It is not unexpected and that is how they can become so dominant in league. Winning a league requires consistency. City has the resources to have at least 2 world class players at every position. This takes away any injury crisis risk that other rivals facing. Once the other teams enter into an injury period at some point in the season, that will be when City will run away with the points. Last year that happens as well when Arsenal had the injury crisis near end of season. If Arsenal has the same resources for their backups, they would have won the title last year. Unfortunately nothing can be stopped unless we somehow managed to sanction City and restrict their unfair unlimited resources.