Will we win the league this season? No

Arsenal just aren’t that good, are they? I thought they’d steamroll the league this year to be honest but they’ve just had two shots on target at home to bottom of the league. That’s not good enough.

They’ve relied on two own goals to scrape a win.

Not sustainable at all, that, and unless Arteta sorts his defensive mindset out then I can’t imagine they’ll win the league.

All ifs and buts obviously…but I’m a lot more confident of a genuine ‘fight’ for the title than I was a month ago.
 
The 25/26 title winners will be the worst champions since Leicester. Whether that’s Arsenal, Villa or us. Just very average sides when compared to what’s gone before. Our 17/18 side would get 100 points again with this level of competition.
 
Marvin. said:
How seriously should we take Aston Villa?

Villa are on a club record winning run of 8 games. It includes results such as:

Villa 2-1 Arsenal, Brighton 3-4 Villa, Villa 4-0 Bournemouth, Leeds 1-2 Villa.

Chelsea were looking strong a fortnight ago or so and blew up. But Villa's run is impressive. How seriously should we take them? Are they on the threshold of a new force in English football, or just on a crest of a wave.

The BBC have an article on them after their win in Basle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cy078djkzjkt and that is what sparked my thought. I am up early today to catch a train to London.

They are at West Ham on Sunday. I hope they crash. The last thing we need is another team coming in to crash the party, although it would make it very interesting.
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Villa are out performing their stats in nearly every department.

They have done immensely well over the last couple of months, but averages will play out as the season goes forward.

I think statistically they are 12 points better off than where they should be. Most of any team in the league.

Us and Arsenal on the other hand match our stats pretty fairly in comparison and are performing as our stats show.

Villas fixture list since losing to Liverpool has been kind as well. Only Arsenal stands out and that was at home.
 
Alexia_Ko said:


We can win this title if Rodri comes back fully fit and/or we sign players in January
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Doku and Cherki are the best creators in the league and two of the best players to watch.

Watched Arsenal tonight. They were a bit tired after the CL game 3 days ago. They are better than that. But Saka aside, they lack top quality in attack. Gabriel, the CB, is their most dangerous attacker (set pieces).
 
OrigamiNinja said:
The 25/26 title winners will be the worst champions since Leicester. Whether that’s Arsenal, Villa or us. Just very average sides when compared to what’s gone before. Our 17/18 side would get 100 points again with this level of competition.
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I agree.

Low 80's wins the league this season in my opinion
 
OrigamiNinja said:
The 25/26 title winners will be the worst champions since Leicester. Whether that’s Arsenal, Villa or us. Just very average sides when compared to what’s gone before. Our 17/18 side would get 100 points again with this level of competition.
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Yeah I think that’s about right. Although I think this current team has the potential for another period of dominance in the near future. If Rodri can get fully fit, we will be very hard to stop.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Big if that!

A few weeks has turned into months!
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Not getting my hopes up over Rodri.

I think his mind is with Spain at the World Cup, and in all honesty, I think he might push for a move to Madrid in the summer if that contract isn't signed by March/April and if the rumours his wife/girlfriend has a doctor's job in Madrid next year.

Not a chance do City let him round down his contract and he himself will want that £400k a week contract ASAP because he is 30 soon.

Makes me wonder it's the reasons we are seemingly all in on Anderson.
 
MCFC1993 said:
Assuming we play to our best and you find your hard games tough, I'd go:
CityArsenal
Leeds (H) - WinChelsea (A) - Draw
Fulham (A) - WinBrentford (H) - Win
Sunderland (H) - WinVilla (A) - Loss
Palace (A) - LossWolves (H) - Win
West Ham (H) - WinEverton (A) - Draw
Forest (A) - WinBrighton (H) - Win
Sunderland (A) - WinVilla (H) - Win


18 points City - Losing to Palace (A)
14 points Arsenal - Drawing to Chelsea (A), Everton (A) and losing to Villa (A).

I think the timeslot of the Everton game makes it tough for you.

I also think our Sunderland (A) game is a lot easier than it was for you, they have 8 or 9 at AFCON. 4 of which started against you and 2 came on.


That's my optimistic view, realistic is we get about the same points.
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7/7. Albeit expected that to be way easier for Arsenal.

I had us losing to Palace tomorrow, so I would love to get my first one wrong.
 
