Rating all 20 golf equipment by factors received from dropping positions

There are two methods to get Premier League factors.

First, the wise means, by simply beating different groups primarily fairly comfortably. That is the tactic most well-liked this season for, say, Arsenal and is usually higher for the general well being of your supporters.

However there’s one other means, and that’s to be garbage, go behind as usually as not, after which continuously roar again to win thrillingly. That is largely an unsustainable methodology and clearly far riskier, however will also be very thrilling. We’ll name this the Spurs Technique.

So which staff has had most success scrambling factors from dropping positions this season, then? Nicely it’s Spurs, clearly. And not just in the Premier League. However what concerning the different 19 lesser Premier League golf equipment? A blended bag…

 

20. Leicester Metropolis – 0pts
8 deficits, 8 defeats

The excellent news, although, is that they’ve at the least stopped going behind on a regular basis. 5 wins within the final eight now for Brendan Rodgers’ not horrible staff. They’ve simply occurred to attain first in all of them. Holding these leads is important, although, because they also spent the first six weeks of the season spaffing those away.

 

19. Wolves – 1pt
10 deficits, 1 draw, 9 defeats

One thing for Julen Lopetegui to consider right here. In all probability second merchandise for his in-tray simply behind the associated downside of “by no means scoring any objectives”. Brentford’s failure to carry a 1-0 lead for greater than a minute or two makes them the one dafties to have failed to finish the formalities after going forward towards the goal-shy Wolves.

 

18. Nottingham Forest – 1pt
9 deficits, 1 draw, 8 defeats

The 96th-minute own-goal equaliser they snaffled towards Brentford the opposite week wasn’t simply the primary level Forest have salvaged this season, it was additionally their first equaliser of any variety within the Premier League this season. That appears actually fairly mad.

 

17. Newcastle – 3pts
4 deficits, 3 attracts, 1 defeat

Clearly essentially the most important quantity right here is the 4. That’s clearly a really small variety of video games to fall behind in, and getting one thing out of three-quarters of the video games you fall behind can also be fairly good. The absence of a win is a minor pisser right here, nevertheless it’s a powerful degree of spunk nonetheless. The one lead they’ve been unable to quash was towards Liverpool, who didn’t go in entrance till the final minute. Newcastle are very laborious to beat. As Large Boss Winty put it, they have a floor now that permits them to make the primary severe case for amending the variety of Bigs within the Premier League since Man Metropolis and Spurs gatecrashed the previous Large 4 a decade in the past.

 

16. Arsenal – 3pts
2 deficits, 1 win, 1 defeat

Arsenal, like rattling fools, have condemned themselves to a spot close to the foot of this desk by giving themselves vanishingly few alternatives to win factors from dropping positions. Factors per sport after falling behind is strong, although. Fulham had been handled after having the temerity to go 1-0 up on the Emirates. Manchester United had been very a lot not handled after comparable impertinence at Previous Trafford. Arsenal have nonetheless been behind for lower than an hour within the Premier League this season.

 

15. Everton – 4pts
9 deficits, 1 win, 1 draw, 7 defeats

Everton don’t usually get something when falling behind, however once they do they do it quick. The equaliser towards Forest got here eight minutes after Brennan Johnson thought he’d received it, whereas the turnaround at Southampton was even swifter and extra dramatic. Barely 5 minutes had elapsed after Joe Aribo had put the Saints forward early within the second half earlier than Conor Coady and Dwight McNeil had turned it throughout.

 

14. Brentford – 4pts
8 deficits, 4 attracts, 4 defeats

Avoiding defeat in half the video games you fall behind is strong sufficient, but when we’re being grasping you’d need a kind of attracts to be a win to essentially end up in correct Combating Qualities territory. That stated, these had been good preventing attracts. From 2-0 down at Leicester on the opening day, after which equalisers within the 84th and 88th minutes towards Everton and Palace in back-to-back video games. Pesky reality: all that occurred in August. The purpose gained at Forest was actually extra a case of two misplaced given each the lateness of the Forest equaliser and the actual fact it was Forest who hadn’t managed an equaliser all season till that time.

 

13. Manchester United – 4pts
6 deficits, 1 win, 1 draw, 4 defeats

Everton’s early lead grew to become a United lead earlier than half-time because of Cristiano Ronaldo’s long-awaited 700th membership purpose, whereas Casemiro’s late header snatched a degree at Chelsea. United got here near claiming a degree from the opening-day defeat to Brighton, nevertheless it’s honest to say they didn’t come notably near salvaging something from their different defeats at Brentford, Metropolis and Villa.

 

12. Manchester Metropolis – 4pts
4 deficits, 1 win, 1 draw, 2 defeats

Bonus factors within the ‘making life unnecessarily laborious for themselves simply to really feel alive’ stakes for salvaging all these 4 factors from two objectives down through a 3-3 draw at Newcastle and 4-2 win over Crystal Palace.

 

11. West Ham – 5pts
12 deficits, 1 win, 2 attracts, 9 defeats

It’s an inexpensive variety of factors recovered from scrambling, however they’ve come from far too many deficits actually, haven’t they? It’s nicely beneath 0.5pts per deficit. The draw at dwelling to Spurs felt essential – I imply, it’s at all times an essential fixture however particularly so after the Hammers had simply arrested a three-game dropping begin – and a 3-1 dwelling win towards Fulham would have been worthy sufficient even with out having to return again from conceding inside 5 minutes. Getting a degree after going behind to Ralph Hasenhuttl’s Southampton is simply par for everybody as a result of dropping factors from successful positions is simply one of many issues Ralph Hasenhuttl’s facet appreciated to do. He might be missed.

