Ironically of the 3 games between palace, spurs and united I was most worried about the palace one. Barring the chelsea game earlier in the season which should've probably been over before kante's goal against the run of play, this side have stepped up every single time time for the big games this season. Of the 8 games so far against the big 6 the team has a record of 6 wins 1 draw and a loss that mahrez penalty miss coming in that draw with 18 goals scored against 5. In fact the team seem to perform better against united at their place than at home. I honestly believe this side will prove once again why they are centurions and on course for a quadruple like they did in the run of fixtures with arsenal, everton away and chelsea in the space of a week not long ago and went and dominated all three matches comfortably.
Imo the return of an inform de bruyne in these last stretch of games cannot be understated. He's comfortably the best player in the league not only because of his obvious quality but he has a workrate that almost surpasses that. I hope with him back pep goes back to the same formation and personnel as today with the two wide men of sane and sterling as I believe his absence played a part in pep opting to play with inside forwards more often this season. That setup has actually not been bad and is another outlet for this team to mix it up but the side with the two wide men with de bruyne and silva(any) is still the best suited and most comfortable for this squad. The team just seem to have more outlets and more of a threat in transition with it and there's no one in the league as good de bruyne in playing those passes in the transitioning phase of play and you can actually see sterling and sane tend to make more of those runs consistently whenever he's in the team compared to when he's not. Like I've always said only one team has looked in control and not looked to be affected at all by the pressures of the title race since the turn of the year and while anything is possible , my confidence in this side of getting the job done in addition with de bruyne's return has only grown as the season has gone on irrespective of what liverpool have done or will do.
