The Europeometer™ (2024/25) - NUFC Qualify for Champions League

[The College Dropout]

Avoid injuries, play to our max potential we’ll be well placed. 
 

You’d expect each English club to progress in Europe as well which is bad for their legs. Chelsea might permanently play the B team mind. But the rest you expect will play strong teams. 

[Erikse]

4 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Avoid injuries, play to our max potential we’ll be well placed. 
 

You’d expect each English club to progress in Europe as well which is bad for their legs. Chelsea might permanently play the B team mind. But the rest you expect will play strong teams. 

 

Chelsea hasn't seemed that impressive as of late, after a cracking start to the season. Will be interesting to see how their season will develop. Inevitably Palmer will hit top form again..

[Joe1984]

2 hours ago, SUPERTOON said:

Wilson and Trippier apparently back for West Ham as well (won’t hold my breath over Wilson mind).

Wilson back.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

 

 

Oh, you're serious?! 😅

 

(Yeah I stole that from spiderman!)

 

 

Edited November 10, 2024 by Joe1984

[Erikse]

2 hours ago, SUPERTOON said:

Wilson and Trippier apparently back for West Ham as well (won’t hold my breath over Wilson mind).

 

I wish the bookies would let us bet on what his next injury will be. Would be a fun game.

[madras]

Wilson back ? Wilson thigh, Wilson pec, Wilson ankle.........

[The College Dropout]

9 hours ago, Erikse said:

 

Chelsea hasn't seemed that impressive as of late, after a cracking start to the season. Will be interesting to see how their season will develop. Inevitably Palmer will hit top form again..

Chelsea are an ok team with a high technical base and one of the best attackers in the league. 
 

I don’t think they play well as a team much.  That might be a good thing for them as there’s levels to come. 
 

I don’t think they’ll take the conference league serious until the very end so I don’t think it will impact them seriously.  
 

 

The new CL format is brutal in particular for Villa. 

[Stifler]

10 hours ago, Erikse said:

Chelsea hasn't seemed that impressive as of late, after a cracking start to the season. Will be interesting to see how their season will develop. Inevitably Palmer will hit top form again.

I honestly think that we deserved a point in our league game against them. Our shit defending let us down, but so did our finishing. We should be sitting here with at least a draw against them, knocking them out of the cup, and beating both Arsenal, and Forest in the last 2 weeks.

[Doctor Zaius]

Top 5 is absolutely there for the taking like. Expect Man Utd to find some form under Amorim and I suspect they'll be one of the main challengers. I think Spurs and Villa will remain inconsistent all season, albeit for different reasons. You'd expect the likes of Brighton, Fulham and Forest to drop off somewhat. Chelsea look like top 4 material. 

[TRon]

13 hours ago, dcmk said:

I keep looking at the table and thinking we should have 5 more points - from the Brighton and the Everton game.  

 

Conveniently forgetting how lucky we were at the start of the season.

 

Pretty happy for where we are tbh, a couple of weeks ago we were bottom half, now we are a point within a CL spot. Plus we look like we are finally looking like a team that is happy with our gameplan. Looked like some of the players were confused prior to that tbh.

 

Plus we've done all that with Wilson out. I know it's a big maybe, but if he can be fit for any significant number of games it could definitely get us the points to make the difference.

[Kanj]

Just annoying that Everton, Brighton and Chelsea away was just a time when things weren’t exactly clicking for us because if those were our next 3 fixtures I’d be thinking we’d come away with 6-7 points from that. But there footie. Just gotta keep the boys fit and keep playing our stuff. 

[The College Dropout]

Imo Chelsea are a Palmer injury away from being a very average team.  

[samptime29]

I think a fit Wilson is huge for us. Might be the key to European qualification. We can't just rely on Isak.

[The College Dropout]

Also there’s 3 points splitting loads of teams.  I’m glad we are in the mix.  But this run through to the FA Cup 3rd round is pivotal.  The league should stretch out a bit.  

