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Ian Thumwood said:
I was pleased with the 4-0 thrashing City gave Liverpool - a foretaste of next season.

Without doubt Liverpool should be applauded for what they have achieved but I think this result underscores than City have had a bad season in the league by their own standards yet are still the best footballing team. They will not let Liverpool retain the title next season and the league will be more competitive as United seem to be getting their thing together.

I will probably have to watch Sunday's match through the cracks in my fingers. Given our home record, I have not expectations against City.
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I think that result shows that Liverpool have spent a week on the pi55 in their hotel
 
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fatletiss said:
I think that result shows that Liverpool have spent a week on the pi55 in their hotel
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Will have definitely played a part, but in my opinion I don't think there is any doubting that City on the top of their game are better than Liverpool on the top of their game. Had City got the VAR handball at Anfield earlier in the season who knows what could have happened with the title. And, if City had signed a CB to go with Laporte like everyone knew they needed, then it wouldn't have been such a one horse race.

Yes, that's all ifs buts maybes, but next season City will be back to their best and I'm not sure Liverpool can continue to win such an incredibly high percentage of their league games. Here's hoping City win it back.
 
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Saints FC 76 said:
Will have definitely played a part, but in my opinion I don't think there is any doubting that City on the top of their game are better than Liverpool on the top of their game. Had City got the VAR handball at Anfield earlier in the season who knows what could have happened with the title. And, if City had signed a CB to go with Laporte like everyone knew they needed, then it wouldn't have been such a one horse race.

Yes, that's all ifs buts maybes, but next season City will be back to their best and I'm not sure Liverpool can continue to win such an incredibly high percentage of their league games. Here's hoping City win it back.
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I'm not sure how you can be much better than the Liverpool side that beat Barcelona 4-0 at Anfield to overturn a 3 goal deficit.
 
Liverpool have won 37 of their last 41 league games. That's incredible consistency no matter what way you look at it.
 
Man City’s big mistake in recent years is not stumping up the cash for VVD. They needed a new leading CB, and not only would it have elevated them, it throws a spanner into Liverpool’s ambitions. Just blows my mind that they were happy to spunk £50m on Kyle Walker, but not £75m for VVD.
 
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RSS said:
Man City’s big mistake in recent years is not stumping up the cash for VVD. They needed a new leading CB, and not only would it have elevated them, it throws a spanner into Liverpool’s ambitions. Just blows my mind that they were happy to spunk £50m on Kyle Walker, but not £75m for VVD.
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I was saying just this to a City fan yesterday. He agreed.
 
RSS said:
Man City’s big mistake in recent years is not stumping up the cash for VVD. They needed a new leading CB, and not only would it have elevated them, it throws a spanner into Liverpool’s ambitions. Just blows my mind that they were happy to spunk £50m on Kyle Walker, but not £75m for VVD.
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That's Pep for you.

FBs can effectively play as additional wingers. Whereas CBs offer no attacking option at all. They're an irrelevance who Pep wishes didn't exist in the game. Much better to just stick a CM in at CB.
 
st_brendy said:
That's Pep for you.

FBs can effectively play as additional wingers. Whereas CBs offer no attacking option at all. They're an irrelevance who Pep wishes didn't exist in the game. Much better to just stick a CM in at CB.
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Someone should've shown him the film of the few times VVD decided to jump up into the attack.
 
This really is last chance saloon territory for Norwich. They need a miracle as it is, even if they do win today - given their poor GD, they're effectively 7.5 points behind Watford (and 9.5 behind West Ham), so they need to use up at least three of their remaining six matches just to close the existing gap, let alone what other further points the rest of them pick up; and two of those six matches are away to City and Chelsea.

Failure to win today (even a draw) would still see them needing to use at three games to close the gap, but with only five left.
 
st_brendy said:
This really is last chance saloon territory for Norwich. They need a miracle as it is, even if they do win today - given their poor GD, they're effectively 7.5 points behind Watford (and 9.5 behind West Ham), so they need to use up at least three of their remaining six matches just to close the existing gap, let alone what other further points the rest of them pick up; and two of those six matches are away to City and Chelsea.

Failure to win today (even a draw) would still see them needing to use at three games to close the gap, but with only five left.
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So they put Pukki and Cantwell on the bench? Maybe it’s a cunning plan to bring them on against a tiring defence?
 
davecg69 said:
So they put Pukki and Cantwell on the bench? Maybe it’s a cunning plan to bring them on against a tiring defence?
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Pukki has looked horrendously unfit since lockdown. Can barely move.

But even so, it's a massive gamble by Farke.
 
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