The Title Race - 2023/24

How many points will be needed to win the league?

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IrishBlueSince92 said:
I looked at the remaining fixtures last night for the top 3 and made my peace with the fact that Liverpool will win the title
Didn’t see anything tonight to change my mind

It’s just not there with us this season, not enough players in good form
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The way we’re playing I have to agree hard to feel confident. But it’s just a matter of getting the right combination going and avoiding injuries. For starters our backline has to stay fit till the end of season especially Stones. Kovacic has looked good since coming back and we can hope he too avoids any injury. Attack is where we need our wide players to step up. Fix these details and we will go far in all competitions.
 
jrb said:
Bellingham especially, or Paquetá, would have made the difference this season.
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Might just be me but natural wingers would have more than compensated for it. Even if we find solutions for the left we’re always a winger short on the left or right either due to injuries or form. Then have to force Phil there when he’s clearly doing the business centrally. Doku is too young/raw. Also did not expect Grealish to be injury prone to this extent this season.
 
It's helped Arsenal to be a chaser at the moment. Rather than having the pressure of being top.

Less people getting carried away than at this point last season which killed them.
 
Arsenal and Liverpool seem to be getting goals from everywhere. We seem to be struggling to do that but we are still, mostly, winning.

We could really do with smartening up on set pieces if we want to win this. We must have average 10 corners a game but we rarely look a threat.
 
Gonna be a difficult run in and atm we are the weakest off the three coming into the run in but we are in the race so let’s see but really need the big man up front to start running into form and not missing easy chances .
 
wolfie1988 said:
Arsenal and Liverpool seem to be getting goals from everywhere. We seem to be struggling to do that but we are still, mostly, winning.

We could really do with smartening up on set pieces if we want to win this. We must have average 10 corners a game but we rarely look a threat.
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Teams against us at the moment play to there best there is not many games this season that a team we have played in the premier that didn't have a bad game..
 
Gareth Barry Conlon said:
It's a big plus for us and the arse that were not in the league cup final. Such a drag that competition and I'm always happy if we go out early.
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They have kind of done it now, with playing the Luton game early.

It does put extra miles in the leg and we know Klopp doesn’t like to rotate hence the injuries.

A Chelsea win would be good to add pressure, but I don’t see any other advantage.

The extra game over us they have now is a Europa Cup one before Everton away, although it could potentially be a much changed team if they win the 1st leg comfortably.
 
the next 5 league fixture are trickiest, if we get at least 13 points from 15 on offer I believe we win the league hands down.
10-12 from them and we will be in it but wil be tough or need a wobble from others
 
Gareth Barry Conlon said:
It's a big plus for us and the arse that were not in the league cup final. Such a drag that competition and I'm always happy if we go out early.
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It's hasn't bothered us in the past when we've won it , in fact winning that competition has almost always given us a boost to go on and win the League. I never want us out of the league cup.
 
Optimistic post

Whilst I know this is probably a mixture of fitness issues with bigger players, Gundo/ Mahrez going and a treble hangover.

We are still open to this scenario.

Last season we where purring at this point (arguably like Arsenal are now) and we finished with the treble, we peaked at the right time.

However, I actually felt we tailed off towards the end of the season and the finals etc we where not great.

This season we are still to peak in my view, we do have a couple more gears to go and next week might be when it all starts and that peak could then take us to the end of the season.
 
The blue phantom said:
25 Points out of the last 27 Available which no other team in the league has done, One point off the summit, No injuries either and folk are throwing the fuckin towel in. Deary me.
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Realistically on the form we are in results wise we will finish winning it either a by 1-2 points or end up on level points with the scousers.

The 1-0 scores and not racking up goal difference may be the only issue we have, not a problem with us winning games, smashing the rags by 5 will remedy that though ;-)
 
Father Paul said:
True enough but I wonder how often a team wins the league with an inferior goal difference to their main challenger? We always seem to have a very healthy goal difference when we gather enough points to win the league. As well as being a nice buffer maybe it also is an indicator of how many points you will end up with.
For better or worse the next 4 or 5 weeks will give us the answers to a lot of questions.
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I was intrigued to know how many times the champions haven’t had the best goal difference so I had a look Into it.
I just looked at the PL era rather than going all the way back to the introduction of the rule in the 1970s and in 31 seasons, the champions haven’t had the best GD on nine occasions so just under 30% of the time. It’s actually happened four times in the last 10 years, most recently when the dippers were champions in the interrupted covid season - we had the best goal difference despite finishing 18 points adrift. Leicester were champions in 2015-16 despite only having the third best goal difference that season.
 
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The blue phantom said:
25 Points out of the last 27 Available which no other team in the league has done, One point off the summit, No injuries either and folk are throwing the fuckin towel in. Deary me.
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Feel like I'm going insane reading some of the comments about how poor our "form" is compared to rivals. I know memories can be short in football, but fuck me.
 
The blue phantom said:
25 Points out of the last 27 Available which no other team in the league has done, One point off the summit, No injuries either and folk are throwing the fuckin towel in. Deary me.
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This ! We also are the only team who has shown time and time again that we can get over the line and we have the added bonus of being able to play and take points off both Arsenal and Liverpool. It's in our hands, very strange how people are shitting themselves and not up for the fight
 
I think some Blues are dubious about our chances because we keep seeing the Dippers and Tarquins twatting in 4 and 5 goals for fun.

But there’s virtually a third of the season left and we are right in there without having hit top gear yet. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

And if any squad and manager in the history of City deserved our trust, it’s this lot!

Up the fucking Blues.
 
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