Re: Will we win the Prem (continued)?
True, but it was also Clattenburg being ref, which I am pretty certain was no accident.
Marvin said:If you ignore the opening away defeats in the season, when we were settling in under Pellegrini, we have only lost 2 games in the League: Chelsea at home and Liverpool away. Both games I'd put down to injuries.Damanino said:Thats my prediction too that there is good chance Pool will draw at least one game of their 4, but I am even more sure we wont win all 6. I thought this before the Pool game as well, and thy why I wanted a win, to get us the chance to win the league even if we dont win the last 6.
Thats why that 1-0 at Arsenal and finish it 1-1 with an awful second half wasnt a good point, it was a huge chance missed. Just like coming back 2-2 vs Pool and gifting them probably the league.
If we just beat Arsenal from 1-0 up, with a decent second half, beat Soton what we did, and hold on to the draw vs Pool, now we actually could do it maybe with 4 win, 2 draws in two tough away games. Or even 5 wins, 1 loss.
All these things say to me we arent good enough to win the league and its sad, beause we absolutely have the squad for it, but its not being played at their top of potential. Awful defensive problems, players go hiding, etc. We are not far, but we have to be be ruthless in the summer with the squad, and get it right finally.
I look at Henderson, sterling, Coutinho, Sturridge, they are no better players than ours. But this year their mentality, desire is lot much better than some of our players'. Also they play ina formation/tactics that is able to get the best out of them.
Our formation is not like this, it isnt getting the best out of our defenders, it makes make unreal mistakes. We have a big problem with a Yaya-Fernandinho duo, too open as one of them is not 100% tactically disciplined this leaves Fernandinho in extremely tough spot many times.
While Nasri, Silva duo works well 50% of the time, other times Silva plays unreal but Nasri is the one we carry and on top of that he nowhere near has the desire, mentality like a Sterling or even Henderson.
It would be not much consolation if we finish second with 88 points (win last 6), but pretty sure we wont, its about 84, 85 points at best, and thats not enough even if Pool drops a game.
But we should go for it, try to win 6 games, but there is something why we simply cant fucking beat Pool away, Sunderland away, Everton away every time. Most of the times for me its really the desire on the day. Maybe they always go into cup final mode vs us, why dont we do the same then?
Mancini in his time never won at Everton, Sunderland, Pool. Thats like 10 matches for us in away games. Now this year its two losses so far, and a lot better Everton with a tactically better manager in regard of Martinez/Moyes is still waiting for us.
So in 4 years it could 12 away games vs 3 teams, mostly losses and a few draws.
It would be really sad that Pool/Chelsea drops points, leaves the outside chance open for us to win the league with 6 wins and we wont do that. As I see it now, thats a very strong possibility. Would make this season even more a lost/wasted chance.
My main problem is the Everton game, which knew before the season that in 37th round to go there with the pressure of need to win there, I knew how hard to win there, and Everton improved a lot under Martinez too.
But the Palace away game is such a tough game with Pulis, he made it really hard for us at the Etihad too with a weak squad.
I think the difference between City and Liverpool is that Liverpool have not lost their key players to injury, and we have and this has made a difference in the key games. The loss yesterday was very unfortunate. The training ground accident led to it all in my view
True, but it was also Clattenburg being ref, which I am pretty certain was no accident.