The Title Race - 2023/24

How many points will be needed to win the league?

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Perfect timing. Chelsea hitting a bit of form before they play us. They’ve not been able to scrape a win or hit a barn door for months. Saying that, Chelsea did score 2 goals in injury time. Palace imploded again.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Au contraire!

Arsenal’s 6 goals were more than just 3 points, they were a record and they’re not going to bottle it this year!

And, who could ignore the fact that all 3 of Liverpool’s strikers scored against….err, Burnley…and none of them were called Mo! That’s worth waaay more than 3 points!

Plus, United came back, yet again, to win a game by 1 goal! Can’t you just feel the momentum shift that has created? It’s “seismic!”

Oh wait, looking at the table, it appears the gushing clickbait “journalists” might have made a mistake, unless the Premier League did so by only awarding them 3 pts!
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Plus Ten Points to Griffindor!
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
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.
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Forest beat them last year
 
Roachy said:
Can't actually remember the last 3 team title fight, 3 usually becomes 2 so should be interesting.
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2013-14.
Chelsea were there or thereabouts with ourselves and the dippers until very late in the season and the 'Gerrard's slip' game put them right into the mix with a couple of weeks left. Then they inexplicably only drew at home against relegated Norwich and our win against Villa in the last midweek of the season meant they could no longer mathematically win the title. Had they won that Norwich game, they could still have been champions going into the final day though they would have needed the unlikely scenario of away wins at both the Etihad and Anfield.
 
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Alfie Budd said:
2013-14.
Chelsea were there or thereabouts with ourselves and the dippers until very late in the season and the 'Gerrard's slip' game put them right into the mix with a couple of weeks left. Then they inexplicably only drew at home against relegated Norwich and our win against Villa in the last midweek of the season meant they could no longer mathematically win the title. Had they won that Norwich game, they could still have been champions going into the final day though they would have needed the unlikely scenario of away wins at both the Etihad and Anfield.
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Yep, that's the most recent one and the only three horse race we've been involved in.

The only other seasons in the Premier League era where 3 teams had a chance of winning it going in to the last couple of games is 1998/99 and 2007/08. Basically, it doesn't happen very often.
 
Anyone else enjoying watch ETH gas up these United fans into thinking he is a good manager. His press conferences are border line a comedy sketch.
 
jrb said:
Perfect timing. Chelsea hitting a bit of form before they play us. They’ve not been able to scrape a win or hit a barn door for months. Saying that, Chelsea did score 2 goals in injury time. Palace imploded again.
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I think it is considerably more about that. We're better all over the pitch than Chelsea. On the other hand, if we go back to missing virtually unmissable chances as with the first half of the season, anything could happen. Glad we got a clean sheet the other day. I'd like us to start lining those up again.
 
next 3 games for each club:
Arsenal:
Burnley away
Castle home
Sheffield away
this is simple 9 points imo, Castle defence turned to shit these last few weeks, worry is the other two will let Arteta build up even better GD.

Liverfool:
Brentford away
Luton home
Forest away
wish it wasnt 9 points but can see it go that way, maybe one of away games a draw? Brentford would help us or themselves? Toney put the bet on Liverpool apparently already. they also have the Carabao final in between these.

City:
Chelsea home
Brentford home
Bournemouth away
we really need these 9 points, I am sure its not the same Chelsea that will turn up that fucking folded like a bag of beans at Anfield recently.

and then if its 9 points for each 3 clubs next 3 games which is quite likely, than we arrive into crunch games vs rags and Liverpool early March and we need to arrive in top top form for those games and not lose Rodri KDB etc through injuries. Rodri also need to watch out for yellows in the meantime.

what I seen from Palace and WHU vs Arsenal Palace conceding 5 for fun at Emirates and WHU happily lube up for Arteta days ago conceding 6, no one is standing up for these.and these are London rivals ffs.
 
Damanino said:
next 3 games for each club:
Arsenal:
Burnley away
Castle home
Sheffield away
this is simple 9 points imo, Castle defence turned to shit these last few weeks, worry is the other two will let Arteta build up even better GD.

