Now they're out of Europe, how can anyone stop Man City from winning the league?

It has barely crossed my mind all season that they might not win the league tbh.

I just really didn’t want them to win the double treble. I want SOME cups to still be a little bit competitive at least. I was punching the air when Rudiger scored.

I hope United can pull off some kind of Wigan-esque Cup Final shock.
 
For some reason, I'm still always surprised when City come out on top. I always think they look SO much easier to get at than Arsenal or Liverpool, like I watch those and they seem to steamroll teams from the off and if they don't they still score nailed on injury time equalisers/winners.

When I watch Man City a lot of the time it feels like they follow the same pattern, they dominate the ball for 20 minutes, don't score, then the opposition score with their first attack, then City spend ages trying to get the equaliser. They just look so easy to get at, it feels like it takes about 4 passes to get through them on the counter, then a lot of the time they get flustered in defence, and Ederson and the back four start making wild mistakes, loose misplaced passes, playing themselves in to trouble, giving the ball away. Their defence is SUCH sh*t.

Always find it strange when people treat them as unstoppable compared to the other two and yet the results are what they are. Weird perception cause it just feels like they make such harder work of it than Arsenal and Liverpool, and yet they're the ones that lose.
 
Hope they drop points, don't bottle it themselves.

All it takes is one draw and Arsenal can leapfrog them again.
 
Not sure about City having a crap defence.

Third best in the PL, 1 more conceded than Liverpool and only 6 more than Arsenal. Been much more sloppy this season than previous ones, but still a very decent unit.

Possibly having Stones there as a CDM may have helped them - he gets injured and they don't look as solid?

Find City a very hard watch at times tbh. Appreciate their quality, but taking 47 passes to miss six yards out rather than having a pop from the edge of the box 😴😴
 
h_m_boro said:
Not sure about City having a crap defence.

Third best in the PL, 1 more conceded than Liverpool and only 6 more than Arsenal. Been much more sloppy this season than previous ones, but still a very decent unit.

Possibly having Stones there as a CDM may have helped them - he gets injured and they don't look as solid?

Find City a very hard watch at times tbh. Appreciate their quality, but taking 47 passes to miss six yards out rather than having a pop from the edge of the box 😴😴
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Yes but when they do it flies in as we have seen very often.
 
Arsenal’s run in is tough and Liverpool have bottled it. Wouldn’t surprise me if City won every game until the end of the season now.
 
If it wasn't for Chelsea and Utd left in the FA Cup (yes Cov too - but they're beyond sh!te), then I'd want them to fail in the cup.

But Chelsea and Man Utd are horrible clubs.

As for the league, if Arsenal could get their act together, then hopefully they win it.

But I'll take a City league title over the bindippers every day.
 
This years Champions League is one less competition that will have the black cloud of suspicion of financial irregularities hanging over for the next 20 years while the forensic accountants stare blankly at the bank statements.
 
Rofesleg said:
Man City fair enough. But Liverpool have only won it once in 30 odd yrs and Arsenal last won it 20 yrs ago.
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Is it really that long? Jesus.

Still, its the same teams fighting it out for the top spot and CL places. It's pretty much a closed shop generally with the odd surprise package, like Villa.

Not very interesting, or maybe I'm just losing interest in football generally.
 
Linny said:
Is it really that long? Jesus.

Still, its the same teams fighting it out for the top spot and CL places. It's pretty much a closed shop generally with the odd surprise package, like Villa.

Not very interesting, or maybe I'm just losing interest in football generally.
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To be fair this is Arsenal's first season in the Champions League for 7 years and Liverpool didn't qualify last year finishing 22 points off the pace in 5th.

Newcastle were in the CL this season along with Man Utd, Spurs last season along with Chelsea and hopefully Villa will be in next season. Leicester should have qualified in 2020 and 2021 but bottled it at the death, whilst West Ham were only 2 points off qualifying in 2021.

If Villa finish 4th, that would be 8 different English teams to play in the CL over 4 seasons as well as Leicester and West Ham going into the last day of the season with a chance of qualification. That would suggest it's not quite the closed shop you might think it is.
 
It's obviously going to be a game in hand situation, but Man City could drop down to 3rd again this weekend if Arsenal beat Wolves and Liverpool beat Fulham.

Both of which you'd expect to happen.

All they'd need is to draw that game in hand and it's wide open again.
 
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