Possible silver lining?
I think this thing about the fixture list is very overplayed. Look at our fixtures for the rest of the season - where is the run of games you can confidently predict we will take a huge haul of points from?
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It would be for a team that is playing like they mean business
It is at this point for sure, because we canât complain about them but also drop maximum points to Bournemouth and fail to even show up at Newcastle. The supposedly âeasierâ ones so far such as Leicester and Southampton at home havenât been blistering performances either. The red card and fixture excuses are out the window now.
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All this goes to prove is what weâve all known from birth, there are no easy games in the Prem. and you canât actually predict anything. So many variables, so on to the next game. And yeah, BUY A REAL FUCKING STRIKER.
City dropped maximum points to Bournemouth and drew with Newcastle.
They also barely beat Southampton at the Etihad.
So theyâre not exactly blowing our mind, neither with their results nor their performances.
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If our lot didnât piss about weâd have 24 points from 30.
Arteta needs to sort it out.
No they arenât but the combination of Liverpool having this cushion and City still being City makes it hard to see us staying in this unless we go on one of our customary runs starting RIGHT NOW. We already canât be dropping many points from here.
We ainât winning shit playing this fucking terrorist football and rightly so.
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Pretty much that is the key⌠if we play that wank crap, we will finish 3rd. If we get back to silky Teta-ball with Ode, etc. and we donât have bad luck with injuries (and obviously prevent the red mist), then we have a shot⌠City are vulnerable and I think once Pool hits a wobble, weâll see what happens.
Feels horrible right now. Really shit.
Missing Ădegaard shouldnât collapse your entire teamâs output / ceiling.
We had zero margin for error before Newcastle and we lost lol. For me, the race is finished.
The team has to put together an astronomical run to prove everybody wrong. I canât see it happening. We are too far behind and our form / football is too bland to give any real hope of something magical happening. Very sad, depressing day.
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Honestly donât get all the dramatics, Iâll be as ridiculous as anyone else during the 90 mins but Christ youâd think we were winless in 10 league games having played all scrubs.
Crying about a poor performance at Newcastle while we went toe to toe with this mythical city everyone thinks we canât catch, at their own ground.
- 7/9 in CL
- People moan about the lack of cup runs but weâre through again and should be in the semi.
- 5 points off our biggest threat despite ending 30% of our games a man down
- 5 points off our biggest threat despite playing away at them, spurs, villa and Newcastle already in 10 games.
- Add in the injuries weâve all seen us dealing with in defence and Odegaard up top.
Is this real life that people are throwing in the towel? 
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I see both views personally.
Canât sugarcoat it, while weâve had some good moments so far, weâve dropped quite a few stinkers and there have been a couple of games already that weâve looked hopeless.
Just not something weâve seen often with this current group of players, and just not something you see from a team thatâs serious about winning major trophies.
On the other hand, our rivals havenât looked particularly impressive either.
So hope is still there for me but weâve got fix up soon because at the moment we look incapable of going on a decent run.
I just need you to have this energy for Merino and you will be my best mate.
Your first two points have nothing to do with the EPL.
The issue here is that weâve yet again put ourselves in a position where we need to win almost every game from now till seasonâs end to win the league.
Weâve done it to ourselves.
The season can still be saved with a deep UCL run, top 4 finish and a domestic trophy.
But the EPL? Itâs out of our hands imo.
No, man city being a bunch of cheating cunts is what has done this.
Well the first two are not irrelevant for the way people talk about the club atm.
I also donât get why you keep saying we have to win almost every game, especially after watching city then go and fuck up the exact same day.
It will be a lower points total winning the title this year, quite clearly. Plus last year we almost did do exactly that and win every single game when we needed to.
True, itâs unlikely City hit close to or over 90 points without Rodri.
I know theyâve hit 98 and 100 points before he arrived but their team was stronger back then and the competition wasnât as fierce.
Honestly, itâs hard to see us winning the title. It only takes a good run of a few weeks to get back in it but I canât see a stretch where we are going to just constantly rack up points.
Still some serious holes in the squad which have been majorly exposed.
Iâd like to see us make some runs in the 3 cup competitions.
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Because I think depending on whatâs happening in the courts, City will also not be winning the league this year.
If the points deduction is given this season (I donât see why it wouldnât), that opens the floor for Liverpool to steamroll. So there could still be two high 80, low 90 point teams up to win the title.
(Unless Villa, Chelsea, Man Utd can steal points from Liverpool somehow)
For us to be one of them, we need 24 wins in the remaining 28 games. Maybe slightly fewer if we get 1-2 draws.
Whilst itâs mathematically possible for us to do it, Iâm not seeing any sign from the team that we have it in our locker.
Weâve used up a ton of lives already. Every EPL game from now is like a final, it shouldnât be this way for a champions-elect team like weâve been the past 2 years.