I m aware that this is a city forum and my opinion will be not very popular on here , dont get me wrong I m not saying you are wrong here but: over the last few games you were supposed to cruise and trash everybody on the road according to most people me included but things have been harder than most of us would thought:
- a win against Crystal palace that took a late counter attack goal to deny them coming back into the game after they deciding to actually start playing with 10 min left to go.
Yet we were all thinking it will be a walk in the park, blitzing teams right left and center but we saw 2 narrow tense wins with both a one goal margin and a nervous city team seen against Utd first half, Burnley first half and Crystal palace last 10 min.
- a narrow win against tottenham with Ederson denying Lucas and Son on three occasions.
- A nil nil first half against a shocking united side , with yet another DDG mistake then Lingard missing the unmissable.
- A very tense narrow 1 nil win against burnely , with a goal coming deep into the second half.
The thing is your team is on a 12 games winning run and it s always hard on the players nerves to keep going no matter how good you are.
Still , You are going to win the last two games , pool were so lucky in this title race and in all fairness it will be hard ending the season empty handed .. Again.
Fair play to you guys.
Couldnt give a rat's arse whether your view is popular. The main problem is it's not accurate.
- Palace - they didn't lay a glove on us. They got a late goal courtesy of a free kick that never should have been. Afterwards, we completely killed the game and they didnt have a single shot
- Tottenham - Ederson is paid to make saves; he did his job. If Spurs had scored, we would have stepped it up. It was tense watching, but in the 2H, Spurs never looked like scoring
- United - news bulletin, the game doesnt end at half time. We won very comfortably and could easily have been more
- Burnley - we absolutely battered them 2H. We were denied a stonewall penalty and they had a last ditch clear off the line. And our goal came 18 mins into 2H - hardly "deep"
The media and your forum built up each of these teams as if they were Barca and Juve combined, yet we came through them rather comfortably. Whereas Liverpool have been surviving on goalies chucking balls into their net, imaginary free kicks, red card rules re-written, and boyhood fans finding ways to gift them games.