I didn't hear anyone suggest beforehand that it would be anything other than a bloodbath (partly because of the reasons you mentioned there) so yeah, no one should be surprised or engraving the trophy after one bloody game.People raving about Liverpool but I haven't heard anyone once say about the fact they were against a midfield consisting of Wilshere & Noble. Not being funny as Liverpool looked extremely good but a midfield like that you'd go through like butter. I'm interested to see how they get on against Palace away next week
Usually takes 10 games to see what the landscape of the league is really like, in my opinion.