The Title Race - 2023/24

[bluenova]

Personally I can’t see us solving these problems quickly. Our inability to defend is horrendous. How easy are goals against us? We never get easy goals. We have to work for them. Opposition, one ball over the top, piss weak defending and in it goes. Week after week after week, it’s dejavu. You cannot drop 6 points at home in games where you should have win all of them and expect to win titles.

But that's always been the way, as we don't sit back with ten men behind the ball.

We're almost always going to be attacking against a low block where the players are set. We're almost always going to be defending against breaks, and even when they're not particularly fast, our players will be moving with the aim of pushing back out rather than sitting in place to soak up pressure.

It's what's won us 5 titles in 6 years.

 

[Damanino]

do we need something to spur us on like the PL charges they dropped on us last in February?

something to galvanize us, wake us up, us against the world, added motivation etc.

winning the treble was huge, wonder a bit what did it do to our hunger to get the one with the big ears over the line finally.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Personally I can’t see us solving these problems quickly. Our inability to defend is horrendous. How easy are goals against us? We never get easy goals. We have to work for them. Opposition, one ball over the top, piss weak defending and in it goes. Week after week after week, it’s dejavu. You cannot drop 6 points at home in games where you should have win all of them and expect to win titles.

100 fucking percent.

 

[Vester]

I still believe Pep can turn it around and that we can win the league. Not because we are good or that I really believe in this team, on the contrary I think we are awful compared to our normal standard. But luckily the other competitors are not looking that great either. There is no team on the level of City/Liverpool teams from previous seasons that is capable of running away with it.

With that said, we need urgent reinforcements to fix the damages from our extremely poor summer window that completely destroyed our squad depth and strength. And not reinforcements like Barco/similar, players that are exiting prospects but thats not going to improve us short term. We need 2-3 elite players. 1 Rodri alternative that we can play without it being a certainty that we'll drop points. We let Palmer leave, who now has 10 PL goal involvements in less than half a season, and replaced him with just promoting a youth player instead of signing another player capable of delivering those numbers. We also need a Gundogan replacement, since Nunes is not even half the player Gundo was. Not to mention that we currently cant defend and could probably need some reinforcements in that area as well.

Pep has always figured out a way to make us a team capable of going on a long winning streak, but its more or less impossible when we play twice a week and the bench/alternatives consists of players like Bobb/Gomez/Kovacic/Nunes/Phillips/Susoho. The squad depth is currently non-existent.

 

[hertsblue]

Surprised so many choosing Liverpool. Arsenal is the better side IMO.

Dippers getting all the PGMOL decisions though, 4 games in a row

 

[eversince 76]

The negativity … ‘great’ City fans. Spoiled to the bone.

 

[waspish]

The negativity … ‘great’ City fans. Spoiled to the bone.

We are spoiled does that mean we can never critique the team the players and pep?

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

But that's always been the way, as we don't sit back with ten men behind the ball.

We're almost always going to be attacking against a low block where the players are set. We're almost always going to be defending against breaks, and even when they're not particularly fast, our players will be moving with the aim of pushing back out rather than sitting in place to soak up pressure.

It's what's won us 5 titles in 6 years.

We were 2 nil up against Crystal fucking palace today who were absolutely dire! Criminal defending, Dias weak as piss and the last goal was just a joke from half the team.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

We’re certainly in a race. But it isn’t for the title.

 

[Elliot houghton]

KDB coming back an leading us to a winning streak to win the title it’s happening