Eight points in the first four games of 2017 meant another upturn in league position, but their defeat on 4 February at home to West Brom, and our win at Southampton that weekend, meant that we sat in
9th place in the table, two points clear of them in 11th.
But by the time we met them in the reverse fixture at their place early in February this year, our fortunes had picked up considerably, and the three goals from Carroll, Obiang and Noble in a 3 - 1 win pushed us up to
9th place in the table.
Not exact matches
But as for the recent games, Liverpool are not holding
in their best performance at
9th place on the
table whereas Leicester are having a bit of a down moment lately at 11th
place.
Leeds might only be five points out of the playoffs, but they are
in 9th place and have a difficult stretch of games coming up, with matches
in February against Cardiff City, Sheffield United, Bristol City and Derby County, all teams that are above Leeds
in the
table.
Anybody who saw them beat us convincingly 3 - 0
in the sixth game of the season, at which point they had a five point lead over us
in the
table, would be surprised that they now sit one
place and one point below us
in that congested area which sees Stoke
in 9th place on 29 points and Bournemouth
in 14th on 26.
We've created 9.57 chances per game on average,
placing us
9th in the chances created
table:
After the winter break, despite all their key players coming out of injury they were still finding it difficult to win games but nevertheless they managed to climb to
9th in the
table and booked a
place in the finals of the DFB - Pokal by beating Bayern on penalties.
31 points
placing 2013 - 14 season's runner - ups
9th in the point
table.