Topic: Chasing the Title

[Nick110581]

That’s going to be a tough ask , especially with our form, though I think your right need 8 wins from 9

Their schedule in April is really tough but their squad is ridiculous.

CL will play a big part and we could realistically get over 90 points and not win it.

Key is not to lose or heads as that is incredible.

[PaulKS]

Win our next two and we go into the international break ahead. That’s a goo£ marker. Anything other than six points is unthinkable really given the two fixtures we have. It is an absolute must. Then it’s the final stretch. Anything can happen.

Well said, totally agree

6 points from our next 2 games otherwise it is over

[andy07]

They need to slip up.  That is out of our hands.  We need to make sure we dont slip up, simple as that.  Nothing would be worse than City dropping points in 2 or 3 games only for us to miss out because we fucked up against the likes of Burnley, Fulham, Southampton or Cardiff.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Win our match and keep winning and see what happens

[scouse neapolitan]

It's like penalties. Anything can happen. Believe!!! I do, no question.

[Greyfox]

They need to slip up.  That is out of our hands.  We need to make sure we dont slip up, simple as that.  Nothing would be worse than City dropping points in 2 or 3 games only for us to miss out because we fucked up against the likes of Burnley, Fulham, Southampton or Cardiff.

Keep winning and see what happens....things like today are a sickener tho.

Still, every time - we need to rise above that shite and win, if we do then their world of financial doping will fall to bits.

[Floydy]

Proper still fancy us to do this. The longer it goes on and closer we are the more enthused i get, forget the dropped points they are gone. String some wins together now for the last 3rd of the campaign. God knows we are worthy of winning the league and due some good fortune BUT we have to win games and deliver our side of the bargain.

[ScubaSteve]

Win our match and keep winning and see what happens

Defo, all we can do now is keep the pressure on and win our games

[killer-heels]

The simple thing now for us is all this settling for a point stuff is no longer an option if we want to win the league.

[Jon2lfc]

The simple thing now for us is all this settling for a point stuff is no longer an option if we want to win the league.

I agree with this. It's our situation in a nutshell.
Forget all the other teams, including the Mancs.

If we want to be worthy league champions we will go into every game from now aiming to win it like champions.

That's what separates the champions from all other teams, including 2nd place.

[ScubaSteve]

The simple thing now for us is all this settling for a point stuff is no longer an option if we want to win the league.

Yeah tomorrow is a must win game, no doubt about it!

[Anthony]

It's not pissing pants. It has no bearing on whether we get the points or not, or on our title challenge. But it's justifiable irritation that Watford (or Bournemouth) are barely trying. For the first 60 mins their players just strolled around the pitch. There was no pressure on the ball, and no willingness to make it difficult for Man City.  When Success came off, he looked exactly the same as when he came on. The moment that they actually put some effort in, Man City shat their pants and they scored.

Its one thing to get schooled by Man City if they play scintillating football and actually just outmatch them for skill, but when it is one side walking around watching the other side have all the time in the world, it is annoying. You expect better from professionals who are that highly paid. I'd be annoyed if I was part of their travelling supporters.

That's the thing, teams are not having a go at all or just wait until they're 3 or 4 nil down like Watford today. Has Ederson made more than one or two saves in the last couple of matches? Most teams are just throwing in the towel against them. Spurs and United are the only real hope but one of them is in absolutely shit form and the other would rather City win it then us. Leicester might cause them problems but knowing Rodgers he'll go all out and attack them and lose something like 5-2.

Aura, reputation, momentum etc

The benefits of the last couple of seasons is that teams are scared of City - hey, half the 'bedwetting' in here is based on the concept that we have to win all our games and thus attain our highest ever points total just to keep pace with the 'financial dopers' who 'are going to win every point available'. Meanwhile our own 'aura' has slipped and we seem to have mislaid the keys of the heavy metal crushing machine just at the wrong time meaning teams are encouraged to sit back against us and have more hope of success in that plan than against City.

We are where we are but ironically the points City have lost have come after they have taken the lead and desperation has set in perhaps earlier for the other side. As the season reaches its climax there will be more teams with their backs to the wall and the combination of dogfights for top 4 / avoiding relegation means there's more of a chance that teams will want to attack. Good for us, bad for City.

