Premier League winners and losers so far this season
Jamie Vardy and Leicester are among the winners from the start of the campaign.
With almost a third of the season completed, the Premier League is starting to take shape.
Ahead of the latest international break, the PA news agency looks at some of the winners and losers of the campaign so far.
Winners
Jurgen Klopp
The Liverpool manager is the man with the Midas touch at the moment. Revered on Merseyside by the Reds faithful, Klopp’s stock rose further still with Sunday’s 3-1 victory over Manchester City at Anfield, opening up an eight-point gap over nearest challengers Leicester, and a nine-point cushion to Pep Guardiola’s side. The 52-year-old German has so far masterminded a near-perfect league campaign, with 11 wins and a draw from 12 matches. Under Klopp, this could well be the year Liverpool finally end their 30-year wait to land the league title.
Jamie Vardy
Sheffield United
Everyone associated with the Blades would have snatched your hand off if you had offered them fifth place in the league after 12 games at the start of the season, but that is the position the pre-campaign relegation favourites currently find themselves in. Admittedly, the eight-point gap to fourth-placed Manchester City directly above them is only one point less than to 18th-placed Watford, 13 positions below, but credit has to be given to Chris Wilder and his squad for a job well done so far. The platform has been a rock-solid defence that has conceded just nine goals, bettered only by second-placed Leicester.
Losers
Manuel Pellegrini
Norwich
A sensational 3-2 victory over Manchester City in mid-September suggested Norwich had what it takes to defy the pre-season odds and expectations that they would make an immediate return to the Championship following promotion last term. But the Canaries have since suffered an alarming slide, taking just one point and scoring two goals in their last seven matches to hit rock-bottom in the table. Manager Daniel Farke can only hope that now a recent injury crisis is starting to ease, City can find their feet again. Or, is it the case that the rot has set in and there is no way back for the east Anglian club?
Mauricio Pochettino
