I have not the slightest doubt that you will be carry on being cretinous, the irony of a learning curve is clearly lost on you.
If you take the time to check the recent history, you will see that the teams that concede the most goals got relegated more often than the teams that score the least. But why let the facts get in the way of your silly little conspiracy theory.
Getting back to your original point, EVERY side has scored less than Man City, does that make everbody else certainties for relegation in your little world?! The breaking news is that only 3 teams get relegated.
Where we are falling down is not that we are failing to score as many goals as Man City - we have that in common with another 18 teams - it is that we are not getting any points from our games against top 10 teams. Of the bottom 11 teams, we have less points against top 10 teams than anybody else. We MUST pick up points against decent teams to have any hope of finishing above 3 other teams.

Sorry guys but it is neither one thing nor the other - leave the statistics to the economists.

We have to have a goal threat, hopefully Ledley, Ince and Murray will provide more of this in the next few months. Similarly, and rather obviously, we need to continue to be tight at the back and concede as few as possible.

If we win 1-0, 2-1, 5-4 or whatever is really does not matter - we get three points. We have to get three points five more times this season and, hopefully, after Saturday that will be down to four times.

If it does go down to goal difference then we will have severe problems but I think we will stay up by three or more points.

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