Historically no one with our lead at the turn of the year had failed to win the title. We would be the very first to break that trend but it is not over till it's over. We just have to keep going and motivated.
We can get too obsessed with what is in effect a meaningless stat though, as the point in the year doesn't have any magical significance. You could counter it with this from the Beeb on 10th January: The reality is that we all have the same number of games to play and nobody has an advantage over anyone else. Form and fortune fluctuate over the course of a season. City had a relatively poor run before Christmas which allowed us to pull away, but then we had a relatively poor run afterwards which allowed them to catch up. All that matters is who's on top at the end.
I think some credit to city please They have won 30 games out of 36. Drew wolves August ( away) Drew Liverpool October (away) Lost to chelsea in December 7th(away) Lost to palace December 22nd (home) Lost to Leicester December 26th (away) Lost to Newcastle January 29th (away) So that's 17-0-1 thus far at home. They for the record had on difficult month when fernandino and Silva were out and aguero Early on. That it. If they were all fit they might have got 100+ points. The trend above is why so many looked to Burnley and Utd not spurs or leicester for a draw Frankly for Leicester to take a poi t something bizarre will need to happen. I just hope it at least goes down to final day
Btw since liverpool have been behind in net terms and have had win or bust wevhave been more relaxed while city look the more tense snd just doing enough. Spurs were out on feet imo. Utd were down to 10men when playing and 9 when city were shooting. The rest of team a have just not got the ability to cope with city.
Premier League Title Odds Who wins Premier League 2019/2020? https://m.nicerodds.co.uk/premier-league-betting-odds
Premier League Title Odds Who wins Premier League 2019/2020? Highestodds Lowestodds Manchester City 1.72 1.66 Liverpool 3.75 3.50 Tottenham 15.00 13.00 Manchester United 21.00 13.00 Arsenal 26.00 20.00 Chelsea 26.00 20.00 Wolverhampton 151.00 125.00 Everton 251.00 151.00 Newcastle 251.00 151.00 Leicester 301.00 200.00 West Ham 501.00 500.00 Crystal Palace 1001.00 751.00 Southampton 1001.00 1000.00 Watford 1001.00 1000.00 Bournemouth 1501.00 1000.00 Brighton And Hove Albion 1501.00 1000.00 Aston Villa 2001.00 1000.00 Burnley 2001.00 1000.00 Norwich 2001.00 2000.00 Sheffield United 2501.00 2000.00 https://m.nicerodds.co.uk/premier-league-betting-odds
William Hill's title odds after release of 2019/2020 fixtures. 1.Manchester city 1/7 2.Liverpool 3/7 3. Tottenham 17/1 4. Masnhester united 26/1 5.Chelsea 29/1 6. Arsenal 41/1
Sounds fair although don't Masnhester play in the Dutch league? Not sure how a Dutch team could win the EPL.
Early preseason cringeworthy and unreliable prediction: This is who I would give tightest odds to pre transfer activity. 1) City... Again but not as many points 2) Pool... But not as close. Maybe 80pts 3) Masnhester... Going to do better after injection of cash and no Jose may push us close 4) Arsenal 5) Spurs 6) Cheslsea