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Half term report – League Only
Our Boxing Day meeting with Watford (1-1) marked the halfway point in our season back in the Premier League. So where do we stand?
Our recent (2017-18) ‘first season back’ in the Championship saw us start with losing our first two matches (Brentford - H) and Middlesbrough - A), before ‘finding our feet’. Indeed, we would spend the first half of that season in the top six (actually topping the table after our win at Leeds on October 27th).
We would eventually finish the season in a very creditable tenth place which may be seen by some as ‘disappointing’. The current season has (so far) followed a similar trajectory but there the similarities end.
We are now competing in the ‘best/richest league in the world’ where our sustained presence in the top flight will cement our status for years to come. As I write, we have managed to get crucial points ‘in the bag’ making a nervous end to this season unlikely.
League position
Whatever happens now, this has been an excellent ‘first season back’:
Full Premier League table
United’s League positions over this season:
Squad
Top scorers
Mousset – 5
Fleck – 4
Lundstram – 3
McBurnie – 3
Baldrick – 2
Norwood – 1
Robinson – 1
Sharp – 1
Strearman – 1
Own Goals - 2
Time scored
Goals scored
United have scored the first goal in eight games this season and have yet to lose one of these games (Won 6, Drawn 2)
Crowds
Total League Crowds so far: 628,118
Total Home Crowds so far: 307,992 (Average: 30,799) Highest = 32,024 v. Man. United. Lowest = 30,079 v. Leicester
Total Away Crowds so far: 320,126 (Average: 35,570) Highest: 59,878 v. West Ham. Lowest: 10,714 v. Bournemouth.
Chris Wilder/Alan Knill
Prior to this season, our three seasons – one in Division One, two in the Championship – saw our management team yield a Win % of 55.07 (points per game = 1.87). Including our current half-season in the Premier League, this is now 52.87% (p.p.g. = 1.83). Not bad!
Our Boxing Day meeting with Watford (1-1) marked the halfway point in our season back in the Premier League. So where do we stand?
Our recent (2017-18) ‘first season back’ in the Championship saw us start with losing our first two matches (Brentford - H) and Middlesbrough - A), before ‘finding our feet’. Indeed, we would spend the first half of that season in the top six (actually topping the table after our win at Leeds on October 27th).
We would eventually finish the season in a very creditable tenth place which may be seen by some as ‘disappointing’. The current season has (so far) followed a similar trajectory but there the similarities end.
We are now competing in the ‘best/richest league in the world’ where our sustained presence in the top flight will cement our status for years to come. As I write, we have managed to get crucial points ‘in the bag’ making a nervous end to this season unlikely.
League position
Whatever happens now, this has been an excellent ‘first season back’:
Full Premier League table
United’s League positions over this season:
Squad
Top scorers
Mousset – 5
Fleck – 4
Lundstram – 3
McBurnie – 3
Baldrick – 2
Norwood – 1
Robinson – 1
Sharp – 1
Strearman – 1
Own Goals - 2
Time scored
Goals scored
United have scored the first goal in eight games this season and have yet to lose one of these games (Won 6, Drawn 2)
Crowds
Total League Crowds so far: 628,118
Total Home Crowds so far: 307,992 (Average: 30,799) Highest = 32,024 v. Man. United. Lowest = 30,079 v. Leicester
Total Away Crowds so far: 320,126 (Average: 35,570) Highest: 59,878 v. West Ham. Lowest: 10,714 v. Bournemouth.
Chris Wilder/Alan Knill
Prior to this season, our three seasons – one in Division One, two in the Championship – saw our management team yield a Win % of 55.07 (points per game = 1.87). Including our current half-season in the Premier League, this is now 52.87% (p.p.g. = 1.83). Not bad!
