Jorgen Strand Larsen's seventh minute goal to give Wolverhampton Wanderers the lead on Sunday may have surprised many, but few expected the scoring would end there. After all, the winless Wolves were up against the unbeaten reigning champions Manchester City,

The Premier League champions visit Wolves with Gary O’Neil’s hosts desperate for a result. Join Daniel Harris. That the league table doesn’t lie is one of football’s truest truisms. There is a metric specifically designed to tell us which team deserves to win a match – it’s better known as “the score” – and these results are then collated into a precise overall ranking which brooks no argument.