3 games to the halfway point - easy to forget that as obviously we are usually past the halfway point by the turn of the year. All in our hands - if arsenal lose / draw a couple and we win all three things look very different by 19 games in.We are not yet at the turn around and the league is a marathon not a sprint..........but 1 point out of Brentford and Everton at home is poor.
But thereagain I didn't think we'd win at Leeds, so we've got the same 4 points that I thought we'd get, but arse about face so to speak.
I want Arsenal to get 8-10 points ahead - there's nothing more enjoyable for a true City fan than a proper chase.
If that happens you change your username to Bukkake Jizz CheeksIf arsenal win their next 3 they will be on 52 points. If they manage the same in the second half of the season that'll be 104. If they do that I'll suck my own cock and everyone else's on here.
Arsenal have 43 pointsPredicted long ago that Arsenal would do well this season and that we were going to win by 4 pts or thereabouts. Still think we are going to win, maybe by 1 point unstead of 4. We have an amazing team. Our problem is that some of the leaders will be less consistent due to being on the wrong side of 30 and that we have won 4 from the last 5 titles. It's only natural that we are less motivated to win the PL than last season.
But Arsenal will struggle at some point with something like 2 pts from 3 games.
City 87, Arsenal 85.
Arsenal have 43 points
85 - 43 = 42 points needed to get to 85
42 points divided by games remaining 22 = 1.9
1.9 prorate 38 = 72 points.
So basically, your saying our second half form will regress to a team capable of taking 72 points which is 3 more points than we managed last season.
I think there is more than a 50% chance we will get at least 90 points.
I reckon right now we are f****d. The form we are in right now and that set of fixtures is worryingLook at the fixtures, what you reckon then honestly?
Maybe, but it also resembles the 2018/19 season. When they never collapsed, but had a few draws but we were able to hunt them down. We had to win our last 14 games to do so (I still pinch myself when I think of that stat) and we likely need a similar sort of run to pull it off this time.Arsenal are looking very much like the season Liverpool won the league. Pep has to find a way of beating teams who string 8 players across the box.
Teams may do the same tactic against Arsenal over the second half of the season. We need to stay in touch this month and then the pressure may well be the deciding factor as well as our head to head with them
plus they resume EL too, so would be interesting to see their priorities.Arsenal are playing brilliantly to be fair.
This week they play a Newcastle who don’t concede (5 clean sheets in a row) which will be their toughest test in a while.
They also have a run in April/May where they play away at Liverpool, West Ham, City and Newcastle, and Chelsea at home. If we’re within 6/7 points by that time the pressure might get to them.