"and the games we were flat in, would honestly not have mattered one little bit if it wasnât our rotten luck that there is another team at our level."
Now who's delving into ifs and buts?
Iâm not delving into anything. My point was itâs never happened before that a team who got as many points as we did, didnât win the league. Highlighting our bad luck that the year we get such a points tally, another team bettered it. So there really isnât any delving into anything.
BTW our issue last season was not the 1 loss, well not really, it was all the draws and also the fact that Citeh took the majority of points in the matches with us,
Of course the 1 loss was the issue, providing everything went the same way after that defeat, weâd have won the league with anything other than a defeat. Youâve said yourself that itâs largely because City took the majority of points in the head to head. Ultimately we lost 1 game and that was to the team that won the league so credit where credit is due. The draws wouldnât have been an issue if weâd won or even drawn that game if it all went the same way. If we had won or drawn that game and City missed out by a point or two, they would be looking at their 4 or 5 losses as the reason they missed out. Whether itâs draws or defeats that leads to a team missing out doesnât really make a difference because ultimately, anything other than a win should be looked at as not good enough. If weâd have won the league on the last day then all them draws people moan about, people would be celebrating now because weâd have won the league despite winning less games. Funny old game.
But like I said itâs all hypothetical. There really isnât too much point looking into the games we drew, we need to be looking into how City managed to take more points than us in the head to head because ultimately, that was the difference between us.
I was watching the Man Utd-Liverpool game again yesterday and we were so sh*t in that game, hardly creating anything because Sadio and MO both had an off-day, if we'd had Couts available then I'm convinced it would have turned that game.
Not so convinced myself given how we struggled against them in recent years when we had Coutinho. He could have played this time and we could have lost, we literally we never know. One of the reasons I try not to look too much into past results because there is so many different potential scenario if this was different, or that was different.
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