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Your post had me curious to look at the table, and it's actually really close this year. There's usually a complete tire fire of a team or two, but either that's not the case or there's 8 of them. Points separating teams starting with 20-to-19:
1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 8
The 8 is what separates Crystal Palace (12th) from Aston Villa (11th).
That's 9 teams finding it hard to accumulate points. Looking at Leicester's remaining schedule of 12 games, only Man City, Liverpool, Newcastle and maybe Brentford look like writeoffs. Can they grind out 16 points over the other 8 games to get to the 40 points that usually guarantees survival (and in the last 10 years that's only been necessary once, other years its ranged from 35 to 39)? Five draws and three wins?
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