The last three league games

[Gabriel]

Agreed. I just want the real Kompany back and we'll be all sorted.

Looked to have got himself sorted for Belgium t'other night!

As a Scot, I'm afraid to say Savic could have impressed against a toothless attack.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Agreed. I just want the real Kompany back and we'll be all sorted.

Looked to have got himself sorted for Belgium t'other night!

As a Scot, I'm afraid to say Savic could have impressed against a toothless attack.

Oh so true, this.

 

[danebanksheik]

It is a big thing that we have so far improved on the corresponding games from last season. To improve on our overall points tally from last season would be brilliant and tough for anyone else to beat.

The TV pundits and press are unanimous that we are not at our best - yet we remain unbeaten and in just 8 games we have played 5 of the 10 fixtures we didnt win last year (thanks to the kind fixture organiser) - all those 5 were draws last year.

We are 4 points up according to my workings. Interstingly 6 plus points have actually come against 3 teams who are also doing better than they did last year in the same games. The worst thing is that we drew at home to Arsenal, who are comparatively struggling against last years results, we can't afford to drop any points against the bigger teams.
See the table below of comparative results to last year.

Meanwhile Chelsea are 11 points up and looking really good but what is interesting there is that they have won 4 away games that they drew last year - two of which were Wigan and QPR added to a win against the Geordies at home - games you would have expected them to win anyway so perhaps their increase this time around may be more due to a poor year last year when they failed to win 20 of their 38 games. The table below also shows that their improvement has come against 5 of the 6 comparatively worst performing teams in the league, teams who are having a bad year irrespective of the Chelsea game.

The general consensus out there is that Arsenal are real challengers and Swansea are having a worse year, the comparative results to date would suggest otherwise.

Diff Team
+11 CHE
+4 MNC
+3 EVE
+3 SUN
+3 WBA
+2 SWA
+1 FUL
+1 STO
-1 LIV
-1 MNU (-3 eve, -3 spuds; +2 liv, +3 newc)
-2 NOR
-2 TOT
-3 QPR
-4 AST
-5 ARS
-5 NEW
-9 WIG

stat attack over.(PS i straight swapped WHU, REA & SOT for WOL, BLB BOL)
saturday tv is boring

 

[jay_mcfc]

It is a big thing that we have so far improved on the corresponding games from last season. To improve on our overall points tally from last season would be brilliant and tough for anyone else to beat.

The TV pundits and press are unanimous that we are not at our best - yet we remain unbeaten and in just 8 games we have played 5 of the 10 fixtures we didnt win last year (thanks to the kind fixture organiser) - all those 5 were draws last year.

We are 4 points up according to my workings. Interstingly 6 plus points have actually come against 3 teams who are also doing better than they did last year in the same games. The worst thing is that we drew at home to Arsenal, who are comparatively struggling against last years results, we can't afford to drop any points against the bigger teams.
See the table below of comparative results to last year.

Meanwhile Chelsea are 11 points up and looking really good but what is interesting there is that they have won 4 away games that they drew last year - two of which were Wigan and QPR added to a win against the Geordies at home - games you would have expected them to win anyway so perhaps their increase this time around may be more due to a poor year last year when they failed to win 20 of their 38 games. The table below also shows that their improvement has come against 5 of the 6 comparatively worst performing teams in the league, teams who are having a bad year irrespective of the Chelsea game.

The general consensus out there is that Arsenal are real challengers and Swansea are having a worse year, the comparative results to date would suggest otherwise.

Diff Team
+11 CHE
+4 MNC
+3 EVE
+3 SUN
+3 WBA
+2 SWA
+1 FUL
+1 STO
-1 LIV
-1 MNU (-3 eve, -3 spuds; +2 liv, +3 newc)
-2 NOR
-2 TOT
-3 QPR
-4 AST
-5 ARS
-5 NEW
-9 WIG

stat attack over.(PS i straight swapped WHU, REA & SOT for WOL, BLB BOL)
saturday tv is boring

I don't know whether the facts are correct or not but great post mate. We've made a really solid start and from here will get better and better. For the first time today I felt a little worry about Chelsea but actually they will concede too many goals imo.

 

[WNRH]

Can't stand it when people compare last seasons results, it's totally different.

 

[Deleted member 14625]

Last season we picked up 3 points in the very same games. Fulham away 2-2, Sunderland home 3-3 and west brom away 0-0.

We were worried we didn't look right about a month ago but today's performance was fantastic as was the win against Sunderland. We have an additional 6 points than we did last season. Something we can be very positive about.

