Yeah, but football has a habit of not working out that way. I’m glad we’re putting pressure on City, but saying “it’s ours to lose” is silly. We’d still be looking for City to drop points along the way, because there’s a very low likelihood of us taking maximum points for the remainder of the league season.
I’d say their success over the past 5 years, their general results, their squad, resources, etc.
A simple metric like Elo rating would also show them to be better than we are, though in fairness, it’s probably closer than “easily”. We’re the closest to them I’d say, but we’re still probably just half a level below them on a long-term outlook basis. Would fancy us to beat them over one or two games, but they have a way of stringing long runs of wins together that we just can’t seem to do consistently.
If they drop points here against The Ev, they’d still be favorites for the league and rightly so. We’ll be closer, our chances will increase, but it wouldn’t be “ours to lose”, as that would mean if we go on to not win the league, we will have “bottled it”, which isn’t remotely the case IMO.