Now believing that your lot are a top 6 contender?Would've been suspended for United game if booked.....so yeah.
We're certainly playing top 8 football back to front. I reckon we can finish above likes of Southampton and West Ham so that should be good enough for 8th or maybe even 7th if one of Leicester or Everton go on 5-6 match winless run.
And teams mostly drop more points in second half of season when the fitness inevitably drops. It'll be a slog this season. This is 2015/2016 all over again.
They've both lost 16 league games as Managers. One of them has managed 19 games fewer.
Bottom teams improving aswell. Fulham had the look of 14th or 15th place team in recent weeks and West Brom will obviously grind out more draws v Big Sam and will probably take some more points off top 10.
Indeed it should.
I don't believe Wolves will finish above Villa, they look totally crap away from Molineux this season. West Ham and Southampton for now look reasonably consistent.
Would have been perfect result if Palace could have held on against Leicester
Wolves is just in major transition. Jota, Matt Doherty and unforeseen injury to Jimenez is too much quality to lose all in one go particularly as they're asking inexperienced players to fill the void. Not sure about them playing 4 atb either.
Yeah but can we actually take advantage and move into second spot this time unlike on Saturday
Yeah definitely improved since that 2-2 draw at Old Trafford last December
So are we.
There's "fast" and there's "quickness". James is definitely not quick at all, but in all out sprint over 40 yards he looks the fastest plater in the league. But he's looking nothing more than a pace merchant now, which is a shame. Barnes, by contrast, has no problem at all turning in and working out of tight spaces. Tidy little player, he. But can he continue to put in excellent performances or will he slither back into oblivion? We shall see.
Or indeed the 3-0 trashing
We were actually pretty competitive in that for first 20 minutes until VAR happened....you then killed us on the break for second and game was done.
Yeah, Leicester seem to have found a knack of snatching late draws.
Yet somehow they were considered title contenders and haven't been shamed nearly as much as we have been.
Still if you offered me the chance to one point ahead of Leicester, four ahead of Chelsea and within two of Liverpool with a win tomorrow night then I would have been absolutely delighted, obviously didn't expect Everton v City to be postponed so will ignore their points until that game gets played.
I actually think they'd win the league if they had a Conte type in charge. Don't think the squad they had in 16/17 was superior to this one at all but he create formula to get the best out of the key players and Lampard isn't quite doing that.
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Considering you were mere moments from relegation last season, you should be over the moon with your current league position and the improvement in the team's performances to get you there.
Easy to say when you have a 38 game season.
Really? Kante had Hazard and Costa in their prime with William and pedro rotating and Matic wasnt as slow as he is now. Their attack was far better than this.
Yeah, Kante had much better players when he was manager at Chelsea. He just hasn't got good players around him on the pitch anymore.
Weren't you pretty much qualified in CL after 4 games? So given we went out of league cup same week barely much difference so far.
The season didn't finish today, resting players is not just about recovery, it's also about preparation.
So is it an excuse or...?
Costa was deadly first half of the season but then wanted to leave mid season, couldn't and only scored 6 league goals after 31st December.
Aston Villa - 17 games
Best season in a long time, from a lot of perspectives. I don't expect to win but being anywhere the top is incredible. The fact that 1 or 2 bad results could plummet any of the top 6 or 7 down the table just adds to the enjoyment really.
And one has received about 8 new players or so in one transfer window.
Nobody has ever used those words in that order.
Can't say I'm too bothered; Leicester, Everton and Villa will all fall away towards the end of the season.
