freeeki
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Indeed, although I think this is one of those pivotal moments.
Screw up here and we can probably consider ourselves out of the race, save a minor miracle.
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Indeed, although I think this is one of those pivotal moments.
Screw up here and we can probably consider ourselves out of the race, save a minor miracle.
Phomesy
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It's the stonewall pen not given to Son against Liverpool that really hurts.
freeeki
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True, but we can’t help poor referee decisions, they’re out of our control.
Letting Watford snatch a win was totally under our control and we needed to do better.
TheChosenOne
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That gets converted and it is a 3 point swing with a game in hand.
We seemed to have won the Watford game though and let it sloppily slide,madly and badly.
but the season doesnt end in 011900-01,1920-21,1950-51,1960-61,1970-71,1980-81,1990-91.
Hopefully we're building and looking forward to 2020-21.
But 2+0+1+8=11 ?
Tbh I’ve built this game up for days in my head. Believe it’s absolutely pivotal considering fixtures that follow. If we win it’s definitely on imo.
Also although a few moans about rest days it will mean we play first over Xmas. And if we were to beat Everton and Bournemouth. A win against Wolves could take us above city albeit temporarily. But still nice to have 24 hours to gloat.
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Ghost Hardware
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Just realised Liverpool have only let in 7 goals all season. I know they have been lucky but that is impressive. Of course MOTD are saying VVD is the best defender in the world ATM. With that sort of form I will be amazed that f they don't win it.
As for us, if we can at the very least bring in 1 good cm I think we could maybe even make second.
As for us, if we can at the very least bring in 1 good cm I think we could maybe even make second.
easley91
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Liverpool have Arsenal and City in their next 3. If we can maintain our form, you never know.
Sunday Supplement forgetting about us in the title race as per usual - ****S.
Journalists and Pundits dont annoy me as much as they annoy others admittedly but this week I could go on a rampage against the lot of the ****s.
If we win today we ought to change the title to the race for the title - thatll be the hex we need
Journalists and Pundits dont annoy me as much as they annoy others admittedly but this week I could go on a rampage against the lot of the ****s.
If we win today we ought to change the title to the race for the title - thatll be the hex we need
easley91
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Let them continue. Be good to go under the radar and sneak in. Will really show them up if it were to happen.
mark87
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Don't worry about it, we could be three points clear and we'd still get ignored. Under the radar is best.
CantSmileWithoutYou
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All relax. We're in the title race.
Win our next 4 in the 9 days as usual at Christmas.
Citeh win their two between now and new years day. Scum beat Scousers on 29th and were joint top new years day night. Simple
Win our next 4 in the 9 days as usual at Christmas.
Citeh win their two between now and new years day. Scum beat Scousers on 29th and were joint top new years day night. Simple
Youre right, i wouldnt get the players to ignore it though, it literally use that crap from the media as motivation... I mean those players should go out today hellbent on winning that game to shove that crap down their throats.
mark87
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I think the players will be more focused on what poch tells them rather than what the media are saying, but I do get your point.
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Hard to see how Klopp could possibly get more praise than he already gets. The press love affair with Klopp has been well into the pathological for a good while now. The only way he could get more credit is if he were officially named the greatest human being who ever lived.
I would judge a manager by results with respect to what would be the "average" expectation. There are plenty of things to factor in, but if you look across the league and world, basically there is a very high correlation with spending loads of money and doing well. So, Klopp and Pep might be good, great, unbelievable managers, but nevertheless, winning the league is pretty much the expected result when you spend like that. In the case of city, anything but winning a treble is a bit of an under-performance.
The most impressive recent performances are when the results are way, way above what they should be. Like Ranieri winning the Prem (for which he wasn't giving the kind of god treatment Klopp gets for finishing in the top 4 with a vastly more expensive squad), or Moany winning the CL with Porto (for which he gave himself the god treatment)
