Topic: Chasing the Title

[Dazzer23]

Next 45 mins a free pass to boost there goal difference. 

[Craig_Bellamy]

Next 45 mins a free pass to boost there goal difference. 

guess we’ll just have to take Care of our own business then, and keep the goaldifference irellevant, wont we ? Still all in our hands

[Crosby Nick]

Manchester City are going to hammer Wolves here. How was that a red and Kompany wasn’t?
Down to 10 men, 2 - nil down already not looking good.

We can’t worry about it. They’re going to win most of their remaining games and we won’t be handed this on a plate.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Doesn't change anything for us, we still got a job to do regardless.

[Redman78]

We can’t worry about it. They’re going to win most of their remaining games and we won’t be handed this on a plate.

Yep. I'm on the same wavelength as the boss. Concentrate on our own games, and 1 at a time, it's much less stressful.

[Snail]

City are very good aren’t they? Ffs.

[Crosby Nick]

City are very good aren’t they? Ffs.

Weird isn’t it. 100 points last season and it turns out they’re very good!

We’ll just have to be better and we’re doing a great job of it for 6 months now.

[Nick110581]

One match a time.

Sometimes we play before them and sometimes after.

Let’s keep focused.

[Alan B'Stard]

City are very good aren’t they? Ffs.

City are good but they’re playing Wolves. We haven’t won the league for 29yrs so the next 16 games will be squeaky bum time. Still 4 points clear though!

[lukeb1981]

Their fixtures start to pile up a bit from now on ,lets see how they get on after February if they stay in all comps.Injuries might start creeping in unless Pep has them on the same juice he took as a player.Just keep it going winning one game at a time and they can win as much as they want but the gap will still be 4 points.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

City are very good aren’t they? Ffs.

In other news, bears crap in the woods

 

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Their fixtures start to pile up a bit from now on ,lets see how they get on after February if they stay in all comps.Injuries might start creeping in unless Pep has them on the same juice he took as a player.Just keep it going winning one game at a time and they can win as much as they want but the gap will still be 4 points.

Piss easy semi finals in the league cup, easy fixture in the FA cup and in Europe.

[DangerScouse]

They're 3 points ahead of us over the last 38 games. (91 v 88) Both teams are immense. Going to be some battle.

[killer-heels]

They're 3 points ahead of us over the last 38 games. (91 v 88) Both teams are immense. Going to be some battle.

We phoned it in during the last few games of last season.

[Nick110581]

Their fixtures start to pile up a bit from now on ,lets see how they get on after February if they stay in all comps.Injuries might start creeping in unless Pep has them on the same juice he took as a player.Just keep it going winning one game at a time and they can win as much as they want but the gap will still be 4 points.

Hopefully Burnley kick them all over the park

[DangerScouse]

We phoned it in during the last few games of last season.

True. They went all out for 100 points too.

[lukeb1981]

Piss easy semi finals in the league cup, easy fixture in the FA cup and in Europe.

Difficult final though , its the minutes built up in the legs im hoping that kills them over the next few months ,bit of luck they get a though draw in the next round of the champions league.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

We phoned it in during the last few games of last season.

We had issues in midfield with only 3 fit players as well

[lukeb1981]

Hopefully Burnley kick them all over the park

Hopefully they try to do to them what they did to us. Too many teams just stand off them.

[PaulF]

Now I understand why the odds on a City win tonight were so piss poor.

[Red_Irishman]

The easy draws in the cups just mean they'll go further which of course means more games. You can only stay getting easy draws for so long, they'll have to play some good teams in these competitions eventually.

I don't give a shit if they win all the cups I just want us to win the league. And they obviously going to fucking win tonight. They don't lose at home, rarely if at all. The Palace game was an anomoly. The gap is 4 points and its up to us to extend it to 7 before they play next. Their next semi difficult game is next month against Arsenal which they will likely win easy.

If people are nervous now what's going to happen when there's only 1 point in it and we are yet to play? We just need to relax. There's ages to go yet and panicking on here isn't going to change anything.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

The easy draws in the cups just mean they'll go further which of course means more games. You can only stay getting easy draws for so long, they'll have to play some good teams in these competitions eventually.

I don't give a shit if they win all the cups I just want us to win the league. And they obviously going to fucking win tonight. They don't lose at home, rarely if at all. The Palace game was an anomoly. The gap is 4 points and its up to us to extend it to 7 before they play next. Their next semi difficult game is next month against Arsenal which they will likely win easy.

If people are nervous now what's going to happen when there's only 1 point in it and we are yet to play? We just need to relax. There's ages to go yet and panicking on here isn't going to change anything.

People are going to wet their beds.

I am not worried, I am anxious about every game because I'm excited and I always am when we play but I never expected us to be in this position or challenge for the title, I just expected progress.

[RedorRed]

Jeezo.......the sky sports update.....I’m sure the guy is knocking one our over Manchester City as he writes it!!!
Apparently a message sent to us tonight.......and going on about the goal difference etc

[El Lobo]

Fair play to them really

That win takes them to 12 points from their last seven games, almost at the 2PPG which is generally accepted gets you into the CL

[RedorRed]

The easy draws in the cups just mean they'll go further which of course means more games. You can only stay getting easy draws for so long, they'll have to play some good teams in these competitions eventually.

