Breaking records/stats thread

[aguero93:20]

Palace will be more of a threat attack than Watford

Agreed, they've pace and trickery on both wings so it'll be extremely hard to cut out the threat from counters.

 

[Pam]

Everton away, back in early January.

Always Everton. Weird.

 

[Hoghead]

These 4 Xmas PL fixtures are like a mini tournament due to them all falling in a short space of time.
Apart from Walker, no other player who started against Bournemouth played against Leicester in the cup so they were all fresh for the start of these fixtures.
I think the timing of them (and ignoring the distances to travel) have been kind to us in that we have at least 3 clear days between each fixture with the exception of Watford but that is tempered by the fact we are playing at home.
Add to this the return of key players, we are in a great position to get maximum points which we have started with the win over Bournemouth.
I've probably jinxed us now:-S

 

[aguero93:20]

These 4 Xmas PL fixtures are like a mini tournament due to them all falling in a short space of time.
Apart from Walker, no other player who started against Bournemouth played against Leicester in the cup so they were all fresh for the start of these fixtures.
I think the timing of them (and ignoring the distances to travel) have been kind to us in that we have at least 3 clear days between each fixture with the exception of Watford but that is tempered by the fact we are playing at home.
Add to this the return of key players, we are in a great position to get maximum points which we have started with the win over Bournemouth.
I've probably jinxed us now:-S

The timing of the fixtures should work in our favour for one specific reason, it gives our opponents less time to practise a gameplan to stifle us, whereas we approach every opponent in more or less the same fashion.

 

[Impeccable One]

I think we will get maximum points before we go to Anfield. And any trip there usually fills me with dread, but I can see us getting some sort of result there, which is probably the most confident I've ever felt about City.

I’m 100% sure there will be ‘some sort of result’ :)

 

[chedinho]

our first double of the season v bournemouth.

i used to be chuffed to bits when we got one when i was a kid.i don't even know who has the most during a season but i would be buzzing if we beat it.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

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[Project]

The timing of the fixtures should work in our favour for one specific reason, it gives our opponents less time to practise a gameplan to stifle us, whereas we approach every opponent in more or less the same fashion.

We don’t actually. We adjust for almost every opponent. I’d be extremely surprised if any manager does more homework on the opponents than Pep. Every pre match press conference you hear him namecheck about 8 of their players and where the danger lies. Never hear that from other managers.

 

[aguero93:20]

We don’t actually. We adjust for almost every opponent. I’d be extremely surprised if any manager does more homework on the opponents than Pep. Every pre match press conference you hear him namecheck about 8 of their players and where the danger lies. Never hear that from other managers.

Same style mate, not same tactics, unless you think the teams in the bottom half have 9 outfield players in their own box for 90 minutes against each other? A day between games is plenty of time to tweak things, but not to redesign a team and formation.

 

[ohfk]

I think 1 win from the next 2 games would give Pep manger of the month for the 4th consecutive time. Another record.

Someone asked earlier in the thread, does anyone have the list of records broken by City? I keep losing track. Never thought I'd hear myself saying that :)