I’d say no need to shout but I’ve done the exact same thing in another post.
I missed out West Ham when totting them up which is odd because I have a ticket for that game.
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I missed out West Ham when totting them up which is odd because I have a ticket for that game.
- 5 Dec: 90th min equalizer from Newcastle (3-3)
- 14 Dec: Dropping pts against Fulham at home (having gone on a 5 games winning streak at home after the upset vs. Nottingham Forest) by conceding first + going down to 10 men
- 6 Jan: Failing to beat Man Utd (who lost their previous 4 games in all competitions, including 3 league games by agg. score of 7-0) at home
- 13 Feb: 98th min equalizer from Everton (2-2)
A few more pts from these missed chances and not only would we have more breathing space, but also psychologically affect potential title challengers. 😢
(Which is why I will never "predict" no. of pts over the next X no. of matches ever again. The margin is just too fine and there's so much uncertainty ranging from refereeing decisions, luck to player performances etc.)
- 14 Dec: Dropping pts against Fulham at home (having gone on a 5 games winning streak at home after the upset vs. Nottingham Forest) by conceding first + going down to 10 men
- 6 Jan: Failing to beat Man Utd (who lost their previous 4 games in all competitions, including 3 league games by agg. score of 7-0) at home
- 13 Feb: 98th min equalizer from Everton (2-2)
A few more pts from these missed chances and not only would we have more breathing space, but also psychologically affect potential title challengers. 😢
(Which is why I will never "predict" no. of pts over the next X no. of matches ever again. The margin is just too fine and there's so much uncertainty ranging from refereeing decisions, luck to player performances etc.)
Some of our game management has been poor. Newcastle, Everton and Man U cost us points towards the end of games.
Despite what I’ve put we shouldn’t dwell on it. No team is absolutely perfect. Especially so this season. This isn’t the time of the previous 6 years where you have to be 90% perfect to win the league. We are in a normal title race.
Despite what I’ve put we shouldn’t dwell on it. No team is absolutely perfect. Especially so this season. This isn’t the time of the previous 6 years where you have to be 90% perfect to win the league. We are in a normal title race.
The issue right now is negative momentum and doubt creeping in. This is HUGE. Can we overcome this?
A shot in the arm would be VVD and Mo signing their deals. That would be leadership, because that dragging on, with all this doubt lurking around is not good.
Having said that, we are in a really good position. We just have to stop sleepwalking through it.
A shot in the arm would be VVD and Mo signing their deals. That would be leadership, because that dragging on, with all this doubt lurking around is not good.
Having said that, we are in a really good position. We just have to stop sleepwalking through it.
After Sunday, we have 7 of 11 matches remaining at Anfield.
I don't understand how anybody actually thinks that their run is is 'piss weak'... Forest away. Neverton away. Us away. The scum away (who only step up in these kinda matches now). Newcastle. Bournemouth. A few local derbies. With a load of injuries and no strikers...
On what planet is that a 'piss easy' run in? Why do you all expect them to go on a run when they've shown nothing to suggest they can do it to this point?
I don't understand how anybody actually thinks that their run is is 'piss weak'... Forest away. Neverton away. Us away. The scum away (who only step up in these kinda matches now). Newcastle. Bournemouth. A few local derbies. With a load of injuries and no strikers...
On what planet is that a 'piss easy' run in? Why do you all expect them to go on a run when they've shown nothing to suggest they can do it to this point?
It’s fair, but one part of it, that’s selective in its use of stats - we’ve played 2 more games than them, one of which is a league game, and if you look at the distribution of minutes per players, it’s very similar load per player.
That’s the same if you apply it just one Premier League.
Our players with the most minutes are Virgil, Mo & Gravy, there’s is Salibs, Gabriel & Partey.
The thing that sticks out is our top 3 players have played a little more than there top 3 and we haven’t utilised players like Endo, Harvey & Chiesa as much as they’ve utilised the likes of Zinchenko & Sterling, while Quansah has played as much as Kiwior in the league.
So, I’m not fully buying into this scheduling thing - something doesn’t add up right there for rest days as we’re literally talking about 2 games, one of which 90% of the main team didn’t play.
I’d love to know who decided to play the Villa game this week.
If you dive into the figures you start to see a pattern where we’re not rotating key players as much as other teams or more importantly spreading the range of substitutes - Mo is a prime example, he rarely gets subbed off.
So, this is partly self inflicted - we should be bringing on the likes of Endo, Chiesa and Harvey more, that’s a managerial decision and not to do with fixture loads.
I prefer the focus only on the next game, one at a time approach.
Oh totally - 8 wins is merely the map to victory- but we still need to take each step to get there.
Beating City comfortably would be a huge confidence boost.
We have to trust the players will deliver and come out on top over the next 12 weeks, that's the way it has to be....there's no alternative here. It's going to be too much for our blood pressure to handle but fuck it sometimes this is the price you have to pay for a shot at greatness, I'm all in.
Slot has experience at closing out a title from a winning position correct?
I think a read something that he closed out a season with four or five 1-0 wins.
I'll take that. Done.
A draw at Villa isn't the end of the world. We could do with at least 4 points out of the next 2 games then we got some winnable ones coming up.
Arsenal will drop points. They've only got Trossard and that young lad up front. A midfielder won't step up every week like Merino did against Leicester. It would be nice to not have to need a result against them though.
Arsenal will drop points. They've only got Trossard and that young lad up front. A midfielder won't step up every week like Merino did against Leicester. It would be nice to not have to need a result against them though.
The CL draw could have been kinder.
Tough games which will stretch this squad.
Injuries will be our undoing is my primary fear at this stage.
Tough games which will stretch this squad.
Injuries will be our undoing is my primary fear at this stage.
Would people take losing to Arsenal in the CL if we beat them in the league to win it?
100%
see i dunno
Arsenal have won the league before so its not a biggy. Them winning the CL is a big achievement and i fucking would hate it
I genuinely don't know why we are crying like bitches... we are gonna win the league...
It's nerves, and they're understandable as we seem to be hitting a bit of a wall at the moment.
But I'll tell you something - I'd sooner be where we are than where any of the rest of them are.
But I'll tell you something - I'd sooner be where we are than where any of the rest of them are.
If I were reasonable, I wouldn't be living and dying by whether someone kicked a ball into a net. I've got other much more reasonable things I rationally ought to be concerning myself with.
If we do scrape this league I'll be a different kind of unreasonable in may. Fuck getting reasonable about football at any point. Ill just stop watching. That would be reasonable.
If we do scrape this league I'll be a different kind of unreasonable in may. Fuck getting reasonable about football at any point. Ill just stop watching. That would be reasonable.
When you say 'thrown away', do you really mean that..? You really think that we bottled all the leagues we didn't win?
I don't, but like, if we pick up an injury here and there and falter at the end of this season, I won't care how it is characterized. Everyone would say we bottled it. I'll just know we didn't win.
