Will we win the league this season? No

11 wins from the last 12 games in all comps. And the one we didn't win was the one in which we made 10 changes in (Leverkusen).

We are going to need to make good use but not excessive use of our squad to keep this run going.

I thought Khusanov was excellent last night. It was so good seeing Brentford's occasional attacks being hoovered up by an accelerating Khsuanov. It was like having Walker back in our side. Then add Nunes with his speed,and O'Reilly is no slouch either. We are beginning to look the part.
 
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Marvin. said:
11 wins from the last 12 games in all comps. And the one we didn't win was the one in which we made 10 changes in (Leverkusen).

We are going to need to make good use but not excessive use of our squad to keep this run going.

I thought Khusanov was excellent last night. It was so good seeing Brentford's occasional attacks being hoovered up by an accelerating Khsuanov. It was like having Walker back in our side. Then add Nunes with his speed,and O'Reilly is no slouch either. We are beginning to look the part.
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If we want to enjoy such a run in April and May when trophies are decided, we'll need fresh players then, and to have fresh players then we will have to rotate more than some prefer.

The squad will be used excessively vs lower league teams in the FA Cup. On another day, we wouldn't have lost vs Leverkusen either. Such things happen. That we could rest players vs Leverkusen helped us to win 6 games in a row, including at Real. Trade-offs.
 
Get another winger, right back and even centre back don't see why we can't win the league and FA cup. We have enough talent. Also if we can get Rodri back to the full fitness he will be like a new player for us at the tail end of the season.
 
Marvin. said:
11 wins from the last 12 games in all comps. And the one we didn't win was the one in which we made 10 changes in (Leverkusen).

We are going to need to make good use but not excessive use of our squad to keep this run going.

I thought Khusanov was excellent last night. It was so good seeing Brentford's occasional attacks being hoovered up by an accelerating Khsuanov. It was like having Walker back in our side. Then add Nunes with his speed,and O'Reilly is no slouch either. We are beginning to look the part.
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Newcastle?
 
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We play football that’s far too beautiful and entertaining not to win the title. On the strength of performances like this alone, the trophy should already be engraved with our name.
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That was a lot of fun to watch- very brasilesque.The skills and close control in tight areas is unreal.

Poor Brentford, I bet they were glad to hear the final whistle.
 
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If it was any other team that was supposed to be top, but VAR did what VAR does, it would have been plasted all over the media and the would be public outrage, because it is City, no sympathy and no words.
VAR or no VAR though — "We will be there!"
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Unless all the VAR decisions were the last kick of the ball in every game there (so nothing else could happen after then) it’s a very hypothetical table that. It assumes that every game looked at, nobody would have scored any more goals in the game had those VAR decisions been different.

It says we’d be on 34 points and we do have 34 points. So Arsenal have won a game through a VAR decision they may have drawn without. But who’s to say they wouldn’t still have won that game without that VAR decision? because everything that happened after it would have been different and they might have scored off their next attack for all we know.

But it does show that VAR decisions appear to have been decent this season. With 17 of the 20 teams being either 0 or 1 place different up or down and no team more than 2 places different up or down.

It would likely be very different without VAR.
 
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Get Rodri fit again and we can do it, but according the media Liverpool and then Arsenal were running away with it. I’m not going to make a prediction because things can change quickly.
 
I feel confident at the moment.

I think we have another gear to go up and I don't think Arsenal have.

I loved Jesus, but the discussion this week is that he'll be the difference maker. Jesus is many things, but he isn't a title winning difference maker.

I do think, and it's the only caveat, we can also get worse. And likewise I think Arsenal are slow and steady and what you see is what you get.
 
The 2nd part of Pep's pre-match press conference is worth listening too. He is asked to compare this stage of the team rebuilding and he says that this is slower and more difficult because the players are younger. In the last side, Bernardo came and he was already at a very high level. This City are still a work in progress.

He also says that at the moment this City side can not win the title but we will get better. The problem he says is self belief. I think that should worry Arsenal.

Pep talks about improvements in goalscorers, assists but is not happy with the build-up play, and the defensive play is not aggressive enough.
 
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