That may be true but we the fact is we shipped far too many goals. You could say that some of the clean sheets came against weaker opposition. It's part of the DDG argument rather than the rice one but we still let into too many goals
43 is not ‘too many’. It’s not good, definitely for a title contending team, but not catastrophic, the same amount we conceded last time we won the league. The remaining 35 or 33 games include home games against the same teams we conceded loads to too, so the ‘weaker teams’ argument doesn’t fly.
Then you take the nature of those collapses into account where we conceded 4 goals or more in one half, and there’s cause for confidence with our defensive organisation in general. You limit those 3 games to just 2 conceded per game and we end up with the best defensive record at 32 goals. Those are bad losses, but in general when we had our best players playing we were a tough nut to crack.
Our goalscoring is definitely the biggest issue. 58 is piss poor, full stop.