How many points will be needed to win the league? (74 GD)

[Akpowell]

Or would you have taken being 19 points clear and the title won by now after needless defeats against United and Leeds?

In theory City could have put out the EDS team for the last 6 games and rested every first team player during that period.

Now the 1st team players will have to bust a gut against Dortmund, Chelsea, Villa, Spurs, Palace, and Bayern or PSG.

Like every City fan I would love City to do the quadruple. No other English club has ever done that. Not the Rags. Not the Dippers. But I don't think City can do it.

I don't own the club. I don't crave the CL like Mansour, Khaldoon, Soriano, Pep, and the English football media do. I crave another PL title. Like the vast majority of City fans do. And I don't want a 5th PL title jeopardised by team selections and rotations to accommodate a CL QF win. With no guarantee of a semi-final win against Bayern or PSG.

The PL title should have been won by now. When United beat Burnley, that will be a 9 point swing in United's favour. A 17 point lead drops to a 8 point lead.

People keep on saying United will slip up in their remaining PL games. I sincerely hope they are right. People keep on saying City will win their remaining PL games sandwiched in-between CL, FA Cup, and Carabao Cup games. Once again, I sincerely hope they are right. What do I know? Because if those people aren't right, and the Rags go on to win the PL title, no matter how far fetched those people still think that outcome is, we, City fans, will never live it down, after City blew a 17 point lead against the Rags, and the PL title was within City's grasp.

On a lighter note. I fully expect a torrent of abuse after posting this.

Good night. :-)

Exactly

 

[Cobwebcat]

Indeed, and as Chelsea still have to play both West Ham and Leicester, I’d refine that further to say only 4 of the top 5.

One more win for us is mathematically a top 2 finish.

I have that as top 3 as Leicester could finish higher than us on GD?

 

[Cobwebcat]

Or would you have taken being 19 points clear and the title won by now after needless defeats against United and Leeds?

In theory City could have put out the EDS team for the last 6 games and rested every first team player during that period.

Now the 1st team players will have to bust a gut against Dortmund, Chelsea, Villa, Spurs, Palace, and Bayern or PSG.

Like every City fan I would love City to do the quadruple. No other English club has ever done that. Not the Rags. Not the Dippers. But I don't think City can do it.

I don't own the club. I don't crave the CL like Mansour, Khaldoon, Soriano, Pep, and the English football media do. I crave another PL title. Like the vast majority of City fans do. And I don't want a 5th PL title jeopardised by team selections and rotations to accommodate a CL QF win. With no guarantee of a semi-final win against Bayern or PSG.

The PL title should have been won by now. When United beat Burnley, that will be a 9 point swing in United's favour. A 17 point lead drops to a 8 point lead.

People keep on saying United will slip up in their remaining PL games. I sincerely hope they are right. People keep on saying City will win their remaining PL games sandwiched in-between CL, FA Cup, and Carabao Cup games. Once again, I sincerely hope they are right. What do I know? Because if those people aren't right, and the Rags go on to win the PL title, no matter how far fetched those people still think that outcome is, we, City fans, will never live it down, after City blew a 17 point lead against the Rags, and the PL title was within City's grasp.

On a lighter note. I fully expect a torrent of abuse after posting this.

Good night. :-)

Yeah I have to say I think the majority of that post is nonsense but goodnight to you too!

 

[chesterbells]

I have that as top 3 as Leicester could finish higher than us on GD?

Yes, for sure. In all honesty I’ve been disregarding the goal difference due to the size of the gap, but point taken.

 

[jimharri]

Indeed, and as Chelsea still have to play both West Ham and Leicester, I’d refine that further to say only 4 of the top 5.

One more win for us is mathematically a top 2 finish.

Ah, but will we get one more win? We've hit the wall now, haven't we?

 

[Coatigan]

Or would you have taken being 19 points clear and the title won by now after needless defeats against United and Leeds?

In theory City could have put out the EDS team for the last 6 games and rested every first team player during that period.

Now the 1st team players will have to bust a gut against Dortmund, Chelsea, Villa, Spurs, Palace, and Bayern or PSG.

Like every City fan I would love City to do the quadruple. No other English club has ever done that. Not the Rags. Not the Dippers. But I don't think City can do it.

I don't own the club. I don't crave the CL like Mansour, Khaldoon, Soriano, Pep, and the English football media do. I crave another PL title. Like the vast majority of City fans do. And I don't want a 5th PL title jeopardised by team selections and rotations to accommodate a CL QF win. With no guarantee of a semi-final win against Bayern or PSG.

