Last Night Actually Changes Nothing

[Katsunari Takayama]

They would swap points tallies if you ignore everything else, but that’s not the point is it? They wouldn’t swap momentum. It’s all about momentum now and we just don’t have it. Last night even saw City players having a go at each other which we just don’t see normally, even in tough moments. We are feeling the pressure and that will feed into Liverpool’s confidence that they’ll catch us.

Players have a go at each other all the time in every single game, sky just happened to focus in on it to suit their narrative last night.

A lot of nonsense is talked in the media about this mystical thing “momentum”, points are worth immeasurably more than momentum and we’ve got them. The dippers had the “momentum” when they beat us 3-2 in the 2014 run in - how did that work out for them ??

 

[KS55]

Etihad game will decide everything.. <3

10/04/2022 -> PL Final

May the soles of fallen heroes from the last battle - lead our guys to the victory on that day as well...

What's it got to do with their feet?

 

[train man]

... we've picked exactly the wrong time of the season to start wobbling whilst they look unbeatable.

They didn't look unbeatable against the hamsters, how WHam didn't get at least a point at theirs I just don't know...

 

[Carver]

The dippers had the “momentum” when they beat us 3-2 in the 2014 run in - how did that work out for them ??

Errm Slippy G carried too much momentum into the Chelsea game? That could have contributed to him slipping

 

[Williecaballerno]

Players have a go at each other all the time in every single game, sky just happened to focus in on it to suit their narrative last night.

A lot of nonsense is talked in the media about this mystical thing “momentum”, points are worth immeasurably more than momentum and we’ve got them. The dippers had the “momentum” when they beat us 3-2 in the 2014 run in - how did that work out for them ??

Ok. Ignore the word word momentum. Insert the word form. Ours is patchy. Theirs is relentless.

 

[Katsunari Takayama]

Ok. Ignore the word word momentum. Insert the word form. Ours is patchy. Theirs is relentless.

“Form” is a very arbitrary way of defining how a team is currently doing. How many games do we go back to decide if a team is in form or not ? Over the course of a season different teams will find form at different times, the only thing that truly counts at any given time is the points total.

And once again I refer back to the 13/14 run in. Some people may have thought that when they beat us to stretch their winning run to 8 games, such a “relentless” run of form would propel the dippers all the way to the title but it didn’t did it.

The key words that can maybe be substituted for “form” and “momentum” are “self belief”. That’s the key to success. The great teams and the great champions don’t need to be on a run of form to have self belief and the innate confidence that comes from having found a way to win when it most counts.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

I haven't heard a peep about the title being in Liverpool's hands or one of their players sending a warning out to City since Tuesday. Does anyone think they're getting worried?

 

[Father Paul]

1. We won’t lose to the dippers at home.
2. The scum will take points at Liverpool
3. We will win the title by 5 points.

Dangerous post which deserves to be framed one way or the other.

 

[burning blue soul]

"last night actually changes nothing"

ahhh, the words i have heard many times **stares wistfully out of the bedsit window**

 

[Father Paul]

“Form” is a very arbitrary way of defining how a team is currently doing. How many games do we go back to decide if a team is in form or not ? Over the course of a season different teams will find form at different times, the only thing that truly counts at any given time is the points total.

And once again I refer back to the 13/14 run in. Some people may have thought that when they beat us to stretch their winning run to 8 games, such a “relentless” run of form would propel the dippers all the way to the title but it didn’t did it.

The key words that can maybe be substituted for “form” and “momentum” are “self belief”. That’s the key to success. The great teams and the great champions don’t need to be on a run of form to have self belief and the innate confidence that comes from having found a way to win when it most counts.

“Form” is a very arbitrary way of defining how a team is currently doing. How many games do we go back to decide if a team is in form or not ? Over the course of a season different teams will find form at different times, the only thing that truly counts at any given time is the points total.

And once again I refer back to the 13/14 run in. Some people may have thought that when they beat us to stretch their winning run to 8 games, such a “relentless” run of form would propel the dippers all the way to the title but it didn’t did it.

The key words that can maybe be substituted for “form” and “momentum” are “self belief”. That’s the key to success. The great teams and the great champions don’t need to be on a run of form to have self belief and the innate confidence that comes from having found a way to win when it most counts.

Problem is the dippers have won both the CL and the league since then and one assumes have an abundance of self belief. My own view is that after the international break we have a mini league and we have a slight advantage. Let's see what happens, shall we.