Joey Barton has overseen a remarkable transformation at Bristol Rovers since the New Year. (Photo by Naomi Baker/Getty Images)Joey Barton has overseen a remarkable transformation at Bristol Rovers since the New Year. (Photo by Naomi Baker/Getty Images)
Joey Barton has overseen a remarkable transformation at Bristol Rovers since the New Year. (Photo by Naomi Baker/Getty Images)

Bristol Rovers among the most in-form teams in 2022 along with Liverpool and Man City

Bristol Rovers, Liverpool and Manchester City, three teams you’d have never thought would be in the same sentence...

Bristol Rovers have been on fire since the turn of the New Year, going from relegation candidates to League Two automatic promotion hopefuls.

A gloomy 2021 saw them finish 90th out of the whole four tiers of professional football in England, which saw them relegated from League One.

Usually it’s a single person that makes New Year’s Revolutions but the Gas have turned on the style since entering 2022.

They’ve become hard to beat and across four months, they’ve tasted just three league defeats, whilst remaining unbeaten at the Memorial Stadium which has become a fortress.

Part of it has been down to the wise January recruitment of the likes of Newcastle United wonder kid Elliot Anderson and the ever reliable James Connolly, who joined from Cardiff City.

Given the slow start to the campaign, to be two games away from the season’s end and right in the promotion mix, is a delight to the Gasheads, who have supported the club in their droves during the ascension through the division.

Consistency is key when it comes to achieving your season objectives and that is no truer than the Premier League title race between Liverpool and Manchester City, with each side waiting for the other to slip up.

Unsurprisingly, both teams have accumulated a lot of points in 2022 but names like Bristol Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday sit alongside them when it comes to how many points they’ve got in the New Year.

Below are the top ten best performing teams across the English Football League and the Premier League, based on a points-per-game ratio.

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