Alreet bonny lads and lasses, how ya al'deein this autumnal Monday Morn?
We're at the fabled 10 game mark of the season.
So ... what do we think?
If we are the Main Stream Media "They're punching above their weight once again, having a good run of form but that 3 game run of defeats is their level.'
Truth is we're top of pretty much every metric. We're actually underachieving and considerably lower in the league than our output suggests.
In the back of our collective minds and pre-season comments confirm that we all knew injuries to key player was gonna be a major determining factor on where we were gonna end up.
So far we've not had our full-force-first team available.
Willock is coming back to fitness
Joelinton still doesn't look at his 100% aggressive devastating best
Botman out injured
Isak carrying an injury
Barnes crooked before he got going
Tonali suspended
Anderson back injury
Oh yeah & the real big loss, Krafth has been unavailable for Howe, so he's had to play his 2nd choice right back some fella called Trippier.
Currently we're sat in 6th on 17pts
There is a bit of a gap opening up between us & 4th of 6 points.
So I'm a little concerned that we are gonna end up being the 'best of the rest'
However, we're only 9pts from top and there is 28 games left to play so we're still in the mix. We are united, we are fighting, we are together.
To counter the negatives the reality of the situation is, we are no where near our best. As an example, Spurs are at Peak and are top of the league with no European football they are focused on the Prem. Good for them. It won't last.
Furthermore, we have Livramento, Hall & Louis Miley all pushing to become 1st team regulars so the future looks bright for us. We just need to stay in touch with the leading pack, 6-9pts is a reasonable bridge we can cross, so that down the home straight, end of Jan/Feb when the fixtures even out for the run in to the end of the season we can close that gap and move up into the top 4-5 positions as other teams run out of legs.
Ed and the team are doing a great job. The average position of a team playing their first season in the Champions League is 8th. So we're beating the average at present.
I'm confident that we'll be playing Champions League football again next season.
What are you lads and lasses thoughts on the matter?
Have a canny Monday & a belta of a week!
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