This Premier League season we haven't seen one team really come out and take charge, Manchester United seem to have always been there but they're like Ferrari in Formula 1, they always seem to get a result even if they haven't performed that well on the day. But with nobody taking charge of the title race with under 10 league games left who is going to win the league?
You always hear it for a Manchester United game or a Chelsea or Arsenal game: "This is a must win game for them if they are looking to win the title." But this year more than ever the teams all over the Premier League are upsetting this cliche for them teams to win and throwing the title race wide open to where nobody can 100% put their money on who will win the title.
At some points you see Manchester United play with such elegance and freedom that you can't help but think the title is theirs, then they lose their first league game against Wolves and seem to crumble after that with back-to-back defeats from Chelsea and then Liverpool. You see Chelsea play with the class that they expressed last season by achieving the double where they can open up defences with the slightest of ease and then you see them not even turn up against Liverpool back in November losing 2-0 and then after that only registering 3 league wins out of 11. Arsenal's season has been so turbulent that you wouldn't be able to point out a low and then a high, they seem to always hold that 'potential' and Arsene Wengers arrogance that he sticks with his young guns seems to work wonders sometimes, and then spitting their dummies out the next.
The introduction of Tottenham and Manchester City into the competition for the top four has only added to this dilemma of who wants to win the title. Manchester City's investments finally seem to be coming of age as they spending seems to take a halt while Mancini can finally work with a squad that won't be changing every season. Tottenham have been led majestically by Harry Redknapp orchestrating what seemed to be a team that was always destined not to fulfil their potential into an attacking force now feared in Europe.
For many years pundits and fans across the UK and World had always been waiting for that breakthrough into the top four but they never seemed to get it. Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool all seemed reluctant to let that happen, but with last year Tottenham finally breaking in that seems to have unsettled the 'top four' and they don't seem to know how to cope with it. This year has seen the neutral fan enjoy the Premier League better than ever with countless upsets and nothing being settled up until now in the race for the title/ the battle for fourth place and even the relegation places haven't been settled yet.
All these battles up and down the table are making this the most exciting Premier League season to date with anyone of four or even five teams in with a chance of the title because no team seems sure of winning their next game, whoever the opponent. In past seasons around now teams would have a good idea of where they are going to finish and not really have anything to lose, but with relegation undecided, the European places changing every match day and the title race unpredictable everything is to play for still.
All one of the top sides needs is a run of 3 or 4 games to be staking their claim for the title but nobody seems capable of that form. Frustrating for the fans of the sides battling for the title but for the side that comes out on top it will be that even more satisfying that they won and broke free of a very tight top four.
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