Did you get an Essian calculator for Christmas?
Very different competition without the 3rd place teams in the CL dropping down. But Spanish teams have a great record in the competition, would fancy Athletic to beat us over two legs.
You may be right …though bookies have taken a different view
Don't waste your money!! ha ha. It would be great to win it, but I am not confident at all.
Piss poor league ….even Utd could win it
Weakest teams in the PL would beat some of the Europa teams in fairness. I think we will have a good shot, we play a risk adverse brand of football with a big squad and a lot of generally good players, as much as they might be out of form. Typically being conservative/defensive in cups bodes well.
Yet we finished 3rd was it in the league? Hardly impossible.
Spurs have defeated us twice this season. We are steadying the ship but poor going forward.
I'm pretty sure we can't meet Spurs until the final. And in a one-off game I would fancy us to take them.
Optimistic to think we'll take more than 7 points from those games...we have been averaging about 1.2 / 1.3 pts a game for 18-months now.
We can only meet them in the final. If the top 4 is Lazio, Bilbao, United and Spurs, then it'll be one of the first 2 against one of the latter 2 in the semis, and then the winner of each in the final. Won't meet any before.
"Past performance does not necessarily equate to future results"
"Necessarily" being the key word there
Oh yeah we've been diabolical, but I live in the hope we have a period of volatility (we're in that now) followed by a steady climb back to where this squad should really be i.e. fighting for EL places. People on here have done what the caf always does and flown to extremes, that we're a horrendous team full of average players (it's like clockwork) but we're not on both counts."Necessarily" being the key word there
Virtually nothing is knowable with certainty, so we take past performances and then apply context and our own insights to make predictions.
If we'd beaten someone like Bournemouth, Newcastle or Villa, I would have been far more optimistic.
Rangers, let's face it...appalling. Steaua...let's face it...appalling. Southampton...on course to be the worst-ever PL team.
All of these games were too close for comfort, although Steaua admittedly ended up being fairly comfortable.
Brighton dominated us. That's my biggest concern. When we dominate a decent team, win or lose, then I'll start to trust this team a little.
Putting away really weak opponents in an unconvincing manner or valiant draws vs strong opponents in a low/middle block setup doesn't convince me that we can suddenly go on some kind of run.
Bear in-mind, we play Palace at the weekend...lose that, which we easily, easily could do based on Southampton and Rangers...and suddenly it's doom and gloom again. We have a terrible recent record vs Spurs...Everton away with Moyes in charge...not easy. OK, we should beat Ipswich...but they're better than Southampton and Rangers!
When you concede so many goals from set-pieces, you can basically lose any game to any team.
I have a feeling that juicer is in the bag personally.
Shall I nip over this evening for the juicer?
I didn’t see the false 9 which I think was wild but we need one more game until I’m out of luck.
I'm not a doom-mongerer at all but I see absolutely no reason to believe that this team is capable of stringing together wins in the Premier League.
Oh its really bad, the worst I think post SAF quite easily so no doom mongering but the reality is the difference between winning and losing is never that vast.
The FA Cup doesn't get us into the champions league, though.