We beat Arsenal last season and drew this; so four points better off, but better off all the same!<br /><br />-- Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:15 pm --<br /><br />

Can't stand it when people compare last seasons results, it's totally different.

I do agree with that though. The other team's form, our form, the time of year, the time of day, the weather conditions, the referee, injuries, suspensions... are all different for every corresponding game every season.

There will be games we won last season that we don't this - like Arsenal - too.

 

[Blue Haze]

Good point.

But we also pulled some results last season that are hard to repeat. 6 points from Tottenham comes to mind.

It is a big thing that we have so far improved on the corresponding games from last season. To improve on our overall points tally from last season would be brilliant and tough for anyone else to beat.

The TV pundits and press are unanimous that we are not at our best - yet we remain unbeaten and in just 8 games we have played 5 of the 10 fixtures we didnt win last year (thanks to the kind fixture organiser) - all those 5 were draws last year.

We are 4 points up according to my workings. Interstingly 6 plus points have actually come against 3 teams who are also doing better than they did last year in the same games. The worst thing is that we drew at home to Arsenal, who are comparatively struggling against last years results, we can't afford to drop any points against the bigger teams.
See the table below of comparative results to last year.

Meanwhile Chelsea are 11 points up and looking really good but what is interesting there is that they have won 4 away games that they drew last year - two of which were Wigan and QPR added to a win against the Geordies at home - games you would have expected them to win anyway so perhaps their increase this time around may be more due to a poor year last year when they failed to win 20 of their 38 games. The table below also shows that their improvement has come against 5 of the 6 comparatively worst performing teams in the league, teams who are having a bad year irrespective of the Chelsea game.

The general consensus out there is that Arsenal are real challengers and Swansea are having a worse year, the comparative results to date would suggest otherwise.

Diff Team
+11 CHE
+4 MNC
+3 EVE
+3 SUN
+3 WBA
+2 SWA
+1 FUL
+1 STO
-1 LIV
-1 MNU (-3 eve, -3 spuds; +2 liv, +3 newc)
-2 NOR
-2 TOT
-3 QPR
-4 AST
-5 ARS
-5 NEW
-9 WIG

stat attack over.(PS i straight swapped WHU, REA & SOT for WOL, BLB BOL)
saturday tv is boring

Thanks for that

 

[adrianr]

It is a big thing that we have so far improved on the corresponding games from last season. To improve on our overall points tally from last season would be brilliant and tough for anyone else to beat.

The TV pundits and press are unanimous that we are not at our best - yet we remain unbeaten and in just 8 games we have played 5 of the 10 fixtures we didnt win last year (thanks to the kind fixture organiser) - all those 5 were draws last year.

We are 4 points up according to my workings. Interstingly 6 plus points have actually come against 3 teams who are also doing better than they did last year in the same games. The worst thing is that we drew at home to Arsenal, who are comparatively struggling against last years results, we can't afford to drop any points against the bigger teams.
See the table below of comparative results to last year.

Meanwhile Chelsea are 11 points up and looking really good but what is interesting there is that they have won 4 away games that they drew last year - two of which were Wigan and QPR added to a win against the Geordies at home - games you would have expected them to win anyway so perhaps their increase this time around may be more due to a poor year last year when they failed to win 20 of their 38 games. The table below also shows that their improvement has come against 5 of the 6 comparatively worst performing teams in the league, teams who are having a bad year irrespective of the Chelsea game.

The general consensus out there is that Arsenal are real challengers and Swansea are having a worse year, the comparative results to date would suggest otherwise.

Diff Team
+11 CHE
+4 MNC
+3 EVE
+3 SUN
+3 WBA
+2 SWA
+1 FUL
+1 STO
-1 LIV
-1 MNU (-3 eve, -3 spuds; +2 liv, +3 newc)
-2 NOR
-2 TOT
-3 QPR
-4 AST
-5 ARS
-5 NEW
-9 WIG

stat attack over.(PS i straight swapped WHU, REA & SOT for WOL, BLB BOL)
saturday tv is boring

Great post. Think it highlights when others here were saying Chelsea would never make up the twenty odd point gap from last season, they seem more than on course to do it when we are actually down on our overall points at the same stage (and we'de played two pretty big away games by now already).

 

[Quicksilva21]

Best thing about the last 3 games but especially today was the 10 men busting their chops for the team... 6, 7 guys hightailing it back and then powering forward again onto attack... I didn't see the yards clocked up today but I'm sure it'd be impressive...

 

[SWP's back]

Can't stand it when people compare last seasons results, it's totally different.

It's very useful to work out how we are doing.

For example we know that if we now match out results from last season for the rest of this one, we finish on 93 points.