League table order.........

 

Manchester City 41-12 14-2

Manchester United 47-25 14-6

Leicester City 35-34 10-9

Chelsea 54-18 10-3

WHU 43-36 12-9

 

 

 

 

Just seven days ago I sided with Arsenal away to Southampton and spoke at the time about their improved recent form, especially on the road and how they had prioritised the league heavily over the FA Cup, despite being holders of the latter ................

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ligue 2 game last night played out perfectly and mirrored all those stats, being 0-0 at the break and with Toulouse scoring the only goal of the game early in the second half and hopefully we have found some other good positions to take advantage of this evening. This "middle" part of the season is when these "in play" stats tend to stand up best.

 

 

 

 

Burnley have won 1/8 on the road and their sole win in that sequence came versus a team who played 40 minutes a man short yet still dominated the game statistically ( 6-2 on target, 13-4 corners, 3-1 BC's, 12-7 ITB, 2-6 saves). They have had 24 hours less time to recover to prepare for this and had a tough hard fought game with inform Manchester United on Tuesday which they kindly lost 1-0 and ahead of which I noted ...........