Now, where did we put those bloody keys...

[Number 7]

Although I expected City to beat Watford it does feel like we’re almost fighting a few different fights. Watford throwing in the towel when they have a week to prepare for their next game is baffling and yet when they play us they put out their first team. I know we beat them too, but it isn’t the first time it’s happened this season, and won’t be the last. Everton did the same thing a few weeks ago by resting a few of their best players at home of all places. When was the last time we played a weakened team? I can’t even remember. Every team seems to be out to stop us winning the title yet couldn’t care less about City. It’s still mind-boggling to me why we’re so hated as a club. Credit to Newcastle and Rafa for actually having a go against them. It’s kind of the same thing with United. They would much rather City win it than us.

The only thing we can do is win our games. The main thing is to not have any regrets if they do slip up. We need to win all of our 9 games IMO. At the very minimum that will take us to the last day at least.

[Advil]

Although I expected City to beat Watford it does feel like we’re almost fighting a few different fights. Watford throwing in the towel when they have a week to prepare for their next game is baffling and yet when they play us they put out their first team. I know we beat them too, but it isn’t the first time it’s happened this season, and won’t be the last. Everton did the same thing a few weeks ago by resting a few of their best players at home of all places. When was the last time we played a weakened team? I can’t even remember. Every team seems to be out to stop us winning the title yet couldn’t care less about City. It’s still mind-boggling to me why were so hated as a club. Credit to Newcastle and Rafa for actually having a go against them. It’s kind of the same thing with United. They would much rather City win it than us.

The only thing we can do is win our games. The main thing is to not have any regrets if they do slip up. We need to win all of our 9 games IMO. At the very minimum that will take us to the last day at least.

That is the spirit. We have nothing to lose. No more pragmatic approach which has backfired on us for the past few weeks. Lets go for this. Send them a message every week till they crack.

[slaphead]

City to win is the expected outcome in every single one of their remaining games though, where do you see them dropping points?

I look and I think potentially Spurs and/or Leicester.

How can you see them losing points at home to Spurs and Leicester, but not away to Utd ?
Utd away is by far their hardest fixture for me

[meady1981]

Just read they’ve won 16 of their last 18 matches. That’s insane.

[Floydy]

Just read they’ve won 16 of their last 18 matches. That’s insane.

surely with the law of averages they are due to lose then, no?

[slaphead]

Just read they’ve won 16 of their last 18 matches. That’s insane.

Credit where it due, that's some going. You'd like to think they can't carry that on to the end, if they do, then they will have deserved it to be fair.
Surely things will catch up though at some point - form, tiredness, whatever, anything.

[Jack The Lad]

City to win is the expected outcome in every single one of their remaining games though, where do you see them dropping points?

I look and I think potentially Spurs and/or Leicester.

No chance they drop points at home to Spurs or Leicester.   With respect, you’re living in fantasy land if you think that happens. The only game I see them potentially dropping points against is United away, but they are capable of going there and giving them a good hiding. Still maintain that we’ll need to win all our remains games. And even then that might not be enough. Too many draws since the turn of the year may prove costly.

[Trendisnotdestiny]

Although I expected City to beat Watford it does feel like we’re almost fighting a few different fights. Watford throwing in the towel when they have a week to prepare for their next game is baffling and yet when they play us they put out their first team. I know we beat them too, but it isn’t the first time it’s happened this season, and won’t be the last. Everton did the same thing a few weeks ago by resting a few of their best players at home of all places. When was the last time we played a weakened team? I can’t even remember. Every team seems to be out to stop us winning the title yet couldn’t care less about City. It’s still mind-boggling to me why we’re so hated as a club. Credit to Newcastle and Rafa for actually having a go against them. It’s kind of the same thing with United. They would much rather City win it than us.

The only thing we can do is win our games. The main thing is to not have any regrets if they do slip up. We need to win all of our 9 games IMO. At the very minimum that will take us to the last day at least.

Actually, I thought the manager did us some service - in how he played.  Nil-Nil at halftime with Fortune (missing about three through balls if he played faster) was not a bad start. 

Bringing on Delo and Deeny at the end would have been a masterclass idea had they stayed close.  Not putting this on Watford.  This was a Tierney fuckup.   And considering they are in the final 8 of the FA Cup, I thought they were up for the fight (made many many runs, defensive and covered some serious space in the first half).

