I was trying to explain our fiasco season with stats, but I failed. In the picture, you can see our goal/assists stats from 2009-10 until today. While there is a clear difference between our 2020-21 to our disastrous seasons when we finished 7th (2009-10 and 2010-11), and a noticeable difference with our heyday seasons, one simply cannot find a difference between this season and the previous two. Yet we won those two and we'll probably end up 5th this year.
There are two main reasons for this, imo (compared to the last two seasons).
1. Some 4-5 matches which we used to win by 1:0, this year ended 1:1 or with 0:1 defeats.
2. The performance of our opponents. Right now we have 72 points with 2 matches to go. With 72 points, without even having to play the last two matches, we'd have been in top 4 in 11 of the last 11 seasons. In 2014/15 we'd have even won the scudetto with 72 points, while this year even 78 might not be enough for top 4.