Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Similarly to last season though some of these magical runs they go on are actually just a few stand out wins surrounded by some very lucky wins. I've often said that this season they've been nowhere near where they were last seaspn but they've banged on as though this run is a portent of a title challenging era just around the corner. Complete rubbish when you actually examine how they've been playing.
The wheels could have come off at any point. They should have been mauled against Southampton in what was quite frankly an embarassment for a supposedly 'unbiased' premier league. They were poor against Swansea and also poor against Tottenham. These games should at least have been draws possibly losses. They even let Aguero have enough shots on goal against City to lose that even though they played well. They won them all however because it was Coutinho wonder goals nearly every game, keepers like Lloris having howlers, favourable refereeing, luck with deflections, and awful finishing against them. Not in all the games, but in some of them. You take that away and they could be 11 behind United now. You can't do that all season. At some point your one shot on target doesnt go in (although they still managed that on Sunday, the leagues top keeper beaten on his near post, by their only shot, dont remember that in our game at Old Trafford), teams won't miss every single chance you give them, deflections wont always go in. Then what do you have left? Quite an average team with a lot of huff and puff who press quite well. Shouldn't be anywhere near the top 4 though when you compare their squads to United and Arsenal. I mean Herrera and Mata v Allen and Henderson was embarassing.
