Yes. You lost control and almost let them take points.Borusse wrote:Jesus **** christ, what a mess in the second half. Somehow the 3 points are there, what a relief.
Lukas wrote:"Luck" to me is a one off event like winning the lottery. Yes luck exists in football for one off incidents but you can't win a major title on luck (yes even Madrid).
Dortmund still look worryingly resilient, like title winners. Like their hipster, YNWA droning friends from Merseyside
aterford wrote:^^ I've been banging this drum for a while too but nobody seems to want to listen that much. I haven't checked the numbers in a couple of seasons now, but just a couple years ago when you looked at point spread from top to bottom (first to last as you said), point spread between European spots/relegation zone, average points earned per match top vs bottom half, how 'tight' the points margins are (how close a title race, how close for european spots, how close for relegation, etc) and so on, the BL 'performed' better than the EPL by just about every measure, at least as it relates to parity or 'most competitive'.
For years you hear people say "EPL is the best league in the world" and then when one pushes back with the EPL's underwhelming record in Europe up until very recently, defenders will say "Okay, but it is the most competitive and most exciting," which also turns out to be largely unsupported by any objective measure. There are certainly some bad teams in BL, La Liga, etc, but the idea that the EPL has more quality top to bottom or that it's more 'competitive' or whatnot is really hard to support.
You've realistically got about three teams that have any chance at the title, about three more who have any hope of getting into European competition, and after that? Out of 20 teams in the league, 10 of them wouldn't look out of place if they were playing in the Championship.
Even compared with the BL (and I think it's fair to say this is perhaps a "down" year for the league) you've got probably 3 teams with a legit shot at the title (Bayern and Gladbach have probably every bit as much a chance to overtake Dortmund as City and Spurs have to overtake Liverpool, TBH) but then probably what, 6, 7, 8 teams who are still really fighting for a European spot?
MUTU wrote:The real answer is people confuse the word 'competitiveness' with 'predictability of title winner'.
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