Fucking get in there!!! At the end of the season I feel like we’ll look back on this weekend as when the title was won. This was the ‘late win at Villa’ moment from our last title season if you like. We didn’t know it at the time, but when it was all said and done and we looked back, that game jumped out as the pivotal moment and Sadio’s winning goal is seared into the memories of everyone, even old fuckers like me with fading memories.
United at home was the game that cemented it in the moment, but looking back on that season it was the win at Villa that really broke the back of City and gave us the momentum to go and win it. I’m getting that feeling now, although I should probably say I also had it when Darwin got that last gasp winner at Forest last season and that didn’t end up going so well! This feels different though. A lot different.
The momentum swing this weekend is fucking massive. Arsenal will have been watching this game and thinking they were going to be facing Villa with the chance to cut the gap to two points. Then Darwin said “nope” and they went on to then blow a 2-0 lead against Villa and end the weekend six points behind us having played a game more. From two points to six, just like that. The game in hand makes it potentially nine points, and we have a superior goal difference that effectively would make it ten points.
If it were peak Man City chasing us, that cushion is nothing, especially as we’re not at the level we were when we were regularly picking up close to a hundred points. We’re not quite there, but 90 seems like a reasonable target and there’s no way Arsenal or Forest are getting close to that.
Had we won this 2-0 with a couple of first half goals it wouldn’t feel anything like this does. Two stoppage time goals will have our lads absolutely fucking buzzing. Travelling home from this will have been the best feeling they’ve experienced all season and you could see how happy they all were for Darwin. To then see Arsenal choke away a couple of points, and suffer the heartbreak of that late disallowed goal, they’ll have been on cloud nine, like the rest of us.
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