Few people truly believe Spurs will catch Chelsea in the race for the Premier League title, but that’s not what Power Rankings are about, are they?
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Not to us. Our PLPR’s have always been about how a team’s current form melds into their overall season, and that just may be enough for us to put a new team up top for the first time in a while.
That’s if we don’t change our mind by the time we finish filling out the chart...
| TEAM | RANKING | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| | 20 (20) | Sunderland: Stewing on their plight through the weekend, and daydreaming of burying derby mates Middlesbrough next time out. | |
| 19 (19) | Middlesbrough: Single-handedly making the argument for offense, Boro’s decent defense hasn’t been helped nearly enough by those outside of Alvaro Negredo. | ||
| | 18 (18) | Swansea City: Guidolin goes defense? Swans lose. Bradley goes for broke? Swans lose. Clement tries a bunch of things? Swans show signs of life for a bit... but only a bit. Swans lose. | |
| 17 (16) | Hull City: #BeTwoPointsBetterThanSwansea doesn’t go great on a shirt or a Tweet, but it’s the strategy. | ||
| | 16 (15) | West Ham United: Need a summer of rest and a transfer window in a bad way. | |
| 15 (13) | Bournemouth: After a 3-week gauntlet of Liverpool, Chelsea, and Spurs, “Home to Boro” probably looks amazing on the fixture list. | ||
| | 14 (14) | Burnley: If there was a home Champions League (6th best record), Burnley would be headed for Europe. Only problem? The Clarets are two losses away from a winless season away from Turf Moor. | |
| T-11 (12) | Crystal Palace: Tip of the cap to ol’ Sam Allardyce. We just wish he was willing to take a little bit of credit. | ||
| T-11 (9) | West Bromwich Albion: “ALRIGHT BOYS, WE’RE GONNA GET TO 40 POINTS OR SO, THEN WE’LL DISTRIBUTE POINTS TO EVERYONE ELSE THE REST OF THE WAY. LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO,” Tony Pulis in August, probably. | ||
| T-11 (17) | Stoke City: Finally back in the win column, Stoke rises | ||
| 10 (10) | Leicester City: With the Champions League era over, can we all agree that Leicester, unfettered by Europe, will probably win the league next season? Arsenal’s next. | ||
| 9 (7) | Southampton: Man City loss reminds us that Virgil van Dijk was really important. | ||
| 8 (11) | Watford: Winners of three-in-four and that loss came to Spurs, who look capable of outracing a fighter jet right now. | ||
| 7 (8) | Arsenal: Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez are the main reasons the Gunners aren’t comfortably seventh or worse. | ||
| 6 (5) | Everton: We know the Toffees can dust the lower half of the table, but they really need to beat Chelsea or Arsenal in the run-in to engender any Top Four confidence for next season. | ||
| 5 (4) | Liverpool: Quietly (?) unbeaten in seven. | ||
| | 4 (6) | Manchester City: For the first time since their red-hot start, City is starting to consistently show what a Pep Guardiola team can be in the Premier League. Will summer reinforcements allow them to do it for a full year? | |
| T-2 (3) | Manchester United: Still have not lost in league play since October 23rd. | ||
| T-2 (1) | Chelsea: Yes, they are going to win the league. No, we wouldn’t pick them on a neutral field against Spurs right now. Yes, they’ll probably prove us wrong at Wembley this weekend. | ||
| 1 (2) | Tottenham Hotspur: The best team going right now, just too late to make a difference to the title fight. Probably. Right? |
