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Post by Stacy Heydon on Mar 5, 2024 18:59:24 GMT
No. As much as i hate saying it, cannot see past Liverpool. Even if they lose against City? Of the three teams they look the most likely to drop points, they're winning but riding their luck a bit too. I think it's very tight between the three teams with no one team markedly superior to the other. I would make City slight favourites for all of the obvious reasons, but the title really could go to any of them.
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Post by tory on Mar 5, 2024 19:28:41 GMT
Arsenal
Brentford (H) - W Chelsea (H) - W City (A) - L Brighton (A) - D Aston Villa (H) - W Wolves (A) - D Bournemouth (H) - W Man Utd (A) - D Everton (H) - W
Pts 79
Arsenal could beat Brighton, Wolves and United, but they could just as easily lose or draw too. I think the Villa match at home could be a crunch match really. - Emery will be motivated to do well.
Liverpool
City (H) - D Everton (A) - W Brighton (H) - W Sheff Utd (H) - W United (A) - D Palace (H) - W Fulham (A) - W West Ham (A) - W Spurs (H) - D Villa (A) - D Wolves (H) - W
Pts 88
If Liverpool beat City at home and win at Old Trafford, I'd say the title is theirs. However, they usually struggle there and rarely win.
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City
Liverpool (A) - D Brighton (A) - D Arsenal (H) - W Villa (H) - D Palace (A) - W Luton (H) - W Spurs (A) - D Forest (A) - W Wolves (H) - W Fulham (A) - D West Ham (H) - W
Pts 85
I'm making these predictions because I think City have had one of those of the seasons where they've dropped too many points already and will do so again this season. They're certainly not as defensively solid as last year. Emery seems to have an idea of how to play against Guardiola and I reckon he'll play a part here.
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Post by rayge on Mar 5, 2024 23:07:59 GMT
Arsenal Brentford (H) - W Chelsea (H) - W City (A) - L Brighton (A) - DAston Villa (H) - W Wolves (A) - DBournemouth (H) - W Man Utd (A) - DEverton (H) - W Pts 79 Arsenal could beat Brighton, Wolves and United, but they could just as easily lose or draw too. I think the Villa match at home could be a crunch match really. - Emery will be motivated to do well. Arsenal have to play away at Tottenham
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Mar 6, 2024 8:14:39 GMT
Making these predictions is a lot of fun, but no one knows for sure so it's just guesswork really. As an Arsenal fan I've been really impressed by the way we've suffocated teams allowing them very few goal scoring opportunities. If we maintain that than I'm pretty confident we'll amass more points than Toby predicts. Whether that will be enough to win the title, we'll just have to wait and see.
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Post by tory on Mar 6, 2024 10:56:00 GMT
Of course it's guesswork.
Arsenal could go onto win all their next games. I don't think that'll happen just because it is very rare for any team to sustain win after win. Arsenal have tougher matches to play in my opinion, which means that they are more likely to lose points.
It's between City and Liverpool, also taking into account that Arsenal's form fell away drastically towards the end of last season and they also have a European challenge - which they didn't last time.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Mar 6, 2024 11:33:07 GMT
Of course it's guesswork. Arsenal could go onto win all their next games. I don't think that'll happen just because it is very rare for any team to sustain win after win. Arsenal have tougher matches to play in my opinion, which means that they are more likely to lose points. It's between City and Liverpool, also taking into account that Arsenal's form fell away drastically towards the end of last season and they also have a European challenge - which they didn't last time. My optimism stems from the fact that, at the moment, we're looking stronger than either Liverpool or City, so I think, for example,that the draw you foresee Brighton getting with Arsenal is just as likely to happen with Liverpool. It's a three horse race, I don't see how you can be so dismissive of Arsenal's chances when we comfortably beat Liverpool just a couple of weeks ago. I think your West Ham bias is showing a little here.
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Post by tory on Mar 14, 2024 20:48:44 GMT
At £37 million Kudus is looking more and more a bargain every day. I suspect he'll be sold for £90 million plus.
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 18, 2024 9:21:38 GMT
This free kick will never not be funny.
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Post by rayge on Mar 18, 2024 9:42:42 GMT
I didn't see any of the Man City game - too busy watching Spurs get slaughtered by Fuham - but caught most of the other three quarter-finals, and what a remarkable trio of games of free-flowing football they were: 18 goals, leads changing hands, all of them won after the 90 minutes was up. Brilliant stuff.
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Post by tory on Mar 28, 2024 8:19:21 GMT
England Euro 2024 squad (for me)
GK Pickford, Butland, Johnstone (could pick Pope or Ramsdale too)
DF Stones, Maguire, Chilwell, Walker, Alexander-Arnold, Guehi, Branthwaite , Shaw
MF Rice, Bellingham, Mainoo, Maddison, Foden, Palmer
FW Kane, Saka, Bowen, Toney, Gordon, Grealish
I only picked Maguire because he does have tournament experience and can often play very well in them. Mainoo looks a shoe-in for being alongside Rice in defensive midfield immediately, and alongside Bellingham that could very well be England's midfield for the next 6 years or so at least.
I thought Ivan Toney looked very assured at International level the other night; only a friendly, but reminded me of Ian Wright. A certain sort of arrogance and self-belief, whereas Watkins was pretty anonymous against Brazil. Bowen has timed his run to the Euros with perfection; he's not first-choice, but will get game time I reckon. Grealish might not even make it, but I'd take Gordon over both him or Rashford at the moment.
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Post by tory on Apr 7, 2024 7:47:35 GMT
Arsenal played like Champions yesterday. Liverpool need to win this afternoon.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Apr 9, 2024 21:26:34 GMT
They should send Leo into Russia to get rid of Putin. He's an ice cold assassin.
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Post by tory on Apr 14, 2024 15:13:48 GMT
And that's why we love football. Still a few games to be played, but Liverpool may have spunked it again.
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Post by rayge on Apr 14, 2024 15:55:32 GMT
Picture Marcus weeping into his shtout
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Apr 15, 2024 9:09:22 GMT
It does feel like it's over. It's ridiculous in a way to feel like that when City still have 6 games to play, but we've seen them go on this kind of winning run so many times before that it seems inevitable. I'm still a bit stunned on what went wrong for arsenal in that second half, we played so well in the first half. I just thought more of the same and the goal will come, but we just never got going. My heart sank when he took off Odegaard and Trossard, I knew then it wasn't going to happen.
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