blueste41 said:DruntBlunt said:So write off the game vs us as a certain loss, but will use the game vs Chelsea to measure your title chances? Only in Arseland...GunnerGer said:I had this chalked down as a loss, and I wouldn't use it to judge our title chances. Arsenals big game is next week, that's the game I would judge our title chances on.
Surely every game has a bearing on your title chances!
Every game of course does have a bearing on our title chances. What I mean is that you will do that to probably every team this season at your own ground. No disgrace in losing to you guys at The Etihad as everyone else does as well. Don't get me wrong, I would have loved to avoid defeat today, but no one else manages it either.
What we really need to improve on last season is our home games against yourselves, Chelsea and Utd.
We got 1 point from those 3 fixtures last season, we need to start winning some of them if we want to think we have a title challenge on our hands. If we can't win our home games then it really does make a title challenge very difficult.
Win next week and we are at least 3 clear, and been to probably our 2 most difficult away games of the season, things don't look as bad.
Lose next week, we are sucked back into the chasing pack, having not picked up a point in 3 games against our traditional top 4 rivals so far this season, and things begin to look rather negative.