Lock in your measured response to dropped points against Southampton now

[Brightonian]

Chelsea lost. Leicester lost again. A win will take us into third place. We are on a formidable run, and look pretty unstoppable. Southampton are in the bottom half of the table, and drew against a pretty poor Everton side in their last game. We are massive favourites. Surely we won't trip up now, when it's within touching distance...

If we drop points in this game the Caf will resemble Graeme Sounness getting tazed in the balls at his mum's funeral while Paul Pogba, officiating, repeatedly gets her name wrong. So let's have your more rational responses here and other caftards can hold you to them when the red mist descends.

Here's mine: losing or drawing this match would be a blow but not a knockout blow. A CL place would still be 'in our hands' because we play Leicester on the last day. It would not be a 'false dawn' because no single result can erase the obvious progress represented by our unbeaten run and in particular by our post-lockdown form. So a loss/draw would be a huge bummer but I'd fully expect us to pick ourselves up from it and win all our remaining games and qualify for the CL.

Let's be having you etc.

 

[PoTMS]

Fecking bunch of bottlers. Lingard out.

 

[Pexbo]

It doesn’t change much, Leicester will drop more points and we will beat them on the last day. Chelsea will slip up against Pool.

 

[Skills]

Losing would be horrible. Draw would be disappointing but fine in the grand scheme of things.

 

[charlenefan]

Fecking PE teacher, Poch in now while we can still salvage the season

 

[Vidyoyo]

Ole out

 

[He'sRaldo]

Sack Sack Sack!!!

 

[horsechoker]

feck sake McGuire!

 

[roonster09]

Sell everyone, sack Ole and shut down the club.

 

[Schmeichel's Cartwheel]

I’ll be furious & will lambast us for once again failing to capitalise on a golden opportunity, as we have many times this season.

We should batter Southampton tomorrow. If I recall correctly though they do have a very good record at OT in recent years.

 

[Tom Cato]

I am dissatisfied with this outcome.

 

[SirScholes]

Ole’s first test

 

[jymufc20]

Don't want to jinx it but we are a completely different team now to that pathetic one in the first half of the season.

 

[SerenityValley]

6-3? Why the feck did we wear the grey kit again?

 

[Antisocial]

I knew it, we always have to do it the hard way

fecking Ings! Scouse bastard

 

[#07]

Its fine. Leicester aren't beating Sheffield United, Spurs and us. Also, Chelsea are definitely dropping points against Liverpool and Wolves.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Ole out

 

[MemphisDepay]

Graeme Souness was completely right about Pogba

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Its fine. Leicester aren't beating Sheffield United, Spurs and us. Also, Chelsea are definitely dropping points against Liverpool and Wolves.

Mate, Liverpool love doing Chelsea favours if it fecks up United

 

[Pass and Move]

4-0 United, bet you feel silly now posting this, OP.

 

[SirAnderson]

Feck. Feck right off.
Goodnight.

 

[LawCharltonBest]

We’d have won if De Gea didn’t try saving Ings’s volley with his ballbag

 

[Ludens the Red]

Southampton have been cnuts to us these last few years, well actually since forever. I can see that hunchback, tattoo sleeved prick scoring some tap in and doing that knee slide of his

 

[Relevated]

There we go once again with de gea costing us a place in Europe.

 

[Samid]

PE teacher failed his first real test.

 

[Rozay]

Every season it never seems to amaze me how little bottle most of our fans have. Hold your fecking nerve. It’s the same every year. Matter-of-fact declarations in December that ‘no chance we get top 4’, ‘can’t see us winning that game’ etc.

Football is football, but stop being pvssies. We’re about to face the 12th best team at home at Old Trafford.

 

[Relevated]

Mate, Liverpool love doing Chelsea favours if it fecks up United

Remember a few years back when if they beat Chelsea we'd have won the league? But steven Gerrard passed back to his keeper and Drogba intercepted the pass. Pricks.

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

I don't want his children any more.

 

[#07]

Mate, Liverpool love doing Chelsea favours if it fecks up United

Yeah but unlike in 2009/10, Salah desperately wants the golden boot and even if they don't say it Liverpool wouldn't mind that 100+ points record. There's no way Mo Salah is going to turn down the chance to have a proper go at a Chelsea defence that's been so kind to Crystal Palace and Sheffield United.

 

[stubie]

Why Phil Jones, why?

 

[Squeaky Bumtime]

Sack Fergie, sell Giggs.

 

[King Eric 7]

Leicester look like they are in freefall. Lose/draw tomorrow and we'll still have a decent chance of top 4. I guess any potential meltdown will also depend on the City result. If their ban is upheld everyone will be more relaxed. Plus there is still the EL as a route to CL qualification. We're sitting pretty even if we feck up tomorrow, but I doubt we will

 

[SAFMUTD]

Thats the end of the hooneymoon for Fernandes, deadwood.

 

[Redlambs]

MAKE A feckING SUB!!!

 

[Onerealunited]

I have a strong feeling that we will lose points tomorrow. I am afraid we are taking it to easy and believe we have already won the game and the third spot without playing the game

we lose because we under estimate Southampton and

 

[kopviolator]

You can't win anything with kids

 

[RedHobot]

So predictable for the ole out camp to crawl out of their holes at the sight of a first hiccup.

Anyway sack Ole sell Greenwood.

 

[vodrake]

fecking lingard should be fined a years wages for that shitshow of a performance!

I know he didn't play, and wasn't even on the bench, but they should do it anyway.

 

[Gandalf Greyhame]

One game where Bruno doesn't score or assist and we drop points. This is why I'm skeptical about getting my hopes up - while we're getting better, it's always been two steps forward and one step back. There is a long way to go before we're in for a title challenge.

If we had Sancho on the pitch and Greenwood to bring off the bench, it would have added another dimension while chasing. James didn't offer much since we had to break them down.

We could have been third if we'd capitalised on the brilliant results over the last couple of days, and deservedly so. One game within that 18 unbeaten record, too, such a shame.

Now that the off game is out of the way, let's go get enough points to get fourth. We need to be in CL to attract top players, because City will buy another feck load now that FFP means shit to them and they can still offer CL footy after that CAS 'verdict'.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Southampton have been pretty good recently. Everton game aside. They defended superbly against City. A draw isn’t that unlikely.