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[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

Aren't we in danger of playing the statistics here, rather than the game? I've always been far more irritated about dropping points against teams "we ought to beat".

You are correct in that respect however, we should also acknowledge that, when we play the top team, it isn't so much the defeats that we suffer, it is the manner of them. This is what tends to irritate most people.