Will we win the league this season?

M18CTID said:
Let’s also not forget that Arsenal were by far the better team in the first half of the treble season. They only dropped 7 points from memory with predictions of 100+ points abound, plus we were far further adrift of them at one stage than we are now.
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I thought we were shite in the treble season until the spring. Shows what I know!
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
I thought we were shite in the treble season until the spring. Shows what I know!
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I did too. Shite is maybe a bit of an exaggeration but we weren’t that good for the most part until that upturn in spring. But what we did do when we finally got our mojo back is win all the games that mattered in those last few months which shows you don’t always have to be the best team for the majority of the season.
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
I thought we were shite in the treble season until the spring. Shows what I know!
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We started the season well, we were hammering teams and Haaland was scoring for fun. We opened the season with 8 wins of the first 10 games which were undefeated with 33 goals scored and only 9 conceded.

Either side of the World Cup we were very poor though.

Usual shite away at Liverpool (1-0 defeat), even shit away at Leicester where we won (0-1), terrible at home to Brentford (lost 1-2), even worse at home to Everton (1-1), shit away at United (2-1), shit in the first half at home to Spurs (0-2 down ended up winning 4-2 with a Mahrez masterclass… Pep calling us the ‘happy flowers team’) and shit away at Spurs.

Then the charges hit and we never looked back.
 
M18CTID said:
I did too. Shite is maybe a bit of an exaggeration but we weren’t that good for the most part until that upturn in spring. But what we did do when we finally got our mojo back is win all the games that mattered in those last few months which shows you don’t always have to be the best team for the majority of the season.
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Yes, you've just got to give yourself the chance to win it, no matter how you do that. I think that's the big thing I've learned from Pep.
 
coolcity said:
Sorry but he's right. Nobody knows what the score of the next match will be but that's a different subject entirely. The big issue in this forum, particularly in the post-match, is the unfortunately quite high number of idiots who lose the plot completly after a bad result.

One clown early on in the season said "We're light years behind Liverpool and it will take 2 seasons at least to catch them. Plenty more have said, even after the Leeds then the Fulham matches, that we have no chance of catching Arsenal. Another said Arsenal won't lose 4 matches this season. Well they've lost 2 in 15 so why wouldn't they lose 2 more in the next 23?

Meanwhile everybody knows who Pep should have played or brought on because it's easy AFTER you've seen the outcome, but they still know better and "Pep should go" - I even saw those three immortal words after the Fulham match, while another was slating the recruitment from the manager, coaches and players right up to the owners - yes, we now need a change of ownership!

Then of course we have the Scapegoat of the Season. This time it's Savinho, last season it was mostly Doku and Gonzalez.

These are just a few of the gems we have had, some as recently as last Tuesday. The reality is they're all clueless to varying degrees but it's entertaining and annoying at the same time.

As i said in the post-match last night, I think the mistake that many are making is that they don't see this as a 90-100 point team and assume that because we're not going to hit those heights we have no chance of winning it. It probably isn't at the moment, but what they don't realise is neither is any other team - we won't need 90 points to win the league.
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There is quite a bit of hypocrisy in that post tbf, people being overly negative after a defeat isnt much different to people getting giddy and being wise after a win

Let's take a couple of ypur examples

Poster says they don't think they will lose 4 games, I presume this was last week? When they had lost 1 in 14 and had played some tough away games. Now you with the hindsight from yesterday quote 2 in 15 and claimed that view was silly.

Light years behind Liverpool early in the season? , the Liverpool that won the title last year by a margin over us and then spent a fortune on what everyone thought were very good players and won their first 5 games. Light years is obviously an exaggeration but come on its easy to be smart now, I don't know anyone who predicted the absolute hilarious falling off the cliff that has happened to them.

