Its amazing how many fans have turned against Smalling after a bad performance. He was immense last season and deserves to start especially as now Bailey is out.
In the PL now we have games against so called "lesser teams", the only hard games are Arsenal and Spurs at Home and possibly Everton. So if we get our act together and win against the lesser teams we will have 23 more points, with anything in the hard games counting as a bonus. Then we'd have 37 points which is Top 4 standard depending on how other teams perform. I'm not saying we will win all those games but am saying that a good run of form renders results like yesterday meaningless.