The Title Race - 2023/24

How many points will be needed to win the league?

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alexmcity said:
We'll rotate after Chelsea too, but to a lesser extent. We have 6 excellent defenders, Pep will rotate them till the end. We have good wingers, Pep will rotate Grealish, Doku, Bobb and may use even Alvarez on the wing.

The players who will play with less rotation are Rodri, Foden and Haaland, mostly Rodri.
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Definitely. It feels like Pep has figured out the combinations he wants to use and he's managed minutes very carefully and much better than our rivals. In previous campaigns we've gone into the FA Cup semi finals having to make changes due to injuries/fatigue and we've not been at it. Rodri is the only one that probably would need Saturday off to ensure he can then play through to the end, coming off as soon as he can in league games to manage minutes.

Otherwise we have plenty of options moving forwards.
 
TinFoilHat said:
Long way to go yet.

Dippers could still win it if we draw Arsenal in the semis of the CL should we both go through. Those games will drain both of us and rotation will be key.
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We've only won all of our final 6 games once under Pep. That's when we had to win all 6 to win the title, so you can't put too much on it, but it's likely all three will drop points again. So much can happen. You've got teams with nothing to play for just going for it, or teams fighting for Europe/to stay up who just do everything to grind a result out.

Every game feels tough at this time of the season.
 
I wonder whether the players went into training on Monday smiling at Pep and he couldn't stop himself winking back at them. Or did he keep a straight face and say just put the damn cones out?
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
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he is talking to cruyff.
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"everything is for johan".
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without johan we, city, wouldn't be who/where we are right now.
 
kaz7 said:
Shame we are not playing this weekend in the prem as if both teams win their games they will get a buzz being above us and might get a second wind
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Arsenal definitely play twice before we're next in PL action and if the Brighton game stays on the Thursday, Liverpool will too. Both could be four points clear of us before we next kick a ball.
Having must win games in hand isn't something that seems to phase us - we've proved it more than once including last season.
 
Alfie Budd said:
Arsenal definitely play twice before we're next in PL action and if the Brighton game stays on the Thursday, Liverpool will too. Both could be four points clear of us before we next kick a ball.
Having must win games in hand isn't something that seems to phase us - we've proved it more than once including last season.
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The response from them in these next games will be interesting after last weekends results.
 
Alfie Budd said:
Arsenal definitely play twice before we're next in PL action and if the Brighton game stays on the Thursday, Liverpool will too. Both could be four points clear of us before we next kick a ball.
Having must win games in hand isn't something that seems to phase us - we've proved it more than once including last season.
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Alternatively they play very difficult fixtures and could drop a couple of points
Which may allow us to draw one down the line
I’ve no doubt if we need to win all 6 we will
The bonus for us is we may have only 6 games left after Saturday or we need to continue to juggle the squad (fingers crossed) and are buoyed ourselves by being in Semi finals and finals
 
kaz7 said:
Shame we are not playing this weekend in the prem as if both teams win their games they will get a buzz being above us and might get a second wind
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I'd say pool and the bumnal would prefer to be playing in the Cup this weekend. It must be killing them, especially the dippers.
If we win our next 2 games we would be playing bumnal/ munich in the next round of champions league and the possibility of a united fa cup final.
That will kill off the dippers or bumnal for another season.
 
We will win it at spurs and in and around the 85th min the whole stadium will be singing are you watching Arsenal
 
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