What will work against us?

[Scaring Europe to Death]

The lack of european football has now become a huge advantage, so I expect Liverpool to be major contenders.
As for games against City, it would appear that we're still vulnerable to a bit of niggle. So far it hasn't mattered, but we can't afford any more stupid red cards.

 

[Phil1]

Kryptonite.

 

[kemlyn17]

Thing with thinking Liverpool will be your hardest game is, we don't play you until New Years Day at Anfield, so nobody knows how either side will be doing then. I expect you to have too much for everyone to be honest, but with us, we have the tools to at least hurt you, which nobody has had so far. Also, you have complex about Anfield, which Guardiola will have to break. On the reverse, you have better players than anyone we've played so far and we can't keep a clean sheet against anybody. It could end up 3-3!!! Overall, I think you will win the League with points to spare, we will come top 4.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Thing with thinking Liverpool will be your hardest game is, we don't play you until New Years Day at Anfield, so nobody knows how either side will be doing then. I expect you to have too much for everyone to be honest, but with us, we have the tools to at least hurt you, which nobody has had so far. Also, you have complex about Anfield, which Guardiola will have to break. On the reverse, you have better players than anyone we've played so far and we can't keep a clean sheet against anybody. It could end up 3-3!!! Overall, I think you will win the League with points to spare, we will come top 4.

Can't argue with that (certainly the bit about our appalling record at Anfield)
Let's just see who gets suspended and injured.

 

[teddykgb]

Liverpool will have the organized press that can make our relatively risky play it out from the back approach more risky than usual. Individual mistakes could cost us greatly against teams such as Liverpool and maybe Spurs (I don't think they quite press the same). But if we pass through it we could certainly put up a silly number. I suspect it'll just be a high scoring affair where we hopefully punish them more than they capitalize on errors.

I still don't see us having much to trouble Barca. We're playing great stuff but we're playing the same stuff and they're doing it with more experience and unfortunately even more talent.

 

[makinghistory]

Could Barca be the first team to beat us?

 

[pikku]

Our defence is not that good, can be exploited by top teams I feel. Played bottom four teams in the PL plus United until now, hopefully we do well while facing top ten teams too.

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

I honestly think that Liverpool will be our trickiest game. That said we have a manager who knows Klopp's setup and he will be studying them when the time comes along. Klopp also knows Pep's style but the minor details in this one will make the difference I reckon.

Anfield has been somewhat of a bogey ground, time to change that hopefully

 

[sir baconface]

Message to opponents: resistance is futile.

Seriously, though, we haven't been tested yet and I'd expect the dangers to be:

1) Long balls in the sense of quick, defence-splitting passes into space (not hoofball)
2) In-form sides combining energy and guile, and getting it right on the day, e.g. potentially Arsenal, Red Dippers
3) Loss of form/injury affecting key players, although we seem to be better covered than ever before
4) Normally I'd have said complacency but I don't believe Pep will allow it.

 

[BlueAnorak]

We haven't played well against teams that press so far.
All our opponents so far have ended up pushing 6 players up the pitch to press our defence (and defensive midfield) and the result has been successful, in that our possession figures dropped and the number of scoring opportunities we had decreased dramatically. In these circumstances, our players higher up the pitch were caught in two minds - go for the killer pass or try and keep possession - and they ended up doing neither particularly well.
Aside from this pace could be the killer. It will be interesting to see how our defence would operate against Vardy and some of the passes he got down the channels at the weekend.