I’m not a big fan of Arteta and his football. But I wasn’t a fan of Pep and his football either and all the titles him and City won do get counted, still. So, if we win something – and there is a very good chance now that we will – I will celebrate it as if Mikel is a phenomenon that only happens once in a century.
It’s been 22 years since we last won the Premier League title. As for the Champions League, we have never won it, having played our only final in 2006 losing to Barcelona 2-1 after going down to 10 men in the 18th minute. I was too young to even remember it, and more into cricket that time.
We are 3 games away from the league title – West Ham (A), Burnley (H), Palace (A). All 3 games are winnable. David Moyes did Arteta a favor after Everton limited Man City to a draw and gave us the upper hand. It’s in our hand, we go on and win our games and what City do of theirs won’t even matter.
The harder one of the two trophies is the Champions League. PSG under Enrique has been brilliant and is playing some of the best football right now. They beat Bayern in the semis and I would say they will be the favorites in Budapest. But, hey, it’s a 90 min game and whoever is ready to kill and die on the pitch that day will walk away with the trophy. Whoever wants it more, will decide the outcome.
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We are in a wonderful place. We can surely win the league title and we can surely go out and choke PSG in the finals. However, this also means that a couple of bad performances will leave us with no trophy, and the only improvement will be of playing finals instead of semis compared to last season.
If you would have told Mikel and the players that they can win the title by beating West Ham, Palace and Burnley and Champions League by beating PSG at a neutral venue, at the beginning of the season, they would have bite your hand.
Hopefully they would be dreaming of it. The manager, the players because we fans surely are.
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West Ham today, they have their own relegation battle so anything can happen. I hope we don’t mess it up but it’s not the time anymore to do speculations, guess what can happen, who will start and what kind of football we play. The only thing that matters is, 11 players on the pitch and a win.
We can do it. We have come close three seasons earlier and we can do it the 4th time. I am keeping my hopes high.
#COYG
Raya is saving our bacon quite regularly.
On another note observation , can’t figure out out what El Bastardo is trying to to convey with his gestures. Looks like someone shooing the hens into the coop at Ambarish farm
it appears as if Zubi has now replaced Rice on the right, in the midifeld, so maybe Cala’s been told to be more selective with his forward pursuits
Half time
Off to my papaya dinner
It got progressively worse as the first half wore on. Mosquera should have come on for White, keeping Rice in the middle.
Hoopah—it wouldn’t be hard to argue that Raya has been our most important player this season
Hoopah
You’ll have to tell us how your dinner turned out while we’re watching the second half. You’re making my stomach rumble.
Papaya was bad
So it 1 Custodio mango and 2 Hilario mangoes.
All done and back.
Ever from the farm
PS – don’t have hens so no use of Arteta when he is set to pasture 🤣
Cheers Hoopah. Poor start to the second half.
I get that MA corrected his first mistake, but by bringing in Mos after Zubi we’ve lost Skelly in the midfield and Cala, who looked the most likely to score, up top
of course it might not matter against these bottom-feeders, but it’s defintely going to slow us down and make us more possession-centric
I thnk I just saw Win warming up on the sidelines…could he be the next to come on?
only we would argue for that to be a penalty
And just getting even worse…
good save by Raya but tbh it was a horrible attempt
I wonder what Zubi thinks about not starting again, then coming on, only to be subbed off…that doesn’t happen too often unless as a result of being injured
C’MON YOU FUCKING CUNTS
a bit fortuitous, but a goal nonetheless…could be a vitally crucial tally in the run-up
The cunt delivered Trossard out of the blue.
Was about to post that we had lost the little edge we had with Havertz blundering , Saka and Eze substituted
Is it me or did the ref stop play there because he thought something had happened that no one else saw?
Hoopah—kind of surprised that Tross was still on the pitch, as he hasn’t scored in a league fixture since the end of December