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The Official 2016/17 Premier League Thread

jts1882 said:
I've been wondering the same. The logical answer would be hope for a draw, but I'm not so sure. With Liverpool, there is always their defence to give hope of bad results to come, whereas Mourinho has got United on a good run. A United win would be another boost to their confidence, while a loss and a round of Mourinho blaming everyone but himself could be fun. Unfortunately, I can't bring myself to root for Liverpool, so draw it will have to be.
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United have EL coming as well, so I'm not as worried about them as I am Liverpool.

Then there are clams like this:

As long as we win tomorrow, it's all about fighting for second place for us, like I've maintained for a few weeks now. I fully expect that we'll get it, too, as we're finally playing close to our potential and are comfortably better than the teams around us on the table (as will be on display tomorrow, I suspect).
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Since we clicked into to gear we've put together better strings of results, and we completely dominated both Spurs and Arsenal when we played them recently, so I hardly think it's a controversial claim. Liverpool? We'll have the answer in six hours a 90+15 minutes. If, as I expect, we beat them, I don't see how anyone can claim anything other than us being comfortably better than them.
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I'm basing it on all the games I've seen of United, Spurs and Arsenal over the last three months. I'm not particularly fussed about Spurs getting a couple of big wins, very recently, as I believe they'll have a hot streak, and then regress towards their true level much like last season. And, I would hardly say that Arsenal are in "red hot form" when they only managed to scrape a point against Bournemouth in their last match before yesterday.

We (United), on the other hand, have won six on the trot, and ARE in red hot form. We'll finish ahead of both, and we'll still have a ways to go yet before we're near the level we should aspire to be at.
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Considering our red hot form and Emirates Marketing Project's fragility I'd be dissappointed with anything less than 3 pts next week.

We should win and hopefully we will.
 
Rorschach said:
Davies looks good. That little heel chop between the two city players was beautiful
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Looked good for sure. And a great moment when he got his goal. Credit to Koeman for starting him and leaving him on the pitch.
Kandi1977 said:
I'll be genuinely disappointed if we don't beat this lot next weekend. They're a mess!
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Would have been a completely different game if City had taken one of their three one on one changes in the first half. Our if Everton hadn't scored from their first two shots on target.

Fairly fine margins despite it ending 4-1. I kind of fear City being determined to bounce back. But there would be quite times to face them and our form couldn't be much better.
 
Absolutely cringe United fans thinking they are definitely going to finish at least second. Chill out guys, you're in a good run of form but let's not pretend you've been anything more than a laughing stock for 3 years. They'll be up there, they're good, but the idea that they are 'definitely' going to finish anywhere is so ridiculous.

On another note, I really like Koeman. I don't really know what his football philosophy is, and until recently he's had a questionable record on youth development, but he is a winner. He doesn't take any brick from his squad and expects them to live up to their potential, else their out. He also seems good at building a plan to nullify the opposition and win. Good for him.
 
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