Just for fun, I was checking out the results from Arsenal's "Invincibles" season.
By the time they finished playing their 12th PL game of the season they had 3 draws:
- Arsenal 1 - Portsmouth 1 (game 5)
- Man Utd 0 - Arsenal 0 (game 6)
- Charlton Athletic 1 - Arsenal 1 (game 10)
They had beaten Everton, Boro, Villa, Man City pre-Abu Dhabi buyout, Newcastle, us (a game that included a Hyypiä own goal, sadly), Chelsea, Leeds and Spurs.
TBF this was shortly before I started following LFC and watching the League every week so I ask out of actual curiosity: were Portsmouth and Charlton decent back then, or those draws were more like freak results?
Anyway, enough about L'Arse. Different decade, different context in the League. I just posted this because I really fucking hope we end up going unbeaten - and
yes, I know how unlikely that'd be. I'm not getting carried away yet. We came so close last year and... well, incredibly fine margins.
Curiously enough, we also had 3 draws in 12 matches last season...
- Chelsea 1 - Liverpool 1 (game 7, with that glorious Sturridge last-minute equalizer)
- Liverpool 0 - Man City 0 (game 8, with Mahrez missing his penalty)
- Arsenal 1 - Liverpool 1 (game 11)
which shows we've already improved on 2 of those fixtures (beating both Chelsea and ManCity).