The Title Race - 2023/24

[CTID1977]

Fucking brilliant;

 

[hello]

The 2 sets of red drama queens absolutely need to win their next 2 games before we play in the league again. Hopefully they will both crack feeling the pressure which would take some off us and we would probably win the 6 games relatively comfortably.

 

[mcfcphil]

If the Liverpool and Arsenal players react even 1% as despondently as their fans, we’ll be fine. I can’t believe how many of them are giving up!

I think Liverpool are still the big threat - Klopp leaving means there’s no “better luck next year”, no going again etc, plus they’ve actually got the trophies and experience behind their squad.

It’s a coping mechanism. They have done the same every time they have lost the title previously.

 

[NZBlue]

It’s a coping mechanism. They have done the same every time they have lost the title previously.

Ah- a much practiced habit then

 

[don84]

The weather is good today, the sun is shining and we're back on top of the league again. How great doesn't that feel

 

[NZBlue]

I am mainly looking at the dodgy spurs game which is an unhappy hunting ground.

Not any more. We've proved we can win there so that hoodoo is broken. We just have to to go there and reprove it

 

[chris85mcfc]

It’s a coping mechanism. They have done the same every time they have lost the title previously.

There were plenty on here doing the same in fairness

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Having just watched Liverpool on MOTD 2, I thought how much it reminded me of our home game with Stoke in April 1972. We ripped Stoke up for arse paper but Gordon Banks had a worldy and Stoke put away their one chance, we lost 1 0. We had a 5 point lead but finished 4th all be it 1 point behind champions Derby County. Sometimes one game can define a whole season, suspect yesterday at Anfield was one of them.

 

[shemnel]

A plot showing points per game, for a rolling 5 game mean - meant to show patches of form (or lack of).

Clearly Liverpool, up until now, have not suffered a bad patch (as bad as ours) but neither have they hit the heights of 3 points per game over long periods like City and Arsenal, they appear to have been a bit more consistent especially mid-season when we wobbled.

 

[berryblue]

The weather is good today, the sun is shining and we're back on top of the league again. How great doesn't that feel

The bonus is that Liverpool and Arsenal lost to 2 teams we absolutely battered a week ago.

 

[blue cigar]

 

[bellsouth]

I think we can afford to draw one. I think we will win 5/6

I think we can afford to lose one. Both Liverpool and Arsenal will drop points in at least one more game.

 

[waspish]

Six games left is where the title race starts for me, just because of our first title when we had 6 games left 8 behind and won the league because that shows you it is never ever over to the final game of the season and the final seconds of the season!

There will be more points dropped by all the teams we just got to get to the last game when if we win it we win the league! Maybe it will go down to goals scored and we have to win and score 5 goals to win it now that be exciting!

 

[Nevizade]

Strange conversations going on here.
This is a team that now knows, as surely as the sun rises tomorrow, that if they win all their games, they win it. Pure and simple. No arguing.
That is one hell of a motivator.
Oh, and — they've had to do this before.

I trust them. I trust them like no other team in world football. They've not had a wonderful season, they've not played vintage football. But they are animals when it comes to wanting to win. So is their boss.

Goosebumps

 

[Protein Junkie]

I think we can afford to lose one. Both Liverpool and Arsenal will drop points in at least one more game.

That’s a dangerous thought process imho.
Yesterday was amazing for us but this is not finished yet.

 

[Lenblue]

Agree 100%, neither team drops any points today, not worth expecting or watching

Both teams win by a minimum of 2 goals

........

 

[jrb]

 

[eyalluvitt]

We could quite easily end up with nothing so keeping your feet on the ground and taking each game as it comes is the only way, it's STILL completely wide-open.

Funny how reactionary Arsenal and Liverpool fans are, win a game and they are definitely champions, lose a game and they are out of it, for us it’s different as it’s not our first or even second rodeo.

 

[MadchesterCity]

........

:)

 

[AshtonBlueMooner]

Can see both Arsenal and Liverpool getting a point each next week. Both away from home, after European trips and a deflating weekend just gone.
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