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
Did Saka kick the defender or the other way round.
Its one you’ll call a pen at one end and scream never a pen at the other.
the old kick the defender’s foot gig…always a bone of contention
either way I smell tin foil
Ironic. For all of us. Lol
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greatest header in his PL career without a doubt…set piece saves the day again
that was even less likely than Rice’s two set piece screamers against Real
Van Parsi was shown a RED for that against a team famous for bribing officials.
Ambarish—check the Vegas odds on Havertz scoring from a header and you’ll get what I mean
Marc—you fears about Havertz starting against PSG have been given a real boost, even though Burnley and PSG couldn’t be more dissimilar
it won’t be long before we have one player on the pitch for the sole purpose of appealing for free kicks and pens
what a halftime whistle
we need to go all out for goals in the second to help eliminate the first tiebreaker from the equation
let’s face it if that was the version of Havertz normally on display even Pricksy wouldn’t be talking about selling him off…I’ve never seen Havertz that far above the pitch and/or striking a header with such conviction
Eze will be the first off after that
Burnley are showing a tiny bit more than some other visitors, but unlikely to score unless they can hit one from distance
I think maybe a double switch with Skelly and Marts coming in might be wise now that they’re not sitting quite so deep
I’ll add Mos to my earlier list
one might ask why are Burnley wasting time?
if that had been in reverse Havertz would be on the ground for days…another gift from the officiating gods
I do agree with “force” argument, but the raking of the achilles has led to reds before