Topic: It's just a battle for the order of the first 4 spots now between 5 teams...

[Hij]

You know who, they will increase their effort 10 fold against us. Moyes factor will play a little part

BRING THEM ON.

[ScouserBrad21]

Let's not forget the Mancs have Olympiakos 3 days after we play them - which is a massive game for them.  It's going to be an absolute cauldron, they'll be out to spoil our party that's for sure.  However, I think BR will have the lads focused and ready to go at them just as he did with Arse and Spurs.

For me, I honestly believe we have a massive chance.  No other distractions unlike Chelsea and City, and we seem massively focused under Brendan.  I've got a sneaky feeling this is going down to the wire - it's going to be a lot of sleepness nights running up to May...

[bclfc]

[DowningStreet]

Tiote disallowed goal vs City

Sterling disallowed goal vs City

Suarez denied penalty and Eto'o non red card vs Chelsea


I hope those incidents don't play a part in title race

[Kashinoda]

Odds of winning the league - August 13th 2013

Average probability between bookmakers.

Man City 28.9%
Chelsea   28.8%
Man Utd   26.8%
Arsenal   8.5%
Liverpool   3.1%
Tottenham   2.8%

Come along way 

[RoshanA]

Howard Webb not awarding that penalty at the Bridge.

Will it be pivotal ?

[jckliew]

Howard Webb not awarding that penalty at the Bridge.

Will it be pivotal ?

Sterling's perfectly good goal at the Etihad

[RoshanA]

Sterling's perfectly good goal at the Etihad

While Sterlings goal was a disgrace ... still don't feel that goal was pivotal in the changing of the game. There was still a good 70 mins of that game to be played.

The Chelsea game, and that penalty was in the last few minutes. Had it been given, it's safe to assume that the result would have remained the same. Chelsea would be now two points down, and us a point more. The 2 point difference would have made a massive difference.

[googhead]

Howard Webb not awarding that penalty at the Bridge.

Will it be pivotal ?

feck it, it's done like every year there has been countless incorrect decisions that benefited or hurt us directly or indirectly.
why Look backwards now?

[RedFalcon]

Odds of winning the league - August 13th 2013

Average probability between bookmakers.

Man City 28.9%
Chelsea   28.8%
Man Utd   26.8%
Arsenal   8.5%
Liverpool   3.1%
Tottenham   2.8%

Come along way 

Yep, thought at the time the bookies got it wrong.

I've believed since day one!

[Twelfth Man]

feck it, it's done like every year there has been countless incorrect decisions that benefited or hurt us directly or indirectly.
why Look backwards now?

This. Fuck the what-ifs, enjoy the next few months.

[Sgt. Pepper]

Howard Webb not awarding that penalty at the Bridge.

Will it be pivotal ?

I think it could.

Once upon a time, when a ref made a mistake he got punished and apologized for it. Not anymore, especially when we're talking about (the worst) WC ref.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-476506/Sorry-Styles-axed-Liverpool-blunder.html

[ScouserAtHeart]

I think we could break the 100 goals barrier in the league. That would be an incredible achievement. 27 needed from 10 games. We still have Norwich to play too

[nico 8]

Tiote disallowed goal vs City

Sterling disallowed goal vs City

Suarez denied penalty and Eto'o non red card vs Chelsea

Not to mention the Ramires dives against WBA and Everton


I hope those incidents don't play a part in title race

[bigbear]

Just enjoy the ride, no 'what ifs'.

We weren't really expecting to be where we are so let's enjoy it.

[Keita Success]

Win 7 games out of 10 and 4th is ours

[Paragon]

With ten games to go, how many wins do you think we'd need to win the title? I'd say eight, with one of them hopefully coming against Chelsea.

Can we win eight out of the remaining ten games? Yes. It will be harder as the pressure grows though. Our players have no experience of winning a title, Chelsea and Man City do.

[Alan_X]

Tiote disallowed goal vs City

Sterling disallowed goal vs City

Suarez denied penalty and Eto'o non red card vs Chelsea


I hope those incidents don't play a part in title race

What if we hadn't lost to Southampton at home

What if we hadn't drawn with Villa and West Brom

What if my auntie had bollocks...

What if we just focused on the games we have left?

[Alan_X]

With ten games to go, how many wins do you think we'd need to win the title? I'd say eight, with one of them hopefully coming against Chelsea.

Can we win eight out of the remaining ten games? Yes. It will be harder as the pressure grows though. Our players have no experience of winning a title, Chelsea and Man City do.

Nine or possibly all of them. And two of them would have to be against City and Chelsea.

[rocco]

Tiote disallowed goal vs City

Sterling disallowed goal vs City

Suarez denied penalty and Eto'o non red card vs Chelsea


I hope those incidents don't play a part in title race

I'd leave all that out of mind , sure City and Chelsea have similar sobs stories

[bigbear]

Win 7 games out of 10 and 4th is ours

Win 7 out of 10 and  I reckon 3rd is ours. 80 points plus better GD will do Arsenal I think. They've got to go to Chelsea, Everton, Spurs and have City at home. They are all games they could lose or draw without the fact that they look tired anyway.

