All the more reason to wonder why people think we will get anywhere near that.
Anything over 88 would be a superb season regardless. We don’t have the depth City do. Unless we bomb out of the CL and FA Cup we’ll falter
You keep banging on about depth but it didn't help City when de Bruyne and Fernandiho were out ... and Fernandiho is 34 soon, can he complete the season, inc. CL at that level ? City's prior form suggests maybe not. It's possible he only hit that level against us because of the rest he had whilst injured. You are also suggesting KdB will be at his best, whilst previously it's taken him a while to recover from injury and that aside he's still not going to perform at his peak every week, no player does.
If we can keep going mostly as per the first half of the season, and there's no reason why not considering Gomez and Matip will be back and maybe even Ox for added depth from March, our only major concern will be an injury to our forward line but we now have a quality player in Shaq. as cover and who knows, we may even buy additional cover this January (considering what is on the line - I would). When is Brewster back anyone ?
Our toughest remaing matches : Brighton (A - tough because they are good at home and we also need to show we can bounce back), United (A), Everton (A), Spurs (H), Southampton (A - they seem rejuventated so assuming it stays that way), Chelsea (H).
City's toughest remaining matches : Arsenal (H), Chelsea (H), Everton (A), United (A), Spurs (H), Brighton (A) on the last day of the season.
Note that for Liverpool and City 5 of those matches are identical in both the teams we play and the location.
Using Redstar's template but making it 96 pts instead of 94 pts. That means we need another 42 out of a possible 51 points :
13 wins - 39 points
3 draws - 3 points
1 defeat - 0 points
Basically continue to beat every team outside of the Top 6 and we're home even with 3 draws and a defeat in the four Top 6 games remaining.
City would therefore need 46 points (assuming they have a better GD) and that means going 15-1-1, 16-1-0, 16-0-1 or 15-2-0 ....... nothing else works. That's going to very very difficult even for them since they are not on last season's form and are still in 4 cups with a priorty on the CL.
It's going to be tight and will likely go down to the wire but we must still be favourites being allowed 4 times to not win whilst still reaching our target whilst they can only fail to win twice in the next 17 games.
Obviously anything lower than 96 pts gives us even more leeway.