Our defence was second best in the country for the last few months of last season, once we stopped getting injuries every week.
Just not when it mattered
We beat Newcastle, Forest and Chelsea in the run-in, and kept clean sheets against Brentford, Brighton, Southampton, Fulham, Bournemouth and Tottenham in the closing weeks.
All those results mattered. If we had lost to Brighton and Forest, we wouldn't even be in Europe.