aye. time makes fools of us all.
Yep, and what about Chelsea and their flaws? Overlooked?
They are so poor in attack it's worrying. They dominated possession at St. James' Park and mustered something like two shots on goal! Hazard as well proving to be quite an underwhelming signing in the short term, he can grow, but this season he has been really poor. Mata still isn't playing. They have huge problems and will struggle this season, I'm certain. With four strikers as well including Lukaku I'm not sure they'll bring anyone in come January and the same goes for the AM positions even if they let go of Mata. Possibility of El Shaarawy maybe.
Man City's flaws are less obvious, but they certainly have them. In defence they have looked really poor and disorganised when Kompany has been absent, and even when he is there they aren't on the same level as they were in 11/12 and Kompany himself isn't close the player he was then. Other than that, with their options they are forced to play one of Nasri or Navas it seems and both are awful other than a few flash in the pan performances. The Hart problem is obviously an issue too.
We have been without any wingers for most of the season, and our best player from last season has also been out in Cazorla. Our squad has been stretched and a lot of players who weren't expected to play much at all have been brilliant, like Flamini and Gnabry. Yet we've still had some terrific performances and were very unlucky to leave with nothing against one of the best teams in Europe, Dortmund. Yeah we have depth issues at CF with Bendtner our second choice until January, but elsewhere, absolutely not. The main thing I'm worried about is the lack of rest some players are getting and Ozil in particular is looking jaded at times. But now that we are out of the COC, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
We're five points clear. It's far too early to be pulling us out of the title race already, especially looking at how poor Chelsea are looking and how Man City still have a lot of questions to answer. The media loves it though. First we hadn't been tested by any quality opposition and needed a test. We beat Liverpool convincingly and almost picked up the points against Dortmund. Now we still need a test... Eh!?!?
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I don't think we have played that well either. Sure we've been very good at times. but at this stage last season we had played comfortably better, just been unlucky in games.
I guess the difference is literally lukaku over jelavic and a better rub of the green.
I can't see Spurs doing much at Goodison, even a draw would be a good result IMO.
Calling it now. Everton to win and go second.
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