With simply 4 video games to go within the Premier League this season relegation has been determined.
For the second season in a row, all three promoted golf equipment have been despatched straight again down, and 14 factors separates these within the relegation zone and seventeenth positioned
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and have simply 10 wins between them this season, and there may be nonetheless an opportunity that the Saints end the marketing campaign because the joint-worst Premier League crew of all time.
However the place did all of it go mistaken?
A wrestle to outlive
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In keeping with Opta, that is the worst mixed factors complete of any group of promoted sides at this stage of the season in Premier League historical past
The three groups have solely managed to get 50 factors between them – after simply 34 video games – and are 14 factors behind the earlier report which was set final 12 months by Sheffield United, Burnley and Luton City.
Whereas Leicester and Southampton have seen adjustments within the dugout this season, Ipswich have caught with Kieran McKenna, however this has not modified their fortunes.
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Between them, they’ve picked up simply 21 factors at house, with Southampton and Ipswich successful simply as soon as in-front of their very own followers.
Promoted sides face ‘extra of a problem’
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And issues look set to get much more tough for these arising from the Championship.
In keeping with Opta, 5 of the bottom eight Premier League factors totals for promoted sides after 34 video games have come within the final eight years. Southampton are presently on the joint-lowest factors complete ever at this stage of the season, alongside Derby County.
Ipswich boss McKenna stated the hole between the Premier League and the Championship “is getting larger” and that “it has been getting extra of a problem for golf equipment to have the ability to bridge that”.