Liverfool:
Brentford away
Luton home
Forest away
wish it wasnt 9 points but can see it go that way, maybe one of away games a draw? Brentford would help us or themselves? Toney put the bet on Liverpool apparently already. they also have the Carabao final in between these.

City:
Chelsea home
Brentford home
Bournemouth away
we really need these 9 points, I am sure its not the same Chelsea that will turn up that fucking folded like a bag of beans at Anfield recently.

and then if its 9 points for each 3 clubs next 3 games which is quite likely, than we arrive into crunch games vs rags and Liverpool early March and we need to arrive in top top form for those games and not lose Rodri KDB etc through injuries. Rodri also need to watch out for yellows in the meantime.

what I seen from Palace and WHU vs Arsenal Palace conceding 5 for fun at Emirates and WHU happily lube up for Arteta days ago conceding 6, no one is standing up for these.and these are London rivals ffs.
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Games are not played on paper though. I think Noocastle could get a result. Brentford could equally get something. Chelsea appear to be hitting some kind of form. I think we’ll come out with more points than both scousers and the South London club.
 
LesBleuMiserable said:
Games are not played on paper though. I think Noocastle could get a result. Brentford could equally get something. Chelsea appear to be hitting some kind of form. I think we’ll come out with more points than both scousers and the South London club.
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I don’t think we will get more points than both of them, I hope you are right though.
 
Mancity1980 said:
No Jack at Anfield could be a problem and the title race could swing on that.
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The dippers will no doubt be saying the same thing about TAA as he's such an important player for them.
Injuries and how you deal with them are such a key part of winning a title as it's so rare a team gets through a full season without being impacted. I'm confident that whatever Pep comes up with if Jack isn't fit by then will work.
 
Alfie Budd said:
The dippers will no doubt be saying the same thing about TAA as he's such an important player for them.
Injuries and how you deal with them are such a key part of winning a title as it's so rare a team gets through a full season without being impacted. I'm confident that whatever Pep comes up with if Jack isn't fit by then will work.
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Good point about Trent Alexander my friend, however Pep’s record at Anfield reads 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses; are you still confident that whenever Pep comes up with if Jack isn’t fit by then will work? I’m not.
 
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Alfie Budd said:
The dippers will no doubt be saying the same thing about TAA as he's such an important player for them.
Injuries and how you deal with them are such a key part of winning a title as it's so rare a team gets through a full season without being impacted. I'm confident that whatever Pep comes up with if Jack isn't fit by then will work.
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City have had to deal with Kdb missing for half a season and Haaland missing for 2 months. Not to mention John Stones being in and out who was a massive part of the run in for the treble last year. Pep has managed this and kept City in touch with the top of the table.
 
Damanino said:
next 3 games for each club:
Arsenal:
Burnley away
Castle home
Sheffield away
this is simple 9 points imo, Castle defence turned to shit these last few weeks, worry is the other two will let Arteta build up even better GD.

Liverfool:
Brentford away
Luton home
Forest away
wish it wasnt 9 points but can see it go that way, maybe one of away games a draw? Brentford would help us or themselves? Toney put the bet on Liverpool apparently already. they also have the Carabao final in between these.

City:
Chelsea home
Brentford home
Bournemouth away
we really need these 9 points, I am sure its not the same Chelsea that will turn up that fucking folded like a bag of beans at Anfield recently.

and then if its 9 points for each 3 clubs next 3 games which is quite likely, than we arrive into crunch games vs rags and Liverpool early March and we need to arrive in top top form for those games and not lose Rodri KDB etc through injuries. Rodri also need to watch out for yellows in the meantime.

what I seen from Palace and WHU vs Arsenal Palace conceding 5 for fun at Emirates and WHU happily lube up for Arteta days ago conceding 6, no one is standing up for these.and these are London rivals ffs.
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No point prediting which games teams will drop points,there are always unexpected points dropped and those can be the ones that decide the title.
 
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