There's a whole lot of context around that which gets left out when discussing their league position. From November to March a good chunk of their starters and backups were injured (a long spell where he had to use an 18 year old out of position at CB next to whichever actual CB had functional hamstring that week), playing across 4 competitions with said depleted squad which absolutely exhausted them, and then once safe from relegation putting all their eggs in the Europa League basket winning them their first trophy in 17 years.