[Brentieke]

With ten games to go, how many wins do you think we'd need to win the title? I'd say eight, with one of them hopefully coming against Chelsea.

Can we win eight out of the remaining ten games? Yes. It will be harder as the pressure grows though. Our players have no experience of winning a title, Chelsea and Man City do.

All 10. Just cannot see Chelsea dropping alot of points. Their run in is very easy.

Like I said previously. If we win all our games, that would make it a 14 consecutive games winning run: a new record in the history of the English league.

Highly improbable but the Reds are making us dream again.

[bigbear]

I'd leave all that out of mind , sure City and Chelsea have similar sobs stories

Chelsea won't have too many.

[rocco]

Chelsea won't have too many.

Either way I'd rather leave the what ifs out

[bigbear]

Either way I'd rather leave the what ifs out

Just enjoy the ride, no 'what ifs'.

We weren't really expecting to be where we are so let's enjoy it.

Me too.

[rocco]

All 10. Just cannot see Chelsea dropping alot of points. Their run in is very easy.

Like I said previously. If we win all our games, that would make it a 14 consecutive games winning run: a new record in the history of the English league.

Highly improbable but the Reds are making us dream again.

If we beat Chelsea and City we may not need to win all 10

[rocco]

Me too.

Spot on , just enjoy the ride

[Midekima]

Chelsea have a better run in than us.  LFC away is their only tough game. They are home to Arsenal and Tottenham.

[jaffod]

Chelsea have a better run in than us.  LFC away is their only tough game. They are home to Arsenal and Tottenham.

I think Swansea can definately take something off them. It's just after the CL Q/F 2nd leg which could impact things as well.

[Anywhichwayicant]

You're gonna win the league. It's obvious.

The first post I've seen today on RAWK, and it's exactly what I was going to say.


We're actually going to win the league. We're actually going to win the league.

[Solomon Grundy]

Chelsea have a better run in than us.  LFC away is their only tough game. They are home to Arsenal and Tottenham.

Both of those teams are capable of getting at least a draw against Chelsea. If both of them are scrapping over 4th spot by time they play the plastics, they will be fighting like fuck to get/stay ahead of each other. Could work in our favour that.

[Nick110581]

Chelsea have a better run in than us.  LFC away is their only tough game. They are home to Arsenal and Tottenham.

Why do people say things like this?

Season will have twists.

No team will win 10 games in a row. All Teams will drop points where you least expect them too.

[Gnurglan]

I really like the fact that we're chasing and not leading the league at this point. The last ten games puts immense pressure on the leaders and I don't think we're equipped yet to handle that sort of pressure.

Mourinho has been there and done it but he's also got some tricky if not the hardest games to play. Ideally I want us to be 1-2 points behind with City and Chelsea coming to Anfield. Pressure on them to keep the lead while we smash them at home.

Agree. We're chasing and we have nothing to lose. Chelsea and Man C (and Arsenal) have something to lose. I don't doubt their ability to cope with the pressure. However, it's better to be the team with nothing to lose. We can be the team that plays to win a trophy, while the others play not to lose it.

[goalspaytherent]

We have dropped 4 points in the league since January .......that is impressive

[Carlos Eunuch Alberto]

We have dropped 4 points in the league since January .......that is impressive

and we could of really made both of them games 3 points aswell.

[JackWard33]

Why do people say things like this?

Season will have twists.

No team will win 10 games in a row. All Teams will drop points where you least expect them too.

Sure but it's still valid to evaluate teams remaining games - you can't just say "well everyone has 10 left and teams will slip up"
Chelsea have the easiest schedule (or at least you'd definitely prefer theirs to ours) and therefore the highest expectation from their remaining games.
It doesn't mean they will win the league or we won't but that plus the points gap makes them a significant favourite over us

[rickardinho1]

Tiote disallowed goal vs City

Sterling disallowed goal vs City

Suarez denied penalty and Eto'o non red card vs Chelsea


I hope those incidents don't play a part in title race

They already have played a massive part. We would have been top by now without those blunders

[WraithXx]

[soxfan]

Chelsea have a better run in than us.  LFC away is their only tough game. They are home to Arsenal and Tottenham.

So far, Chelsea have dropped points against these teams in the league run.

ManU D
Everton L
Spurs D
Newcastle L
West Brom D
Stoke L
Arsenal D
West Ham D
West Brom D

Not exactly all Real Madrid, Bayern and Barcelona there. They will drop more points. We can win this and we can afford a loss or a couple of draws as long as we beat them and City head to head.

[goalspaytherent]

and we could of really made both of them games 3 points aswell.

Got it wrong first half v villa .......toure fuck up v WBA ......that's it