They are saying the desk would not lie, and it’s definitely telling some harsh dwelling truths for the Premier League‘s backside three as we head into the November worldwide break.
With roughly one third of the 2023-24 marketing campaign already performed, the trio of promoted groups — Luton City, Sheffield United and Burnley — are all entrenched within the relegation zone with just one win every to their names up to now.
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And by way of factors on the board, all three groups are nonetheless in single figures: 18th-placed Luton are faring greatest with a complete of six factors, Sheffield United (nineteenth) have 5 factors and Burnley (twentieth) have 4. That signifies that the whole backside three have amassed 15 factors between them from a complete of 36 video games performed.
Issues are already trying bleak on the foot of the desk with Sheffield United being the one bottom-three aspect to have registered a win of their final 5 video games. It is trying much more dire at Turf Moor, the place Vincent Kompany’s ailing Burnley aspect — promoted as runaway winners of the 2022-23 Championship with 101 factors and 87 objectives scored in 46 video games — are on a five-game dropping streak, the worst type report on this season’s prime flight.
So far as the three promoted sides are involved, the 2023-24 Premier League season has seen the worst begin ever for the groups developing from the Championship, with the groups in twentieth, nineteenth and 18th contributing the bottom collective factors tally on report at this level of the season. Certainly, there is just one different event when the trio of latest golf equipment have been collectively within the relegation zone after 12 rounds of video games, and even they managed to eclipse the numbers on show this 12 months.
No Premier League crew has ever taken fewer factors after 12 video games than the 4 that Burnley have mustered up to now this season. The earlier report low for a person membership was the 5 factors amassed by Fulham (2018-19), Sunderland (2005-06), and Swindon City (1993-94). Each Fulham and Sunderland managed to scrape one win and two attracts of their first 12 video games, whereas Swindon’s 5 factors got here through 5 attracts.
Only for the report, the very best factors tally recorded by a newly promoted crew after 12 video games stands at a powerful 27, achieved by each Nottingham Forest (1994-95) and Sunderland (1999-00.)
Introduced by the use of comparability, this is a have a look at a few of the worst performances supplied up by the three promoted groups at this stage for the reason that Premier League was launched in 1992-93.
2014-15
The one different Premier League season during which all three newly promoted groups propped up the desk after 12 video games was the 2014-15 marketing campaign, when Leicester Metropolis, Burnley and Queens Park Rangers did so.
Nonetheless, regardless of languishing beneath the dotted line of doom, the three golf equipment had collectively accrued 28 factors (13 factors greater than their 2023-24 counterparts) with the Foxes and Clarets each one level adrift of Hull Metropolis in seventeenth.
Come the tip of the season, Burnley (nineteenth, 33 factors) and QPR (twentieth, 30 factors) had been relegated whereas Leicester efficiently rallied to complete up in a comparatively lofty 14th place. The next season they might go on to win the Premier League title below Claudio Ranieri.
1995-96
With out wishing to throw but extra shade on the performances of Luton, Sheffield United and Burnley this season, all three sides have received fewer mixed factors than the 2 — sure, TWO — promoted sides managed to gather within the first third of the 1995-96.
As a result of variety of Premier League groups being diminished from 22 to twenty, solely two sides had been promoted from what was then referred to as the First Division, particularly Middlesbrough and Bolton Wanderers — and but they nonetheless managed to get extra factors on the board (30) from their opening 12 video games than the category of 2023-24.
2007-08
The earlier report for lowest collective factors haul among the many three promoted sides was set in 2007-08 when Derby, Sunderland and Birmingham Metropolis had scraped 26 factors collectively after 12 video games.
Birmingham (11 factors) and Sunderland (9 factors) had been driving excessive in 14th and fifteenth place respectively. Nonetheless, in what was to turn out to be their annus horribilis, Derby had been already rooted to the underside of the desk. However not less than the stricken Rams may boast having six factors to their identify — greater than each Burnley and Sheffield United have collected up to now this season.
They could be this season’s backside aspect, however the excellent news for the Clarets is that regardless of solely having 4 factors to name their very own, they’re nonetheless on the right track to beat the all-time report low factors haul recorded by Derby of their really dismal 2007-08 marketing campaign
Profitable one recreation all season, the Rams claimed 11 factors from 38 video games — a feeble tally that has by no means been “crushed.” Fortunately, Kompany’s aspect are set to go Derby’s grim milestone sooner or later in late April/early Might.
