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It is just mind games. Nasri knows City are backs to the wall in the title race.

I can't see them winning any trophies this season, but hey, when Barcelona have eliminated them from the CL he has a free Tue/Wed evening to follow our remaining CL games and Carling Cup final.

What impressed me most about his statement is further down. He said: City will get 90 points and be champions. LMFAO. They got 52 points now with 13 games to play which means they can get 91 points at best and 89 points at second best. You don't need to be a mathmatician to notice that there is something wrong with his calculation.

Usually it takes 86 points to win the league. For them to reach that they can only allow themselves 1 defeat and 1 loss, whilst having to go to Pool, spurs and United, all four fighting for 4th place.

For us to only reach 86 points we can allow ourselves like 4 defeats or 6 draws or more probably 1 defeat 4 draws (87 pts) / 2 defeats and 3 draws.

Nasri is right about that City were behind at this time in their two title wins and required some major cock-ups from us, pool and Utd. But this time it would take an even bigger one.

I agree, we shouldn't get upset by this.

Nasri is saying that we're not all that special. Judging by comments posted all over this site, many of us agree with him. I certainly do.

Nasri is saying they were the better side in the two meetings this season. They were.

Nasri is not attempting to be arithmetically accurate. Footballers talk about 90 points as the theoretical title winning figure in the same way they talk about 40 points as the theoretical target to avoid relegation. His 90 points statement was just an embellishment on his view that, "Chelsea will make mistakes", by which he means we will drop points, therefore, "If we [City] win all our games it will put pressure on Chelsea." He's right, if they win all of their games they will 'reach' 90 points, and that would put pressure on us.

I say ignore him, collect 33 more points (at time of writing) and leave him to enjoy our trophy parade from the comfort of his Dubai hotel, or wherever else he chooses to sun himself in the summer.

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