The Title Race - 2023/24

[John Wayne]

Maybe It’s because he’s contracted Gunner Raya…

A few posts back you had someone saying VD is overrated. Warts n'all is this thread.

 

[Blue Maverick]

March will either win us or cost us the PL title.

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Ye looked at that last night we win all those I think we go on to win it

 

[Gremlin]

I’d be interested to know what you mean by Kloppophobia and how it will help the dippers,

I think he means Kloppophilia but that sounds a bit suspect.

 

[bridgeno1]

Ake is the most underrated player in the league mate, 7.5 out of 10 every game

Agree he's a good player, City don't have any bad players, I just stated it is marginal whether he's better or worse than what we've already got so I wouldn't take him on that basis.

I reckon if you did a combined City/Arsenal 1st XI then Saliba and maybe Odegaard get in (not ahead of KDB though hence 'maybe' in the Foden role). Saka not so much this season (last season he'd have got in), Rice is terrific but Rodri is even better.

But if you did a combined Arsenal/Liverpool XI there'd be many more Arsenal players in that side.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Ye looked at that last night we win all those I think we go on to win it

If I was going to pick a month to play those games, then it would be March.

 

[SWP's back]

Ratboy Neville talked today of this being a crucial result as we're now entering the home straight of the title race.

Must be a very long home straight given that we still have 40% of the fixtures still to play

Weird. On the sky sports podcast he literally said “we’re entering the final lap, not the home straight, that will come at the end of March”

He also said we were his clear favourites at this point.

 

[SWP's back]

Quite happy with all this title race featuring Arsenal and Liverpool talk leaves us to do things our way under the radar, with little pressure from anyone.

We know what to do from here.

Eh? We’re overwhelming favourites with just about every single pundit.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Weird. On the sky sports podcast he literally said “we’re entering the final lap, not the home straight, that will come at the end of March”

He also said we were his clear favourites at this point.

tbf, if you take out the 4th to 7th and 10th to 17th words of what Neville said then it’s pretty accurate.

 

[supercity88]

A great result for us last night. Liverpool remain a bigger threat because they generally win at Anfield and pick up plenty of points away from home. We also still have to go there, and don't win very often.

Arsenal are still a challenger, but I can't see them ironing out those random poor performances that see them drop points against sides they should put to the cleaners.

Maybe things will settle down a bit going into the home straight, but I'm not so sure.

March is a huge month for us, but it's not the big games that worry me - it's the ones we should win. I don't think we've played particularly badly in many this season, we've just uncharacteristically dropped points through a failure to see games out. But we've dominated and been ahead in the majority of them. Last season we had really flat performances against the likes of Brentford and Everton at home and other than Wolves away we've not had many this time around.

5pts off top with two games in hand. Time to turn the dial up starting tonight.

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

Agree he's a good player, City don't have any bad players, I just stated it is marginal whether he's better or worse than what we've already got so I wouldn't take him on that basis.

I reckon if you did a combined City/Arsenal 1st XI then Saliba and maybe Odegaard get in (not ahead of KDB though hence 'maybe' in the Foden role). Saka not so much this season (last season he'd have got in), Rice is terrific but Rodri is even better.

But if you did a combined Arsenal/Liverpool XI there'd be many more Arsenal players in that side.

Yep, can’t really argue with that

 

[SWP's back]

Agree he's a good player, City don't have any bad players, I just stated it is marginal whether he's better or worse than what we've already got so I wouldn't take him on that basis.

I reckon if you did a combined City/Arsenal 1st XI then Saliba and maybe Odegaard get in (not ahead of KDB though hence 'maybe' in the Foden role). Saka not so much this season (last season he'd have got in), Rice is terrific but Rodri is even better.

But if you did a combined Arsenal/Liverpool XI there'd be many more Arsenal players in that side.

I wouldn’t swap Foden with anyone from any club to be honest mate. He's criminally underrated outside of Manchester. If he was a United player he’d already have a knighthood.

 

[MafeotulBlue]

Back in our hands, it’s crunch time. Expect a different attitude going forward.

 

[Roachy]

I wouldn’t swap Foden with anyone from any club to be honest mate. He's criminally underrated outside of Manchester. If he was a United player he’d already have a knighthood.

Totally true. He's better than those 3 youngish red arse wipes who the press are currently fawning over put together.

 

[Phil1]

I wouldn’t swap Foden with anyone from any club to be honest mate. He's criminally underrated outside of Manchester. If he was a United player he’d already have a knighthood.

I wouldn’t trust anybody’s opinion on any football related matters if they didn’t rate Foden as highly as he deserves to be rated.
There’s even one or two blues who still don’t get it.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Eh? We’re overwhelming favourites with just about every single pundit.

No I know that, but talk yesterday was as though it is just Arsenal and Liverpool.

 

[SWP's back]

No I know that, but talk yesterday was as though it is just Arsenal and Liverpool.

After the game, Neville, Carragher and Keane all said the winners of that result yesterday was City mate and then all three said they thought City would win the league.

 

[Mr Blue Moon]

Back in our hands, it’s crunch time. Expect a different attitude going forward.

It was in our hands even before the Arse v Dipper game

 

[TinFoilHat]

Time for us to fire up the After Burners.

 

[Pontypool Blue]

I wouldn’t swap Foden with anyone from any club to be honest mate. He's criminally underrated outside of Manchester. If he was a United player he’d already have a knighthood.

"Foden's frozen fish finger Food Feeds the Five million Feckless"

 

[Manchester33]

A great result for us last night. Liverpool remain a bigger threat because they generally win at Anfield and pick up plenty of points away from home.

There are no brilliant teams away from home so far this season.

Liverpool have won 6, drawn 4 and lost 2 away from Anfield in the league. A 50% win record away from home won't be good enough to win them the league.

Their home form is the best in the league so far, though.