I don't fully understand how we have "missed" him.. We played shite when he played and when he hasn't played. Wasn't it Gerrard before who when he played we won and we he didn't we lossed? Just accept we are just shite at the minute!
With Lucas
P12 W6 D4 L2 Pts22
Extrapolated to 30 games, that's 55 points, level with Tottenham (4th).
Without Lucas
P18 W5 D5 L8 Pts20
Extrapolated to 30 games, that's 33 points, 1 point behind Aston Villa (15th).
Assuming our current goal difference, our form with Lucas would put us 5th, level with Tottenham, while our form without Lucas would put us 15th, 7 points above the relegation places. Oh, and those 12 games with Lucas includes 5 games against the top 5, a majority of them away, while the 18 games without Lucas only includes 4 games against the top 5, with half of them away, so the minitables above are actually disproportionately kinder on our form without Lucas. We still have an away game against a top 5 team to come, and our form against the top 5 is abysmal without Lucas (P4 W0 D1 L3).