If Premier League Games Ended at Half-Time

Team P GD PTS 1 Chelsea 24 12 50 2 Liverpool 24 13 43 3 Manchester City 24 9 42 4 Arsenal 24 9 41 5 Manchester United 24 11 39 6 Tottenham Hotspur 24 10 37 7 West Bromwich Albion 24 5 33 8 Stoke City 24 2 32 9 Bournemouth 24 0 32 10 West Ham United 24 -4 32 11 Burnley 24 -4 30 12 Everton 24 0 29 13 Middlesbrough 24 -2 26 14 Southampton 24 -2 26 15 Watford 24 -10 24 16 Leicester City 24 -10 24 17 Hull City 24 -8 23 18 Swansea City 24 -11 22 19 Sunderland 24 -8 20 20 Crystal Palace 24 -12 16

The following table shows an area of improvement needed by Mauricio Pochettino's men. Of the top six, we sit sixth on half-time results.It emphasises how slow we are out of the box in the first half and how much we give ourselves to do in the second half. Under Harry Redknapp and Andre Villas-Boas we appeared top be playing for 0-0 at half time, to not be losing rather than playing to win.At the same time Liverpool, under Brendan Rogers, were flying out of the boxes, winning games in the first half and managing the situation after that. Improving our first half performance will make our second halves easier, less pressurised.It is just one of the details a coach looks at. As I have written before, we must continually make little tiny improvements that add up to a big improvement. If each player made one tiny improvement each week the squad would have made 25 improvements, it is easy to see how they add up.Lovell Soccer have a Puma Boot Sale on at the moment.