We need 9 points. Our GD is appalling compared to the teams that can take top 4 from us.
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Nah we need 9, Liverpool's goal difference is miles ahead of ours so we'd need that extra point.
We better not bottle this.
8pts could have us level with Liverpool if they win their last 3, which gives Liverpool top four on GD.
We need 9pts.
We've been fine at home in the league so we'll get the goals in them for definite. Plus after today we'll be back to one game a week for a couple of weeks, so some much needed proper training sessions and rest will help too. It's going to be close no doubt, but we're in the driving seat and I think we'll be fine.
The good news is that we don't really have another fixture against a technically strong team on the ball who also defend high up the pitch. So I expect our build up to be much better in the remaining league fixtures.
The idea that this team is going to cruise the home games while under pressure is baffling.
You just know we’ll wilt against West Ham tomorrow, with Martial half-assing it and Rashford and Antony missing chance after chance.
Just seen Newcastle's fixture list. Wow. If they get through that and are still in the top 4 then they deserve to be in the top 4. Think Liverpool will make the CL because their fixture list is far too easy for them to not make it. It's now a matter of who will drop out to let them in, us or Newcastle?
Exactly. This team doesn’t grind out results like Liverpool are currently doing. Our best CB pairing are injured and since then we have been woeful. Personally I see us losing to West Ham and then the pressure is really on to win 3 of 4. I can’t see us doing it.
Nobody said we're going to cruise it. I think we'll do just enough in the home games, as we've done even under poor form.
I would say it's clearly over and we have blown it. Liverpool will win out and I doubt we will win even one game with our current squad
May as well just rest our important players like Rashford,Bruno and Cas now for the cup final.
Thursday nights next season once again for us
May as well just rest our important players like Rashford,Bruno and Cas now for the cup final.
Thursday nights next season once again for us
If we can't get three wins against West Ham/Wolves/Bournemouth/Chelsea/Fulham then we deserve exactly what we get.
Our home form has been superb this season, that's why people are rightly confident. You only have to look at how worried some people were about Aston Villa visiting and how they were unbeaten in x amount of games, doing brilliantly under Emery etc. and the result was a pretty standard 1-0 win with not much trouble.
Home form should see us through, although i would like at least one away win to make us a bit more secure.
I presume your trolling here? So hard to tell on here these days
Yes we will win tomorrow.
You are not realistic but a pessimistic to the core
Even if we win tomorrow, i am sure you will be back with another pessimistic reply nothing more add from you
Haven't really cruised in many matches this year, so a bit baffling anyone thinks it will happen now with such weary team after such a hectic season.
Five games left, three of which are homes games. So far this season, we have played 16 PL home games, winning 12, drawing 3, and losing 1 (Our very first game). The three teams we have left to play at home are currently 10th, 11th, and 13th in the table. All are relatively mediocre teams, all have no chance of qualifying for Europe, and all won't be relegated. These teams won't have much to play for but we will.
We've played 17 PL away games this season, winning 7, drawing 3, and losing 7. However, we can break this down further. Against Top 9 sides, we have played 8 games, won 0, drawn 1, and lost 7. Against every other side, we've played 9 games, winning 7, drawing 2, and losing 0. The two teams we have left to play are currently 12th and 16th. Therefore, West Ham are the only side we'll play for the rest of the PL season who realistically have something important to play for.
We've played 17 PL away games this season, winning 7, drawing 3, and losing 7. However, we can break this down further. Against Top 9 sides, we have played 8 games, won 0, drawn 1, and lost 7. Against every other side, we've played 9 games, winning 7, drawing 2, and losing 0. The two teams we have left to play are currently 12th and 16th. Therefore, West Ham are the only side we'll play for the rest of the PL season who realistically have something important to play for.
We need a comprehensive, confidence inducing win away to West Ham tomorrow. Many teams have hit a lull throughout the season and manage to snap out of it. We shouldn't be any different. I'm hoping we start to snap out of our lull tomorrow and take an improved level of form into the remaining fixtures. Who knows, if everything goes our way we may even finish 3rd.
People who are claiming that we’re not going to make Top 4 are just being plain ridiculous. Nothing’s a given but our run-in is much more favourable than Newcastle’s and we’ll be back to one game a week (like most other teams) after tomorrow. Need an away win against Wet Spam to get some momentum but those of you who are saying we’ve already blown it are just doom mongering.
