What if games ended at 90 minutes, set-pieces goals were scrapped, or shots that hit the woodwork counted?
By Opta Analyst
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league table is a pretty helpful barometer of each team’s fortunes. That’s why we use it to decide where teams finish at the end of the season. However, league tables do not tell us the whole story. Arsenal are top in reality (just about), but they might not be in all of our alternative Premier League tables.
Football is most certainly a game of two halves. It may not come as much of a shock to learn the table changes quite drastically when looking at first-half or second-half results in isolation.
