Exactly. Attacking wise we're marginally better than we were at this stage last season, in spite of players recovering after the world cup & playing some harder CL teams along the way, & defensively we're much improved.
We're all looking at this in the context to how we ended the season & not how we started it, when you compare the start then it looks much better.
All that isn't to say that everything's rosy, we clearly need to strike a balance between being more solid defensively & going forwards, but it's nowhere near the disaster waiting to happen that a lot of people seem to think it is.