Too many draws!

[abbobrom]

Looking at the Premier League table we have been involved in eleven drawn games this season.. It tells us that we have become a hard team to beat, with Man City Leicester Arsenal and ourselves only loosing six games. However, we also have the least number of wins in the top nine teams.

If those eleven draws had have been wins, we would be sitting in second place with 57 points. Having said that, without those draws we would be sitting alongside West Ham in the relegation places. If we could have won just five of those drawn games we would be in the top four. Leicester away and Southampton at home we were certainly unlucky to only draw, while our home fixture against spurs should at worst have been a draw.

As on Saturday, at Old Trafford we must become more clinical in front of goal. The table is so tight this season and a few losses could well see us in mid table. We are not in danger of the drop, but we are still only five points above 15th place.

Just had another look at the table and the Mighty Arsenal have drawn 13

[nortonwolf]

Looking at the Premier League table we have been involved in eleven drawn games this season.. It tells us that we have become a hard team to beat, with Man City Leicester Arsenal and ourselves only loosing six games. However, we also have the least number of wins in the top nine teams.

If those eleven draws had have been wins, we would be sitting in second place with 57 points. Having said that, without those draws we would be sitting alongside West Ham in the relegation places. If we could have won just five of those drawn games we would be in the top four. Leicester away and Southampton at home we were certainly unlucky to only draw, while our home fixture against spurs should at worst have been a draw.

As on Saturday, at Old Trafford we must become more clinical in front of goal. The table is so tight this season and a few losses could well see us in mid table. We are not in danger of the drop, but we are still only five points above 15th place.

Just had another look at the table and the Mighty Arsenal have drawn 13

We only need to concede one or two less and score one or two more... the clean sheet on Saturday is a good platform to build on. Looking at the league table Sheffield United have only conceded less goals than Liverpool thus far, very impressive.

[Woking88]

If you look at the stats, this season compared to last is about converting losses into draws. We need to move on to turning the draws into wins. Let's hope that the signing of Podence puts pressure on the other forwards and himself, to be sharper in front of goal. We are creating enough chances, but just not putting enough away.

I would add that I prefer our remaining fixture list to that of most of our rivals.

[abbobrom]

I agree Wokes, but the problem is we seem to have difficulty beating the lower half of the table teams. At least Huddersfield are not in the league again this year!!!

[MichiganWolf]

To be fair, I think we've improved somewhat in this regard. We were 2-7-2 in the first 11 matches of the season. Since then, we are 6-4-4 over the next 14.

Need to continue to improve to be a contender for a Champions League spot. Only once in the last five seasons has a team received one of the top 4 spots in the league without getting to 20 wins, and that was Manchester City in 2015-16.

I think a CL spot is almost out of the question for this year, but we could get the 5th spot, which means automatic qualification to the group stage and saving the legs of our players from the qualifying matches.

[abbobrom]

A very good point Mich. Normally 38 pts is enough to avoid relegation, but looking at the table it could be quite a crush in the middle.