Wolves are basically a team from the portugese league, the portugese league has produced technically good players for a long time. Everton, I don't know.
Top Four Race 2018/19
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That is if you have faith that Arsenal don’t have real problems on the road and it is just a flukey streak. Still got to go to Wolves, Watford, Leicester and Burnley.
Everton have been shit for ages though, they've put together a good 3 game run now but let's not forget only a month ago people were massively questioning the hype around Silva
They are better coached. It's that simple.
Nuno is a better manager than OGS, and Silva, I dunno, but he's done better in the PL than OGS did previous to being handed the biggest job in the PL...
No they won't. Hahaha
How?
Their away form is relegation battling standard..
I think they've only got 2 home games left.
It's on G
We can still do it. We just have to stop sauntering about like we missed our chance.
Our home fans really need to react to the situation as well. Lets give it everything.
We can still do it. We just have to stop sauntering about like we missed our chance.
Our home fans really need to react to the situation as well. Lets give it everything.
And Burnley. They can be difficult on their day too. Don't think Arsenal will get top 4. It will be Spurs and then either Chelsea or United.
Wouldn't put it past Palace to do something at the Emirates, they have after all drawn at OT, won at the Etihad and ran Liverpool close at Anfield this season (scoring 3 goals)
I still think we’ll fall short. Spurs will finish 3rd, probably Chelsea 4th.
1 week can change a lot.
Arsenal this season : 12 away games, 2 wins Remaining away games: 4 out of total 6.
Good luck with that.
Good luck with that.
Compared to us, Everton away, City and Chelsea at home is as tough as Watford, Leicester and Wolves away. They also have a 2 point advantage + goal difference over us.
They have Burnley away too. These games come sandwiched between a double-header against Napoli as well.
You are probably right; I haven't been following them. Just that I saw the second half of the game today and they were superb. Wolves have looked peach everytime we have played them.
Let's not be too harsh on Ole, yet. He hasn't had time with our players like those two. Our slow build-ups and passing has been a theme under the previous two managers too, who can both claim to be world class in their own right.
I've got Spurs finishing third and Chelsea flukily sneaking into fourth.
The Chelsea game will decide it for us I think. If we can't win that, there's no way we'll get top 4.
That helped us a lot only now we have to go to Goodison to beat an in form Everton.
Yeah, we have had our share of games where we passed well under Ole too but it’s hard to expect us to be consistently amazing on the ball when the team has been disjointed and generally not built this way for a good few years.
Also, Everton and Wolves don’t really consistently play better football than us either. People basically use their best games of season to make comparison against our worst games of season to draw some conclusions. It’s ridiculous.
But we have to shit on Ole and we have to hate him because he is destroying the club... our fan base has been abysmal since Fergie left, truly.
My Prediction.
Arsenal - 70 points
Watford - Draw
Palace - Win
Wolves - Loss
Leicester - Loss
Brighton - Win
Burnley - Loss
Chelsea - 73 points
West Ham - Win
Liverpool - Loss
Burnley - Win
United - Loss
Watford - Win
Leicester - Draw
United - 74 points
West Ham - Win
Everton - Loss
City - Draw
Chelsea - Win
Huddersfield - Win
Cardiff - Win
Arsenal - 70 points
Watford - Draw
Palace - Win
Wolves - Loss
Leicester - Loss
Brighton - Win
Burnley - Loss
Chelsea - 73 points
West Ham - Win
Liverpool - Loss
Burnley - Win
United - Loss
Watford - Win
Leicester - Draw
United - 74 points
West Ham - Win
Everton - Loss
City - Draw
Chelsea - Win
Huddersfield - Win
Cardiff - Win
They are capable of dropping points too as are Spurs and Arsenal
Arsenal are streaky, you cant say that with certainty.
Yes, but that game will be a 6-pointer for us. With just few games left, I don't think we can top 4 if we don't win that.
If we cant beat that Chelsea team at home then we dont deserve to be in the top 4 even with our patchy season.
Well Everton have improved a lot in last 6 weeks. They have now played Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal in quick succession at home and not conceded a goal in any of them. They rarely conceded a serious chance today although Arsenal were very lacklustre.
So think that's a difficult away game for Man. United to negotiate, maybe not quite as tough as Wolves but could easily be a draw that one.
So think that's a difficult away game for Man. United to negotiate, maybe not quite as tough as Wolves but could easily be a draw that one.
Agreed. We have the worst GD as well.
the way it is going, goal difference could decide the 4th spot and we may need to win big at both Huddersfield (we play the day after arsenal and chelsea) and Cardiff
They have had a lot longer with the players at the club and bought players they want. I suppose they are both better coaches than Mourinho and LVG too? Ferguson as well, since our passing and pressing weren't great under him either.
Got no confidence in the team or ole to secure top 4. It feels like Jose again, tumescent football players look half interested.
Everything's been upside down since the PSG win.
Everything's been upside down since the PSG win.
Looking at teams like Chelsea and Arsenal, it's frustrating that we're even competing with them.
We pretty much took the first half of the season off, so I'd imagine us to be comfortably in the top four next season Iregardless of what happens in these next few matches.
We pretty much took the first half of the season off, so I'd imagine us to be comfortably in the top four next season Iregardless of what happens in these next few matches.
Let's not exaggerate. That's not what Rhyme Animal said.
I agree about the first para. We had a couple of good games too. However, off late we have gone off the boil and games have been a grind. Squad quality has a lot to do with it, imo. You cannot expect to play excellent football on a consistent basis when you have so many mediocre ball players in defense and midfield. De Gea, Smalling, Young (fecking Young!) Matic, Herrera - that's just too many to carry in an XI.
Hard to call as all the teams are dropping points. Big problem is you can't just look at one team's results, you are looking for a swing in the 3 others. Can't say anyone has an easier run in than another team but the 2 and 3 points difference between us and others might prove invaluable with so little games to go....
I'll be surprised if this is settled before the final day, bar maybe the team in sixth being out of it already.
True but Arsenal have difficult away games and Spurs have home advantage. After City, Spurs only travel to Bournemouth. Leaving some home bankers.
Well it sort of is. Blaming us not playing consistently better than Everton and Wolves do on their best nights on Ole and his bad coaching is totally unfair and makes zero sense.
We have few good passers in the team and the whole side has been drilled to play either slow paced passing game (Van Gaal era) or sit back (Mourinho era) so they aren’t all of a sudden going to be playing super fast passing game. It has nothing to do with current coaching.
Don’t all top 4 contenders have easy game on the last day though?
I was thinking that.
Final fixtures:
United home to Cardiff
Arsenal away to Burnley
Chelsea away to Leicester
If we can stay in the race to the final game, we have an advantage on paper.