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I made this point other day to be a pundit all it requires is you used to play. Any notion of been able to put together a coherent sentence isnât important.
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I will be very pissed off if we lose to Cheaty at their shitheap.
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10 wins and 5 draws gets us the league. No other team is touching 85 points this time around.
Home fixtures (in order)
Ipswich , Wolves , Newcastle , Southampton, Everton , West Ham , Spurs , Arsenal , Palace
Away fixtures(in order)
Bournemouth, Everton , Man City, Aston Villa, Fulham , Leicester , Chelsea , Brighton.
Theoretically we have easier home matches than away ones. And we should be winning atleast 6 out of those 9 matches (Everton might decide to show up against us). The main thing here might just be that the league is probably decided with 4 games to spare and the Arsenal, Chelsea matches be rendered inconsequential.
Away fixtures do get a little bit more complicated with Bournemouth, Man City , Aston Villa , Chelsea , Fulham and Brighton. Not to mention Everton.
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Genuinely far too much thinking and worrying about this shit.
Aim to win every single game, no matter what. As we saw a few seasons ago, letting off after youâve won the title can be a shaky foundation for a next season.
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I suppose thatâs what we would need to do. We play the hand we are dealt
The chasing teams are going to be the ones to take more risks in their play and that quite often can backfire spectacularly.
But I will be breathing much more easier if we have roughly the same point gap to 2nd after 5 more games.
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Absolutely. But maybe reading this might help some fans chill the fuck out if we arenât 3-0 up by half time
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I mean, youâre a veteran here.
You know they wonât.
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Alternatively, the refs might be instructed to keep the title âraceâ alive so that the Arsenal fixture means something.
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I was quite surprised to recall that the 2-0 win against United, the day the ânow youâre going to believe usâ first came out, was this weekend in the 19-20 season. We were a good 10 points further ahead then than we are now though.
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I doubt they would have been singing it had the goals come earlier.
What do you mean? Sure the second was a relief, but we were leading in that game from about the 10th minute.
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I didnât realise how bad the injury crisis at Bournemouth was but credit to Iraola for just getting on with it. They have 11 fit outfield players and smashed Newcastle away.
Their whole bench was Mark Travers and a bunch of youngsters - including teenagers Zain Silcott-Duberry and Matai Akinmboni who only signed this week.
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Please note that Richard Hughes built that side.
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Yesterday I mean.
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I see we are 1/4 odds to win the title. Until we actually raise that trophy, nobody should get excited. But hereâs why we are odds on favorite.
We have 50 points with 17 matches to play. Arsenal have 44 points with 16 matches to play. The maximum number of points Arsenal can win is 92. We need 93 to make sure we are champions. That means we need to win 43 points to ensure we win the title. A record of 14-1-2 or 13-4-0 gets us there. Unlikely but not out of the realm of possibility.
More likely is that Arsenal will drop points. Letâs say they drop six points through the rest of the season. Quite a feat given that they havenât been that good. But letâs pretend. That means they would reach 86. We would need to win 37 from here. Records of 12-1-4, 11-4-2, and 10-7-0 would get us there. Weâve been winning 2.38 points per game thus far. We would need to win 2.18 ppg to get to 87. OTOH Arsenal have been winning 2.00 ppg. They would need to win 2.63 ppg to get to 86. Seems unlikely.
Now look at who we play at Anfield in our remaining fixtures
Ipswich
Wolves
Newcastle
Southampton
Everton
West Ham
Spurs
Arsenal
Crystal Palace
I think there is at least 20 points there. That gets us to 70.
Even if Arsenal win 2.4 ppg through the end of the season - a rate higher than what weâve won thus far - that means they get to 82 points. So us winning 13 points in our eight remaining away matches doesnât seem too much of a stretch. We can go 6-2-1 at Anfield and 4-1-3 away to win 13. 10-3-4 probably wins us the title.
Now can we still lose it? Of course. Anything can happen. But we are going to drop points. We are going to lose matches. And people shouldnât run around with their hair on fire when we do. Weâre in the driverâs seat.
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Hereâs hoping he can pull off a few gems here like he did there.
& 50m for Kerkez isnât what I had in mind.
You have way too much time on your hands.
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Wasnât that the season we were top at Xmas and collapsed due to injuries?
Anyhow I agree with the overall message itâs important to just keep winning games. Ultimately if we do the job on the pitch nothing can screw us, not refs, not other teams.
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It was, but it was also the season that saw 7-2 without injuries. Our opening game was a 4-3 against Leeds, and we drew 2-2 against Everton. I think there were always frailties there in that season but of course it probably is completely unrelated to how the previous season ended.