It's 2017! Or, more to the point, it's past 1st January 2017 - which means we're into the second half of the Premier League season. It's been a bit of a topsy-turvy season already, with players and teams being written off and bouncing back left, right and centre already.
Some teams - most, in fact - are roughly where they'd expect to be. Manchester United may not have started strongly, but they've come back with serious force of late and are getting ready for a serious tilt at just about any position below first.Liverpool are staggering around the top of the table. Spurs are niggling around, staying in the top four hunt.
On the other hand, some teams and individuals alikehave defied expectations - for better, or for worse. That's where the fun starts. Taking the positives first...
Chelsea
Highest rated teams in Europe's top 5 leagues this season pic.twitter.com/mZtu93CJNf
Fresh off the worst title defence in Premier League history, Chelsea didn't exactly start the season in rip-roaring form. Eighth in the tableas September drew to a close and fresh off a chastening 3-0 spanking at the hands of Arsenal, it looked like more of the same in west London.
Since then, Chelsea have won all 13 of their league games. Since then, they've installed themselves as odds-on favourites for the title with just about every bookmaker in the country. It might be obvious, but obvious ain't necessarily wrong - Chelsea are big ol' winners.
Burnley
6 - Only Chelsea (8) and Tottenham (7) have won more @premierleague home games than Burnley this season (6). Stronghold.
Considering they're relegation candidates who struggle to score, Burnley are doing a pretty good job of scoring and, er, not being relegation candidates.
They've not been as fluent as some sides, but to sit 11th in the table at the halfway point of the season - nine points clear of the drop zone - is nothing to sniff at. If any of the newly promoted sides are staying up, and Swansea's struggles make that a distinct possibility, Burnley look like the sensible bet.
Alexis Sanchez
2016 - Most @PremierLeague goal involvements in 2016:
Diego Costa: 31
Sergio Agüero/Alexis Sánchez: 28
Harry Kane/Jermain Defoe: 23
Impact.
Last season, Alexis Sanchez was very good. Directly involved 17 Premier League goals, the whole shebang. In the first half of this season, Sanchez was directly involved in 19 goals.
He's been quite good, is what we're saying here.
Playing as Arsenal's leading man on a consistent basis for the first time, the Chilean has exceeded even the most optimistic of expectations - turning himself into the one man Arsenal can least afford to lose. At least his contract isn't starting to wind down, eh? Ah...
Leicester City
I will never ever say this again. This year Leicester won the Premier League.
Leicester City had an incredible 2015/16 season. Phenomenal. Nothing like it before, or again.
This season has been less spectacular. Sitting 15th at the halfway point of the season, Claudio Ranieri and co have come back down to earth with a bit of a bump, with precious little oflast season's defensive stability or incisive attacking on display.
Expectations, of course, were never sky-high. Nobody expected Leicester to defend their title - but a team who clearly have ability and who spent the best part of £70m in the summer should be disappointed to be in the Foxes' current position.
Pep Guardiola
It must take pressure off the city players that every time they concede a goal, people simply laugh at the fact that Pep Guardiola is bald.
Said it before. Will say it again. Bald people do not make good Premier League managers.
With six straight wins to begin his Premier League career, life in England looked like plain sailing for the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich man. Lately? Not so much.
Just four clean sheets in 19 top flightgames to kick off the season, a run of nearly three months between home league wins - City entered the second half of the season in fifth place.
For a man who was tipped to stroll calmly to the top of the table by so many early on, things have gone a bit pear-shaped. Those are just the bald facts.
Swansea City; Swansea City's Fans; Swansea City's Board; People Who Live Near Swansea; People Who Have Heard the Name 'Swansea City'; People Aware of the Concept of Football;Actual Swans Too, Probably
22 - Swansea have conceded more goals at home in the Premier League this season (22) than they did in the entire 2015-16 season (20). Glum.
Fucking hell, lads.
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