 

10. Aston Villa – 5pts
10 deficits, 1 win, 2 attracts, 7 defeats

Unai Emery has remodeled Villa’s season within the area of two video games. Danny Ings’ double at Brighton not solely secured Villa’s first away win of the season, but additionally their first win from behind this season. Shrewd work from the Villans – in the event you’re going to win from behind it is sensible to concede within the very first minute to maximise the chance of a comeback. That’s simply maths.

 

9. Bournemouth – 6pts
9 deficits, 2 wins, 7 defeats

The wondrously inconceivable second-half fightback at Nottingham Forest kickstarted the Gary O’Neil revolution, whereas Leicester had been additionally crushed in a sport Bournemouth trailed at half-time. Wins if you’re not simply dropping however dropping at half-time are notably satisfying and neat, so nicely finished Bournemouth for that. Now to cease spaffing away two-goal leads.

 

8. Liverpool – 6pts
8 deficits, 1 win, 3 attracts, 4 defeats

Given the place Liverpool have been for the previous couple of years, the headline determine is the sheer variety of deficits; they’ve gone behind in over half their Premier League video games this season, which is simply too many. And whereas their report in these video games is okay by most requirements, for a membership compelled to purpose at 90 factors and up each season you may’t afford to be turning solely a kind of eight deficits right into a victory.

 

7. Chelsea – 6pts
7 deficits, 2 wins, 5 defeats

All or extra normally nothing when Chelsea discover themselves behind this season. The West Ham win was notably satisfying for the lateness of the comeback and absurd luck they loved within the closing moments, whereas Conor Gallagher’s late winner at Crystal Palace was positively dripping in narrative.

 

6. Leeds – 7pts
10 deficits, 2 wins, 1 draw, 7 defeats

The primary win got here on the opening day towards Wolves, the second thrillingly yet to the disgust of professional misery guts Gabby Agbonlahor from 3-1 down towards Bournemouth extra not too long ago.

 

5. Fulham – 7pts
9 deficits, 2 wins, 1 draw, 6 defeats

A pair of 3-2 comeback wins at Forest and Leeds are the headlines right here, whereas Fulham got here inside a whisker of being the primary staff this season to take a degree off Manchester United after falling behind within the closing Premier League sport earlier than the World Cup.

 

4. Brighton – 7pts
8 deficits, 2 wins, 1 draw, 4 defeats

Thrashing early-season Leicester barely counts as a result of early-season Leicester made one thing of a behavior of getting thrashed from successful positions this season, however scrambling a 3-3 draw at Liverpool by means of a Leandro Trossard hat-trick after going 2-0 up and 3-2 down was definitely memorable. Had been 1-0 up and 2-1 down towards Wolves earlier than lastly taking all of the factors because of Pascal Gross’ late winner.

 

3. Southampton – 8pts
13 deficits, 2 wins, 2 attracts, 9 defeats

Southampton are seemingly contractually obliged to drop extra factors than just about anybody else each season, so it’s in all probability prudent of them to develop a cheerful knack of scavenging a few of their very own. Let’s gloss over the ’13 deficits’ factor of this for now and deal with the candy, candy nectar of eight treasured factors snaffled after falling behind. Successful two video games from behind at this stage of the season is spectacular sufficient for anybody, by no means thoughts a staff that has solely managed three wins full cease. Chelsea and Leicester the autumn guys in a pair of 2-1s, in the event you had been questioning.

 

2. Crystal Palace – 12pts
9 deficits, 4 wins, 5 defeats

Palace had been handed arguably the hardest begin of any staff within the Premier League this season and it’s solely in latest weeks that outcomes and league place have began to replicate their true degree. That may not have been the case had dwelling video games towards Leeds and Wolves through which Palace discovered themselves a purpose down not led to 2-1 wins, thoughts. The identical scoreline and a 94th-minute purpose from Michael Olise did for West Ham to briefly put Palace high of this desk earlier than Spurs did one other nonsense.

 

1. Tottenham – 13pts
9 deficits, 4 wins, 1 draw, 4 defeats

They’re simply beginning to take the piss, to be sincere. Having already received conspicuous factors from dropping positions by thrashing Southampton 4-1 and Leicester 6-2 in addition to burgling maybe the least deserved level of the whole season at Stamford Bridge, Spurs took their nonsense to a complete new degree with an nearly sarcastically unhealthy first half at Bournemouth adopted by a blockbuster closing half-hour to report their third win from a dropping place. And so happy had been they with this completely baffling gameplan that they determined to copy it with knobs on in Europe, to additional notable if inexplicable success. Tried and didn’t do the identical once more towards Liverpool however, undeterred, saved maybe their greatest for final by falling behind not as soon as, not twice, however 3 times towards Leeds earlier than scoring twice within the final 10 minutes to snag all of the factors from the baffled Yorkshiremen. No staff within the Premier League has received extra factors from behind than Spurs. No staff within the Champions League has received extra factors from behind than Spurs. Of their 40 factors this season throughout the 2 competitions, half have come from a dropping place. They’re a daft and fairly often shit soccer staff, however – like Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs – they discover a means.