Wow. City draw (giving us room to draw with Chelsea) and Everton (making them even hungrier for their match vs City). Wow. Seriously, wtf? Did that just happen? Did the door just swing wide open? What a crazy season.
Connor Wickham happened. City were awful, and Pellegrini admitted that his players still haven't got the Liverpool game out of their heads. Sunderland deserved their point and easily could have had all 3. Their goalkeeper was poor on both goals. The atmosphere at the Ethiad was very dead. We now have room to draw in any of our remaining games, not just Chelsea. 10 points and we are champions. Its crazy to think that if we somehow screw up and draw at Norwich on Sunday, it would still be in our hands.
Big result, Sunderland remains a big bogey team for City...and they still need to play away to their most horrible nightmare team, Everton.
... there still is Mr anti-football to come to anfield, though. But there is a match against Norwich, first. I suspect that both Man City and Everton were already looking forward to the weekend matches before last night.
I almost dread these last couple of weeks - have a growing 'too good to be true' knot in my stomach. C'MON YOU DAMN REDS! Don't look ahead!
Assuming we win the other 3... But this I believe, is the best thing to come out of the city vs sunderland game. The fact that we are not forced to beat chelski. The risk factor has been substantially reduced with this favor granted to us by Mr. Wickham. We can play for the win and if things get messy, we can simply settle for the draw. Absent city's stumble, we would be forced to play for the win from start to finish, which could have left us more vulnerable. Even better, I am hoping for chelski to drop points this weekend (something that is not unlikely given their inconsistent form) prior to our match. That should provide a bigger margin of error for the team and allow them to be more relaxed in two weeks for the big game.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...set-for-200m-US-takeover-if-they-stay-up.html Wonder how this would work out for them.
The Moaning one has been conspicuously absent from the airwaves. Working on a great tactical master plan of how to do at Anfield what he did at Man City, I hear tell.
And in sad news, another young life was lost last night too soon: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ically-dies-aged-20-losing-cancer-battle.html
Ramires should be straight red out if the game. Smashed Larsen in the face purposefully as they were running down the field out of sight of the ref. He really is a piece of shit.