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Are we doing so bad that ML needed a sack (last year compared to this year)
at 12:50 5 Feb 2014

Last year was exceptional and in many ways a season much better than we could expect.

Facts: last year we managed to grab 8 point from our games against the top 7:
(Arsenal 3, United 1, City 1, Chelsea 1, Everton 1, Liverpool 1 and Tottenham 0)
If you take those points of the table — we would have ended at 38 point — 2 points away from relegation.
When looking at budgets, players and so on, then any point against top 7 must be considered as a bonus.

This season we have — so far — managed to grab just 1 point (Liverpool) against the top 7 (same teams as last season). Of the 14 games against the top 7 we only have 4 games left (Chelsea (home) and Arsenal, Liverpool and Everton (away)). Still we have managed to gather 24 points (23 if taking away Liverpool).

Is the team performing poorly in terms of getting points on the board? Say it does and it continues to do so. By that rational, it would mean that we should only manage to get the same amount of points that we have gotten so far against the teams we remain to meet (not from top 7): West Bromwich, Norwich, Stoke, Southampton, Aston Villa, Newcastle, Sunderland, Hull, Crystal Palace and Cardiff.
So far we have gotten 16 point in those 10 games, and by adding them to 23, we will end at 39 point (40 when including the 1 point against Liverpool).

Is that a crises? 6 points less than last season? Considering the amount of games played this season (adding up last year by winning the Cup), where we are still in the FA (beating United) and still in the Europa League, and comparing that with the lack of quality entering the squad not to mention the injuries among key players, one should actually be surprised, that we are not placed lower in the table already.

Face it. Last season started out against teams not in top 7 and after a fantastic start, we settled. Halfway after having met top 7 we were good in the middle of things. Then came more games against teams not in top 7, and we looked good. In fact so good that supporters tend to forget, that we only got 6 points in our last 10 games last season. 6 points in 10 games!

Now it is sort of the other way around. We started out tough with many games against top 7, and now we are at it again (almost done). We have 14 games left and of those, just 4 games against teams in top 7. Some argue that we have gotten too few points over the past 7-8 games. Other than a win against Fulham and a loss to West Ham we have met: Tottenham, United, City, Villa, Chelsea, and Everton (we managed 1 point against Villa). Five teams from top 7 and 0 points. That was to be expected.

With the games ahead there is absolutely no way that we should be afraid of relegation med ML in control. With Monk it might be a different story, however the quality of the team alone should do the trick and keep Swansea in PL. But sacking ML should never have been an issue.

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