Everyone should be doing what Arne and the boys are doing: taking it one game at a time.
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Iâd take 11 points from those games even if Arsenal won all 3 of theirs. That would put us 8 points ahead and theyâd have a game in hand. Of our last 7 aways these 3 are arguably the most difficult, along with Chelsea.
We took 2 points from 9 in the corresponding fixtures last season so make no mistake the potential is there for things to go tits up, we need to be at it from the first minute in all of them. 5 points from 9 providing we win the 2 home games would be ok imo. I expect Arsenal will win their 3 with only the Forest game being a potential draw.
An 8 point lead with them having a game in hand keeps them at armâs length and Iâd fancy us given the fixtures weâd have left. Anything less then my arse will be twitching like a rabbitâs nose, Iâm not going to lie. These next 3 weeks are the most crucial of the season.
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We will have a decent advantage of home games once we pass the Man City game anyhow @cynicaloldgit is right.
Pencil in all results but things change and so on.
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Why are people so confident in Arsenal getting these results with the news that Martinelli is out for a month that leaves them with Trossard, Havertz, Sterling and a 17 Kid Nwaneri in attack considering they have only won 3 league games on spin once this season so far.
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Welcome to TAN.
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Imagine if they fuck up at Leicester , which isnât beyond the realms. Itâd be curtains for them.
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I am not confident they will, though the City win was probably a psychological hurdle for them. Just thinking through when and where they have the best opportunity to close the gap.
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But its not taking into account what resources they have. Arsenal fans at the minute would probably snap your hands off if you offered them Vardy thats how bad there front line is.
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One starts from assuming perfection on their part. Simple fact of the matter is we have to drop 6 points for them to draw level, 9 if we win the game in hand. Are they going to be perfect? I very much doubt it. I think LFC has a better chance of running the table, and I donât think that will happen either.
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This was published today from Kieran Maguire
Utd, Spurs and City in a neck and neck race for the last CL spot in the net spend table
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Startled at that Ipswich number! That could be a remarkable millstone when they go down, as they almost certainly will
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Their defence, I guess. I rate Nwaneri and Lewis-Skelly, they add some unpredictability to their attack, especially in the absence of big guns, but itâs their defence thatâs keeping them in the title race.
So that includes the Cheatsâ winter splurge?
Their other departments are at full strength so they should still be able to perform their usual style against Leicester and West Ham. The remaining attackers will still win lots of freekicks and corners - as if Saka, Jesus and Martinelli been doing any different 
So I fully expect them to win those two.
Forest away (8Ws 1D 1L at home since October) should be difficult but weâll have to see how they will cope coming from this run of games
Brighton too. It doesnât look like a squad with so much investment.
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If Iâm honest I think we will see more surprises along the road. As I said last week youâd have been laughed out of the house if you had said our away game at Bournemouth was tougher than their game against Man City even say in September.
But it turned out it was. Forest being at home does help in that. But we will see they may suddenly hit a bad patch of form, West Ham under Potter may see an improvement they seemed a lot better against Villa and Chelsea than they had.
And City aside their performances are not great.
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Have Liverpool ever won the league in spite of clear and obvious refereeing mistakes?
I canât see that season in 2019-20 being without. We dragged ourselves over the line though in that season at times. This isnât mistakes though is it. Heâs set up to manage the game he wanted and it was deliberate.
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There were plenty of corrupt decisions against us but we were so fucking good not even their blatant cheating could stop us.
Bobbyâs armpit being offside at Villa.
Foul on Origi at OT being ignored in build-up to Unitedâs goal.
Bobbyâs disallowed goal against United at home for a non-existent foul.
Coote at Anfield against Burnley where Robertson and Klopp fucking slaughtered him at full-time.
The corruption and cheating has been in plain sight for some of us for years, that season was no different.
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36 points to win the title
Arsenal can only win 92 points
14 matches remaining, 8 at Anfield
17-6-1 57 points
93 points
12-0-2
11-3-0
Arsenal drop six points to 86
Liverpool 30 points to 87
10-0-4
9-3-2
8-6-0
Arsenal drop 10 points to 82 points
Arsenal win 32 over 14 games, or 2.29 ppg
10-2-2
9-5-0
LFC to 83, win 26 points
8-2-3
7-5-2
6-8-0
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