[timeEd32]

Villa have lost four in a row, winless in five, and have two games a week for a month after the break:

 

Palace (h)

Juventus (h)

Chelsea (a)

Brentford (h)

Southampton (h)

Leipzig (a)

Forest (a)

City (h)

Newcastle (a)

Brighton (h)

 

Would love to see them drift away.

[STM]

If we are in touching distance by the end of January (for 5th) we have every chance. I expect us to sign at least one player and getting Botman (and Lascelles) back will be huge.

 

7th and up is a good season but we know we are capable of 4th. Can't afford to lose any key players to injury for any length of time.

[SUPERTOON]

23 minutes ago, timeEd32 said:

Villa have lost four in a row, winless in five, and have two games a week for a month after the break:

 

Palace (h)

Juventus (h)

Chelsea (a)

Brentford (h)

Southampton (h)

Leipzig (a)

Forest (a)

City (h)

Newcastle (a)

Brighton (h)

 

Would love to see them drift away.

As someone who’s good friend is a massive Villa fan I couldn’t agree more. Instead of drift away I’d love them to fall off a cliff.

[astraguy]

If we can stay in the mix until the window opens, I'm hoping we have learnt our lesson and know who we need to (Miggy,Wilson, dubz) move on and use whatever psr bollocks allows

[Kanj]

I think Villa now see how fucking brutal a PL/CL campagin can be and injuries/ squad depth makes or breaks you 

[Ginola14]

the recent impact of Joelinton, Willock, Tonali and Barnes makes me feel more acutely how much we missed them for what was probably about 70% last season on average  

 

would've easily qualified for Europe had they been more available - and then clear favourites for Conference League this season! 

 

on top of the all the other injuries such as Pope missing half the season, Isak out for numerous games/not fully fit, Wilson the usual etc 

 

also the time it took to get Hall up to speed and integrate him into the team 

 

always hard to be optimistic with Newcastle after so many heartbreaks, but really think there's huge potential with this squad if we can avoid too many injuries this season

 

[Stifler]

9 hours ago, Doctor Zaius said:

Top 5 is absolutely there for the taking like. Expect Man Utd to find some form under Amorim and I suspect they'll be one of the main challengers. I think Spurs and Villa will remain inconsistent all season, albeit for different reasons. You'd expect the likes of Brighton, Fulham and Forest to drop off somewhat. Chelsea look like top 4 material. 

Have you seen Forests’ next fixtures?

Arsenal A

Ipswich H

Man City A

Man Utd A

Aston Villa H

Brentford A

Tottenham H

[Dancing Brave]

Newcastle United 4/1 to finish top 4 and Evens to finish top 6.

 

[Ronson333]

10 minutes ago, Dancing Brave said:

Newcastle United 4/1 to finish top 4 and Evens to finish top 6.

 

150/1 to win the league this season

[Dancing Brave]

1 minute ago, Ronson333 said:

150/1 to win the league this season

I like your way of thinking.

[NWMag]

5 hours ago, astraguy said:

If we can stay in the mix until the window opens, I'm hoping we have learnt our lesson and know who we need to (Miggy,Wilson, dubz) move on and use whatever psr bollocks allows

You’d hope Almiron will be more open to a move now considering how little he has played.

[Elma]

13 hours ago, Kanji said:

I think Villa now see how fucking brutal a PL/CL campagin can be and injuries/ squad depth makes or breaks you 

I just don't think Villa have clicked this season, much like us until the last few games. They have been struggling with trying to fit all of their best players into the starting eleven. They were lucky to beat both Everton and Wolves at home and only took a point at Ipswich. They did look much better against Liverpool, despite the loss. 

 

This time last year we were at Bournemouth having just come back from Dortmund with no striker, two keepers, Ritchie, Parkinson and Alex Murphy on the bench. As far as I'm aware Villa currently have four injured, three of which are due back next game.

 

Champions League and the travel it involves does take it out of you, but they've had a relatively easy set of games so far (Bayern aside) and certainly haven't the injury issues we had. Looking back, Eddie performed wonders last year.