The Title Race - 2023/24

How many points will be needed to win the league?

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Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
It was vital for us to win today, and we did. We're fine where we stand in relation to Liverpool. We now have two home matches in the league, and one away (to Bournemouth). All three are eminently winnable. We are looking quietly ferocious and determined. I actually now think, looking ahead, that by mid-March, when we will have to go to Anfield, we could have opened up clear daylight between us and them.
Still like to win there, though…
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Our fixtures before we play Liverpool:

Brentford (H)
Chelsea (H)
Bournemouth (A)
United (H)


Theirs:

Brentford (A)
Luton (H)
Forest (A)


We can close the gap with our game in hand but they play three fairly poor teams so I think we'll still be neck and neck.
 
David El Mago Silva said:
Our fixtures before we play Liverpool:

Brentford (H)
Chelsea (H)
Bournemouth (A)
United (H)


Theirs:

Brentford (A)
Luton (H)
Forest (A)


We can close the gap with our game in hand but they play three fairly poor teams so I think we'll still be neck and neck.
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Yeah, fair enough, I didn't really take full account of the easiness of their fixtures. Luton and Forest I'd expect to be bankers. Brentford are a funny team, though, aren't they, blowing hot and cold. They might be able to bother them at their place.
Annoyed, though, with all those points stupidly thrown away in draws. Four of them. Eight points just down the drain. In every single one of them we were the better team.
 
A week of whingeing ahead about a Saturday 12.30 kick off I’m sure

They’ll be tired after their champions league game midweek
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
A week of whingeing ahead about a Saturday 12.30 kick off I’m sure

They’ll be tired after their champions league game midweek
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Champions League? Not for that lot!
They haven’t got a midweek game this week. They finished top of their Europa League group so avoid the playoffs and go straight through to the round of 16.
 
Klopp has been there what, - 10 years? Of those ten, - on how many occasions did his side finish above Pep and us? Was it just the Covid-season?
 
David El Mago Silva said:
Our fixtures before we play Liverpool:

Brentford (H)
Chelsea (H)
Bournemouth (A)
United (H)


Theirs:

Brentford (A)
Luton (H)
Forest (A)


We can close the gap with our game in hand but they play three fairly poor teams so I think we'll still be neck and neck.
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They've got a Carabou Cup final to win on 25th Feb v Chelsea, so they're going to pour a lot of effort into that - it's the first part of the Quad, la! Lose it and they're on a severe downer.
 
23 games - we’ve only played 4 teams twice, and three of them are the current bottom three. Other than Newcastle we haven’t seen the back of anyone decent. Our record against the current top 5 this year is Played 4, Drawn 2, Lost 2. The 2 draws were at home against Spuds and Liverpool, and our away record against both of them is not good. Throw in the warm, supportive and welcoming atmosphere away teams and referees are treated to at Anfield - raised to the power of 115 this year - and we’ve got a hell of a lot of work to do.

Set against that Private Frazer vision of doom, we’re the treble-winners, 3-in-a-row Premier League champions, have won our last 10, and we haven’t lost at home in any competition for 15 months. I think we might be able to hold off those plucky little underdog red-shirt upstart one more time - this year, hopefully, two of them at once.
 
the blue panther said:
They've got a Carabou Cup final to win on 25th Feb v Chelsea, so they're going to pour a lot of effort into that - it's the first part of the Quad, la! Lose it and they're on a severe downer.
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That could be read two ways. You could also say that if they lose it will concentrate their minds wonderfully on the league.
I'm not discounting the mental element in football either way. What counts, though, is that we're simply a better team than them in nearly every position on the pitch. I'd take Allison and Van Dijk from their team (and neither of them as guaranteed starters, either). That's it.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
That could be read two ways. You could also say that if they lose it will concentrate their minds wonderfully on the league.
I'm not discounting the mental element in football either way. What counts, though, is that we're simply a better team than them in nearly every position on the pitch. I'd take Allison and Van Dijk from their team (and neither of them as guaranteed starters, either). That's it.
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Salah surely?!!? If you did a combined City/Dippers XI he'd be the 1st name on the sheet for me.
 
DenisHasDoneIt said:
23 games - we’ve only played 4 teams twice, and three of them are the current bottom three. Other than Newcastle we haven’t seen the back of anyone decent. Our record against the current top 5 this year is Played 4, Drawn 2, Lost 2. The 2 draws were at home against Spuds and Liverpool, and our away record against both of them is not good. Throw in the warm, supportive and welcoming atmosphere away teams and referees are treated to at Anfield - raised to the power of 115 this year - and we’ve got a hell of a lot of work to do.

Set against that Private Frazer vision of doom, we’re the treble-winners, 3-in-a-row Premier League champions, have won our last 10, and we haven’t lost at home in any competition for 15 months. I think we might be able to hold off those plucky little underdog red-shirt upstart one more time - this year, hopefully, two of them at once.
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The thing is we start most seasons (including this one) and then go on a running run so your analysis of relating our early season form to our expected end of season form is flawed.

At the end of the day we are the best team in the land and all the world (!) so from our current position we should win the league (just check the bookie’s odds).
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Two years ago, three years ago, like a shot. Signs are that he's reached his peak, and that he's maybe slightly past it. A fine player, though. And as a person, I never had anything against him.
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Not too sure he's past it
Definitely missing Mane and Firminho but is only just behind Haaland in PL goals scored this season and has missed games due to Afcon and injury.
 
Xhavenjoe said:
Not too sure he's past it
Definitely missing Mane and Firminho but is only just behind Haaland in PL goals scored this season and has missed games due to Afcon and injury.
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I think he's past that absolutely explosive acceleration he had a couple of years ago. But I grant you that his close ball control, for an essentially attacking striker, is still second to none. Markedly better than Erling's, for instance. That's something that Erling really has to work on in the future, in my view. For the moment, Erling's brute speed and strength, allied to a ferocious shot, is getting him a lot of his goals.
But then you look at Salah's age. And you look at Erling's. I know who I'd rather have!
 
Can tell we're on the march reading the toxicity on Social Media yesterday. . Scousers and Rags in their droves showing a picture of a half empty family stand. Proper clutching at straws. I noticed a couple of emptys in Colin Bell stand 3rd tier but nothing drastic. We all now it was sold out a couple of weeks back but we always get late returns.
 
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