row.

If we match this performance pts wise twice in next 3 or 4 seasons one of those years it will be enough. We just have to be a bit lucky in terms of timing, so many teams who have won the league over last ten years aren't close to what we've been this year.
We're very close, we will win the league in the next 4 years we just have to whatever we do keep Poch and this team together.
 

SargeantMeatCurtains

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Jan 5, 2013
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Shows you how good Chelsea has been too unfortunately. Dropping only 7 points over 19 games and we still haven't caught them.
I would argue that despite Chelsea being above us, we have been a lot better than them.

We have been ravaged by injuries this season: Lloris, Rose, Toby, Jan, Dembele, Lamela, Winks and Kane x2 have all suffered lengthy injuries this season. On the other hand, Chelsea have had no major injuries all season.

There is absolutely NO doubts in my mind that had we had our full squad available for our games that we drew against Leicester, West Brom and Sunderland we'd have won them all and would be sat 2 points above Chelsea.
 

SUIYHA

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we did catch them by 6 points. The 4 consecutive draws in Oct has hurt us.

I keep wondering what would have happened if only we'd closed down Pedro properly at Stamford Bridge. If we'd held onto our lead there and all other results stayed the same, we'd now be top.
 

Makkaveli101

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I keep wondering what would have happened if only we'd closed down Pedro properly at Stamford Bridge. If we'd held onto our lead there and all other results stayed the same, we'd now be top.

Those games we drew, that we should've won, when Kane was out earlier in the season as well. :( Just a couple of goals here and there would've made all the difference.
 

Gaz_Gammon

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Shows you how good Chelsea has been too unfortunately. Dropping only 7 points over 19 games and we still haven't caught them.

But they did hold an eleven point lead over us at one stage did they not?
 

yiddopaul

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Dec 28, 2005
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Shows you how good Chelsea has been too unfortunately. Dropping only 7 points over 19 games and we still haven't caught them.
But at one point weren't they something like 13 points ahead of us? Meaning since Christmas they have dropped far more points than us, losing two recently. We could still win the league. I cannot see us not winning the remaining games.
 

Jody

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Sep 11, 2004
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And we had the best start to a season since 1961 iirc. 4 points ahead of Chelsea after 7 games.
 

bubble07

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Dec 27, 2004
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Also mad to think if we won ALL of our 19 games we would only be 3 points ahead of chelsea
 

Bus-Conductor

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Oct 19, 2004
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I would argue that despite Chelsea being above us, we have been a lot better than them.

We have been ravaged by injuries this season: Lloris, Rose, Toby, Jan, Dembele, Lamela, Winks and Kane x2 have all suffered lengthy injuries this season. On the other hand, Chelsea have had no major injuries all season.

There is absolutely NO doubts in my mind that had we had our full squad available for our games that we drew against Leicester, West Brom and Sunderland we'd have won them all and would be sat 2 points above Chelsea.

They've also not had European football.
 

Dougal

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Jun 4, 2004
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Almost a carbon copy of last season. I love being up there and competing, but we have to win it soon.
I think we've upped it a level this season. If it's still not enough to win the league I'll enjoy seeing us improve.
 
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