The Title Race - 2023/24

How many points will be needed to win the league?

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Nobody has impressed me so far this season.

Spurs and Villa have probably played the best stuff so far but I don’t see either of them doing owt (although people were still saying that about Leicester in April and they’d been top for months).

I’ve been disappointed with both City and Arsenal. Liverpool have been better than last season but still don’t look great.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Nobody has impressed me so far this season.

Spurs and Villa have probably played the best stuff so far but I don’t see either of them doing owt (although people were still saying that about Leicester in April and they’d been top for months).

I’ve been disappointed in both City and Arsenal. Liverpool have been better than last season but still don’t look great.
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I think Kevin is the x-factor. If he can come back and play at a high level, we can probably win this league by at least 5 points. We need more from midfield.
 
KingGeorge said:
I think Kevin is the x-factor. If he can come back and play at a high level, we can probably win this league by at least 5 points. We need more from midfield.
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I thought you said Kalvin then!

Yes, I do agree. He is the difference between all the teams (Kev not Kalv!).
 
As others have said I think it’s Liverpool not Arsenal we need to be concerned about. Arsenal were awful against Chelsea, they only avoided defeat through poor goalkeeping, wasteful finishing and terrible substitutions by Pocchetino. I think Arsenal bought the wrong players in this summer, bar Rice, as they haven’t addressed obvious weaknesses up front and at left back.

Liverpool’s self belief and Salah’s form is sustaining their challenge. The VAR controversy seems to have worked in their favour as yet again they’re on the right side of some dodgy calls at the weekend. Their defence isn’t on the same level as previous years but if they add a proper DM in January they will probably be there or thereabouts,
 
We have some tough games before Xmas eg Spurs, Chelsea, Villa and the Scousers. Thankfully both Spurs and Liverpool are at home where we have been imperious recently and I would fancy our chances against anyone at home. The Chelsea and Villa games will certainly test us.

Our main challenges will be the Dippers and Arsenal imo.
 
LongsightM13 said:
If we can navigate this tricky set of fixtures up to the club world cup and still be in touching distance, then we’ll piss it imo. The rest will all kill each other
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Imo, as Pep says, the task is to be close come April. December/January is too early to talk about distance off the top, unless it's 10 pts. If we are 5 pts off the top with 8-10 games to go, I'd have us as favourites. Thus I'm fairly relaxed about the next set of fixtures. We may look terribly off at some point but we are likely to be hard to stop come April, injuries permitting.
 
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Withnail said:
We have some tough games before Xmas eg Spurs, Chelsea, Villa and the Scousers. Thankfully both Spurs and Liverpool are at home where we have been imperious recently and I would fancy our chances against anyone at home. The Chelsea and Villa games will certainly test us.

Our main challenges will be the Dippers and Arsenal imo.
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I genuinely wouldn’t write spurs off. Amazing what difference a good manager makes, and this posta…. Ang - is a very good one
 
pavelsrnicek said:
As others have said I think it’s Liverpool not Arsenal we need to be concerned about. Arsenal were awful against Chelsea, they only avoided defeat through poor goalkeeping, wasteful finishing and terrible substitutions by Pocchetino. I think Arsenal bought the wrong players in this summer, bar Rice, as they haven’t addressed obvious weaknesses up front and at left back.

Liverpool’s self belief and Salah’s form is sustaining their challenge. The VAR controversy seems to have worked in their favour as yet again they’re on the right side of some dodgy calls at the weekend. Their defence isn’t on the same level as previous years but if they add a proper DM in January they will probably be there or thereabouts,
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Spurs weren't great tonight either. If Fulham could actually convert chances Spurs would have been in trouble tonight. Their defense was wide open time after time. Let their
Their fans were celebrating like they've won the league tonight, I'd suggest they won't be celebrating it for real just yet
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Nobody has impressed me so far this season.

Spurs and Villa have probably played the best stuff so far but I don’t see either of them doing owt (although people were still saying that about Leicester in April and they’d been top for months).

