2019 Premier League table: Arsenal third, Crystal Palace fifth, Tottenham ninth… this year’s standings

Poor form | Spurs have lost nine of their last 18 Premier League matches
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Richard Parry23 September 2019

The 2019-20 Premier League season is still in its juvenile stages, but the form over the past ten months can say a lot about a team’s progression, and more tellingly, their regression.

The omens for being top/bottom at Christmas are well known, but it’s useful to spot the trends earlier than that. That is where a calendar table comes in handy.

Unsurprisingly, Manchester City and Liverpool lead the way – with just three points separating the Reds from last season’s champions. There is then an 18-point buffer between third, and the team which occupies that position is interesting.

Arsenal, who finished fifth last season after winning just one of their final five matches, sit third, four points above Manchester United in fourth.

Crystal Palace are as high as fifth after their best start since 2016, Chelsea are sixth, West Ham are seventh and Tottenham are as low as ninth – level on points with tenth-place Everton.

Pos Team P W D L GD Pts
1 Man City 24 21 1 2 52 64
2 Liverpool 24 19 4 1 39 61
3 Arsenal 24 13 4 7 11 43
4 Man Utd 24 11 6 7 4 39
5 Crystal Palace 24 11 5 8 4 38
6 Chelsea 24 10 7 7 1 37
7 West Ham 24 10 6 8 1 36
8 Leicester 24 10 5 9 5 35
9 Tottenham 24 10 4 10 10 34
10 Everton 24 10 4 10 3 34
11 Burnley 24 9 6 9 0 33
12 Newcastle Utd 24 9 5 10 2 32
13 Wolves 24 8 8 8 -3 32
14 Southampton 24 8 7 9 -6 31
15 Bournemouth 24 8 5 11 -4 29
16 Watford 24 6 6 12 -20 24
17 Brighton 24 3 8 13 -23 17
18 Cardiff City 18 5 1 12 -16 16
19 Fulham 18 4 0 14 -22 12
20 Sheffield Utd 6 2 2 2 1 8
21 Norwich City 6 2 0 4 -5 6
22 Huddersfield 18 1 3 14 -31 6
23 Aston Villa 6 1 1 4 -3 4
*Teams in italics were relegated last season and are no longer in the division

Tottenham have won ten of their 24 matches this year, with four draws and ten defeats. While not the greatest return for a side now accustomed to finishing inside the top-four, it’s not disastrous either.

What is worrying, though, is that five of those ten victories had been achieved by February 10.

Since then, Spurs have lost nine from 18, drawing four and winning five. It has been quite the slide.

Newly-promoted Sheffield United are naturally near the bottom having played a lot less top flight football than most but, amazingly, they have already accumulated more top flight points than Huddersfield despite playing 12 fewer matches. Norwich City, also new to the league, have matched Huddersfield's return of six points.

Click here to see the current 2019-20 Premier League table

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