18 wins from 21 I read somewhere. It's incredible form and that rate we'd surely win the title let alone challenge for it.
We'll undoubtedly hit a bad patch, it's just a case of whether that transpires into the usual winter of discontent or we can dust ourselves off and go again.
It would also be nice if we could chalk up some wins against the other challengers, as we haven't been too hot against them in recent memory.
I think what's quite interesting is that we've been notoriously bad starters of games. Last season we often found ourselves a goal down early and then we had the best second half record out of everyone. In this '18 wins from 21' form, we usually don't look in the game in the first half.
But now that seems to be a tactic. It's like we accept we're going to be shit and so just work hard on defending by purposely staying on the back-foot in the first half and not trying anything risky. And then we trust our fitness levels to take the opposition on running power alone in the second half. Looking at the goals we're scoring recently, it's not like we're doing anything special from a technique POV. It's just athlete ball and the opposition getting physically tired.
In the bigger games - and by that I mean the CL - our inability to keep 65% possession might get us into trouble. But it's hard to see it being too much of a problem in the league.
Yep, our current form is outstanding. Moreover, this is the first time in a long time where I geniunely feel confident playing our rivals, I think we have the beating of all of them, though I do think we need our strongest XI to do so. I.E. Cazorla & Theo coming back at the very least.Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
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