It was always going to be a big ask, but after the first goal (contentious) --- they were susceptible to the City bulldozer just like us at Anfield.

[Filler.]

They know and we do that they've only got a few tricky fixtures left towards the end of the season... when questions WILL get asked about their legs. Can you do all that lads?

No questions were going to be asked about City today... tho when you peer into the bbc ticker at 40 mins (after only 2 of the ^tiniest glances previously) and you hear there were some boos or something you think... hmmn,,, nah. Next time I looked... 3-0 

Fair fucks. Watford weren't arsed. Can't blame them really. At first when I saw they made SEVEN changes I was incredulous and then reminded of the cup match and thought yeah whatever. It's also quite a bit about 'not arsed' here.


It'll all be about their legs come April something or other. Us? We just need to win tomorrow. Am not in the camp that says we need to win them all, but 7 in a row after? You'd have to win the double while doing that.

[Barneylfc∗]

Just read they’ve won 16 of their last 18 matches. That’s insane.

Not that impressive when they have referees bending over backwards for them.

[Red_19]

Was ridiculed for saying it’s gone the other week. Too many shithouses on here too scared of sounding negative when it was obvious they were hitting form as we lost it

[bird_lfc]

The fume on here towards other teams when city beat them is pretty laughable .

They will not win every game between now and the season end. There will be an opportunity to over take we can just afford minimal dropped points. If we don’t win it, it’s because we’ve come up against one of the best sides in the modern era of league footballl unfortunately

[RyanBabel19]

Was ridiculed for saying it’s gone the other week. Too many shithouses on here too scared of sounding negative when it was obvious they were hitting form as we lost it

What exactly are you suggesting is 'gone'? Because if its the league then the ridicules pretty justified to be honest

[the_red_pill]

Was ridiculed for saying it’s gone the other week. Too many shithouses on here too scared of sounding negative when it was obvious they were hitting form as we lost it

If you're talking about the league, then that's silly and you've been rightly pulled up for it.
There are plenty of games left and NO-ONE knows how it's going to pan out.

[MNAA]

Was ridiculed for saying it’s gone the other week. Too many shithouses on here too scared of sounding negative when it was obvious they were hitting form as we lost it

You deserved to be ridiculed. Liverpool don’t need fans like you. If fans can be sacked, you should be first in line. Shithouses? Take a hard look at yourself. It’s not gone until it is. Right now, it’s not. Far from it.

[Supersuarez7]

We just need them to draw 1 game.... let me repeat 1 single solitary game and for us to win the corresponding fixture and we're back in pole position... I honestly think we have the hardest fixtures remaining though with spuds and chelsea still to play, just like Everton, UTD et'al they all seem to raise their games against us, UTD will categorically not do us any favours against city and will likely bend over and get shafted happily, especially now Spuds have bottled it, though they will raise their A game against us FML

[Filler.]

We just need them to draw 1 game.... let me repeat 1 single solitary game and for us to win the corresponding fixture and we're back in pole position... I honestly think we have the hardest fixtures remaining though with spuds and chelsea still to play, just like Everton, UTD et'al they all seem to raise their games against us, UTD will categorically not do us any favours against city and will likely bend over and get shafted happily, especially now Spuds have bottled it, though they will raise their A game against us FML

Argghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!  Jesus!

[Supersuarez7]

Argghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!  Jesus!

It's pronounced Suarez  the J is silent

[G Richards]

Lucky first goal for Man City today, but I wasn’t expecting anything else other than a win. We need to take care of our business so we can take advantage if they slip up. They might not, but they have already been on a great run, so to expect 9 wins to the end of the season seems too much. If they do it, they will be worthy champions, albeit FFP cheats.

Nine wins for us and k we will be champions. 8 wins and a draw and it’s touch and go. Need to be a Burnley and then keep going. Come on!

[latortuga]

Man City's win was disappointing given Watford had done well up to the controversy, but that aside, there are good signs today from both Man City's win and Tottenham's loss on the overall effects of a long season and playing in cup competitions.  I was confident Tottenham would drop points to Southampton after the exertions of defending a full 90 against Dortmund in the UCL, while City's recent run of games seemed to really take something, appearing lacklustre and rarely troubling Watford until the goal.  Let's be clear though, these are just mere observations of things that could work to our advantage as the season comes to a close, they're not going to win us the league.  We need to try and win every game and take advantage of when City does slip up, because performances like today's will ensure they do. 

