I disagree, it's a trophy and we'll want to win it and much SSD Newcastle. If we can get the league as well it's a double and that's a superb season.
After you've introduced your own ridiculous parameters that prevent an answer? ... " ...by their own standards" ... Bournemouth, Brighton, Forest and, indeed, Brentford are all very good teams ... that's why they are all doing very well ...
Villa have lost more than a quarter of their prem games and have a GD of -2. Seriously? Arsenal are on track for just under 80pts. It's been quite a few years since the team in 2nd didn't reach at least 80pts and that was the 2020-21 season when Liverpool had all those injuries and crashed and burned and it was a one-team league with City winning it in 2nd gear. Another poor league that year with only one good team. I just can't see how any team finishing below 80pts can be classed as a very good team.
On recent evidence we have very little chance. We've looked ****e and you guys are the best side by a mile anyway.
All about opinions ... but Birmingham won this trophy not so long back against Arsenal ... which I would cite as a good example of my thinking ... We beat Chelsea in the FA Cup final the same season as they won the CL (if memory serves) wasn't that they weren't up for it ...but I did feel we wanted it more on the day ... Anyways - only time will tell... it is a final I'm really looking forward to ...
Mo Salah needs just one more goal to be 3rd in Liverpools all time goalscorer list. Actual living legend
It can all change on the day, you've got good players and have a chance but it'll be tough game for both teams.
Brentford have finished 13th, 9th, 16th and currently are 11th. What are you talking about? Brighton 16, 9, 6, 11 and now 9th. Again, they're a consistently mid-table average prem team. Bournemouth and Forest are having good seasons compared to their usual mediocrity, but to class them as very good teams is a stretch, but at least there's more weight to that argument. But even then, any team that loses more than a quarter of their games are not very good in my opinion.
Isak and Salah are two of the very few players who could win matches all by themselves, so, while it's nowhere being a 50/50 game, it's not out of the question that Newcastle win it. But I can't see it as they're simply worse than Liverpool.
You must be a right hoot at parties ... As a neutral I currently love watching Bournemouth ... before them (and even now) Brighton ... got nowt to do with where they've finished in past seasons ... but everything to do with the very pleasing on the eye footie they play and, in Brighton's case, have played for a few years ...
Exactly. They could win but It's not as likely as them losing. Quality didn't matter that day either, just the ref missing the penalty and red card for Henchoz
