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Good on him for his involvement in recruiting Slot, but still would have liked us to sign another player or two.

That was such an enjoyable and stress free game. So composed and dominant. Ref was bonkers confused and looked it. Guimaraes got away with the clearest of bookings for a pretty cynical foul early on (can't remember if it was on Diaz or Jota), and for the Salah non-pen early on, it was the Newcastle player that firstly tried to block Salah, and then just fell over and fouled him. Nice when it really doesn't matter and you can laugh about it, but still bonkers.

Yeah, but according to fans of other teams, we had an easy run of fixtures while our key players were missing. Seriously. And no doubt Arsenal have been severely screwed this season by injuries, but I think part of that is of their own making.

Yeah, that's such a massive difference. We could still bottle it, but with Arsenal chasing (11 points behind with a game in hand rather than City, 1 point behind as they were this time last year), and Arsenal's injury problems, it really would take an epic mess up from here. Or to put it another way, even if we did horrifically repeat our points tally for the final 11 games of the season, I can't see Arsenal doing enough to overhaul us. Pretty amazing though how similar our records are - even the goals scored/conceded vs this time last year

Great player. Still think he looks like an actor on Dream Team when he scores.

Not that it matters what pundits think, but Robbie Earl, who isn't among the dumbest of pundits said he'd rather have Rooney (alongside Shearer and Henry) in his all time Prem 11 than Salah. Lol? Some people don't realize how good Salah is and how incredible his numbers are. Not sure we'll see the likes of it again in many of our lifetimes.

Even Betfair (which I think is a more accurate representation of probability) has us at just over 90% now.

Felt like an Arsenal win would make it harder for us to win tomorrow because the pressure would be on us more. I think we can be more relaxed tomorrow. We have a terrible record at City, but with less pressure on us to win and City still being very vulnerable, you'd hope we take advantage. Either way, not many would have looked at those fixtures and thought Arsenal at home to West Ham was a game they were likely to lose points in. They looked every bit a team missing most of their attacking players, and that's not going to resolve any time soon.

Been so conditioned to battling with City, that I have to remind myself that Arsenal are not City. This is much more like a 'traditional' title race, before those cheats (and the Chelsea before them were on the scene). With the injuries that Arsenal have, we really shouldn't be letting them have a sniff (like it would take a pretty bad bottle job by us, or something remarkable from them)... Defences win titles though, and theirs remains strong, while ours has been creaking a lot since the new year.

After City, we have 11 league games left, and 7 are at home...

He's seen Salah score so many goals (and even more in training) where Salah almost caresses the ball into the net. But Nunez is like an excitable puppy. He must feel far more sick than any of us do, and I feel bad for the s*** he's getting, but that doesn't detract from it just being an awful awful miss. Just hope it won't matter in the end. I think Heskey was the last striker we had who was as Jekyll and hyde as Nunez. He can score some super clinical goals - like against Newcastle last year, Brentford this year, but those are the outliers. You just never expect him to score like you do the great strikers we've had over the years.

Yeah. Likely it's a combination of things - harder run of fixtures, teams working us out a bit more, Grav looking a bit more tired and not having same impact as earlier in the season... But it's making our games a hard watch. And we've lost the game management we had earlier in the season. Even after scoring first today, we just gave the initiative back to Villa, and hardly touched the ball.

Ipswich at home is the only comfortable game we've had in the league this year. Not been so fun to watch... Can't understand why we've started shipping so many goals too. Some annoying echos of last season, but hopefully we learn from what happened then rather than repeat it...

The miss was really bad, but it's how little he is even running around having come on as sub that is extra bad. And I still don't get how he missed that so badly. Ooft

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