[Albion] Do we deserve to be third in the league?

7oaksgull said:

After the first 8 league games we currently sit 13th in the table with 9 points. There hasn’t been a single game yet when we got more points than the performance merited or where we’re lucky to get something. In four of them we certainly got what we deserved; nothing from City and Chelsea away and the wins against Watford and Spurs. You could argue we maybe deserved a point from the Southampton game but after going down to 10 men so early in that match it’s not clear cut so let’s focus on the other three matches. As far as I’m aware I think most neutrals would agree that against Newcastle, Burnley and West Ham we were the better side and deserved to win, rather than drawing those games. That’s an additional 6 points that we maybe should have and a total of 15 points at this stage would put us third in the table. I know that the table doesn’t lie etc and we didn’t win those 3 games due to failing to take our chances or convert our dominance into goals. But we have been the better side in 5 or maybe 6 matches this season.

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SIMMO SAYS said:

I fell asleep reading this

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7oaksgull said:

After the first 8 league games we currently sit 13th in the table with 9 points. There hasn’t been a single game yet when we got more points than the performance merited or where we’re lucky to get something. In four of them we certainly got what we deserved; nothing from City and Chelsea away and the wins against Watford and Spurs. You could argue we maybe deserved a point from the Southampton game but after going down to 10 men so early in that match it’s not clear cut so let’s focus on the other three matches. As far as I’m aware I think most neutrals would agree that against Newcastle, Burnley and West Ham we were the better side and deserved to win, rather than drawing those games. That’s an additional 6 points that we maybe should have and a total of 15 points at this stage would put us third in the table. I know that the table doesn’t lie etc and we didn’t win those 3 games due to failing to take our chances or convert our dominance into goals. But we have been the better side in 5 or maybe 6 matches this season.

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Hugo Rune said:

No, we don’t deserve to be third although without VAR, we might have three more points or so.

At the same time, Palace don’t deserve to be sixth. Fortunately their next 6 games are all against top 7 teams (who they’ve been stubbornly avoiding so far). I’m looking forward to them being in a much more realistic position come December 1st, can’t see them having more than 17 points by then.

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