OrigamiNinja said:
The 25/26 title winners will be the worst champions since Leicester. Whether that’s Arsenal, Villa or us. Just very average sides when compared to what’s gone before. Our 17/18 side would get 100 points again with this level of competition.
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Yet the English teams are the best in Europe and have won 9 from the last 10 games vs Spanish teams.

The league is better than ever in terms of the quality of midtable and bottom half teams. Any game is a potential banana skin. Arsenal are top in the CL with 6 wins from 6 games and struggled against the worst team in the PL.

The team that win the league this season will be far better than Leicester.
 
alexmcity said:
Yet the English teams are the best in Europe and have won 9 from the last 10 games vs Spanish teams.

The league is better than ever in terms of the quality of midtable and bottom half teams. Any game is a potential banana skin. Arsenal are top in the CL with 6 wins from 6 games and struggled against the worst team in the PL.

The team that win the league this season will be far better than Leicester.
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I think it says a lot about the quality of football in general. It’s nowhere near the level it was. The teams in Europe are very poor bar 2/3 sides.
 
OrigamiNinja said:
The 25/26 title winners will be the worst champions since Leicester. Whether that’s Arsenal, Villa or us. Just very average sides when compared to what’s gone before. Our 17/18 side would get 100 points again with this level of competition.
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Very good chance they’d go unbeaten too.
 
Marvin. said:
How seriously should we take Aston Villa?

Villa are on a club record winning run of 8 games. It includes results such as:

Villa 2-1 Arsenal, Brighton 3-4 Villa, Villa 4-0 Bournemouth, Leeds 1-2 Villa.

Chelsea were looking strong a fortnight ago or so and blew up. But Villa's run is impressive. How seriously should we take them? Are they on the threshold of a new force in English football, or just on a crest of a wave.

The BBC have an article on them after their win in Basle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cy078djkzjkt and that is what sparked my thought. I am up early today to catch a train to London.

They are at West Ham on Sunday. I hope they crash. The last thing we need is another team coming in to crash the party, although it would make it very interesting.
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Take everyone up there seriously

Do not underestimate or disrespect anyone
 
alexmcity said:
Yet the English teams are the best in Europe and have won 9 from the last 10 games vs Spanish teams.

The league is better than ever in terms of the quality of midtable and bottom half teams. Any game is a potential banana skin. Arsenal are top in the CL with 6 wins from 6 games and struggled against the worst team in the PL.

The team that win the league this season will be far better than Leicester.
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The mid-table is better, but there is a serious lack of quality at the top end, and that goes for around Europe too.

Look at the top European teams of 5 years ago let alone 10 and they would all walk the current CL.

La liga in particular is the worst I have seen it probably since the days of Juande Ramos at Real Madrid and the back end of of Rijkaard, and even those teams walk all over the current Madrid and Barca teams.

Serie A is a joke. Mctominay is the best player.

Bayern team is good but isn't a patch on the 2020 let alone Heynckes and Peps Bayern

Paris are a standout to be fair.

Peps 4 in a row team, centurions, Klopps Liverpool, Conte and Jose's 2014 Chelsea and Pellegrini's 2014 and Mancini's 2012 team would walk this current PL.
 
alexmcity said:
Yet the English teams are the best in Europe and have won 9 from the last 10 games vs Spanish teams.

The league is better than ever in terms of the quality of midtable and bottom half teams. Any game is a potential banana skin. Arsenal are top in the CL with 6 wins from 6 games and struggled against the worst team in the PL.

The team that win the league this season will be far better than Leicester.
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The standard of the Spanish sides is also the worst they’ve been in a long time, so I dont read too much into that.

People have been saying the same thing about the quality of the Prem for as long as I can remember. IMO, the quality of the mid-table teams is looking better because the sides at the top aren’t as good/dominant as previous sides. It makes for a better competition for sure but I don’t think Arsenal, City and Liverpool are “struggling” because the rest are much better than what’s gone before. I’m not having Arsenal struggled tonight because Wolves are actually a really good side, who are just unlucky that they’re in an ultra-strong PL. Wolves would be considered absolute dump in any PL era.

I think given the number of times we’ve won it recently, we City fans are in as good a position as anyone to judge the quality of previous champions. Leicester won it because they were the best of a very bad bunch that season. This years winners won’t be that bad but they certainly won’t be anywhere near as good as our previous title winning sides, or Liverpools and I include City in that assessment, should we manage to win it again this season.
 
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