The Title Race - 2021/22

[alexmcity]

There's been something unique about City this season: we tend to win as many points per game vs the top 4 (or 6 or 8) teams as vs the bottom half teams, and we tend to win as many points at home as away from home. Compare that to Liverpool and Chelsea and the differences are big. They tend to drop much more points vs good teams.

 

[chaddblue]

If we beat Chelsea and Liverpool, I reckon 83 points will win it so we'll need another 10 wins from the 17 games left (including those 2)

 

[alexmcity]

My main worry is that our squad is relatively small: with Mendy suspended and Torres sold, we have only 17 outfield players or 18 if you include Palmer. A combination of covid cases, injuries and/or suspentions may reduce us to bare bones in some (big) games.

At the same time, even if we have 5-6 outfield players out, we still can field a good first XI, unless most of them are either defensive or offensive players. So, the worry isn't big (yet). Also, we have talents like McAtee and hopefully Delap, perhaps Kayky isn't too shabby either, but he's less likely to be ready to step up.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

A procession.

 

[buckshot]

City's two toughest away matches from here on out are at West Ham and Wolves

 

[domalino]

I think we have a real chance of getting 100 points again.

We can get 104, so we could lose 1 or draw 2.

Wouldn't say it's "likely" but it's doable. 16 games left.

 

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[daflanger]

Liverpool still has 54 points to play for. If we win 10 of the remaining 16 matches we have, we will be at 86 points. I believe it will be enough to win the league.

Honestly I don't see us dropping much points but anything can happen.

 

[youngbob]

Made a few posts in this thread a couple of months ago saying we'd need 85 max and got shouted down by a couple of posters. Looking more and more likely now...

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

I think we have a real chance of getting 100 points again.

We can get 104, so we could lose 1 or draw 2.

Wouldn't say it's "likely" but it's doable. 16 games left.

Doable but unlikely, I think Peps biggest challenge this year is to try and sustain the form going into May, momentum got us to the CL final but our performances weren’t great in the league from March on…

Context needs to be highlighted also, to replicate, almost like a mirror image of last year, is insane levels of consistency, if we manage to go all the way in CL, this will undoubtedly go down as one of the greatest club sides of all time, that should sink in for some people!