The Title Race - 2024/25

How many points to win the league?

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My how we’ll all chuckle to ourselves when we read this thread in May with another title in the bag.

The recency bias is off the charts. It’s mental how people overrate the dippers based on one successful season when we pretty much downed tools - why does that season resonate more than every single other season when they’ve always come up short ? Arsenal will be our closest rivals.

And for the umpteenth time, Brighton is not a must win game and nor is any other game we play this side of May.
 
The only thing stopping us this season is ourselves; Injuries and a possible lack of new signings in January.
If we can overcome the former the latter doesn’t become a priority.
However, the loss of Rodri should not be underestimated.
 
Axel Freed said:
My how we’ll all chuckle to ourselves when we read this thread in May with another title in the bag.

The recency bias is off the charts. It’s mental how people overrate the dippers based on one successful season when we pretty much downed tools - why does that season resonate more than every single other season when they’ve always come up short ? Arsenal will be our closest rivals.

And for the umpteenth time, Brighton is not a must win game and nor is any other game we play this side of May.
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Maybe maybe not? it's weird when you win keep winning and win again your expectations is that that will continue in the same way!? Winning four on the bounce and everything we have before that doesn't mean come next march we will win 10 on the bounce win the league like the last four times? Especially when we without Rodri plus that well might be dry for our players come last 10 games of the season,,
 
City looks like a completely different team without rodri. I'm sure kdb absence is a factor atm with city's form.

I'm sure you'll pull something out in the January transfer window to replace rodri. I don't rate kovatic and go on some mammoth 20 game winning run or something .

We will still be flapping around with coneboy fighting for 4th
 
JGL07 said:
The time to start worrying is if City are 8 points behind with six matches to play.

Maybe not, as those of us who recall 2011-12 will understand?
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Literally the only time we've cantered through a season and won the title with room to spare was ’17-’18. That goes back to ’11-’12 and ’13-’14. In fact, it goes back to the 1967-68 season, while we're about it (can't speak for 1936-37, calling @Gary James). We're good at negotiating tight situations in the second half of the season. That's why no definitive judging of anyone's prospects can be done at this point. Arsenal are not out of it. Six, seven points at this stage of the season is nothing very much. Liverpool are obviously a threat.
To be even in the mix when we've not played at all well, by and large, is an extraordinary testament to the sheer bloody cussedness of this lot. I think we'll play better as the season goes on, but there's no guarantee. By the way, I was astonished at how bad we were at Bournemouth. Long time since I've seen us as gormless as that. Let's just enjoy the ride.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Literally the only time we've cantered through a season and won the title with room to spare was ’17-’18. That goes back to ’11-’12 and ’13-’14. In fact, it goes back to the 1967-68 season, while we're about it (can't speak for 1936-37, calling @Gary James). We're good at negotiating tight situations in the second half of the season. That's why no definitive judging of anyone's prospects can be done at this point. Arsenal are not out of it. Six, seven points at this stage of the season is nothing very much. Liverpool are obviously a threat.
To be even in the mix when we've not played at all well, by and large, is an extraordinary testament to the sheer bloody cussedness of this lot. I think we'll play better as the season goes on, but there's no guarantee. By the way, I was astonished at how bad we were at Bournemouth. Long time since I've seen us as gormless as that. Let's just enjoy the ride.
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We've spent large periods of games recently under the cosh. That's something we've rarely seen with City. We've struggled to break teams down, been caught on the counter and had poor results in previous seasons. But I've seen Brentford completely destroy us for the first 20 odd minutes, Fulham dominate us for large spells and Bournemouth similarly had no problem taking it to us and dominating for spells.

That's my concern. We've clicked in previous seasons and put a run together. But even though there have been poor results before, we haven't been so easy to play against as we are this campaign. It's more than just a case of players gelling and finding the balance.

I think it's probably Pep's biggest challenge to get the balance and find a winning formula this season, with Rodri missing.

Positively there's only one league game before the International break. We can lose to Sporting, but we have to beat Brighton. If we're 1pt off top after 11 games I think we'll all be pretty happy considering the injuries, and we should have plenty back at that point to go and kick on.

Another positive is that our rivals aren't putting much distance on us. Arsenal should be licking their lips at our situation but are miles off it. The dippers we'll get the measure of when we face them on 1st December. They've got some tricky games and we'll see whether they're going to truly challenge for the league at that point. Mid 80s could be enough this season. Arsenal are capable of going on a long winning run when Odegaard returns though.
 
Feels a bit de ja vu at the moment. Pretty sure this time of year we always seem to struggle and everyone starts to question if we are done or not. Got a feeling the next two games are going to painful, but i have faith in Pep and these players that we will dig in and when it matters, we will be there.
 
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