The Europeometer™ (2024/25)

[Kanj]

22 hours ago, alexf said:

Think we are reliant on the bulk of this starting eleven staying fit and avoiding too many suspensions etc. 

 

You take Isak, Tonali or Bruno out and I think our form suffers. But if we can keep them all available, then sky's the limit. 

 

 

 

thats rhe case with most teams in football mate. 

[Ronson333]

It’s looking good lads 😎

[HawK]

I need some graphs to inject into myself !

[HaydnNUFC]

Nice next 4 league games coming up.

[Ellis H]

Now 11 points clear of Tottenham and 15 clear of Man Utd. 
 

Next games…

 

Liverpool vs Man Utd

Arsenal vs Tottenham

Newcastle vs Wolves

 

We should be almost guaranteed to finish above them if these games go as expected.

[Jewel]

43 minutes ago, Ellis H said:

Now 11 points clear of Tottenham and 15 clear of Man Utd. 
 

Next games…

 

Liverpool vs Man Utd

Arsenal vs Tottenham

Newcastle vs Wolves

 

We should be almost guaranteed to finish above them if these games go as expected.

Could do with Villa fading away as well. Also over the course of the season, we should finish above the likes of Brighton, Fulham and Bournemouth.

 

Nottingham Forest look like the only wildcard at the moment. Can they keep up their form. Otherwise a top 5 champions league place is there for the taking for us.

[samptime29]

Forest at home could be a really important game.

[Doctor Zaius]

Think as bad as City have been, they'll finish above us. It's Forest who we need to catch. 

[Smal]

it's obviously easy to say but I doubt Forest keep this up. Their performances are not as good as their points total suggests. I mean, we've all seen him play... Chris Wood surely can't just keep banging goals in like he has been all season. 

 

I think City overtake us but we need to catch Forest. 5th can be ours. 

 

Beating Spurs away is such a massive, massive result, man. 

[gazza ladra]

9 minutes ago, Doctor Zaius said:

Think as bad as City have been, they'll finish above us. It's Forest who we need to catch. 

Chelsea.

[Joelinton7]

It’s Europe. But is it Qarabagh or Madrid?

[Stifler]

1 hour ago, Ellis H said:

Now 11 points clear of Tottenham and 15 clear of Man Utd. 
 

Next games…

 

Liverpool vs Man Utd

Arsenal vs Tottenham

Newcastle vs Wolves

 

We should be almost guaranteed to finish above them if these games go as expected.

I was thinking ahead of today, 10 more wins would put us on 62 points, which should be good enough for 5th/6th.

A win against Spurs puts us 11 points ahead of them, so if we achieve what we need to, then they would need 37 points to finish ahead of us this season (assuming they beat us on GD).

I can’t see Spurs getting that many more points this season.

[Turnbull2000]

I would take a monumental run to get 4th. Pool, Arse (pretty much certainly), City and Chelsea (likely) will have those spots. It's hard to compete with these when their expenditures are more than double ours.

[Holloway]

2nd is up for grabs this season

[Unbelievable]

1 hour ago, Turnbull2000 said:

I would take a monumental run to get 4th. Pool, Arse (pretty much certainly), City and Chelsea (likely) will have those spots. It's hard to compete with these when their expenditures are more than double ours.

Yet here we are competing with them, as we have done pretty much for the last two and a half years..?

[Abacus]

We're on for this now. If you're supporting a different team, you don't want us hunting you down.

 

Not sure anyone at all will want to play us at SJP.

[GavMcEl]

2 hours ago, Smal said:

it's obviously easy to say but I doubt Forest keep this up. Their performances are not as good as their points total suggests. I mean, we've all seen him play... Chris Wood surely can't just keep banging goals in like he has been all season. 

 

I think City overtake us but we need to catch Forest. 5th can be ours. 

 

Beating Spurs away is such a massive, massive result, man. 

Huge result today, obviously the last few weeks have been massive, 

Remember after the Brentford defeat a few weeks ago looking at the fixture list and seeing villa, man utd and spurs in the week after Christmas and thinking we would be lucky not to be in lower mid table....  turn around has been magnificent in all honesty  

[Mazzy]

Would've been incredibly confident if the  performance today was more like the Man Utd one. Still concerned about our ability to keep this up for another coupe of weeks let alone a few months, especially with two cup competitions heating up now.

 

I'd be happy with 5th as it's stands. 6th would be OK, depending who it is that finishes above us.

[PauloGeordio]

Just now, Mazzy said:

Would've been incredibly confident if the  performance today was more like the Man Utd one. Still concerned about our ability to keep this up for another coupe of weeks let alone a few months, especially with two cup competitions heating up now.

 

I'd be happy with 5th as it's stands. 6th would be OK, depending who it is that finishes above us.

Eddie will be looking at 2nd!

 

[Vaj]

Should be targeting 10 points minimum from the next four games with the run we are on, especially with three of the games being at home. Anything below 8 would be really poor.  
 

If we could manage 10 points then we would be on 45 points from 24 games and therefore only needing 25 points from 14 games to get to 70 points (8 wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats doesn’t seem too much of an ask). 
 

So all things considered a huge month to come to really cement our chances of getting top four/five! 

[Vaj]

4 minutes ago, Mazzy said:

Would've been incredibly confident if the  performance today was more like the Man Utd one. Still concerned about our ability to keep this up for another coupe of weeks let alone a few months, especially with two cup competitions heating up now.

 

I'd be happy with 5th as it's stands. 6th would be OK, depending who it is that finishes above us.

Feels harsh this. We have been brilliant over the last few games and today (against a team that can really show up against better teams) we showed two sides. Complete dominance away from home for a good half an hour in the first half and then a real dogged defensive performance in the second half to keep them out. 
 

If anything, I am more confident after watching that. Felt like a game from two seasons ago. 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 19:00 by Vaj

[Mazzy]

2 minutes ago, PauloGeordio said:

Eddie will be looking at 2nd!

 

 

I'm looking it as well. Longingly, and from a distance.

[kingxlnc]

7 minutes ago, PauloGeordio said:

Eddie will be looking at 2nd!

 

We would need to invest in January to stand any chance. 

RW / Backup ST / RCB / GK are needed

Now Botman is back perhaps could push RCB until the summer. 

If Dubravka goes, then GK might need to come in, depends how good Vlach is. 

Backup ST - Wilson cannot be relied on. RW -

Dibling seems like the one - but not available until summer. 

Mbuemo honestly makes so much sense - one extra player, two extra roles filled but it will galvanise and support the team to make that extra push

 

[PauloGeordio]

3 minutes ago, kingxlnc said:

We would need to invest in January to stand any chance. 

RW / Backup ST / RCB / GK are needed

Now Botman is back perhaps could push RCB until the summer. 

If Dubravka goes, then GK might need to come in, depends how good Vlach is. 

Backup ST - Wilson cannot be relied on. RW -

Dibling seems like the one - but not available until summer. 

Mbuemo honestly makes so much sense - one extra player, two extra roles filled but it will galvanise and support the team to make that extra push

 

Mbuemo now, and Dibbling in the summer. Would love them both.

 

 

Edited Saturday at 19:11 by PauloGeordio

[Superior Acuña]

I’m not counting our chickens for Wolves and Leicester at home. Those are exactly the kinds of games we’ve struggled in - mediocre to decent teams that are not ‘big clubs/games’.  Leicester were so shit that it wasn’t an issue. Hopefully it’ll be different for the new us.