The Title Race 2022/23

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Agreed. However finishes top after 38 games is the best team that season.

It's not a knockout competition like that Champions League for example, The best team doesn't always win the Champions League because anything can happen in knockout games.

The Premier League is different you finish top because you've been the most consistent after 38 games.

If Arsenal win it then credit where it's due, It's a tough tough league to win, Plus finishing ahead of an incredible City side would be an achievement by itself.
Yip spot on ..
 
lets ask the same question after the leicester game 'should we win', 3 points behind level on matches played with better goal average and them to come to the Etihad i'd sooner be in our position
The only problem being their game when we play the semi final
They get a free hit at Southampton and the chance to build a lead
 
West Ham need at least a point and are capable of getting a draw. Sometimes the teams at the bottom are just as hard to play against the ones at the top. No result is guaranteed in this league.
Definitely. I'd fancy Arsenal to turn West Ham over but their is simply no guarantees in football.

West Ham battling for points at the bottom whilst Arsenal are basically playing a game they HAVE to win.

It's not going to be easy for Arsenal.
 
I cant think of a time when the best team hasn't won the title.
Best team doesn't always win the cups but thew title is the polar opposite of that

you can win the title the ugly way and win games 1.0 and keep it tight at the back, playing the best football sometimes wins you nothing
 
First things first, we have to get the job done against Leicester and not immediately let Arsenal off the hook like we did against Forest a few days after beating them. We need them to feel like we're not going to slip-up again this season and that we're going to relentlessly chase them down now.

It's a shame they're up against a terrible West Ham side next as they'll be able to put today behind them quickly with what will probably be a comfortable win. It's not impossible that West Ham get something as they're at home and are fighting to avoid relegation, and maybe if we cut the gap down to three points earlier in the day then the pressure will get to them but my head tells me they'll win that pretty easily. Then whilst we're playing an FA Cup semi-final, they've got Southampton at the Emirates which is the very definition of a home banker.

Going in to our game against them at the Etihad, assuming that we've beaten Leicester and they've beaten West Ham and Southampton, they will be 9 points ahead but we will have 2 games in hand. If we then beat Arsenal, we will be 6 points behind them with 2 games in hand and will more than likely have a superior goal difference. Although the league is technically in our hands already, it's also in Arsenal's hands as we've still got to play each other but if it all unfolds as described above then it will be properly in our hands. Losing three times in a row in the same season against your title rivals would surely have a negative psychological impact too.

If we win our next two games, I think our momentum and experience in tight title races will see us over the line.
 
I would be quite fearful if it was the liverpool of old but I think we are def a better outfit than Arsenal and would expect to win this one. Bottom line is I think weve been here before.

that may be right, but every game, every season, is different to the past ones, you only become good as your last game, the past is the past,
 
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First things first, we have to get the job done against Leicester and not immediately let Arsenal off the hook like we did against Forest a few days after beating them. We need them to feel like we're not going to slip-up again this season and that we're going to relentlessly chase them down now.

It's a shame they're up against a terrible West Ham side next as they'll be able to put today behind them quickly with what will probably be a comfortable win. It's not impossible that West Ham get something as they're at home and are fighting to avoid relegation, and maybe if we cut the gap down to three points earlier in the day then the pressure will get to them but my head tells me they'll win that pretty easily. Then whilst we're playing an FA Cup semi-final, they've got Southampton at the Emirates which is the very definition of a home banker.

Going in to our game against them at the Etihad, assuming that we've beaten Leicester and they've beaten West Ham and Southampton, they will be 9 points ahead but we will have 2 games in hand. If we then beat Arsenal, we will be 6 points behind them with 2 games in hand and will more than likely have a superior goal difference. Although the league is technically in our hands already, it's also in Arsenal's hands as we've still got to play each other but if it all unfolds as described above then it will be properly in our hands. Losing three times in a row in the same season against your title rivals would surely have a negative psychological impact too.

If we win our next two games, I think our momentum and experience in tight title races will see us over the line.

I also believe the highlighted portion of your post will lead to Crystanbul type scenarios.

Them having to go to places like St James' Park not just needing to win but needing to claw back some goals, recipe for disaster.
 
You know in hindsight arsenal would have took a draw against Liverpool better to come away with something than nothing,which brings me to the home game against Brentford when we could have took our medicine and a point is better than nothing just think of the extra point/s here and there in games,bit late now I know but just thinking about things like this ..
 
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