How many points to win the league?

goalmole said:
I'll tell what makes it worse in my eyes. It's that those twats are in second place with no one putting any real pressure on them. If it was almost anyone else then I wouldn't be quite as bothered but the thought of them catching us up makes me feel nauseous.
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Yep, that's how I feel about the whole thing.

Terrified of the team bottling it at the expense of those red bastards.

I keep trying to repeat 'This isn't the City I grew up with, it isn't Alan Ball or Joe Royle, it isn't even Mancini: It's Pep Guardiola in charge of us.' But There's still that lingering Typical City-ness that I don't think we'll ever quite scrub off. Like if any Club in the world could fuck it up from here it would be us!
 
Big Yaya Wilko 12 said:
Yep, that's how I feel about the whole thing.

Terrified of the team bottling it at the expense of those red bastards.

I keep trying to repeat 'This isn't the City I grew up with, it isn't Alan Ball or Joe Royle, it isn't even Mancini: It's Pep Guardiola in charge of us.' But There's still that lingering Typical City-ness that I don't think we'll ever quite scrub off. Like if any Club in the world could fuck it up from here it would be us!
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You know what, it's that that makes us different to most fanbases. We, most of us, never count our chickens because we know all too well how quickly things can turn on their head. Past experience will always shape and colour our thinking. It might stop us turning raggy for a bit longer.
 
Big Yaya Wilko 12 said:
I'm not quite sure why.
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It’s because you’re a bloody wet wipe.

You’ve never been anything other than that as far as your posts are concerned. I actually think you now just play up to it. There’s no way a grown adult to as perpetually afraid of everything as you appear.
 
For me the Sane injury changed our season. Plus not being able to strengthen in January. Tremendous pressure on the Leicester game and we need to put this to bed early. I can really see this going down to the last two games now. Hoping the rest does the lads good and we are back up to speed. We really need David for this one. The two Arse games could define our season and never like playing them. Need to really get behind the lads on Saturday and get the three points which will take a little bit of the pressure of. Let’s do it!
 
come-on-barney said:
For me the Sane injury changed our season. Plus not being able to strengthen in January. Tremendous pressure on the Leicester game and we need to put this to bed early. I can really see this going down to the last two games now. Hoping the rest does the lads good and we are back up to speed. We really need David for this one. The two Arse games could define our season and never like playing them. Need to really get behind the lads on Saturday and get the three points which will take a little bit of the pressure of. Let’s do it!
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We replaced Mangala with Laporte and VK and Stones ( notwithstanding he has missed to past two games with illness / injury precauction ) are back in the fold now.

I would say we are stronger now than before we signed Laporte.

Yes missing Sane, Jesus and Delph are big losses for sure.

We only need to take a leaf out of the Eagles book , losing their QB , key RB for many key games and numerous other first starters to see what can be done.

Other players get the opportunity to step up.

As long as we don't lose any other key players for a significant period of time , we have no excuse for not doing what needs to be done in the last 12 games.
 
scousemanc said:
I put this into a spreadsheet and update it after every game. The "winning margin" has increased to 8 points in the two and a half weeks since GX Blue posted this. It is a very pessimistic view of results, which I like because I am pessimistic myself. Today for example, there was no adverse affect on the outcome because an away draw for us was predicted.
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I can not see Utd not winning nearly all their remaining games. We are gona win the league but i think it will only be by 4-5 points.
 
It is,as the old adage goes in football,one game at a time,take this weekend coming up,we beat Leicester,they draw at Newcastle,then people who are say 70/30 will become 80/20,it is so close now,we can almost touch it lads,trust me,we win it by at least 10 points
 
We will definitely not bottle it in terms of the league. But it's a tall order to bring home the CL without the return of Jesus, Sane and Delph.....
 
This thread will fluctuate week to week, it’s quite feasible we’ll be 15 points clear again after next weekend, I think the Geordies will get a draw
 
Some arse twitchers on here. If all the league were on level points with 12 games to go I'd still have us winning it by 3 or 4 points. We're that good.
 
doobyedoobye said:
We will definitely not bottle it in terms of the league. But it's a tall order to bring home the CL without the return of Jesus, Sane and Delph.....
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Football is like nothing else in the world.....never In a million years before September '17 would I expect to see winning the CL linked to the importance of Delph.

Come on City!!!!
 
We need 17 points to reach 86 they need 30 and that still wouldn't be enough on goal difference. For that they'd need 10 wins and draw minimum.
I'm still saying we'll be on 82 with the league cup trophy before the start of April, even with Aguero up top.
 
I don't buy this superior goal difference malarkey. If we lose and they win the goal difference changes. If they were to catch us up points wise, by default the goal difference would level up a lot.
I think we win the title by half a dozen points.
As for this weekend the pessimist in me says they up their game following our failed attempt at mahrez.
 
trumpton said:
I don't buy this superior goal difference malarkey. If we lose and they win the goal difference changes. If they were to catch us up points wise, by default the goal difference would level up a lot.
I think we win the title by half a dozen points.
As for this weekend the pessimist in me says they up their game following our failed attempt at mahrez.
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We won it on goal difference and in dramatic fashion.

Of course goal difference matters and with a 22 goal swing you would need a five swing per point differential to be on roughly level terms.

the 13 point lead is effectively 14 because they won't make up 22 goal in 5 games least of all 12.
 
mancity1 said:
We won it on goal difference and in dramatic fashion.

Of course goal difference matters and with a 22 goal swing you would need a five swing per point differential to be on roughly level terms.

the 13 point lead is effectively 14 because they won't make up 22 goal in 5 games least of all 12.
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A couple of 4 nil walkovers where lukaku looks like Pele and a couple of defeats for us would reduce the goal difference quite quickly.
 
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