The Title Race - 2023/24

[jimmygrimblesboots]

It's a shame, but if there is a moment to play Liverpool away is now. They have a lot of injured players and they have Europa League on Thursday, and they won't be able to rotate that much because they have like 15 available players (no idea if they will recover players in one week).

None of that will matter if we don't win tomorrow, so first things first.

Absolutely this , they will rush players like Salah back for their biggest game of the season and they will have little match fitness , but our recently injured players like KDB & Haaland are just getting into their stride. No matter how many dodgy decisions they get and Clubshops moaning on the touch line i think we will have their number , they are not a great football team , just a bunch of long ball chancers.
Hope Pep and his staff wear crash helmets for the game because they are usually dodging coins, lighters and other projectiles for ninety minutes on the bench. Dipper fans really are vermin

 

[Stelea]

I watched the Forest game and i don't get what all the whining with the 8 minutes added on. Forest keeper was down for 3 and a half minutes and there was 7 second half substitutions, there's another 3 and a half minutes. 1 minute extra for fannying about like time wasting , Gibbs-white booked for it.

What annoyed me was when the game was stopped when Forest were in possession but when the game restarted Kelleher was given the ball, bizarre why Tierney awarded Kelleher the kick!
Forest squandered a few decent chances and Kelleher saved a certain goal with his foot. Liverpool pressurised them for the equaliser and if it wasn't for a forest player trying to pass the ball out instead of blasting it upfield then Forest may have hung on for a deserved draw, imo.

A draw would have meant us going to Anfield only needing a draw(providing we win tomorrow) and being a point ahead, now it means that it's a must win game to have the title in our own destiny. We can do it and it's time to go there and beat Liverpool.

Agreed.
What pisses me off is twats like Forest shitting the bed twice in 3 days

 

[city saint]

i think arsenal are the team to watch this year,if we are on it its ours but arse are deffo under the radar with the press and are playing well

 

[bridgeblue]

As the games reduce, the pressure increases, it's more about how teams deal with the pressure that will decide the title, we undoubtedly play better when the pressure is on, we play better against a better the better teams. This makes us favorites in my opinion, just!

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

It's a shame, but if there is a moment to play Liverpool away is now. They have a lot of injured players and they have Europa League on Thursday, and they won't be able to rotate that much because they have like 15 available players (no idea if they will recover players in one week).

None of that will matter if we don't win tomorrow, so first things first.

We will shit our pants like we always do when we go there

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Liverpool only have 3 vaguely difficult games left : us and spurs at home and Villa away. Assuming we win our game in hand they have a one point advantage with a 6 better goal difference. Add to that the emotion of Klopp leaving, the referee decisions in their favour, the loss of Grealish, the return of Salah, the continuing to win resting key players it all looks iffy at the moment.

A draw at Anfield will only keep us in it so a win is needed, but going for a win sounds like a gamble, but a gamble we may have to take. The bookies still have us as favourites, I just can’t call it at the moment and as much as I want to believe those on here who say we will finally win there I am not convinced.

Didnt think the Forest game was dificult today for the Dippers , but it was , their habit of scraping wins will eventually bite them in the arse , there are no such things as easy games especially for the Dippers , and we are very capable of winning ten more league games this season and that will land us the title , and its not like we havent done it before. As for gambling to win at Klanfield , i have never witnessed a Pep team that doesnt go out to win , we have dominated every team we have played this season even in defeat , the only exception was Villa away.

 

[waspish]

We will shit our pants like we always do when we go there

It's more to do with players know we will get absolutely nothing of the referee and they will get everything mentally it's the hardest place to go for us! Referee gets intimidated there and why our biggest win there was when there was no one was in the ground!

 

[Fordyboy46]

If we’re up by 4 goals we get ZERO mins. They just blow on 90 like v Luton. Just shows how it completely depends on what the scoreline is and who ‘needs’ to win and whether stoppage time can help or not.

Exactly, but we'll be called bitter blues for stating this fact

 

[shemnel]

If we’re up by 4 goals we get ZERO mins. They just blow on 90 like v Luton. Just shows how it completely depends on what the scoreline is and who ‘needs’ to win and whether stoppage time can help or not.

But we were 4 up in a cup game? Why would we want extra minutes to get potential injuries?

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

We will shit our pants like we always do when we go there

last four league results at Klanfield , 0-1 defeat (Cancelo brain fart) , 4-1 win , 2-2 draw and 0-0 draw (Mahrez penalty miss), doesnt really back-up your theory.
Apologies there was a 1-3 defeat amongst those results so , W1 D 2 L 2