City will beat Chelsea and Nottingham Forest to top four. Provisional top four 1.Liverpool 2.Arsenal 3.Manchester City 4.? ???
Wouldn't be so sure about that. Forest (aside from today, missing Danilo) have shown they are very compact and hard to break down. Chelsea are a complete unknown at the moment, good one game, **** the next. Can see a draw with Forest and the Chelsea game who knows. So whilst they could get 6pts, I could also see them picking up just 2 or 3.
I actually think villa might sneak in there. Made some good and more importantly experienced January additions that may be the difference in the business end of the season. Forest have been great, but you often find that the more inexperienced sides lose their nerve during the run in for the CL spots.
Have to say it's pretty funny reading through the thread. Wasn't able to watch, but was listening to 5 live and text updates. These were full of praise throughout the match on how Liverpool were in total control, even without the ball and basically City weren't actually having a sniff of actually scoring. Then you read through this thread and it's all doom and gloom, even when we were a goal up. Even when we got the second it was like many thought we were still going to give it away.
Yes but they should at minimum get a transfer ban and they are talking about them signing even more in the summer.
Anything could happen yet. Newcastle got hockeyed by city and now beat forest in 12 minutes. Villa were losing last night then come.back v chelsea. Bournemouth lost to wolves. Last week villa drew with ipswich The weekend before forest hammer Brighton by 7. And Newcastle lost to fulham It's very close between the teams. Results are all over the place and there's very little thst seems to be tipping them one way or the other.
I think being Liverpool fans we fear the negative and when city dominating ball you think it seems like only matter of time before city break us down. Where as pundits and neutrals look at it and go city passing the ball around and look toothless. I was bit concerned watching 2bd half as hated fact at times we couldn’t get out, but in hindsight city didn’t threaten us at all.
Villa is a shout. Only issue they have is their defensive injuries and so far this season they’ve struggled playing 2 games a week after CL so depends how they do in that comp when kicks off again soon.
Salah should win every award this swaon I don’t actually rate Doku. I certainly wouldn’t swap him for Diaz in the same position. He’s just another Grealish.
Seriously i was unconcerned from the moment we went 2 up . Never thought City would get back into it and we were more likely to hit them on the break .
Bit unfair to doku. I'm.sure he is not a raging alcoholic Grealish at his best is a wait for contact and flop type merchant with very little end product over all. He's not even ever broken 10 goals in any of his city seasons from.lw and his assists are tiny too. For a 100 million plauwr he is a massive flop. He's basically done more falling over than anything. Doku has 2 seasons for City now and imo has never really been first choice but has done just as well as the flopper in terms of goals and assists. He can beat a man but has no delivery. He will try go beat them again or run right to the sideline rather than just deliver to the zone of most danger.
Compared to watching villa who had genuine threat or watch even Everton who were always going g motors it in the mix and fight for it city really played in front of us. My main worry from the off was the amount of space in front of our back 4 they had. Once slot addressed that by dropping jones back into midfield we got better. My main worry all half was players being pulled out of position like konate who was constantly chasing marmoush deep into midfield but city never actually really had a runner into that space. It was there but they couldn't hit it.
Between 4th and the rest? I'm talking about the champions league spots. 44 to 40 is 4th to 9th. 47 to 40 is 3rd to 9th. Literally any results could happen by the looks of it. 8th looks to be conference league so far unless city don't win the fa cup so I really couldn't even begin to predict 3rd to 8th
Wonderful result today, but unless we get three points on Wednesday, it's not over yet. £ home games now - win them all and it's all over IMO.
Trent certainly wasn't getting too close, he was annoying me because he kept standing off and letting turn and run at him.
