Look away at Manchester United fans, your worst season ever in the Premier League history is not much better.
The disastrous campaign of the Red Devils took another downward spiral on Sunday with a 1-0 defeat at besieged Tottenham.
James Maddison's early first half TAP-in proved the difference between two bad games to alleviate the pressure on traces and to increase them on their beaten opponents.
United sees the result in the 15th in the table on 29 points after 25 games – no less than 31 points behind Bitter Rivals and League Liverpool.
It is fair to say that Ruben Amorim's side might also have to look over their shoulders, with the 13-meal Premier League winners only 12 points above the relegation zone.
The AI-SUPERCOMPUTER of Opta has predicted how the rest of the term of 2024-25 will play and it is not for pleasant reading for the Old Trafford outfit.
According to their calculations, the best finish of United will be 14th this season – where the supercomputer gives them a probability of 19 percent that it happens.
As mentioned earlier, they are currently in 15th place and have a chance of 17.9 percent to stay there come the conclusion of this campaign on 25 May.
Their second most position is a 13th installed finish that yields a 17.3 percentage. Finishing the 12th (13.2 percent) and 16th (12.1 percent) completed their top-five predicted positions.
It should not be a surprise that they have a chance of zero percent to win the title or end up in the top five, which will probably secure the Champions League qualification for the next term.
They have a 0.1 percent chance of being eligible for the Europa League with a sixth placed finish and 0.2 percent in the seventh, which usually seals a Europa Conference League berth.
A top 10 finish also has a low percentile at only 5.5 percent.
However, if there is 'a' small crumb of comfort for supporters, they only have a 0.1 percent chance of being relegated and that is with an 18th place.
Of the teams among them, Southampton have a 93 percent to end the bottom, Leicester City is at 48.7 percent to finish 19th and the city of Ipswich is 44.9 percent to be 18th.
However, the only prediction that the supporters of the Old Trafford will harm is that the supercomputer predicts that Liverpool has a chance to win the Premier League -and win their record of 20 English Top -Flight -titles.
Arsenal is expected to finish second for a third consecutive season, whereby the supercomputer gives them an 80.8 percent chance to become second. They have a chance of 14.1 percent to take the title from Liverpool.
Only one other team has some chance to win the title and that is Manchester City. However, the holders only have a 0.1 percent chance to make it five times in a row. However, the side of Pep Guardiola is expected to finish third – where they have a 53.2 percentile to do this.
Nottingham Forest, who have been excellent this season, can expect the Champions League football in 2025-26 supported with the club to finish fourth at 22.9 percent.
The top five is completed Chelsea with a 21.6 percentile – only 0.2 percent higher than Bournemouth.
The cherries are the favorites to finish sixth at 20.6 percent, with Newcastle set for a seventh place position at 22.5 percent.
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