It’ll be tight for sure!

I still think European excursions may dictate a lot. I can’t see Liverpool prioritising the Europa League over the Prem, but City may do so with the Champions League, even if subconsciously. Arsenal have never won it, and their focus may also go that way if they negotiate Bayern.

I can’t see any team that goes deeper and deeper in Europe, and especially the CL also winning every remaining game, but if a team exits in this round/the next one I think they can knuckle down and put in such a run for the league.

Hey regardless I’m pretty pumped, been a while since we had a title race of more than two horses!

As long as it’s not City haha. It’d be nice for Klopp to land another league title before he walks into the sunset, or Arsenal to break their duck and really cement their place as back among the elite once more.

Harris1st

Germany6981 Posts

April 08 2024 12:41 GMT

#1746

Btw my boy Havertz is the best attacker in the PL right now. 5 goals and 4 assists in the last 7 games

FlaShFTW

United States10215 Posts

April 08 2024 16:09 GMT

#1747

On April 08 2024 16:38 Harris1st wrote:
Maybe not lost the game, but it feels like they lost a title there

Definitely feels like it... We just cant finish and don't have enough creativity to find a goal sometimes when teams are playing a very organized defense. Jota and Trent coming back are super important for us. Salah's form has dropped immensely. Normally with these chances he's gotten, he'd have slotted at least 2 by for us on an average day.

Quansah's mistake is simply that, a mistake. I don't blame him for our loss, he played a fantastic game outside of the mistake, much like how I don't blame Matip for his own goal against Spurs. Oh well, onto the next I guess. We cannot afford to drop points. Arsenal's form is simply too good right now, need to hope they get unlucky somewhere.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

April 08 2024 19:49 GMT

#1748

No Kai Havertz is not lol, he is still the same Kai Havertz don't worry. Best attacker in the league is Foden followed by Palmer.

sharkie

Austria18489 Posts

April 08 2024 20:17 GMT

#1749

On April 09 2024 04:49 Pandemona wrote:
No Kai Havertz is not lol, he is still the same Kai Havertz don't worry. Best attacker in the league is Foden followed by Palmer.

How are both of them any better than Ollie Watkins?

evilfatsh1t

Australia8745 Posts

April 09 2024 04:36 GMT

#1750

thats like asking how is de bruyne a better attacking asset than haaland. i agree on foden but i wouldnt agree on palmer though. hes a star amongst the darkness that is the rest of the chelsea squad, but hes not 2nd in the league after foden as "best attacker"

sharkie

Austria18489 Posts

April 09 2024 05:20 GMT

#1751

Foden is a player performing worse in a stacked team than ollie watkins in a not big 6 team. But foden is a Pep player so clearly better right.

evilfatsh1t

Australia8745 Posts

April 09 2024 07:28 GMT

#1752

how is foden performing worse? he has 18 goals 10 assists this season, the exact same as watkins, except watkins is a striker and foden is a midfielder.

Harris1st

Germany6981 Posts

April 09 2024 07:29 GMT

#1753

On April 08 2024 21:41 Harris1st wrote:
Btw my boy Havertz is the best attacker in the PL right now. 5 goals and 4 assists in the last 7 games

Sorry my words failed me again. I meant over the stint of the last 7 games. Cherry picked :D

Liquid`Drone

Norway28701 Posts

April 09 2024 07:42 GMT

#1754

Foden has been fantastic. (He's only 14/7 in the PL, though, but also with 300+ minutes fewer than Watkins).

Guessing at the end of the season Foden will be the only of these three players who might be in contention for PL player of the year, which I could see him get if City ends up winning. (They don't really give that award to DMs xd). I don't really have an opinion on who has been best though, just that Foden has been great, and if you look at individual games, then I have a hard time seeing any offensive PL player top his best matches of the season.

WombaT

Northern Ireland25884 Posts

April 09 2024 09:11 GMT

#1755

Considering Haaland and Kane both had 30 goal seasons last time out, this time around there are a lot of reasonable candidates who have had very good seasons, rather than a handful of obvious ones who had exceptional ones to gap the field. Or a KDB has been injured a decent chunk and even when fit has shared more of the spotlight with Foden than he did last season.

When does the voting for such an award occur anyway? IIRC it’s not actually when all is said and done right?

I could see it going to any player who really clutches this title run-in of the attacking contingent.

But if nobody goes Super Saiyan, in the absence of an obvious attacker, we might see it going to a more defensive player which only tends to occur in such a circumstance. So maybe a Rodri might be worth a bet