jack j Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 1 minute ago, Geogaddi said: I still maintain we were only so bad against Fulham and Bournemouth due getting distracted by the cup run as well. Bournemouth were excellent to be fair. As good as I've seen this season that day. Just realised the other game we've lost was the extra time v Brighton where we nearly won it in normal time anyway Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
janpawel Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 26 minutes ago, jack j said: Bournemouth were excellent to be fair. As good as I've seen this season that day. Just realised the other game we've lost was the extra time v Brighton where we nearly won it in normal time anyway Yeah hats off to Bournemouth, they were class and had made me want them to achieve Europe of some sort at the expense of their competitors Fulham/Brighton etc Every season we seem to meet a non top 6 club who batters us, this season it was Bournemouth, last season I think Palace away, and the season before it was Villa away Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 37 minutes ago, janpawel said: Yeah hats off to Bournemouth, they were class and had made me want them to achieve Europe of some sort at the expense of their competitors Fulham/Brighton etc Every season we seem to meet a non top 6 club who batters us, this season it was Bournemouth, last season I think Palace away, and the season before it was Villa away Bournemouth battered us last season away too tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) We're on 12 wins from 16 in the league since that Brenford shit away. 18 from 23 including the cups. 4 defeats in normal time and one AET. That's over 4 months, with all the defeats coming within 6 weeks in late Jan-Feb. Edited April 16 by Superior Acuña Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCormick Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 3 hours ago, Paully said: There is no way we aren’t getting top 5 - we’re a different beast now - 3rd or even 2nd! Love the optimism but I’d rip your hand off if offered 5th right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mondonewc Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 12 minutes ago, McCormick said: Love the optimism but I’d rip your hand off if offered 5th right now. It's not optimism though, it's realism! We are arguably playing the best football in the country right now based on recent form and performances, bookies expect us to finish 3rd, 2nd is definitely possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikse Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) 4 hours ago, midds said: We've been largely fantastic for about 4 months now, winning 19 of 24 or something like that. We're in a brilliant position but it's inevitable we're going to start dropping points, no team just wins each week. It's completely normal for the odd draw or loss to happen, we're long overdue a draw, last one was Liverpool 3-3. We're rightly full of confidence and shouldn't be scared of anyone but the law of averages suggests we're due a dip in results at some point. I still think we'll finish 4th but we'll still be looking over our shoulders in the second half of the Everton game. It'll be that tight imo While this is true, even something like 3-2-2 would probably be enough. We won't win every game, but this is the case for our competitors aswell. Edited April 16 by Erikse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Displayname Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 I'd take 5th aswell, but still hold us as clear favorites to get 3rd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexf Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 7 minutes ago, mondonewc said: It's not optimism though, it's realism! We are arguably playing the best football in the country right now based on recent form and performances, bookies expect us to finish 3rd, 2nd is definitely possible. I'm not sure that's correct in terms of best football. We're on a good run in terms of results but I think most would agree that we're not at our flying best, still room for improvement, but it doesn't really matter at this point as results are paramount. But looking at this run, West Ham away we just did what we needed to but West Ham were awful on the day and the game was a drab affair. Brentford was always going to be tough after all the celebrations but we did enough to eek out the victory with a flukey cross shot from Tonali. Leicester was against a team completely on its arse and we were quite sloppy in possession alot of the time and in a better day would have stuffed 5-6 past them, but again didn't matter just needed to win. Man U was bit ropey first half but once we pressed them more aggressively in the 2nd they completely disintegrated. This is the first game since Liverpool that I suspect we need to turn up properly you feel and hopefully we will. But with the bench being abit thin recently the same 11 have been playing each game, Isak possibly nursing an injury, so the lads keep doing what is required without playing fantastic for a full 90mins and that is fine as long as we get the results. But suspect this game and Villa we will need to up our levels of want the wins. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mondonewc Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 1 minute ago, alexf said: I'm not sure that's correct in terms of best football. We're on a good run in terms of results but I think most would agree that we're not at our flying best, still room for improvement, but it doesn't really matter at this point as results are paramount. But looking at this run, West Ham away we just did what we needed to but West Ham were awful on the day and the game was a drab affair. Brentford was always going to be tough after all the celebrations but we did enough to eek out the victory with a flukey cross shot from Tonali. Leicester was against a team completely on its arse and we were quite sloppy in possession alot of the time and in a better day would have stuffed 5-6 past them, but again didn't matter just needed to win. Man U was bit ropey first half but once we pressed them more aggressively in the 2nd they completely disintegrated. This is the first game since Liverpool that I suspect we need to turn up properly you feel and hopefully we will. But with the bench being abit thin recently the same 11 have been playing each game, Isak possibly nursing an injury, so the lads keep doing what is required without playing fantastic for a full 90mins and that is fine as long as we get the results. But suspect this game and Villa we will need to up our levels of want the wins. Always will be room for improvement somewhere, but who would you suggest is playing better than us in the recent period (say last 6-8 weeks)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexf Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) 23 minutes ago, mondonewc said: Always will be room for improvement somewhere, but who would you suggest is playing better than us in the recent period (say last 6-8 weeks)? To be fair I don't watch enough of other teams to make an informed opinion. Perhaps you're right then if we've been the best, but that's promising as it feels to me we have levels of performance to go to above what we have seen recently. I think they are hiding that Isak is nursing an issue and just getting through games, rather than playing confidently and free like he was previously. Also as mentioned the same 11 have started the last 5/6? So naturally there is a fatigue factor and perhaps they are all cleverly managing their energy output so not to run out of energy for this run in. As we have seen, when the likes of Wilson and Longstaff etc have been coming off the bench the team naturally gets worse. So we need this 11 to keep going for the final games and see this through. Having Gordon and to a lesser extent Willock back does help with the depth however. Edited April 16 by alexf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Stop us if you can cunts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Let's go for 2nd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggys First Goal Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 We’re finishing second. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis H Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 1 minute ago, Ellis H said: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWMag Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Looking up, not down Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackflap Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) Only win the home games and Chelsea have to win all their other remaining games to finish one point above. Edited April 16 by jackflap Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Some position to be in here. We've a firm grasp of it. What a fucking season man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 44 minutes ago, Ben said: Let's go for 2nd Only 4 points off and we have to play them. What a turnaround. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikse Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) +11 gd in the last 3.. It's now better than all the competitors (but worse than Arsenal). Edited April 16 by Erikse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 We win the next 2, arsenal fail to win their next 2 and Liverpool lose to Leicester.... We'll be the last team that could technically catch them 😄 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Edgar Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 About bloody time we've gone ahead of the over-performing Notts Forest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
t00nt00n313 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet, got a hard run coming up. Villa (a), Brighton (a), arsenal (a), Chelsea (h), and even everton will be tough games. Ipswich (h) should in theory be one we win but they're a weird team and drew to Chelsea last weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy84 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 3 wins away Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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