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How many games can we realistically afford to lose?
- Thread starter Jumanji
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Skashion
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Not true, the vast majority of teams that win the title draw more games than they lose.cibaman said:Usually its not so much a case of how many games you can afford to lose, more about avoiding draws.
From what I have seen so far us and Chelsea have dominated large parts of games but things haven't quite clicked for either yet.utd may eventually get in mix but will be surprised if any of the other early pretenders can go the long haul. I think our leaders preoccupation with champions league may be the undoing of us.
Skashion said:Not true, the vast majority of teams that win the title draw more games than they lose.cibaman said:Usually its not so much a case of how many games you can afford to lose, more about avoiding draws.
But a lot less than the team coming second.
Skashion
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This usually holds true for the amount of losses too and there are a number of instances where a team with a lot more draws than 2nd place wins the title too i.e. Arsenal's Invincibles.cibaman said:But a lot less than the team coming second.
Ridiculous if this is true. Do they actually think we can win the CL? League is far more realistic and I would like for us to be in a position to qualify for the CL at the end of the season. Just can't understand prioritizing CL over league, can't get into CL without doing good in the league ffs.xmusampa said:From what I have seen so far us and Chelsea have dominated large parts of games but things haven't quite clicked for either yet.utd may eventually get in mix but will be surprised if any of the other early pretenders can go the long haul. I think our leaders preoccupation with champions league may be the undoing of us.
marco
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no way the title should come 2nd to anything else, on the positive side of things so far we have beaten united 'dismantled them' started well in the lg cup and champions lg, we find ourselves 3 points above our main rivals and one point behind chelsea the five point gap between us and arsenal doesnt worry me but it will if it gets to 9 points. we can jump back to 2nd if we beat everton heads up guys all will be well come may
Ducado
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marco said:no way the title should come 2nd to anything else, on the positive side of things so far we have beaten united 'dismantled them' started well in the lg cup and champions lg, we find ourselves 3 points above our main rivals and one point behind chelsea the five point gap between us and arsenal doesnt worry me but it will if it gets to 9 points. we can jump back to 2nd if we beat everton heads up guys all will be well come may
It's still very early, and as we all know (or should know) that early season form counts for very little, squad size, the amount of games etc catches up with all teams
We do need to up our game especially away from home, but I am pretty sure the club knows this and will be working on it at least I hope they are
celticfc482
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On the back foot now getting 1 point from 3 away games that we should of really got 9 from. Now its all about the big games away from home plus the other away games we never win, Away to Everton, Swansea and Sunderland.
celticfc482 said:On the back foot now getting 1 point from 3 away games that we should of really got 9 from. Now its all about the big games away from home plus the other away games we never win, Away to Everton, Swansea and Sunderland.
We've got Liverpool. Arsenal. United, Chelsea and Spurs to play away from home as well. Margin for error in these games is rapidly disappearing. Extremely frustrating.