Before accusations of knee-jerking come, please hear me out.
I predicted us to finish 3rd and I stand by that. Us drubbing Everton won't change my opinion.
We drew today because of two defensive lapses but the attack is still the main culprit.
Any one that watched that game without blinkers will say Stoke found it easy to defend against us for the vast majority of the game.
For me, the reason why I always felt we would come at best third is the attack. I'm not going to sit here saying City are amazing cause they're not but watch them. One of the reasons why they always put teams under pressure is because they have so many angles of attack (wide areas, left and right, through the middle and through the channels). Although they do suffer from poor decision making, our problem is two fold.
We have nowhere near that variety in attacking play and our main attacker(I'm talking about the person who sees the ball the most in attacking areas with space...Valencia), has very poor attacking instincts in my opinion.
As much as we've improved, I still feel Chelsea, Spurs and City have more balanced XI.