It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[MadchesterCity]

You cant ignore the PSG and Dortmund games when they had a direct effect on the heavily rotated team selections for all but one of those games

I omitted them as they are not English premier league teams, I also omitted Chelsea final result. They were obvious fantastic results and may have influenced the other results but it's a squad game right, so we keep getting told

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

You cant ignore the PSG and Dortmund games when they had a direct effect on the heavily rotated team selections for all but one of those games

We lost one game in CL, be it the final but the cards were stacked, even with the Pep ceremonial brain fart... the stats also show we were 3 wins from an unprecedented clean sweep, which has never been done in domestic football in this country...

Margins, we merely lost the momentum at the wrong time, which was always my fear, however, break down last season and fuck me, it was phenomenal!

 

[blueparrot]

I omitted them as they are not English premier league teams, I also omitted Chelsea final result. They were obvious fantastic results and may have influenced the other results but it's a squad game right, so we keep getting told

And our squad had arguably the best season in europe. Won our league and a cup, got to a semi final and a c/l final. Who had a better season.

 

[andyhinch]

We lost one game in CL, be it the final but the cards were stacked, even with the Pep ceremonial brain fart... the stats also show we were 3 wins from an unprecedented clean sweep, which has never been done in domestic football in this country...

Margins, we merely lost the momentum at the wrong time, which was always my fear, however, break down last season and fuck me, it was phenomenal!

Strongest we’ve probably had imho

 

[LongsightM13]

So, to sum up…

 

[MadchesterCity]

Why would our rivals be much stronger but not us. Considering they have to improve far more than we do. It’s possible but would be unexpected. Do you think they’ll all improve and we’ll go backwards.
No rational reason to believe that.

Let's talk about from a points perspective rather than performance to really simplify things
Which of these will score more points next season?
United? on 74 points
Liverpool? on 69 points
Chelsea? on 67 points
I'd say it's a fair assumption that all of our rivals will score many more points next season unless you disagree?

 

[MadchesterCity]

We lost one game in CL, be it the final but the cards were stacked, even with the Pep ceremonial brain fart... the stats also show we were 3 wins from an unprecedented clean sweep, which has never been done in domestic football in this country...

Margins, we merely lost the momentum at the wrong time, which was always my fear, however, break down last season and fuck me, it was phenomenal!

Almost perfect from a result perspective, hard to argue that but our performances were below our usual high standards, as I see it, we were clearly much better defensively but created much less going forward, you may disagree?

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Almost perfect from a result perspective, hard to argue that but our performances were below our usual high standards, as I see it, we were clearly much better defensively but created much less going forward, you may disagree?

More pragmatic with what we had at our disposal, imo

We measure our season in quite an illogical way, however, we still excelled above others who also had a down season in terms of performance, being the best of a bad bunch still makes us the best, surely?

 

[Xhavenjoe]

I'd say it's a fair assumption that all 4 of our rivals will score many more points next season unless you disagree?

It would be difficult for all 4 teams to score more points next season.
The strongest of these teams will gain points at the expense of the others

 

[Roy Munson]

We did, in a year with no challengers. That takes nothing away from us however in other seasons especially the most recent, we may not have caught back up if any other side shown any sort of consistency. We done extremely well clawing it back and capitalising on others failings. If you think we can start as poor and lose as many games next season and win the league then you’re extremely optimistic.

What in the giddy fuck are you on about? Of course we had challengers. We just put such a phenomenal run together that it crushed the morale and motivation out of them.