no idea. don’t think I said it was impossible to be successful with below average players - our squad under Bielsa being a case in point Don’t think their success is sustainable to be honest, but good luck to them. I’m just making the point that teams with better players generally do better, and that changing managers often doesn’t help.
We’re still outrunning all our opponents as a team, but maybe the intensity has dropped I don’t know. I doubt it’s effort. The comparison with Sunderland is an interesting one, our expected points is still above theirs, they’ve had a bit of luck no doubt but they dont make things easy for people. We’ve conceded twice as many goals as them, but our expected goals against is almost identical to theirs, Farke was right yesterday when he said games at this level are decided on small details, we’re getting those details wrong. What proportion is him v players I guess is open to debate. I always targeted villa as our best chance of points in this run of games. They’ve been poor this season and rode their luck in their winning run. The Bournemouth games was never a 4-0 kind of game but they deserved their win and are hitting form at the wrong time for us.
