The Title Race - 2021/22

[jaiguruKun]

Hey, if you Really want to torture yourself, try this. Imagine needing a goal with 10 minutes to go, and watching Pep refusing to make substitutions or change things up. Then go and imagine the QPR game with no substitutions. Take it away.

I don't need any encouragement, this is one of the many different awful scenarios going through my head.

 

[manc_macca]

Since 2012 we have gone into the final day 3 times out of the 5 league titles we have won needing to win the final game and done it. Either we are due one to blow up in our faces or City go out and do the business. Fuck Liverpool they’d rather be in our position right now.

All the hard yards we put in this season and the disappointment of Madrid etc Pep will have the players fired up like nothing else. The crowd will be up for it. The squad is more than capable quality wise to get the job done. Mentality the hunger will be there. This team is possibly the best we’ve had, they’ll get the job done

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Is there such a thing? as 'due one'? If we had failed to win any or all of those 3, would we win this one because we are due it, or would we bottle it because we had form bottling them.

I hope it doesn’t exist, go about our business and take Villa apart within the first half hour. Statistically we’ve had one situation 10 years ago where we were chasing the result in the final moments. The others were not in question by the end of the first half.

 

[Coatigan]

I don't need any encouragement, this is one of the many different awful scenarios going through my head.

Sorry.

I'll try come up with one you haven't thought of yet then.

 

[richards30]

fucking useless southampton!!!!!

 

[Big Pussy Bonpensiero]

Is there such a thing? as 'due one'? If we had failed to win any or all of those 3, would we win this one because we are due it, or would we bottle it because we had form bottling them.

Think he means by law of averages we could be due to lose one. I mean if you told me in the next 10 seasons we’ll go down to the last day needing to win the game to win the league every season I wouldn’t say ok we’ll win it every year so. Law of averages dictate we’d have to lose one along the line somewhere.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Nothing much has changed. Goal difference is no longer a consideration (by the way, Liverpool did not score the nine goals that people were hallucinating about). For goal difference to come into play, we'd have to lose, and the dippers draw.
Neither is going to happen. Steady as she goes. This is not like ten years ago. The team and club were totally inexperienced at being in that position in the PL at that point. This team (and the club) have made a habit of collecting titles since then.
Let's do this, and let the party commence…

 

[Strangerepublic]

Oh please, we dropped points against west ham because we missed a penalty, not because of the referee.

We were abject at home to spurs and palace and cost ourselves points, not the refs fault again.

If we lose the league on sunday it will because we dropped points through our own mistakes.

Let's not start playing the victim, it isn't our style leave that to the rags and cultfc

If City didn't commit mistakes, we would be sitting on 114 points at the end of the season.and beat Madrid 7-2 at home.

The whole point is, like any set of human being, and despite being clearly the best team in Europe, the City players will have off days and the odd slipup.

That's where uneven refereeing comes in - the odd "mistake, or "erroneous" VAR offside frame in a Liverpool 6 pointer, or Madrid getting a crucial penalty that we would never get ourselves.....they all add up.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I don't need any encouragement, this is one of the many different awful scenarios going through my head.

The other one I once heard suggested was Sergio goes down in the area. Penalty. Mario steps up to take it with his usual nonchalance and then balloons it over the bar. And walks away with that puzzled look on his face, wondering what everyone's getting worked up about.
We do love to torture ourselves here on Bluemoon…

 

[GSW Blue]

All the hard yards we put in this season and the disappointment of Madrid etc Pep will have the players fired up like nothing else. The crowd will be up for it. The squad is more than capable quality wise to get the job done. Mentality the hunger will be there. This team is possibly the best we’ve had, they’ll get the job done

I read “fired up like nothing else” and just think red card in first 5 minutes.
It’s going to be a long few days!

 

[bornblueegg]

The best team will win the league and it will be City, simples

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

The other one I once heard suggested was Sergio goes down in the area. Penalty. Mario steps up to take it with his usual nonchalance and then balloons it over the bar. And walks away with that puzzled look on his face, wondering what everyone's getting worked up about.
We do love to torture ourselves here on Bluemoon…

It's in the genes

 

[Coatigan]

With you. The thing that frustrates me is as good as they've been to stay with us, I don't believe they're THAT good enough to be potentially 2 wins away from the quad. It always seems like the sort of thing that happened to us v Madrid, or the saved late penalty at WHU doesn't happen to them, but not because they're the better team or because we're not good enough.

Makes you feel that if it comes down to a bit of luck on the last day, it won't be us who gets it. That's where my nerves come from, they're so scabby.

If that is the case, should it not mean our luck is bound to change then. And when it matters most.

 

[Coatigan]

Just the way the season has panned out
The luck they’re getting
Things that have been said Eg Pep saying about Liverpool only having 1 PL in 30 years, the sort of thing that comes back to bite
The Mahrez penalty miss
The whole Gerrard thing

You think we will fail to beat Villa because Pep said Liverpool have won one title in 30 years?

 

[ashytheblue]

shitting it but confident we will come through as champions

 

[Coatigan]

Think he means by law of averages we could be due to lose one. I mean if you told me in the next 10 seasons we’ll go down to the last day needing to win the game to win the league every season I wouldn’t say ok we’ll win it every year so. Law of averages dictate we’d have to lose one along the line somewhere.

I would agree. If we were playing the same top team in such a game each time.

 

[Coatigan]

Nothing much has changed. Goal difference is no longer a consideration (by the way, Liverpool did not score the nine goals that people were hallucinating about). For goal difference to come into play, we'd have to lose, and the dippers draw.
Neither is going to happen. Steady as she goes. This is not like ten years ago. The team and club were totally inexperienced at being in that position in the PL at that point. This team (and the club) have made a habit of collecting titles since then.
Let's do this, and let the party commence…

Could still go to a play-off as well you know. If we lose 6-0 and they draw 5-5. There has never been one, law of averages says it is bound to happen one day.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Could still go to a play-off as well you know. If we lose 6-0 and they draw 5-5. There has never been one, law of averages says it is bound to happen one day.

True, but if we're lucky, a meteor about the size of the one that completely changed the ecosystem on earth and wiped out the dinosaurs will plummet through the atmosphere and make a direct hit on Eastlands (or Anfield) before that happens. That too is in the law of averages. Then we won't have to worry about a football match.
;-)

 

[kippaxwarrior]

We should, but till then we'll be sick all of us.... Im or feel sick, already

This same scenario happened 8 years ago when it went to the last day. Dippers and the media were pinning their hopes on Andy Carroll and Ian Nolan doing something for west ham for us to silp up.

The result? One of the most comfortable 2-0 victories I've seen. It was an absolute stroll and I fully expect the same on Sunday

 

[Coatigan]

This same scenario happened 8 years ago when it went to the last day. Dippers and the media were pinning their hopes on Andy Carroll and Ian Nolan doing something for west ham for us to dilp up.

The result? One of the most comfortable 2-0 victories I've seen. It was an absolute stroll and I fully expect the same on Sunday

Plus big sam had pledged to do it for Stevie G