Oh yeah, opening day. Not a terrible result although Brentford only got their first home win of the season this weekend.
Fairly easy start. You’d expect them to win at least 5, and maybe get another 5 points from the others so they’re slightly exceeding expectations. Had we held in for that draw the hype (from elsewhere) would be dialled down a bit.
Let them get all the headlines while we quietly win our next 3 before City.
Hype wouldn't have dialed down, Ange factor and the Fleet Street loving London teams would keep pushing it.
And depends what expectations you are setting, but I would say right now with who they have faced, they should win the games they've won other than ours, and we all know how disputable that result is.
They've had an easy start frankly. We've had the motherfucker of all starts, and yet we are only 3 points behind this title challengers apparently (and about 10 seconds in a horrendously officiated game from being on equal points)
Looking at future fixtures as well while we have difficult games we don't really have a hard run until about around Christmas (United, Arsenal and Newcastle at home) and a fair few difficult matches together, but nothing like the start we've had.
In essence I think people are vastly underestimating how good a start we have in fact had
