What a win that was for an otherwise boring first 70 minutes. We needed it, kept cool and scored one in the 89th min. Everton got a corner in the dying minutes of extra time and brought Pickford into our box in the hope of a draw – but Dowman had other plans. He beat couple of Evertonions, and went on to score of a counter, becoming the youngest ever player to score in the Premier League. We are 10 points clear of Man City, they have couple of games in hand but fixtures are piling up for them as well and with injuries everywhere, the hope in me is growing.
It also raises our confidence for the Champions League second leg at home.
I haven’t seen us lifting a PL table ever since I started watching Arsenal and Football. No one has seen us lifting a Champions League trophy, dead or alive. No Arsenal fan has seen us lifting Carabao Cup ever, and it was in 2020 covid time when we last won FA Cup.
Here’s a breakdown of what’s coming for us :
Premier League
10 points clear of Man City with 7 games left for us. City got to play 9 and if we believe that they win their 2 extra games, that’s 4 points lead which takes away the pressure from the Man City game. We could lose at Etihad and still win the title.
Champions League
Leverkusen managed to hold us to a 1-1 draw on a night which wasn’t very fascinating for us. We were poor, and we won converted a 50/50 penalty to have an advantage in the second leg. We are playing at home on Tuesday evening, and we must win.
Champions League is probably the toughest competition we are in. With Madrid beating City 3-0 in the first leg, Liverpool losing to Galatsaray 1-0 and PSG thrashing Chelsea 5-2, upsets have already started and whoever is hoping to win must put up some show till the finals.
We reached semis last year, and Mikel must be hoping to at least play the finals. That would mean beating Leverkusen at home first and playing one of the Newcastle, Barcelona, Atletico and Tottenham in the semi finals. Atletico beat Spurs 5-2 so they are mostly likely through. Newcastle and Barcelona played a 1-1 draw and Newcastle has the away 2nd leg, so we might see those cunts in semis. 2006 IS STILL NOT FORGOTTEN.
Carabao Cup / EFL Cup
We have a master v apprentice showdown in Carabao Cup finals on 22nd March. It’s going to be the first trophy of the season for Pep or first for Mikel after his FA Cup win in 2020. Pep has a team that has won things and know how to keep their calm when it matters. We, on the other hand, has done so much to end up 2nd whenever it has mattered.
There is no doubt about the fight. It will eventually come down to us, to avoid committing errors and to walk the talk.
If we win, it will be a massive confidence booster. We have got a game against City at Etihad in Premier League and if we beat them here, we can beat them for the PL title.
FA Cup
We are in the quarter finals and have got an easy game against Southampton, who are in Championship.
One of the City and Liverpool will not be playing in semis, Chelsea are not threatening these days and we might end up playing City again in semi final or final. Or Liverpool, it will be equally tough.
If you ask the sensible me the criteria to judge Mikel for this season, he must win one of the Premier League or Champion League trophies and anything else would be additional joy. If you ask the fan, we must win all 4 and make sure Spurs get relegated in the process.
Right, that’s me done. See you in the comments. Would love to hear your say for today’s game and what you would consider as a successful season!
Squeaky V,
You’re doing that thing again when you make up a scenario in your head and use it as evidence, foolish indeed.
Tets put Dowman in the squad and brought him on. The rest is your fevered imagination.
The youth, who sign, extend and play for us disagree with your misguided speculation.
If you didn’t keep pumping ex players like Xhaka or ESR as evidence of some sort of imagined mismanagement you’d look less daft, the comments are here for anyone to see.
As was your funny suggestion that you’d come to my place of work for fisticuffs. This sort of idiocy is why she left you brother.
Achoo—you’re such a delusional fucking imbecile…not a single person with even a handful of functioning brain cells would ever sign off on your above fucktard-inspired takes…btw the comment I made some time ago, which clearly put your Simian brain in a blender, about coming to your work and knocking the dick out of your mouth, has nothing to do with actually coming to your place of employment for some sort of physical altercation, you thick as a brick fuck..no wonder you’re so fuckng bad at this
TRVL
I seldom if ever read any of those trio’s opinionated garbage.
Just scroll down like all of us normal beings do.
By the way Cambridge Analytics and some Israel firms specialise in engineering fake opinions.
Hoopah—as a general rule I agree with your sentiments, but sometimes when the comments are addressed directly to yours truly I feel like a clapback is required…Cheers
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