Four players in the PFA Team of the Season is scant consolation for what looks likely to be another trophyless season. The fact that we have very good players who've been recognized as such by their peers is...nice! But I have no doubt they'd all do without the recognition if it meant raising the league title. That's what they play for. The rest is trimmings. I can't argue with the selections really - the four chosen players have had good to excellent seasons.
Having said that, is it unfair to have expected Cesc to score four more goals in the EPL? Is it unfair to feel Adebayor should've buried four more chances in the league to put him on 25 goals at the time of writing? The eight additional goals might not have made a difference but maybe they would have. There's no way to know for sure. With all the suggested "reasons" why we've failed to win anything, 15 additional points would have been more than enough to win the league.
We've drawn 11 and lost 3 to date. If 7 of the 8 additional goals were scored in 7 of the 11 draws, that would give us 14 more points. If the 8th goal were scored vs either, Boro, Chelsea, or Utd (our 3 defeats, all by one goal), that would give us a total of 15 more points. We'd now be on 89 and champions. I'm not placing the weight of the entire season of Cesc and Adebayor. I just feel that we weren't that far away. We didn't collapse as much as we weren't proficient when we needed to be.
The question of why Hleb or Eboue or any other combination of players didn't contribute more goals is for another day.
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