Nottingham Forest plummet, shock team in top five and Man Utd boost – how Premier League table would look without errors
MANCHESTER UNITED surge up the table and Nottingham Forest fall in the error-free Premier League.
Goalkeepers and defenders wish their mistakes leading to goals could be forgotten about.
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Manchester United would be better off if individual errors did not count
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Manchester City would also rise up the table
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And number crunchers at
A total of 186 howlers have been erased and it changed the results of 65 matches across the season.
The Seagulls would have five points more as their No1 Bart Verbruggen made more blunders (five) leading to goals than anyone else.
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Ruben Amorim's side shot themselves in the foot far too often and it cost them eight points.
United would have finished in 13th place without mistakes.
And it is a similar story for
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The boost would have even been enough to see them come 19th and Ipswich bottom instead.
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They punished opponents' mistakes better than any other side in the division.
Taking away those goals would have seen Forest plummet four places to 11th and record 13 points less.
Similarly,
Without them, Mikel Arteta's side would have come behind
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Bart Verbruggen made more errors leading to goals than any other keeper
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