Asmir Begovic, Steven Gerrard and Aaron Ramsey are among the Premier League players to have suffered a big dip in form, according to WhoScored.
Sometimes the pressure of replicating a landmark season's form can prove hard to handle for players. It's not uncommon for players to struggle to reach the standards laid down the year previous early on in a new campaign, and there are certainly some big names yet to reach the heights of their 2013-14 form in the Premier League.
The one player perhaps most criticised for failing to do so is Manchester City's Yaya Toure, who has faced the brunt of the backlash from a disappointing start to the campaign for the champions.
However, while it's clear that the Ivorian is not performing at his imperious best, with his rating from WhoScored.com dropping significantly from 7.56 to 7.14, there have been guiltier culprits in this regard.
WhoScored.com look at the players whose ratings have suffered the most substantial drop from the Premier League last season (of all those to have started more than 3 times in the current campaign).
Asmir Begovic - 7.05 to 6.40
An unexpected name, perhaps, to start us off but while Stoke have had the sort of start most would have expected, currently occupying 12th in the table, the Potters have struggled for clean sheets compared to recent seasons.
Begovic kept nine in 32 appearances last season but has managed just two thus far in the current campaign and has made only 11 saves, despite conceding 10 goals.
To put that into perspective that's at least six fewer than any other keeper with more than two appearances - and 21 fewer than top-of-the-pile Rob Green.
Aaron Ramsey - 7.75 to 6.86
While it's not gone unnoticed, it's fair to say that Aaron Ramsey's slow start to the season has been brushed over by most, with a number of team-mates, most notably Mesut Ozil, facing far more criticism in the early stages.
The Welshman, however, has performed nowhere near his frankly surprisingly high standards from the previous campaign, despite netting twice in the league thus far.
He directly contributed to 18 league goals last season (10 goals, 8 assists) but Arsenal are increasingly looking to summer signing Alexis Sanchez to dig themselves out of a hole, where Ramsey was the go-to-guy prior to injury in 2013-14.
At this stage in the previous campaign, having made one more appearance (9), the midfielder's rating from WhoScored.com was up at a huge 8.12 having already scored five goals and registered four assists by the end of October.
Steven Gerrard - 7.77 to 7.10
It's perhaps little surprise to see that, after a slow start to the season, Liverpool are represented twice in the top five here, with their ageing leader Steven Gerrard first to appear.
It should be said that the Reds' skipper has attained a decent rating this season (7.10) but it's still a substantial drop from his performances last time around, despite a now infamous end to the campaign.
Gerrard has registered just one assist this season despite starting every league game for the club, having amassed a league high of 13 over the 2013-14 campaign.
Philippe Coutinho - 7.45 to 6.72
While he's shown an improvement in recent performances, perhaps as a reaction to being dropped from the starting XI by Brendan Rodgers, Philippe Coutinho has been unable to carry his blistering pre-season form into the current campaign thus far.
Like Gerrard, it's Coutinho's creativity that has dipped most substantially from last season, with an average of just 0.7 key passes per game heralding zero assists thus far compared to seven last season from an average of two key passes per game.
Fernandinho - 7.41 to 6.65
While it's the aforementioned Toure that has come in for criticism for letting his standards slip for Pellegrini's side this season the form, or lack thereof, of Fernandinho has been somewhat overlooked.
One of a number of players likely to be haunted by his part in Brazil's collapse at the hands of Germany, the midfielder has looked a shadow of his best at times this season and fallen out of favour to compatriot Fernando in turn.
At this stage in the previous campaign Fernandinho had hit the ground running, with a rating of 7.41 from WhoScored.com - incidentally his rating come the end of the season too - after the same number of appearances (8).
All statistics courtesy of WhoScored.com, where you can find yet more stats, including live in-game data and unique player and team ratings.
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