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No panicking here but 1 point gained over our closet competitors is 1 point closer to finishing above them... and hopefully that means the top at season end.
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So that means they will again this year? That was a record score for any EPL team and usually teams get no where near that.
I'm just trying to get the mentality that if we'd dropped points after just three games with 35, yes 35 left, how it would be game over yet it's not now for City? Doesn't matter what they did last year as they aren't guaranteed to do it again even with the best squad in the land. It's defeatist and a little stupid to be honest.
I'm just glad I won't ever be going into a battle with any of you as you'd all give in as soon as anyone broke a nail! It's not stupid at all, the only chance of beating City is to win the easy games, especially at home, if you can't understand that then you have have a problems But City don't have to win the easy games? Like yesterday? It is stupid and simplistic. Lets say we lost yesterday but beat Spurs in a few weeks after City dropped points yesterday. Or Didn't lose until we played Utd and beat them. Would that have been enough to keep us in the race? We obviously don't want to be dropping points. No one does. But we ALL WILL. Even City. But if we do or if City do at this early stage, as they have, it's not game over when there is 35 games left and there'd be no need to panic. Its ridiculous and you'll not enjoy the season if that's how you're going to be. Who is talking about panicking, what is easier, to beat Brighton at home or Spurs? I'll enjoy the season as I want, if you enjoy not winning against the weaker teams, so be it. Even if we don't win tge league, it won't be the end of the world as City are favourites and have a better squad, at least on paper, but we have to do our job, which is to win the easier games, especially at home. Do you think the confidence of the players will be the same if we had lost yesterday's game? A big part of it is momentum which you do not seem to understand.
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Classic koptalk.
3 games, 3 wins, no goals conceded and some are still not happy.
I dread to think what it's going to be like in here when we lose a game.
You live, you die, don't forget to enjoy the bit in between.
We are top of the league after 3 games, we couldn't do any better than that.
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Classic koptalk.
3 games, 3 wins, no goals conceded and some are still not happy.
I dread to think what it's going to be like in here when we lose a game.
You live, you die, don't forget to enjoy the bit in between.
We are top of the league after 3 games, we couldn't do any better than that.
I know. And the pressure of every game being a 'must win game' is proper stupid. Where's the enjoyment in that?
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So that means they will again this year? That was a record score for any EPL team and usually teams get no where near that.
I'm just trying to get the mentality that if we'd dropped points after just three games with 35, yes 35 left, how it would be game over yet it's not now for City? Doesn't matter what they did last year as they aren't guaranteed to do it again even with the best squad in the land. It's defeatist and a little stupid to be honest.
I'm just glad I won't ever be going into a battle with any of you as you'd all give in as soon as anyone broke a nail! It's not stupid at all, the only chance of beating City is to win the easy games, especially at home, if you can't understand that then you have have a problems But City don't have to win the easy games? Like yesterday? It is stupid and simplistic. Lets say we lost yesterday but beat Spurs in a few weeks after City dropped points yesterday. Or Didn't lose until we played Utd and beat them. Would that have been enough to keep us in the race? We obviously don't want to be dropping points. No one does. But we ALL WILL. Even City. But if we do or if City do at this early stage, as they have, it's not game over when there is 35 games left and there'd be no need to panic. Its ridiculous and you'll not enjoy the season if that's how you're going to be. Who is talking about panicking, what is easier, to beat Brighton at home or Spurs? I'll enjoy the season as I want, if you enjoy not winning against the weaker teams, so be it. Even if we don't win tge league, it won't be the end of the world as City are favourites and have a better squad, at least on paper, but we have to do our job, which is to win the easier games, especially at home. Do you think the confidence of the players will be the same if we had lost yesterday's game? A big part of it is momentum which you do not seem to understand. There are no easy games in this league as City found out yesterday. On paper Brighton are easier by my point still stands, if we'd dropped points yesterday we could still beat the so called harder teams. Lets face it, we'll have to to win the league. But my point has always been that if we did drop points here there are more than plenty of games to make it up. City WILL drop points as will all others we're competing with so to say they were 'must win games' is way off the mark, as yesterday proved. Momentum is a big thing but they're all professionals and showed last season that they can deal with things not going their way. We have a good mentality and are much stronger than we were.
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Classic koptalk.
3 games, 3 wins, no goals conceded and some are still not happy.
I dread to think what it's going to be like in here when we lose a game.
You live, you die, don't forget to enjoy the bit in between.
We are top of the league after 3 games, we couldn't do any better than that.
I don't see anyone unhappy. I see people discussing what is needed from this team to challenge for the league. If we are to challenge for the league against a team that ran away with it last year and were 25 points ahead of us last year. City had the league won in October last year that's what we are up against.
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What is needed is to win the next game. We have to be in this to win it and not 10 points behind at the end of October.
We can improve on last season by a massive amount but if we look at the 3 fixtures we have played this season we still have the same number of points as we got last season out of them. Our next game is also one that we won last season so we won't be getting carried away with anything for a long time yet.
To win it we need to improve on last season by 13 points and hope that City drop 12 or something like that. Surely nobody expects us to improve by 25 points ourselves?
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City had an easy game against Huddesfield to me, did you watch?
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What is needed is to win the next game. We have to be in this to win it and not 10 points behind at the end of October.
We can improve on last season by a massive amount but if we look at the 3 fixtures we have played this season we still have the same number of points as we got last season out of them. Our next game is also one that we won last season so we won't be getting carried away with anything for a long time yet.
To win it we need to improve on last season by 13 points and hope that City drop 12 or something like that. Surely nobody expects us to improve by 25 points ourselves?
No, and I don't see city magically dropping a whole lot of points this season either. We are going to need to have a hell of a season to win the league.
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Delighted with the win, we were well off our best, but we got there just the same. They came not to play, they came to stifle play and pick up a point by denying us a goal scoring opportunity. We did create a few but alas our marksman wasn't firing on all cylinders, nor either was Mane. We'll need to be better against Leicester and probably will, as they'll likely want to play a bit.
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