I think it is a blip in results (as you say, through key players having a dip in form) but the performances have been fairly ordinary all season. We haven't produced the football we played last season.
I am constantly told we have more control in the big games and can handle big occasions. Yet in our four toughest away games we have lost at Villa and Newcastle, and drawn at Anfield and Chelsea. Two points. We took 10 points from those games last season......