The PL title should have been won by now. When United beat Burnley, that will be a 9 point swing in United's favour. A 17 point lead drops to a 8 point lead.

People keep on saying United will slip up in their remaining PL games. I sincerely hope they are right. People keep on saying City will win their remaining PL games sandwiched in-between CL, FA Cup, and Carabao Cup games. Once again, I sincerely hope they are right. What do I know? Because if those people aren't right, and the Rags go on to win the PL title, no matter how far fetched those people still think that outcome is, we, City fans, will never live it down, after City blew a 17 point lead against the Rags, and the PL title was within City's grasp.

On a lighter note. I fully expect a torrent of abuse after posting this.

Good night. :-)

No abuse, but do you not see the irony in wanting the league done by now so we could rest players for the cups, and being uneasy that we haven't won it quite yet, because we rested players for a cup game?

 

[Francis Crawford]

Or would you have taken being 19 points clear and the title won by now after needless defeats against United and Leeds?

In theory City could have put out the EDS team for the last 6 games and rested every first team player during that period.

Now the 1st team players will have to bust a gut against Dortmund, Chelsea, Villa, Spurs, Palace, and Bayern or PSG.

Like every City fan I would love City to do the quadruple. No other English club has ever done that. Not the Rags. Not the Dippers. But I don't think City can do it.

I don't own the club. I don't crave the CL like Mansour, Khaldoon, Soriano, Pep, and the English football media do. I crave another PL title. Like the vast majority of City fans do. And I don't want a 5th PL title jeopardised by team selections and rotations to accommodate a CL QF win. With no guarantee of a semi-final win against Bayern or PSG.

The PL title should have been won by now. When United beat Burnley, that will be a 9 point swing in United's favour. A 17 point lead drops to a 8 point lead.

People keep on saying United will slip up in their remaining PL games. I sincerely hope they are right. People keep on saying City will win their remaining PL games sandwiched in-between CL, FA Cup, and Carabao Cup games. Once again, I sincerely hope they are right. What do I know? Because if those people aren't right, and the Rags go on to win the PL title, no matter how far fetched those people still think that outcome is, we, City fans, will never live it down, after City blew a 17 point lead against the Rags, and the PL title was within City's grasp.

On a lighter note. I fully expect a torrent of abuse after posting this.

Good night. :-)

‘Never live it down ?’
like when we was relegated as champions in the 30’s?

and that’s just the start of the things we have fu*ked up !

ITS DONE!

yes they may be some pressure before now and the end of the season but it’s over , relax
Concentrate on the cups
No matter how many points we win it by doesn’t matter !

it’s done

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Pep would have gladly traded 3 pts against Leeds for a CL SF. Now, he has to do the second part!

Max highest points against us is 84, by Utd. We have 74, with a +17GD.

In reality, we need 10pts. 3 wins & a draw, from 6 games IF Utd go 7 for 7 from here.

Burnley
Leeds
Liverpool
Villa
Leicester
Fulham
Wolves

I see the potential for losses or at least a couple of draws.

Let’s go with 1 of each, which means they get 16 out of 21pts, for a total of 79pts.

That means we need 5 points from 6 games. 2 wins does it. 1 win and 2 draws does it. Hell, we could not win another game all season, but only lose 1 and I think we would STILL win the PL!

Our run in:

Villa
Palace
Chelsea
Newcastle
Brighton
Everton

Certainly no “gimmes,” but are there 2 wins in there? 3 wins? 2 wins and a draw or two? 5 draws?

It is ABSOLUTELY NOT DONE, but to believe our SQUAD can’t pull 10pts from 18pts, or 7pts if United lose 1 game, or 2 wins and 2 draws if they only draw 1 game, suggests a collapse the likes of which we have never seen before!

I don’t think United go 7 for 7 and get 84pts. Rather, I think it’s a race to 80pts, possibly 81pts...and we should be able to do that playing ANYONE in the first team squad!

 

[manimanc]

Flap flap flap.
Some of these posts are absolute gold.
It's almost like we're 10 points behind the red mardarses the way some are going on.
WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE!!
We can even afford a couple more slip ups. Why everyone suddenly thinks that the rags are this machine baffles me.
Go look at their last 15 games and compare them to ours.
FFS.

 

[Tracking back]

The rags don't think they have a chance.
The broadcasters and journalists don't think they have a chance.
The neutrals don't think they have a chance.
The bookies don't think they have a (realistic) chance.
The only people who think that we might not win it are City fans.

..... and there lies the difference between us and them.

Can you imagine how ridiculous the rags must have felt after losing out on the title that season?

A few red faces I would guess.

