You will "re-claim" the 1th place sooner or later, believe me. Just don't give up the faith. Remember my last season when I was 7p behind the 1th and 2nd team after the first 5 rounds? I thought it was over, but then - paff! I came back stronger than ever and won, won, won and won every game... ended up at a 2nd place - 3 points behind the leader.
And sometimes this could be a indicator that you should change your current formation/tactics, since you are becoming too predictable? I remember that I started to win and almost became unbeaten when I abandoned the 4-4-2 (n/w diamond), a formation which I used since lvl 1 to lvl 4.. Now look where the 4-2N-2W-2 + 3N-3N-2W-2 formation has taken me (unbeaten since I applied it from the last season)
Sometimes it's just "meant" to be or just bad "tactics/formations".