Has anyone even bothered to look at our actual form? Has anyone compared it to say our rivals?
I can only assume based on the general Ole out bashing that still continues relentlessly among our supporters that they clearly haven't.
In the PL - We are only bettered by Liverpool, Leicester & Wolves in terms of recent form (last 6 PL games)
- Liverpool & Leicester have both won all their previous 6 PL games
- Wolves with 3 Wins & 3 Draws
- United 3 Wins, 2 Draws 1 Loss
Our form is currently the same as Spurs, better than City, Chelsea & Arsenal!
https://www.soccerstats.com/formtable.asp?league=england
But to take an ever bigger time frame of say double that and over all competitions (12 games), Only Liverpool & Leicester are currently in better form that United.
Remember the below table is each teams last 12 matches across all competitions.
I appreciate that the draws to SU & Villa were frustrating, but missing 2 important players in Pogba and McTominay didn't help. Fred was completely over ran in midfield and we conceded 5 goals in 2 games, the proof is there.
When these 2 games are looked at in a smaller picture mentality it is bad, but when you take slightly bigger sample size of form and compare it to our rivals (Context), then it isn't so bad.
Folks have used Lampard as an apparent reason that Ole is failing, his form is currently worse than ours and that new manager bounce seems to be fading quickly and I'm suddenly not seeing Lampard's name mentioned as much.
Team | Played | Won | Draw | Lost |
Leicester | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
Liverpool | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 |
Man United | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 |
Man City | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 |
Wolves | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
Spurs | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
Chelsea | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
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Anyway thought I'd highlight this and try add some context and actual facts of our current form here but no doubt the doom mongering Ole out Mafia will not be having this.