Stood in The South Stand said:MaineRoadBlue said:My prediction, for what it is worth, is that Liverpool will bindip the title from our back pocket unless we depart both Europe and the FA Cup.
There is no doubt about it, that timing is everything, and they have the momentum. They have benefitted greatly from no european commitments and going out early from the Capital One.
I feel over the next month Arsenal will drift away and that Chelsea will get too enthralled in the Champions League to concentrate on their League form.
Yes, we could win our last 13 league games, including the trip to Liverpool, if that was our only priority. I just feel that any potential 6th round FA Cup commitment or even a replay, added to our Champions League commitments will dilute the attention of both the mind and the body of our best 11. In short, we will end up either resting players, incurring suspensions or even worse still get injuries trying to keep all the balls in the air at once.
For me the priority is winning the Capital One Cup and then giving everything we have to win our final 13 League games using our best 11 players.
Yes the supposed 'Quadruple' would have been nice, but that would take a squad of 25 top players. Beyond our best 13 or 14 we have a lot of mediocrity that gets found out too often.
Richards
Nastasic
Demichelis
Clichy
Garcia
Rodwell
all of that lot are not good enough.
Lescott is the best Premier League partner for Kompany and he needs to be reinstated soonest.
Harsh.
But True!