Adama Traore also scored!
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faints
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Obviously, itâs fun being top, but that aside, this is the most open and exciting season for a very long time.
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A few weeks ago Brighton were getting lauded for getting into the top 4 and being CL contenders, but started this week in the bottom half. I think that is less an indictment on Brighton and more a reflection of how many teams there seem to be this season who are good enough to take points of the top sides.
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Yeah, there are some teams playing really good football. This week itâs Bournemouth, but Brighton, Fulham, Villa, Chelsea, Newcastle etc have all impressed in different ways lately.
Brentford are the dividing line. Below them is mostly dross, but above them are teams who can all beat each other on their day.
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How they made him captain is beyond me!
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Itâs also fun to compare the payroll table to the current table:
Brentford is very impressive, Manchester United much less.
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I would say Bournemouth is the most impressive.
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I would say all those salary figures need to be taken with pinch of salt.
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New challenger every weekâŠ
Was Chelsea
Then Arsenal
Then Forest
Then Arsenal again
And now itâs Man City after hitting form at just the right time (as matching us over the last 5 games).
Of course itâs too early to call anything but Iâd like to see a bit more before we predict the turning of a corner. Is it not just their football period has been less hectic? And theyâve played teams who generally arenât performing well.
They now have to go for broke in Europe as well at least one win to get them top 24 but then that adds two additional games. Itâs highly unlikely and probably impossible they can get top 8.
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Didnât they lose a two goal lead just 4 days ago?
Yeah their winter period has been Everton, Leicester, West Ham, Brentford and Ipswich. Doesnât get much easier than that. Fact theyâve dropped points in two of those games should be the talking point not a big win against a dreadful Ipswich team.
Cityâs next four games in the league are Chelsea, Arsenal, Newcastle and Liverpool. Win all those and they can start talking about being back.
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Yeah.
That seems to have been completely forgotten in this analysis. Effectively itâs been written off performances against Ipswich and a West Ham side weâve managed to beat twice 5-0 and 5-1.
Because the Leicester game as I said they should have been one down and conceded at 1-0. It wasnât massively impressive.
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Youâd think that the media has an agendaâŠ
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If we finish below City then we finish outside the top 4. We would have to completely implode.
As things stand they need us to lose 5 games while they win all their games just to be level.
Forest have a brutal run coming up and will be gone when itâs over.
If we finish above Arsenal we win it, they are the only ones who can stop us imo.
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We are 12 points ahead of City with a game in hand.
City are playing for top 4.
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With City in decline this season, have other teams taken stock and started to believe that there is hope of a level playing pitch?
Teams that would normally write off half a dozen matches every season and concentrate on beating the usual lower teams?
I wonder if clubs see this as the one season where normality and standards prevail.
Even Liverpool.
Destroyed by the cheating and corruption on occasions when they would win the league most years. Now, first season with a new manager and instead of settling for a bedding in period, realising even psychologically that this has a ring of fairness about it?
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I thought this was going to be written by Mark SchwarzerâŠ
He was dribbling some absolute tripe about Cheaty yesterday, just a couple of days after surrendering a 2 goal lead to Brentford, as @Sweeting points out.
98% of these blokes are lucky they were good at football. Theyâd be fucked in life if they had to rely on their intelligence.
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RightâŠtwo weeks onâŠ
Liverpool - 101
Arsenal - 92
Forest - 92
Cheaty - 86
Newcastle - 86
Chelsea - 88
Bournemouth - 85
Manchester Yanited - 70
I think it was @Arminius yesterday who said the chasing pack are quickly running out of runwayâŠ
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