***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20

[Spark]

Liverpool are simply a better team than City right now, as hard as that is to accomplish. They won't hit teams for 6 and 7 at home every now and again and run up the GD, but I just don't see anyone beating them in the form they are currently. They're like Mourinho's Chelsea team in their efficiency.

City have a whole stack of injuries to key players, no? Not that hard to accomplish if your opponents are missing their first choice centrebacks, midfielder, left back, left winger...

 

[andmark]

City have a whole stack of injuries to key players, no? Not that hard to accomplish if your opponents are missing their first choice centrebacks, midfielder, left back, left winger...

Given that situation, it does feel that if Liverpool are to win the league in the short to medium term, it has to be this season. I mean what better opportunity could there ever be when three (Chelsea not included here) of the top six simply aren't at the races and City have lots of injuries?

 

[vcs]

City have a whole stack of injuries to key players, no? Not that hard to accomplish if your opponents are missing their first choice centrebacks, midfielder, left back, left winger...

The injury situation is recent. You can argue that they've been the better overall team over the past one and a half years, given they won the CL and missed out on the league by a hair's breadth. This season they're well ahead and pulling away. Mighty impressive accomplishment given the financial disparity.

 

[Uppercut]

Naw City are still well in the title race. Liverpool have got lucky in the league this season, and luck can always last long enough for people to stop believing that it's luck, but it can never last forever.

 

[Cabinet96]

Man City need Unai Emery

 

[vcs]

Naw City are still well in the title race. Liverpool have got lucky in the league this season, and luck can always last long enough for people to stop believing that it's luck, but it can never last forever.

I reckon it'll be a bit like Ferguson's last title win at Man Utd. where they kept looking vulnerable but pulled out well in front early in the season and City never really closed the gap.

 

[harsh.ag]

 

[Furball]

It just feels like City take 25 passes to maybe create a half-chance and when Wolves get the ball they’re 3 passes away from being clean through. Like it eventually did at Barca then again at Bayern.

Teams just sit so deep though, it's really difficult to play with any sort of tempo against deep, packed defenses.

 

[Furball]

Furball is probably nervous now thinking they can't let this chance slip to go ahead of Celtic.

Haha no, only thing concerning me was the margin of victory. Hamilton are terrible.

 

[Pothas]

I reckon it'll be a bit like Ferguson's last title win at Man Utd. where they kept looking vulnerable but pulled out well in front early in the season and City never really closed the gap.

They were further ahead last year at a much later stage. It is still really early in the season and like Uppercut said I just can't see Liverpool doing this forever.

 

[sledger]

I hope Man Utd keep on doing whatever they are doing forever.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I hope United being close to the relegation zone is like the leicester championship season where you kept thinking "I'd love for this to happen but it probably won't" and then it actually did end up happening.

 

[Pothas]

It is going to be fascinating to see just how low they can actually end up.

 

[andmark]

FiveThirtyEight has them finishing at seventh (Leicester 6th). Seems over-optimistic at this point.

 

[harsh.ag]

If it gets bad enough, some money will be spent in the winter. No way they end up below 10th.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme

 

[GIMH]

Can't believe the amount of people calling the title race.

I mean they are obviously favourites at this stage but it's October FFS. Has history taught us nothing?

 

[sledger]

I hope United being close to the relegation zone is like the leicester championship season where you kept thinking "I'd love for this to happen but it probably won't" and then it actually did end up happening.

Haha if they lose their next match (v Liverpool) they could actually be in the relegation zone by the end of the next round of games.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Can't believe the amount of people calling the title race.

I mean they are obviously favourites at this stage but it's October FFS. Has history taught us nothing?

Have I taught them nothing?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Pep refusing to play Foden over the lukewarm corpse of a footballer known as Ilkay Gundogan is frustrating though. What about Gundogan today tells you that giving Foden a run could be worse? Unnecessarily stubborn.