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44 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

I don't see the Brighton or Chelsea games as any different, we could win either or lose either. Chelsea might be at home, but they still have a lot of good players who could hurt us. Brighton probably less so, but I could just as easily see us winning down there as well.

Ipswich is the easiest game on paper. We need to win those for confidence.  I don’t think there’s a world where we lose at home to Ipswich and then go on to beat Brighton away. Confidence and momentum would be low. If we did it yeh it would effectively be the same but it won’t happen that way imo. 
 

Chelsea is a six pointer so is massive. 
 

I think the players and staff would snatch your hands off for 10 points. I think they take 9 too.  They would target the home games just like us. 
 

I do think we’ll need to win that last game to make sure.  

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I think villa, Forest and city have too many fixtures with teams that dont matter. Today's match is really important for villa not to win. As I can personally see them winning the rest. 

 

If my theory is correct though it would mean that we should finally beat Brighton. I do worry for the arsenal match though. 

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2 hours ago, buzza said:

Looking at villas fixtures after tonight, they are well capable of winning them all and getting 12 points.

That means we need to win four also. Our gd took a hit on Saturday

Which is why it's key they don't win tonight - only game I see them dropping points is away to Bournemouth.  Spurs /Man U is six points gift wrapped 

 

 

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Whilst a draw isn't the end of the world I just think for some reason under pressure Man City will perform between now and the end of the season. Villa got a steeper hill to climb to catch us especially if they lose this evening 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, duo said:

Is it? Surely draw is the best result for us

I don't see Man City messing up from here, given their fixtures.

Best to get rid of one of them rather than keep a cluster close by.

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Has everyone forgot how many games we’ve won recently?

 

Villa was purely us being ran dry on the back of some really good form. We can rotate if needed, but one game a week with plenty of time to prepare there’s not an excuse.

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I’m not a betting man but I’m thinking about putting 40-50 quid on a Villa win. I think they will win, but if they don’t then it’s still been worth the money if they drop points.  It would be a payout of around 180 quid for a Villa win. Would rather see a City win tbh. 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Ikon said:

I’m not a betting man but I’m thinking about putting 40-50 quid on a Villa win. I think they will win, but if they don’t then it’s still been worth the money if they drop points.  It would be a payout of around 180 quid for a Villa win. Would rather see a City win tbh. 

 

 

 

Yeah, after Chelsea beat Fulham I put a bit on the Forest/Villa double. The nightmare weekend that just won't stop  [emoji38]

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37 minutes ago, Ketsbaia said:

Let's hope we don't need 3 wins, like. Really don't see that happening.

 

Howay Man City :indi:

You don’t see us winning our three home games?

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2 minutes ago, Hovagod said:

You don’t see us winning our three home games?

Not all of them, probably two.

 

Expecting no wiggle room is asking for trouble.

 

 

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Hoping for a City win tonight. A draw after that.

 

Don't want Villa winning. If they lose and we win Saturday, we're 5 points ahead of them with 4 to play. 

 

Come on City.

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Personally don't think Ipswich will be as easy as initially anticipated. Nerves will be all over the place and reckon we perform much better when we're not expected to do well

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Seems like a Villa v. Forest FA Cup Final would be ideal for a distraction and some added fixture congestion.

 

Would also be nice for two non-Big 6 clubs to win both cups. It's only happened once in the PL era.

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50 minutes ago, Scoot said:

Hoping for a City win tonight. A draw after that.

 

Don't want Villa winning. If they lose and we win Saturday, we're 5 points ahead of them with 4 to play. 

 

Come on City.

 

It's 2 clear wins with goal difference, essentially no margin for error if we win the 2 home games and essentially done and dusted the weekend after next if we do the business against Brighton

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1 hour ago, Ketsbaia said:

Not all of them, probably two.

 

Expecting no wiggle room is asking for trouble.

 

 

 

If we can’t beat Ipswich Chelsea and Everton at home we don’t deserve to be in the CL.  
 

The wriggle room is probably not needing any points against Brighton or Arsenal.  We should obviously target at least 1 point considering what we have on the line. 

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The maximum Villa can get now is 69 points, 3 wins and a draw, so long as one of them wins is against Chelsea, and we're there.

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4 minutes ago, Smal said:

That Chelsea game is everything isn’t it. I’m giving myself a migraine thinking about it :lol: 

Be handy if they’re not 4 or 5 nil up after the first leg of the Conference semi final and they have to give the second leg their full attention.

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Just beat Ipswich first and foremost. Takes it from 10 points from 5 games down to 7 from 4. Eyes on the prize, dispatch Ipswich and take it from there

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