Country: England
Unless something quite drastic changes winning the league is unlikely.
I'm not trying to be pessimistic it's just looking at the numbers and the games we have to play it will be hard. If we win both pur next two matches that's puts us on 40 points at the half way point.
Ideally we need to finish on atleast 80 points to win, no team in atleast 16 years has had less than 80 and won and even then, above 85 is not uncommon.
So already having alot of the big teams at home at the halfway point we can only accrue at most half of what we need to scrape a league title.
Add to that Chelsea have hit serious form and we can't predict when that will end, they already have a strong points total and we have to go to them.
Additionally we still have not proven we can really handle the big teams, or beat any of them at their ground and we face Liverpool, chelsea and Tottenham away.
Also past history shows we haven't been able to avoid defeat in enough games to threaten the top of the table, at most we can only lose 5-6 games, we have already lost three and again we still have to go to alot of hard grounds.
Going forward we would need to put together a big winning run lkke Chelsea whilst only losing at maximum about 2 games. We also need to beat a few of the big teams. Beating both chelsea and city will probably be a must, and we would need to ideally avoid defeat against Liverpool and Tottenham.
It all seems too hard, we have not done anything like that for a long time, and honestly it's not like I see much that convinces me we can pull off those feats.
There is still the chance chelsea implode or we somehow manage to pull it together but I'm not exactly banking on it.
I'm not trying to be pessimistic it's just looking at the numbers and the games we have to play it will be hard. If we win both pur next two matches that's puts us on 40 points at the half way point.
Ideally we need to finish on atleast 80 points to win, no team in atleast 16 years has had less than 80 and won and even then, above 85 is not uncommon.
So already having alot of the big teams at home at the halfway point we can only accrue at most half of what we need to scrape a league title.
Add to that Chelsea have hit serious form and we can't predict when that will end, they already have a strong points total and we have to go to them.
Additionally we still have not proven we can really handle the big teams, or beat any of them at their ground and we face Liverpool, chelsea and Tottenham away.
Also past history shows we haven't been able to avoid defeat in enough games to threaten the top of the table, at most we can only lose 5-6 games, we have already lost three and again we still have to go to alot of hard grounds.
Going forward we would need to put together a big winning run lkke Chelsea whilst only losing at maximum about 2 games. We also need to beat a few of the big teams. Beating both chelsea and city will probably be a must, and we would need to ideally avoid defeat against Liverpool and Tottenham.
It all seems too hard, we have not done anything like that for a long time, and honestly it's not like I see much that convinces me we can pull off those feats.
There is still the chance chelsea implode or we somehow manage to pull it together but I'm not exactly banking on it.