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Sheffield United 2-2 Chelsea, FT!
Letters got the right result in the end!
Chelsea can't even beat Sheff U :lol:
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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Us if we don’t beat Chelsea :pal:
Spuds 3-1 Forest, FT.
They're back in to fourth with Emery doing an Emery.
Don’t see Villa getting 4th but it seems like 5th could be a CL spot too at this rate anyway.
Jamie Redknapp is really agitated Arsenal are top. :lol:
Van De Ven is as good as Saliba, Arsenal won't win at Tottenham because Tottenham are much better than Man Utd.
Lost his mind.
Just seen the highlights. How did Liverpool not win that?! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
We bemoan the lack of a clinical striker but Liverpool missed some absolute sitters yesterday.
This is why calling this title race is impossible, there are such fine lines in football.
I’ve been watching Liverpool a lot this season and they are an incredibly wasteful team, they must massively underperform their XGQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
This match was very much in keeping with their game at Anfield against United where they had chance after chance after chance but spurned them.
This is why I said I thought it was folly for them to be considered title favourites. It’s technically ours to lose, but in reality it’s City who for me remain favourites and who I’d put money on for a fourth consecutive title.
It's really hard to call.Quote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
I keep hearing people say that Liverpool aren't that good, but there they are on the same points as us at the top of the table. That's not dumb luck at this stage of the season. We are ahead of them because of GD but we have the harder games, Liverpool just played theirs. And they have Klopp, who knows how to get a team over the line. But Pep does too and City are a machine at this stage of the season so while I actually regard them as 3rd favourites, it would be folly to write them off.
Klopp is an excellent coach, but in many ways they are benefitting from City having an off seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Liverpool have only lost twice, but they’ve won only 8 out of 15 away games. And only one win against teams in the current top six from eight games (home to Villa)
If City were firing on all cylinders neither us or Liverpool would be in the title race. Liverpool because they lack the quality they had, us because we lack options up front and our coach is vastly inferior to both Klopp and Guardiola
City are only 3 points down on where they were at this stage last year.
Interestingly, so are we. :unsure:
I think you do have a tendency to make the grand folly of comparing seasons by points totals. Unfortunately you simply can’t do that because there is always a differential in the standard of opposition. Teams drop off, Teams show massive improvement and this season despite Everton and Forest being hit with points deductions you are likely going to see all three promoted teams go straight back down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
The fact that we are three points behind where we were last season, especially when you consider that Brentford, Brighton, Newcastle were far stronger opponents last season, we may be three points worse off but actually it’s a far more considerable drop off when considering relative quality
And that applies to us and City. Guardiola has done a shocking job this season considering. The quality of our players is no where near theirs, with the exception of centre back they are superior to us in every area of the pitch.
City are clear favourites now.
We will need to end the season with a run of 17 wins out 18 to do it. It’s a huge task unless City drop some very silly points somewhere.
I disagree it's a folly. What other objective measure of where you are is there?Quote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
I remember Wenger noting in '99 when we just missed out he commended our consistency as we got the same points as the year before when we'd been champions.
Some other teams get stronger, others get worse. Overall I doubt it hugely changes season on season.Quote:
there is always a differential in the standard of opposition.
And if you think it does how do you measure that?
Why do you say that? They've still got to go to WHL, Spurs have a good record against them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
They have to go to Brighton, our win there was impressive but Brighton overall have a good home record.
And West Ham...I'm not expecting much from them, but a mate of mine who supports them noted they've been known to disrupt a title run in.
I'd never discount City, but I wouldn't say they're clear favourites. Still Liverpool for me.
I would expect City to win their remaining home fixtures
West Ham, Luton and Wolves
Away from home
Fulham, Forest, Brighton and Spurs
I think there’s the possibility of them dropping four-fives points from those games. Spurs depends when they play them, could possibly be before the last week of the season.
What I will say now, is I don’t think any of us, Liverpool, city are going to win our remaining seven league games
Liverpool I think will finish third. The matches that will kill off their title hopes will be having to play three games back to back away from home. Fulham, Everton and West Ham. Maximum of six points for me that they’ll get…more likely four
Then they will I think also draw at home to Spurs which will finish things off for them
West Ham’s record at the Etihad is as bad as oursQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
They are more likely to be spoilers to Liverpool who have to go to the London Stadium, a few days after the Merseyside Derby.
They’ve been too dominant for so long now to think they will drop uncharacteristic points at this stage. Will they win all the remaining 7 games? Probably not but then if they did I don’t think anyone would be particularly surprised.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Spurs away is the one for us both where it could blow up.
I raised an eyebrow when my West Ham supporting mate claimed they may be able to help us out.Quote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
Spurs have a better chance of helping us, although we have to play them too of course. A draw is usually acceptable there but probably won’t be enough this year
How did Maddison the Spud avoid a red card for his punch on the NF player ?
It wasn't a hard punch but it was a punch and according to the VAR man, there was no violent conduct.
He must have been a Spud.
Yes, we need to work on the assumption that we need to win all our games, which I'm more hopeful that we could do than I was, but Spuds and Moan U away will be real tests, just because both are such unpredictable gamesQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters