The Title Race - 2023/24

[Coatigan]

Debatable but they know how to beat dross.

Summation of the season.

 

[Coatigan]

We're the only team with 6 left now.
Arsenal have now won 2 of their 6 and are on a roll again.

Immaterial to my point.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Arsenal are the best team in this league.

Unfortunately for them, their manager came to the Etihad scared and didn’t play for a win. If he did, they’d probably have one hand on the title now.

 

[Zablo Pabletta]

Can't get too excited about one spanking.

I remember Notts Forest on a death march in the league games running up to the '91 cup final, 6W 1D including a 7-0 over Chelsea an beating 2nd place Liverpool.

They lost the final 3-1.

Plenty of mileage left in this race yet.

 

[gocity]

Debatable but they know how to beat dross.

Dross describes Chelsea without Palmer

 

[Chak19]

Debatable but they know how to beat dross.

Except Fulham.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Unfortunately for them, their manager came to the Etihad scared and didn’t play for a win. If he did, they’d probably have one hand on the title now.

Or more likely they would have lost and been in a worse position. Time will tell on whether that was a good point or not.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Immaterial to my point

No its not.
You said we are the only team you'd back to win their last 6 games.
All I'm pointing out is that arsenal have won 2 out of the 6 and are playing well again

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Arsenal are the best team in this league.

They are this season, I agree. But the margins are so fine this year that the best team might not actually win. The saying “the best team always wins the league” is said so often that it’s treated as undeniable fact, but I don’t think 38 games is some incredibly vast sample size whereby the best team will always win, forever. Not when the margins are as slight as this season. We can obviously do it from here (it won’t be easy), but I’d still consider Arsenal to have been the best team this season, barring something bizarre in their last 4 matches.

 

[RayCTID]

Dross describes Chelsea without Palmer

They aren't much better with him in their sidfe either and I doubt Arsenal would have given away a penalty to give him a real chance.

 

[mcfcphil]

They are this season, I agree. But the margins are so fine this year that the best team might not actually win. The saying “the best team always wins the league” is said so often that it’s treated as undeniable fact, but I don’t think 38 games is some incredibly vast sample size whereby the best team will always win, forever. Not when the margins are as slight as this season. We can obviously do it from here (it won’t be easy), but I’d still consider Arsenal to have been the best team this season, barring something bizarre in their last 4 matches.

On what basis are they the best team?

 

[SouthernPlastic]

Chelsea have gone full pub league

 

[malg]

Dross describes Chelsea without Palmer

Mid table fodder with him. Just a poor team but he's a shining light for the fans.

 

[malg]

On what basis are they the best team?

I'm guessing he means the best to watch?

 

[baggy]

No its not.
You said we are the only team you'd back to win their last 6 games.
All I'm pointing out is that arsenal have won 2 out of the 6 and are playing well again

It's not teams like Chelsea they will struggle against. Its the teams who put 10 behind the ball and frustrate/play on the counter they could find fault with.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

On what basis are they the best team?

I think their structure is the most balanced/complete between attack and defence. Their attack is performing at least as good as ours (if not marginally better) and their defensive structure is much better than ours imo. Overall, I think that makes them the best team. But let’s hope we can win our last 6.

 

[DMA's]

Arsenal are playing with the pressure off now after villa. If we were to slip up I wouldn’t put it past them to shit the bed again tbh. Still I expect spurs to get at least a draw on Sunday

 

[Coatigan]

No its not.
You said we are the only team you'd back to win their last 6 games.
All I'm pointing out is that arsenal have won 2 out of the 6 and are playing well again

Ffs. Think about it before you say things.

 

[Edghill OG]

Tonight just makes me more frustrated at dropping 4 points to this awful Chelsea side.

 

[I'm Blue]

Nowt’s changed.
Still in the champions hands.