Greenlizard0 PL & Championship Football Thread ** spoilers ** [30th Dec - 1st Jan 2023]

bingham67 said:
It's Arsenal to lose this title now.
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Absolutely, I keep repeating myself, sorry. But City are worse than last year by a decent margin. Everyone kept saying after 3 games this was over and keep on saying it's Cities title. It isn't. I've said time and time again they will batter teams 4-0 and then drop points to mid table and lower sides. You don't win titles like that and Arsenal look far less likely to drop points.

This is Arsenals title. Arsenals title to lose.
IronSpider said:
Everton unable to beat anyone at the bottom will probably go and beat City.
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Well not a win but a point. Typical City. Typical Everton.
 
IronSpider said:
Absolutely, I keep repeating myself, sorry. But City are worse than last year by a decent margin. Everyone kept saying after 3 games this was over and keep on saying it's Cities title. It isn't. I've said time and time again they will batter teams 4-0 and then drop points to mid table and lower sides. You don't win titles like that and Arsenal look far less likely to drop points.

This is Arsenals title. Arsenals title to lose.

Well not a win but a point. Typical City. Typical Everton.
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All teams will drop points. Arsenal won 4-2 yesterday but their first 2 goals had a big slice of luck to them and Brighton had a goal disallowed for a marginal offside. It was offside but that was tight and a tiny delay would have kept him onside.

You need those bits of luck but it doesn't take much for wins to turn to draws and losses. City have the pedigree of going on long winning streaks and Arsenal have a reputation for falling away when it really matters.

If City don't sort themselves out it probably will be Arsenal for the title. I would be very happy with that but we aren't even half way through the season yet and a lot can happen. Arsenal haven't got a squad where you could take 30% of their squad away and you probably wouldn't notice. If Odegaard gets injured they will know about it.
 
fez said:
All teams will drop points. Arsenal won 4-2 yesterday but their first 2 goals had a big slice of luck to them and Brighton had a goal disallowed for a marginal offside. It was offside but that was tight and a tiny delay would have kept him onside.

You need those bits of luck but it doesn't take much for wins to turn to draws and losses. City have the pedigree of going on long winning streaks and Arsenal have a reputation for falling away when it really matters.

If City don't sort themselves out it probably will be Arsenal for the title. I would be very happy with that but we aren't even half way through the season yet and a lot can happen. Arsenal haven't got a squad where you could take 30% of their squad away and you probably wouldn't notice. If Odegaard gets injured they will know about it.
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The only elephant in the room is that neither side have played each other yet so you have a possible 6 point swing in either direction. If Arsenal can win and draw it will pretty much sew up the league for them.
 
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If everyone stayed fit I’d be more confident but as with last year if a few injuries pile up the team drops in quality significantly as the squad depth isn’t quite there in key areas. If results stayed the same the rest of the season it’d be a 100+ point finish and that seems very unrealistic to me, as good as things are at the moment. Not even halfway through the season yet and there’s a tough fixture run coming up, cup games… not to be glass half empty but it only gets harder from now on.
 
fez said:
All teams will drop points. Arsenal won 4-2 yesterday but their first 2 goals had a big slice of luck to them and Brighton had a goal disallowed for a marginal offside. It was offside but that was tight and a tiny delay would have kept him onside.

You need those bits of luck but it doesn't take much for wins to turn to draws and losses. City have the pedigree of going on long winning streaks and Arsenal have a reputation for falling away when it really matters.

If City don't sort themselves out it probably will be Arsenal for the title. I would be very happy with that but we aren't even half way through the season yet and a lot can happen. Arsenal haven't got a squad where you could take 30% of their squad away and you probably wouldn't notice. If Odegaard gets injured they will know about it.
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finally someone seems this besides me.

Listen to all arsenal fans here. lets not get carried away ffs.

Lets ses where we are by game 30 at least....
 
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