The Title Race - 2023/24

[come-on-barney]

I'll be really happy with that, but we are winning the double :)

:)

 

[Bluemoonadam]

Sort of wish spurs were in the title equation because if we don't win it I'd prefer it to be then over Liverpool or arsenal.

 

[DWIFF]

When you say struggling, what you're really trying to say is 1 point off the top?

Three points now.
We are absolutely miles away from winning the league this season.
We’re not taking our chances and we’re all over the place defensively.
Between Arsenal and the dippers for me.
We will get beat against Villa, we might get a point at Luton.
Arsenal will increase their lead this week.

 

[Bez]

We are having a bit of a blip right now. Tough run of games too. Not clinical enough up front and defence strangely out of form. We will come good and be in the mix for the Premier League. Come on City!

 

[Damanino]

Did a check compared to last season, fixture to fixture, with Leicester=Burnley, Leeds= Sheff U , Soton= Luton

unless I am mistaken we are 9 points worse off which doesnt bode well as most of these coming from close rivals.

only fixture we actually improved on was the old toilet derby we lost last season and won this season.

otherwise we won the same games except :
Wolves away (was win, now a loss)
Arse away (was a win, now a loss)
Chelsea away + Pool home + Spurs home (all were wins now all draws, we had the lead in all t be even more frustrating)

so overall + 3 points vs rags away and -12 points on above 5 fixtures, total of minus 9 points.

next 3 games:
Villa away (was a draw)
Luton away (Soton, was a win)
Palace home (was a win)

we really need to go to places like Anfield, Spurs away and get a win finally to turn this back on somehow. (and do Brentford home and away)

we may not need exact same points as last season to win the title, but imo will be very close to that and last season we didnt have to deal with Liverpool as they had horrible season.

 

[waspish]

We give it a good go and finish second or third so be it we win the lot sooner or later we will drop off!

 

[come-on-barney]

We give it a good go and finish second or third so be it we win the lot sooner or later we will drop off!

Pep is already warning of the cycle…

 

[Andouble]

Think it’s foolish to expect us to rattle off 12+ in a row after the new year just because we’ve done so in the past. Awful defensively, overrun in the midfield, and wasteful up front. Pining hopes on an old KDB and Stones who has proven he can’t play more than a few games in a row is unwise.

 

[ysmsa]

I stand by my statement of a few months back that nobody will end up within 10 points of City. For all the disappointment of the last 3 games, it’s still 3 unbeaten against ‘top’ clubs.

Liverpool will end up closest but they’re also abysmal defensively and made unbelievably hard work if it against Fulham…..they’ll drop a tonne of points over the next 2 months along with Arsenal.

The comments after todays game are mental.

It was a great game of football, unluckily for us our efforts hit the woodwork whereas theirs went in.

Should've been clear but we weren't.

Some odd decisions which are not down to luck, was it first yellow went to Rodri?

Spuds kicking ball away for that free kick first half, that is automatic yellow, not given.

Spuds player feigning injury hoping we kick it out, jumps up when we are in their box and promptly goes down when a corner given.

Haaland did tremendous to ride a foul, stay up and play Jack through and then it was pulled back, terrible refereeing.
How many times were Spuds and us adjudged to be offside but allowed to play on until the move fizzled out. The one time it might have mattered and the Ref stops the game!
Don't forget, a similar thing happened against the Dippers late on last week where we were denied a breakaway!

There has been a lot of iffy decisions in these games we have dropped points in but, we are still only 3 of the top.

To put it into perspective, if Arse hadn't got lucky with that shitty deflected goal against us and the game finished 0 - 0 we would be top tonight.

 

[super_city_si]

Playing shit and only 3
Off top after a hard run of games missing pivotal players.

We’ll be there but we need stones especially to be available.