Will people stop saying " We lost against a small team , City batter teams like that " Stoke, West Ham, Newcastle, CSKA, They have lost to these teams. There are no easy games! This is not the early - mid 2000's. This league is so competitive and it only take 1 game where the players aren't completely on their game to lose a match. We have lost 1 game so far. Yes , City are closing in but do you really think their poor form would last forever? I like the fact that Costa is being called out after 1 bad performance.