by bigmick » Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:26 am
If I'm honest, and I usually am, at the end of that 10 game period I don't think we will be contenders for the title. It's very hard to look 10 games in advance because being an anti-rotationer, I always argue that one game leads to and has an impact on the next. For example if we were to go to Man Utd and win 2-0, we've got significantly more chance of beating Villa at Home in the next match than we have if we lose.
On the face of it we ought to beat Portsmouth, but I can smell a ridiculous selection there. I don't know why (although Fratton Park does have history for Rafa) but I can just see it coming. As it is, now we've sold Keane it is even more important that Torres gets a rest now and then. Strangely, you could even have argued that it was worth keeping Keane just so we could play Torres more often. Now, we have to be sooo kid glove with him, it will probably mean more rests. Anyway, I've a feeling we'll win there despite the rotation.
Man City at Home will be tricky and I think we'll draw, before making up for it a bit with a win for a change at the Riverside. Sunderland at Home ought to be easy, and I think it willbe. We then g to Old Trafford, and from there we'll see.
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bigmick on Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:43 am, edited 1 time in total.
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