Early days yes but I think any talk of a title is over as I can't see Chelsea losing too many games this year. However, we must regroup and make sure we get into the top 4.
For me BR needs to make some tough decisions and that is in regard to the midfield and particularly Gerrard and Lucas. Yes I know we have injuries and probably Allen would have played instead of Lucas had he been fit but can we honestly say that even if we had a fully fit squad SG's name would not have been one of the first on the teamsheet. He is 34, he looks knackered and he cannot play week in week out and definitely not 3 games a week. Its pretty obvious from the Villa and WH games that teams know how to play us, get at us fast from the off, cut through the weak midfield which in turn puts the defence under pressure and we get panicky and concede. Then lock up shop as even with suarez last season we were very poor at trying to break teams down that defend enmass. I can just see Martinez going through videos of our games and hitting us exactly the same way. Until we get either Allen or Can back, I think we would be better off playing Hendo and Lallana back there than SG and/or Lucas.