I do think Liverpool will win out however Newcastle are the ones they are more likely to catch
Chelsea might be trickier now they have actually managed to win a game today
You have to assume Liverpool win their next 3 games which means we have to get to 72 points.
That's 3 wins out of the next 5. We've won 1 of the last 3 so have to improve to avoid a complete f up of a season. Must win today otherwise winning 3 out of last 4 is a challenge.
That's 3 wins out of the next 5. We've won 1 of the last 3 so have to improve to avoid a complete f up of a season. Must win today otherwise winning 3 out of last 4 is a challenge.
Right, where are all those cnuts who called me a drama Queen over the last few days!!!
@Thrillho
@sepulturite
THIS team, in THIS form, need 3 wins out of 4!
Yes, we need a fecking miracle!!!
@Thrillho
@sepulturite
THIS team, in THIS form, need 3 wins out of 4!
Yes, we need a fecking miracle!!!
OP genuinely deserves a ban
Chill out mate, we're 'comfortably' in the top 4 apparently. 2 games in hand or something and we all know they automatically just convert to 6 points at some point.
This fecking thread!
Beat Wolves, beat Bournmouth, beat Fulham. It should be easy.
But it wont be.
But it wont be.
It's Liverpool's to lose now. Anyone who doesn't see that is living in denial.
They are going to terrorize Leicester and Southampton. I think they'll beat Villa as well but that's realistically their only chance of slipping up. So they'll wind up on at least 69 points, but probably 71.
We're not getting anything at Bournemouth, so now we're in a position in which we absolutely have to win all 3 home matches, and in our current form I just don't see us doing that, since, you know, we simply cannot score goals anymore.
They are going to terrorize Leicester and Southampton. I think they'll beat Villa as well but that's realistically their only chance of slipping up. So they'll wind up on at least 69 points, but probably 71.
We're not getting anything at Bournemouth, so now we're in a position in which we absolutely have to win all 3 home matches, and in our current form I just don't see us doing that, since, you know, we simply cannot score goals anymore.
You need to be banned for this major major jinx
We are stronger at home and got easy games, but the general feeling is we will bottle it.
ban this guy.
But the time we face Chelsea, it will be out of our hands. We are not winning against Wolves at home. Form has gone to shite and we cannot handle pressure. Liverpool know this. Fecking hell, the only consolation was that Liverpool would not be in the CL when we lost 7-0 to them and now getting to the CL at our expense is such a fecking nonsense feeling.
Why exactly?
We are literally one game away from relying purely on home form. Have been riding our luck in a few games there too.
Was pretty calm up until now about the race for top 4. Wasn’t overly brash about our chances but felt confident that we could do it.
After today, my feeling has changed. I’m not sure that this team has 9 points in it. We look dead out there, we look physically and mentally shot to pieces and costly mistakes are happening too often. Yes, there are easier games awaiting us but you have to play to a certain level in order to win those games and we aren’t coming close to that.
ETH is fortunate enough to be gifted a rare 6 days to fix this. This will be a crucial period for our season. The players get a bit more recovery time and the manger has time to re-organise the team. We just have to get this right!!!
After today, my feeling has changed. I’m not sure that this team has 9 points in it. We look dead out there, we look physically and mentally shot to pieces and costly mistakes are happening too often. Yes, there are easier games awaiting us but you have to play to a certain level in order to win those games and we aren’t coming close to that.
ETH is fortunate enough to be gifted a rare 6 days to fix this. This will be a crucial period for our season. The players get a bit more recovery time and the manger has time to re-organise the team. We just have to get this right!!!
Congrats to Liverpool on making 4th after such a bad start to the season.
Leicester will do us a favour, relax.
We need three wins from 4. Assuming we lose to Bournemouth (it’s away), who says that we’re beating all of Wolves, Chelsea and Fulham at home? Even if we do beat Wolves and Chelsea, these players are not mentally strong enough to win a one-off, see it through game on the last day of the season, which we’ll have to against Fulham.
Will they feck. Liverpool have momentum and Leicester will wilt.
We have 4 games left and I can see a draw and a loss in there, there's legitimate reason to be very concerned now. Anyone saying we shouldn't be worried isn't basing their opinion on the form of the team right now and is merely looking at the points/games-played difference between ourselves Liverpool. We built up the difference when we were playing decently and their were in shits. It's the opposite now. We have the ability in this team to do enough but we're not showing it.