I’ve been disappointed with both City and Arsenal. Liverpool have been better than last season but still don’t look great.
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I’m sticking with Newcastle to be our closest challengers. Mediocre start from them but they’re coming up nicely on the rails now.

They’re rock solid at the back and if they can go to PSG and Dortmund and do reasonably well there it could well give them the confidence to get results away at the PL big 6 which was their Achilles heel last season.
 
Axel Freed said:
I’m sticking with Newcastle to be our closest challengers. Mediocre start from them but they’re coming up nicely on the rails now.

They’re rock solid at the back and if they can go to PSG and Dortmund and do reasonably well there it could well give them the confidence to get results away at the PL big 6 which was their Achilles heel last season.
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They’ll do very well to finish top four again imo. Spurs Chelsea and Villa all in the mix this season
 
I think we'll run away with it.
We normally grow into the season and post Xmas are almost unbeatable.

We've started fairly well and I think others will fall away just as we're upping our game.
 
Moss Side's Finest said:
Spurs weren't great tonight either. If Fulham could actually convert chances Spurs would have been in trouble tonight. Their defense was wide open time after time. Let their
Their fans were celebrating like they've won the league tonight, I'd suggest they won't be celebrating it for real just yet
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Spurs look in decent nick and they’re going to have a lot of fun but they’re very open in midfield. They defended pretty well tonight but against better sides they’ll give up a lot of chances.
 
BringBackSwales said:
I genuinely wouldn’t write spurs off. Amazing what difference a good manager makes, and this posta…. Ang - is a very good one
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Agreed he is an excellent manager and Spurs look a decent side, but I think their squad depth is not strong enough. Not sure about title contenders, but definitely top 4.
 
All this hype for Spurs and they’ve had the easiest run ever.

The 3 tough games they’ve played (United at home, Liverpool at home, Arsenal away) they’ve been mostly outplayed and incredibly
lucky to have got the points they have.

the other games - Luton, Bournemouth, Fulham, Shef United, Burnley, Luton are the worst teams in the league
 
M Gaudino said:
All this hype for Spurs and they’ve had the easiest run ever.

The 3 tough games they’ve played (United at home, Liverpool at home, Arsenal away) they’ve been mostly outplayed and incredibly
lucky to have got the points they have.

the other games - Luton, Bournemouth, Fulham, Shef United, Burnley, Luton are the worst teams in the league
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That's the influence Levy has at hand picking fixture for his team while in the back ground hating on us through his yank mates!
 
M Gaudino said:
All this hype for Spurs and they’ve had the easiest run ever.

The 3 tough games they’ve played (United at home, Liverpool at home, Arsenal away) they’ve been mostly outplayed and incredibly
lucky to have got the points they have.

the other games - Luton, Bournemouth, Fulham, Shef United, Burnley, Luton are the worst teams in the league
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So they've played 3 of the top 4 and are in the position they are lol, we've played 1 of the top 4 so far and lost.
 
M Gaudino said:
All this hype for Spurs and they’ve had the easiest run ever.

The 3 tough games they’ve played (United at home, Liverpool at home, Arsenal away) they’ve been mostly outplayed and incredibly
lucky to have got the points they have.

the other games - Luton, Bournemouth, Fulham, Shef United, Burnley, Luton are the worst teams in the league
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I would say that’s harder fixtures than we’ve had and they are above us. Didn’t say they’ll win the league but they are clearly contenders. In all 3 of those games you refer to they had more than 50% possession, in 2 of the 3 they had greater attempts on goal, admittedly liverpool game aided by sending offs and I didn’t see it as was on way back from wolves, but 7 wins and 2 draws out of 9 games is very good.
 
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Spurs are Spurs , just like we had "typical City" they have got "Spursy" , they will have a shout at the top four place and anything that keeps the Dippers & Rags out of the Champs league has to be supported , our aim has to be to win 30 league games every season and our current rate of seven out of nine wins is'nt far away.
We have lost two league games that we really shouldnt have on the balance of play and the chances created and we normally step up a level after Xmas , a fully fit and fresh KDB returning will be a massive injection of creativity.
 
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