Big Willie Claudius not sure what the red means, but if it’s difficulty, I would make Manchester United green for City. United are in a false position in the league, and have injuries, including to Hojlund.
Why has this reply ended up in a different thread?
So this is the original image for this thread in order to see the run of games each has:
So what I did was to mark in green the ones that are (or at least should be) guaranteed wins. Whether is happens or not is unpredictable but against these non top 6 teams whilst having home advantage, they should technically be bankers.
The red are games which are a bit trickier because it's a direct rival for the title, and additionally when they are playing teams that are either playing particularly well this season, is a typical bogey team, or is a derby game where the opposition could step it up regardless just because of the occasion.
So in that sense, United should generally be beaten, but that goes for us as well, both against them and Chelsea. However you just know these lot like to raise their level against us, and hopefully at City. I'd have put Everton as a tough game for Liverpool but they usually lie down limply for them over the last few years, but it one I think should have been highlighted in red as well. Another is Palace away for City as they usually trouble them, but with Hodgson gone I can't see it.
Each team needs to play United, Spurs, Villa, Brighton, although most of these games are away for us and City compared to Liverpool who are home for most of the trickier fixtures. However just from those banker games, we should pick up at least 21 points, City 21 points and Liverpool with 24 points. As long as we can beat Chelsea, then it's a case of who can win their green games and who comes out in the head to head between the 3 of us as we have similar enough red games remaining.
Following this post I made some time back, we've won every game and drew against City. City won every game but drew against us, United, and Liverpool. Liverpool drew against United and City but won every other game.
We are all within a point of each other. We top the table on GD, with City a point behind us and Liverpool.
However after coming through that tough run of red fixtures for City, they now have a very manageable end to the season. Liverpool on the other hand look to have a pretty tricky schedule coming up, albeit with lesser teams, however many of the games away.
Our run in looks a bit more manageable now that we have gotten through the City and Brighton games. We should win every game that isn't United and Spurs away and even that should be wins but can't account for both those game raising bastards.
The updated run in table looks like this, at least to me.
City looking like favourites having gotten through their tough run, but on the bright side Liverpool no longer look the favourites based on the changed schedule that resulted in 3 away games in a week for them. They should win the games as the teams aren't all that, but away games, especially back to back to back aren't easy. And we look in good shape as long as we can keep payers fit and win the games we should be winning.
