Very few teams win the league from 5 points behind having dropped 7 points in home games against mid-table and relegation sides already. Even to get to 90, much lower than recently needed, we now need 2.5 points per game i.e. go invincible while only drawing one game every 4. I can only see it happening as a fluke if Liverpool and City go to total crap. You can't win a marathon in the first few miles, but you can sure lose one.
First is a massive stretch. We cannot see out a game to save our lives. The defenders are as full of mistakes as they've ever been and unless Rodon comes in and hits the ground running I don't see it changing until January at the earliest. Champions see out one-goal victories and we are utterly allergic to that at the moment.
Five points off the lead with 33 matches left to play? That's surely insurmountable.
Saved me responding to a whole bunch of posts.
The game in hand rather helps! It's not just the results, it's the fixtures. We've not dropped points to Liverpool or even to Leicester, we've dropped them to West Ham and Newcastle at home. Whoever wins the league will very likely win those games. We need no more such slip ups which isn't likely.
I think that’s not just an issue for us. It’s a league thing and a sign of where we are with modern football. If an attacking player has his back to goal and no pass ahead of him, he’s going to the floor and 9 times out of 10, the referee gives a free kick. It’s soft.