 

[handsofstone]

Think people also forgetting United are also still in Europe and likely to progress, plus they got an extra league game than us....so even though we are in the Cups we'll roughly play the same amount of games

I prefer our depth to theirs

Even if we were level on points right now I'd fancy us

Also no guarantee United will capitalise on their game in hand, which is the beauty of not having a game in hand the points have already been secured

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Would anyone be prepared to suffer the remaining games in order to win the last game in the 94th minute and therefore win it on goal difference ?

Of course ffs!

 

[Heath Park]

Ah, but will we get one more win? We've hit the wall now, haven't we?

Indeed!
Is it 26 wins in the last 28 games? Relegation form. Lucky we've got to 40 points already. :-)

 

[chesterbells]

Think people also forgetting United are also still in Europe and likely to progress, plus they got an extra league game than us....so even though we are in the Cups we'll roughly play the same amount of games

I prefer our depth to theirs

Even if we were level on points right now I'd fancy us

Also no guarantee United will capitalise on their game in hand, which is the beauty of not having a game in hand the points have already been secured

I wonder if that’s the reason why Leicester were evens but united were 50/1 when I looked in yesterday.

 

[alexmcity]

Think people also forgetting United are also still in Europe and likely to progress, plus they got an extra league game than us....so even though we are in the Cups we'll roughly play the same amount of games

I prefer our depth to theirs

Even if we were level on points right now I'd fancy us

Also no guarantee United will capitalise on their game in hand, which is the beauty of not having a game in hand the points have already been secured

Agree with that point with the caveat that United would play Roma/Ajax, not Bayern/PSG. IF we reach the CL semis, the energy demands on both teams vs Bayern/PSG and Roma/Ajax respectively would be quite different. Here our 8-point cushion and Pep's ability to rotate will hopefully serve us well.

It will probably get a bit twitchy though. The ride's going to be wild, IF we beat both Dortmund and Chelsea. Bring it on!

IF we beat Dortmund and Chelsea, people will get a bit more relaxed wrt the league. A CL tie with PSG/Bayern will be something to look forward plus a FA Cup final. Big week this! Most important since the start of the season?

 

[MAG]

Agree with that point with the caveat that United would play Roma/Ajax, not Bayern/PSG. IF we reach the CL semis, the energy demands on both teams vs Bayern/PSG and Roma/Ajax respectively would be quite different. Here our 8-point cushion and Pep's abity to rotate will hopefully serve us well.

It will probably get a bit twitchy though. The ride's going to be wild, IF we beat both Dortmund and Chelsea.

Would you say that the difference between Roma/Ajax squads to those Bayern/PSG has is somewhat like comparing United’s squad to City’s? Or are they now man for man equal to us as well across the whole 25 players?

The twitchy bottoms will twitch no matter what ...

 

[supercity88]

Agree with that point with the caveat that United would play Roma/Ajax, not Bayern/PSG. IF we reach the CL semis, the energy demands on both teams vs Bayern/PSG and Roma/Ajax respectively would be quite different. Here our 8-point cushion and Pep's abity to rotate will hopefully serve us well.

It will probably get a bit twitchy though. The ride's going to be wild, IF we beat both Dortmund and Chelsea. Bring it on!

IF we beat Dortmund and Chelsea, people will get a bit more relaxed wrt the league. A CL tie with PSG/Bayern will be something to look forward plus a FA Cup final. Big week this! Most important since the start of the season?

A CL semi against Bayern or PSG would not make me excited at all! I bloody hate the CL, I'm behind the sofa for most of the game. I'm one of what seems a few, that would love City to win the CL so we can parade it in front of those fuckers at UEFA.

I don't think the opposition really makes a difference when you're in a semi final though. It still takes a lot of mental/physical effort. The rags are shite. Pressure is off in the league. If there's a chance they could win it, then the pressure mounts and they'll drop points again.

It happens every time. Ole is on the brink of getting sacked for bottling it in a big game or competition and then they go on a great run and everyone thinks they're back to the big time. Then they get another big game and bottle it again.

 

[ysmsa]

If anyone was worried about Everton winning all their games ;-) tonight they drew.

Only the top5 can win it now.

Feel a bit for the Toffee's, looked nailed on to finish above their Red Scum neighbours but probably gonna get "robbed" now

 

[Sir Joe Aguero]

Maybe I'm putting too much faith in Klopp, but beating United and getting top 4 could turn a disastrous season into an acceptable one. If they do, that's 2 wins and a draw. A point against Leeds would have made it much easier, but we'll be fine/

 

[Zubrman]

I only work in absolutes, so for the time being Everton stay white :-)

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