City were dead and buried weeks ago. Pointless even talking about them. Even OPTA gives them a ZERO % chance of winning it!
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Win tomorrow and they're 6 points off second. They won't challenge us, but they may challenge Arsenal
Tbf Arsenal were never gonna catch us with all the London derbies they had left.
Well I mentioned that only to have a fend off an avalanche of 'West Ham, Fulham and Chelsea? Be serious '!
Yeah that was me, I was being deliciously ironic.
I thought you may have been... but it rang true!
Hey I'll take it. What a boost that is. Seems totally doable to get through this run 8pts clear now, given they have to go to Forest. More or less over if we do that.
They have the players capable of lifting their game in one off matches.
They proved that by winning two cups under their last manager.
Comparing our game to the other shite they produce week in week out is futile and senseless.
Luckily it wasn’t just a poor run but a total cliff fall off.
What an unexpected shot in the arm this is for the players tomorrow.
Imagine we come out of our run of 5 games further ahead than when we started!
One game at a time but this is a huge result.
Arsenal love a sending off.
Wish we were still in the FA Cup now. 😉
Imagine we come out of our run of 5 games further ahead than when we started!
One game at a time but this is a huge result.
Arsenal love a sending off.
Wish we were still in the FA Cup now. 😉
We’ve scored 14 points over the last 6 premier league games. No other side has that many. 4 wins, 2 draws and +8 GD.
If we keep this up then we'll finish on 82 points, 12 x 1,75 =21.
This means Arsenal would need 30 points out of 36 in their remaining 12 games because of their worse GD.
Yesterday's loss cost them dearly.
Not sure we’ll be playing the same sides as we did against Plymouth, PSV in the league…
I do like the way they try to skew it with cup games and applying the points system.
In 2025 we have played 8 league games scoring 16 points. 2 points per game.
In 2025 we have played 8 league games scoring 16 points. 2 points per game.
An eight-point gap generally equates to around five or six league places this season. If we somehow win today, it would be the difference between sitting 16th and 8th in the table. If Arsenal also fail to beat Forest, I might as well start clearing my weekends towards the end of May. Another five or six-point swing, and they’re finished.
That said, I suspect we’ll end up with a draw—so the internal paranoia will rumble on for another month, but we can do them if we give it everything and play even close to our best.
That said, I suspect we’ll end up with a draw—so the internal paranoia will rumble on for another month, but we can do them if we give it everything and play even close to our best.
I’m actually feeling like I’ll be ok even if we lose.
The issue really is losing to City and Newcastle, that's when it becomes nervy.
I think we need at least 3 points from the next two games, doesn't really matter how we get them. Anything more than 3 would be great.
I wonder if there's a term for that...
I really think GD is a red herring.
IF they were to draw level with us (8 points) it would mean them winning 3 games while we lose 2 and draw 1. If that were to happen they would improve their GD by at least 3 and ours would decrease by at least 2 (minimum based on wins & losses by 1 goal only). So the GD advantage would then be only 3, which is a negligible amount.
But they won't make up 8 points on us anyway
I got the overall point but the data you used ‘if we keep this up’ wasn’t accurate…
Forget the ‘smartarse’ stuff and you’ll see that my point strengthens your point.
