The Title Race - 2024/25

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Fair point, I meant more after the bloody nose of losing our best player and dropping points two games on the trot.
Let's remind them we're a machine.

Defo need to get back on the horse. It's never been about losses for us. It's the amount of draws which usually kill a title challenge.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Avoid defeat on the weekend and we're on the joint 7th longest unbeaten league run in English football history.

1 Arsenal 49 2003-2004

2 Liverpool 44 2019-2020

3 Nottingham Forest 42 1977-1978

4 Chelsea 40 2004-2005

5 Leeds 34 1968-1969

6 Liverpool 31 1987-1988

7 Manchester City 30 2017-2018

=7 Arsenal 30 2001-2002

=7 Leeds 30 1973-1974

=7 Burnley 30 1920-1921

=11 Manchester City 29 2023-2024

That team in 2017/18 wasn't a bad one, either!

 

[HelloCity]

That team in 2017/18 wasn't a bad one, either!

I still think that was our best side - 100 points.

We'd have won the CL if we hadn't have drawn Liverpool.

 

[Gigant]

I still think that was our best side - 100 points.

We'd have won the CL if we hadn't have drawn Liverpool.

Hardly

Real Madrid was still strong that season, too strong. They killed Liverpool in the final, just throw the league and cup off and they give everything in the CL KO stage

 

[bluenova]

I still think that was our best side - 100 points.

We'd have won the CL if we hadn't have drawn Liverpool.

With VAR we probably would have won it.

And the following season we'd have won it if there wasn't VAR :)

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

I still think that was our best side - 100 points.

We'd have won the CL if we hadn't have drawn Liverpool.

David Silva and KDB in tandem, Bernie and Gundo couldn’t nail down regular starting slots in that team that’s how good that teams was.

 

[HelloCity]

Hardly

Real Madrid was still strong that season, too strong. They killed Liverpool in the final, just throw the league and cup off and they give everything in the CL KO stage

You say it as if it's a wild statement. We were delivering some of the greatest performances ever seen in England. They wouldn't have wanted to have faced us that's for sure.

They also didn't kill Liverpool. Liverpool were doing quite well until their keeper decided to drop two absolute clangers.

We'd have beaten Madrid in my opinion and any other foreign side. It was actually one of Madrid's worse performing season's of the last decade - 3rd with just 76 points.

 

[Axel Freed]

Didn't think the dippers reached that number. Just shows how well we done to keep them to 1 title during the Klopp era.

Stats are for discussion on forums

Titles are forever

Pep 6 Klopp 1

 

[citymad]

Still can’t see dippers dropping more points.

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Arsenal's fixtures a couple of weeks ago was away at Spurs on the Sunday, away at Atalanta on the thursday then away at the Etihad on the Sunday when City had been at home to Inter a day earlier. So I think for such pivotal fixture more consideration for the recovery could have been given by either moving Arsenal's game at Atalanta to the wednesday or moving the game at the Etihad to the monday as that was a clear advantage for City. Maybe it evens out over a season but games between title contenders should IMHO be treated differently.

Spurs away is what about 5 miles???

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Good point but not a lot can be done about it, think how tough it is for Newcastle.....

Agree. But rarely do we see the Eufa London clubs having to travel UP to Newcastle near important Eufa ties. I'm not home ATM ( at my sons) but I did a fixture list for us, Arse and Dips around the 8 CL games, and quelle surprise we get the rough end with the long distance travel.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Agree. But rarely do we see the Eufa London clubs having to travel UP to Newcastle near important Eufa ties. I'm not home ATM ( at my sons) but I did a fixture list for us, Arse and Dips around the 8 CL games, and quelle surprise we get the rough end with the long distance travel.

What's Eufa?

 

[Coatigan]

What's Eufa?

It is the English way of saying, don't bother with the rest of this post.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Agree. But rarely do we see the Eufa London clubs having to travel UP to Newcastle near important Eufa ties. I'm not home ATM ( at my sons) but I did a fixture list for us, Arse and Dips around the 8 CL games, and quelle surprise we get the rough end with the long distance travel.

Sorry to be the pedant (actually I’m not!) but you travel up to the capital and down from it, irrespective of what direction you are going geographically :-)

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Sorry to be the pedant (actually I’m not!) but you travel up to the capital and down from it, irrespective of what direction you are going geographically :-)

Railway talk!!. Up and down lines to that there London.

However fact still remains sweet fa travelling for all the PL London teams 'away' fixtures. Got to be an advantage.

 

[69FACUPfinal]

What's Eufa?

That Champs League thingy! I don't have any interest in the organisation's actual (R)real title!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Railway talk!!. Up and down lines to that there London.

However fact still remains sweet fa travelling for all the PL London teams 'away' fixtures. Got to be an advantage.

No doubt.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Saka and Arsenal continue to get gobby, they'll be all burned out by the new year.

Like the dips and especially the rags.....they just never learn.

 

[Toney’s bookie]

Saka and Arsenal continue to get gobby, they'll be all burned out by the new year.

Like the dips and especially the rags.....they just never learn.

They get overemotional too early every year.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Saka gone early.

Piss funny if they bottle it as per after that.