[Caligula?]

I was just reading a Spurs forum to see their take their board/Levy etc and the view is that if they are to miss out on a place in the top four, a decent consolation would be denting our title chances when they come to Anfield. Watford supporters wanted to get something from Anfield but then absolutely roll over for City. You'd expect it from the usual suspects like United and Everton and a few others but it's looking more and more as if absolutely no one wants us to win this league. It just astounds me.

[latortuga]

I was just reading a Spurs forum to see their take their board/Levy etc and the view is that if they are to miss out on a place in the top four, a decent consolation would be denting our title chances when they come to Anfield. Watford supporters wanted to get something from Anfield but then absolutely roll over for City. You'd expect it from the usual suspects like United and Everton and a few others but it's looking more and more as if absolutely no one wants us to win this league. It just astounds me.

Name me a great side in any sport that is loved and admired outside of their own fanbase?  I don't understand why so many of our fans want their club to be liked so much by other teams supporters?  Do you care what other people think of you in your normal lives? 

[PhaseOfPlay]

Name me a great side in any sport that is loved and admired outside of their own fanbase?  I don't understand why so many of our fans want their club to be liked so much by other teams supporters?  Do you care what other people think of you in your normal lives?

Barca.

Madrid.

Ajax.

Holland 74.

Brazil 70

[Caligula?]

Name me a great side in any sport that is loved and admired outside of their own fanbase?  I don't understand why so many of our fans want their club to be liked so much by other teams supporters?  Do you care what other people think of you in your normal lives?

I think you've totally missed the point there. No, I don't really care what other clubs think about us. I'm sure most of our fans feel the same way. Outside of a few clubs that would probably rather see life end rather than us winning the title, I'm surprised that the majority of supporters and clubs despise us. Here we are going about it in the right way against an immoral and financially corrupt machine in City who bring the game into disrepute, and yet they'd still rather see them win it. I find it odd.

[latortuga]

Barca.

Madrid.

Ajax.

Holland 74.

Brazil 70

Haha you get my point, it's 1000's to a handful. 

[latortuga]

I think you've totally missed the point there. No, I don't really care what other clubs think about us. I'm sure most of our fans feel the same way. Outside of a few clubs that would probably rather see life end rather than us winning the title, I'm surprised that the majority of supporters and clubs despise us. Here we are going about it in the right way against an immoral and financially corrupt machine in City who bring the game into disrepute, and yet they'd still rather see them win it. I find it odd.

So in short, you were hoping that the immorality of financial doping in football would find a way to transcend football tribalism?  I don't know man, I think that's asking too much.

[Bolrick]

I think it would be so much easier on the team and us (the fans) if we just admit that coming in 2nd this season can be considered progress. And when you compare this with last 2 seasons where we only confirmed 4th place at the last fixture, it puts things into perspective.

We have almost wrapped up 2nd place if we continue our current trajectory as other clubs under us tend to drop more points.

Therefore if we want to finally start playing "unleashing football" that we did to devastating effect last season (only undermined by incompetent defence and goalkeeper which should not happen now), the only thing we (team and us) need to do is to consider this season to be a success no matter what happens in May.

So to summarize :
a)Consider this season so far a success
b)No pressure on our team as if we have nothing to lose.
c)We can go back to playing devastating football which comes naturally to our squad of players
d)End the season on a high when though we come in 2nd

[Bolrick]

I think you've totally missed the point there. No, I don't really care what other clubs think about us. I'm sure most of our fans feel the same way. Outside of a few clubs that would probably rather see life end rather than us winning the title, I'm surprised that the majority of supporters and clubs despise us. Here we are going about it in the right way against an immoral and financially corrupt machine in City who bring the game into disrepute, and yet they'd still rather see them win it. I find it odd.

Its because they are scared $hit that once we win once, we are gonna start dominating the league for years. Arsenal Fans seem to be the only ones who view us winning the league more positively. The rest (MU, Chelsea, Small club across the park, even frickin spurs) all prefer Man City to win it.