Arsenal and Liverpool are tough games but we are at home so shouldn’t fear them. Chelsea, Newcastle and Brighton? Nah not having them as major concerns. Don’t get me wrong we could fail to get a result because we are inconsistent but they aren’t great sides at all.
PL Top 4 race
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Chelsea are coming into form and Brighton always give us a game.
Yeh struggling to beat a championship side today. Certainly looks that way…
It's the cup, would you say Coventry are worthy of being in the PL as they beat Wolves?
They have been garbage all season. What more evidence do we need?
More points dropped for Villa, now 9 ahead of us having played a game more
It's a good point for us. West Ham away straight after europe is a tricky old game.
With regardless Man. United I think two aways + Liverpool at home in the week after the break while Spurs have Luton at home and we have Wolves and Brentford at home will decide things as to if you take the chase seriously into May.
I think we can agree that no one will be complaining tonight!
Which Man. United game gets cancelled now due to the SF?
Top football Weekend
If anyone moans tonight then feck me
So Villa's win puts then 12 points clear having played 2 more and probably out of our reach as our next 4 matches are Brentford Away, Chelsea away, Liverpool home, then Bournemouth away and we could easilly take zero points from those.
Have we ever lost 4 in a row?
We could quite possibly take 12 though.
Would have been good to make up some points today, sadly wasn't to be. Just need to keep pace for now
We'll have a good finish to the season I think, I just think both Spurs and Villa are too far ahead. We'll finish 3-5 points behind them imo
Highly unlikely
All over bar a miracle.
Like I kept repeating, our performances are nowhere near good enough to get near it.
I'm doubtful we'll even finish 6th.
Like I kept repeating, our performances are nowhere near good enough to get near it.
I'm doubtful we'll even finish 6th.
Spurs keep doing just enough every week. We keep dropping points every week.
I wouldn’t even back us to finish ahead of them if it was us that was 8 points clear.
I wouldn’t even back us to finish ahead of them if it was us that was 8 points clear.
That went well.
It’s done now.
Been done since Christmas
Toast - burnt
This. The way we play football we were not going to make it and it was clear pretty early. Would agree it was around Christmas.
Every time you think it's over, the following week a glimmer of hope re-appears.
Surely today is the final straw. There's no way we're even good enough to fluke enough undeserved points to close the gap.
We concede the 2nd most shots of any team in the league. We're lucky to be top half of the table.
Surely today is the final straw. There's no way we're even good enough to fluke enough undeserved points to close the gap.
We concede the 2nd most shots of any team in the league. We're lucky to be top half of the table.
Negative
This will rumble on all season (5th that is, not 4th).
We won't get there, but teams will just keep fecking up.
We won't get there, but teams will just keep fecking up.
Results eventually catch up with the performances. Although we are on the lucky side to be so "close" to Champions League tbh, looks likely we'll slide further away despite players coming back.
Fulham game was it for me. Stupidly believed we might nick it if we went on a run but that game just killed 99% of my hope. Remaining 1% died tonight
11 off villa and 8 off spurs, it's not even close
We arnt getting 4th or 5th now and will be lucky to even stay 6th the way we are playing
It will be mathematically over with at least 3 games to spare.
It's been clear we wouldn't get near Villa all season.
There’s a difference between constantly moaning and this.
I don’t think we get top 4 now. It’s too big a gap.
Same thing I said. Just was obvious to me a lot sooner.
Na.
Erik Ten Hag is a very good coach. With a few physical signings (and better luck with injuries) this season and games like this will be a distant memory.
But yes top 4 is gone.
Stick a fork in the season, we’re playing for the FA Cup now.
Physical signings he could have easily made with £400m if he knew what he was doing.
Injuires aren't an excuse for performances like tonight.
Negative.Stick a fork in the season, we’re playing for the FA Cup now.
Earlier in the season maybe, now is just realist. We can’t play like we just did and expect
To compete for the biggest prizes. That much is obvious. Not sure what kind of stupid point scoring you are attempting here.