I don't give a shit if they win all the cups I just want us to win the league. And they obviously going to fucking win tonight. They don't lose at home, rarely if at all. The Palace game was an anomoly. The gap is 4 points and its up to us to extend it to 7 before they play next. Their next semi difficult game is next month against Arsenal which they will likely win easy.

If people are nervous now what's going to happen when there's only 1 point in it and we are yet to play? We just need to relax. There's ages to go yet and panicking on here isn't going to change anything.

who’s panicking?

[deFacto please, you bastards]

who’s panicking?

Go back to last week when we lost to city

[Roger Federer]

We need an even stronger second half of the season, to do this we really need more from at least one of Keita, Lallana, Sturridge, and Origi. I know Ox will be back soon but we can expect that much from him.

I highly doubt we need a stronger second half of the season. That would mean we finish on 103 points. We can only draw one of our last 16, and win the rest, to acheive it. And the most City can get if they win all their games is 101. No way that two teams finish above 100.

But I understand your point. It would be great if Keita in particular could add some creativity to the side. We look very stable and in control, but a few easy wins would mean that we can take off our best players early and not rely on our defence just as much.

[chromed]

Jeezo.......the sky sports update.....I’m sure the guy is knocking one our over Manchester City as he writes it!!!
Apparently a message sent to us tonight.......and going on about the goal difference etc

Whose worrying about goal difference? They are only 2 ahead of us and we we just as capable as they are at putting 3,4 or 5 past anyone. Also we are 4 points ahead of them. Fuck goal difference, we can just keep winning 1-0 from now until the end of the season, see where goal difference gets them then.

[killer-heels]

We need an even stronger second half of the season, to do this we really need more from at least one of Keita, Lallana, Sturridge, and Origi. I know Ox will be back soon but we can expect that much from him.

No we dont.

If we do the same as the first half, we win this league easily.

[redalways]

City are very good aren’t they? Ffs.

They are very good, but we are very very good.

[Gray Hamster]

2 horse race now..... with one wearing platinum shoes and loaded up on steroids

[12Kings]

They beat Wolves 3-0 with an extra man... wow 3-0, at home, against 10... not impressed their shite

[KevLFC]

Is it weird that despite this amount of points and one defeat that we are only 16pts ahead of 6th place?. I swear City were that amount ahead of 2nd place last season at this stage!

[killer-heels]

Is it weird that despite this amount of points and one defeat that we are only 16pts ahead of 6th place?. I swear City were that amount ahead of 2nd place last season at this stage!

The top teams have been really good. I imagine Poch has taken up drugs and Sarri has increased his ciggie intake. Emery was moaning a while ago how shit it is to be unbeaten for so long and still be 4th or 5th.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Is it weird that despite this amount of points and one defeat that we are only 16pts ahead of 6th place?. I swear City were that amount ahead of 2nd place last season at this stage!

After this amount of games last year,
 City had 62 points.
United - 47
Chelsea - 46
Liverpool - 44
Spurs - 41


This year, 3rd and 4th spot pretty much is the same in comparison to last year.

[Dansphinx]

Is it weird that despite this amount of points and one defeat that we are only 16pts ahead of 6th place?. I swear City were that amount ahead of 2nd place last season at this stage!

I was looking at this earlier, look at Utd points and city’s

[Dansphinx]

Those draws really screwed us last season

[12Kings]

Is it weird that despite this amount of points and one defeat that we are only 16pts ahead of 6th place?. I swear City were that amount ahead of 2nd place last season at this stage!

They were on 62 pts... were on 57 now. Everyone was shit last season 🤣

[disgraced cake]

Two home matches to round out the month, we should of course be looking to win them both and we can look back on January as a relatively routine month, no shame in losing that City match with them needing to win so much, and even the biggest of optimists couldn't have seen us winning in the cup with so many changes.

Our goal doesn't change from now til the end of the season, we just have to keep doing our own thing, I don't really expect anyone else to take anything from City, that said however it's unlikely they win 16 more games. Anything else is entirely welcome, and if we can get to both of the Bayern games still 4 points clear that'd be excellent.

Onto Palace 

[Sharado]

Two home matches to round out the month, we should of course be looking to win them both and we can look back on January as a relatively routine month, no shame in losing that City match with them needing to win so much, and even the biggest of optimists couldn't have seen us winning in the cup with so many changes.

Our goal doesn't change from now til the end of the season, we just have to keep doing our own thing, I don't really expect anyone else to take anything from City, that said however it's unlikely they win 16 more games. Anything else is entirely welcome, and if we can get to both of the Bayern games still 4 points clear that'd be excellent.

Onto Palace 

For them to win the next 16 games they'd have put together the greatest run in premier League history. And, depending on goal difference, we could draw 2 games in that time and the league would still be ours.

They'll drop points though. It's just a question of when.