If you think Savinho hasn't been poor this season and Doku and Nico G havent improved then thats an opinion. Doku was frustrating and Nico G struggled to get games. Now Savinho isnt getting much game time and Nico G is. Wonder why Pep has done this? Performances would be the reason. Now obviously you are entitled to an opinion as are others even if you dont like them. With those opinions of yours though I wouldn't be in a rush to call others clowns though, its a tad ironic tbh.

Commenting after a game is what the forum is about, are people OTT in both directions? Yes but I would rather have that than every post being well let's see, that would be pretty dull.

Anyhow fingers crossed we can win it again this season it would be quite an achievement in my view especially with Rodri and Kova being out.
 
Still a no from me unless we sort our away form out and stop shitting the bed when we come up against fast midfielders.
 
Marvin. said:
You have addressed the injury and return of Arsenal's best players and you could do likewise for City.
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Our only injury is Rodri (and Kovacic who is not coming back into this team) and its not as simple as him "returning from injury" as hes coming off a long-term injury and may never be the same

Not really comparable to Saliba-Gabriel (and Mosquera) who are just off with freak injuries and will return soon
 
Don’t let Arsenal build an unassailable lead and it’s ours.

Huge pressure on a team and manager that has won NOTHING in FIVE YEARS to deliver the biggest prize of all with the most emotionally unstable set of suppporters in the country demanding them to get it done.

It’s a proper recipe for disaster and the first cracks are starting to appear.
 
Probably hinges on Rodri coming back to fitness - if he gets back to 80% then his presence alone could be the deciding factor - both by giving us stability and also creating that bit of aura where teams are scared of us again
 
handsofstone said:
Our only injury is Rodri (and Kovacic who is not coming back into this team) and its not as simple as him "returning from injury" as hes coming off a long-term injury and may never be the same

Not really comparable to Saliba-Gabriel (and Mosquera) who are just off with freak injuries and will return soon
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True, Rodri's return is more problematic, but the upside is that if Rodri makes a successful return, City will be much stronger.
 
Danny Tiatto said:
Don’t let Arsenal build an unassailable lead and it’s ours.

Huge pressure on a team and manager that has won NOTHING in FIVE YEARS to deliver the biggest prize of all with the most emotionally unstable set of suppporters in the country demanding them to get it done.

It’s a proper recipe for disaster and the first cracks are starting to appear.
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You can smell the desperation of their needy fans every time their anxious players wave at the crowd. Arteta is too cautious and defensive ( again at Villa yesterday) and the team does not have the ruthless streak they need.
 
.db. said:
We started the season well, we were hammering teams and Haaland was scoring for fun. We opened the season with 8 wins of the first 10 games which were undefeated with 33 goals scored and only 9 conceded.

Either side of the World Cup we were very poor though.

Usual shite away at Liverpool (1-0 defeat), even shit away at Leicester where we won (0-1), terrible at home to Brentford (lost 1-2), even worse at home to Everton (1-1), shit away at United (2-1), shit in the first half at home to Spurs (0-2 down ended up winning 4-2 with a Mahrez masterclass… Pep calling us the ‘happy flowers team’) and shit away at Spurs.

Then the charges hit and we never looked back.
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Definitely. Pep used those charges to power boost the club inside and out. The players, the fans were pumped up from February and that energy lasted up until the final whistle in Istanbul.

Recently Pep said in a press conference that the team who wins the league is the team that grows into the season. That’s what we are doing now.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
You can smell the desperation of their needy fans every time their anxious players wave at the crowd. Arteta is too cautious and defensive ( again at Villa yesterday) and the team does not have the ruthless streak they need.
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I agree to a point, but we also need a really big statement victory rather than just relying on beating two promoted teams at the Etihad when Arsenal were facing a couple of difficult away fixtures (one of which we also lost)

Sooner or later Arsenal might be facing Wolves when we have a difficult opponent

Arsenal will be feeling like we did in 2011-12 and I can still recall the agony of our defeats at Swansea and Arsenal (ironically when Arteta scored) and the feeling that we'd blown it.

However let's not forget that the United machine was starting to creak and that despite all the trauma we still ended the season as Champions
 
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