Loving your reverse psychology Roly! Quality work right there.
Match Day Thread The Carabao Cup Holders vs Brentford
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He is finished but I won't forget how good he was when he first came in
his pace was lethal
We beat a good team. It's done. The chase for top 5 has got off to a good start.
This.
People are acting like Brentford are push overs, decent side them. Never easy to beat.
Good result and most of the other games went our way. Couldn’t expect Leicester to get anything against City but good that Brighton and Bournemouth lost.
Yep, a good evening overall.
Somebodys pinched my sombrero
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Five teams going for the last one or two Champions league places. Don’t think we’ll catch Forest. Us, city, Chelsea, villa and Brighton. It’s in our hands.
if we qualify for the champions league, it’ll be a great season.
if we qualify for the champions league, it’ll be a great season.
And they were on an incredible away run, has won their last 5 away games. Anyone who didn't expect this game to be tough is deluded.
We have a good run now, but Forest's is ok too. Win our game in hand and difference is only 4 points.
Our next 5 games are good fixtures for us, just win all of those.
Chase for top 4 to be fair.
5th would be a great finish, but very much a chance of top 4 right now.
Somebodys pinched my sombrero
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This month, we’ve got very winnable games. Villa away is the only really tough one. Next month is hard, the last four games.
Yep tough games next month, points to the board from the next 5 games gives us a huge chance to try for top 4 though.
We need to relax in some of this play, we’re already in Europe, have won silverware.
Brentford good but we look spent. I think this has to be the last season for nearly half that team today.
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I'm expecting us to sign 3-4 borderline first teamers who are upgrades on players around the edges and it's going to make some peoples heads explode. I feel like it's going to be like 2023 where we signed a Tonali, Livramento and Hall (on loan) and people spend 12 months complaining about a waste of money before realising that Howe prefers to bed people in over the course of 6-12 months and then graft them into the first team.
I'm happy with that approach but will mean players like Pope, Schar, Murphy, etc (who are the ones we'll be replacing) will still be first team in September and not phased out until the following Summer.
And whilst we've got that nice run there's games like Forest-Villa (which are win-win for us). Chelsea are poor at the moment too, they've got something like 25 points from their last 20 games and are living off a great start to the season when they looked like they could be challanging for the title.
3 difficult games from the last 9 (and 6 nice ones). Villa (A), we have a nice record against them and that game is after they've played PSG midweek in their second leg. Arsenal (A), we have a nice record against them and hopefully they'll have played in Europe midweek, certainly seems likely they'll have less to play for than us. Brighton (A), yeah we'll lose that one.
Do it more often then.