arnonel Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 Just think, win our next 15 games and we are in the Champs League ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 2 hours ago, The Prophet said: Just noticed the top six are all playing each other this weekend. Top 8 are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 Couple of nice little scheduling breaks for us coming up. Fulham this weekend we'll have had two days extra rest and prep going onto it and then Saturday week we'll be going to Palace with a full week to get ready while they'll have had Man U the Wednesday before. Such a huge opportunity coming up with Man U and Liverpool entering tough runs of fixtures while we have four very winnable games. Obviously there are no easy fixtures but 9 or 10 points from our next four fixtures is very doable and would likely have us in a very nice spot with no European football (and only one potential cup game... which we'd manage to pay some attention to I'm sure) to distract in the run-in. Feels fucking nostalgic being excited about the future, haven't been this excited since the peak Bobby years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 And just to add to that, we won't be too heavily disadvantaged in terms of prep time for the West Ham game on February 4th. Our second leg semi will be on the Tuesday before while West Ham are the Monday night game in the FA Cup 4th round so only an extra 24 hours for them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 If (and it's a big if) we win tomorrow, who would we want to win in either of the following games: Man City Vs Man United Tottenham Vs Arsenal If Man United and Tottenham win, we'll only be a point behind Man City, and six behind Arsenal, but will still be level on points with Man United and only 2 points ahead of Tottenham. If Man City and Arsenal win, the gap between us and Man United goes to three points, and five points to Spurs, but we'd not have gained any ground on the two above us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto2005 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Obvious to me. City and Arsenal wins, we're never winning the league come above Spurs and Pool we get CL. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankpingel Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Definitely see us as top 4 at best so Man City and Arsenal wins for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 2 draws surely? Put an extra 2 points between us and those below and gain 2 on the two above us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
prefabtoon Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) Here is the Premier League form table on Saturday morning, which covers the past six matches for all teams, following Aston Villa’s 2-1 win over Leeds last night As you can see, Newcastle United dropping to third in this new updated Premier League form table. Arsenal at the top with 16 points from a possible 18, denied a perfect 18 due to Newcastle’s draw at The Emirates. Man Utd second with 15 points, Newcastle United 14 points and then Aston Villa and Man City both with 13. Fulham are eighth in this Premier League form table, having taken 12 points. After losing to Man City and Man Utd, Marco Silva’s side winning their last four PL matches, including 2-1 against Chelsea on Thursday night. The Fulham boss not happy at having to play Newcastle only 64 hours later… Edited January 14, 2023 by prefabtoon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geogaddi Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Man City and Arsenal wins the best option without a doubt . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeT44 Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Might be helpful. Next few games... Man Utd Vs Palace Arsenal Palace Arsenal Vs Spurs Man Utd Everton Spurs Vs Arsenal City Fulham City Vs Spurs Wolves Spurs Liverpool and Chelsea are 9th and 10th and they play each other next ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottie Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 32 points off remaining 19 games now to get to 70 points. We have 38 off the first 19 games, with almost all remaining hard fixtures at SJP. 32 points is 9 wins 5 draws and 4 defeats. Or 8 wins 8 draws and 3 defeats. With Liverpool struggling, 70 probably does it. Tottenham only got 71 last year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Palace are all over the place and we are away from home (which I think we need). Couldn't be a better fixture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Just now, STM said: Palace are all over the place and we are away from home (which I think we need). Couldn't be a better fixture. They've also got Man U on Wednesday so a short turnaround. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 One game at a time. That's the only way you can look at it now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Sod it....based on reaching 72 points (71.5 points is the average to finish 4th). Using current league position to determine difficulty of fixture: 34 points needed. Let's say 19 points (6 wins & 1 draw) at home & 15 points (4 wins and 3 draws) away. Crystal Palace (A) - 1 point needed West Ham (H) - 3 points required Bournemouth (A) - 3 points required Liverpool (H) - 3 points required Brighton (H) - 3 points required Man City (A) - 0 points required Wolves (H) - 3 points required Nottingham Forest (A) - 1 point required Manchester United (H) - 0 points required Brentford (A) - 0 points required Aston Villa (A) - 1 point required Spurs (H) - 1 point required Everton (A) - 3 points required Southampton (H) - 3 points required Arsenal (H) - 0 points required Leeds (A) - 3 points required Leicester (H) - 3 points required Chelsea (A) - 0 points required West Ham (A) - 3 points required Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 4 points would be fine from Palace/West Ham but would love 6. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 The key for us will be not drawing too many games, especially at home. It's great that we're so hard to beat of course but at the end of the day a win and a loss is generally going to better than two draws (possible exception being when one is against a direct league rival) Today felt possibly like a bit of a turning point? Game looked for all the world like another like the Palace, Bournemouth or Leeds games. Frustrating home games that were just two points dropped. But finally we actually pulled one out of the bag. Helped that we were able to make such positive changes from the bench, of course. Still think it's Spurs and Liverpool that we're really focused on. Finish ahead of both of them and we'll get top four. Both have to come to SJP too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 I think if we get 9 points from the next 4 games we'll do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Long way to go but 5 points clear of 5th is incredible going for the halfway point of the season. Howe is a miracle worker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Still think we need great luck with injuries and 1-2 quality signings to keep it up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 The game on February 18th against Liverpool could be so fucking huge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holloway Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 4th is there for us, couple of signings 🙏 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 I still think injuries like the one to Bruno will happen and we will sink back a bit to 5th or 6th which will be a little disappointing but shouldn't be really, I think that would have been as much as hoped for at start. Man U are good again and if they sustain that should be there or there abouts, Spurs will improve, though will need to improve a lot. Think Liverpool and Chelsea ought both to be out of it really too, 10 points when we aren't dropping many should be hard to overcome, but yes would be nice to stuff them on the pitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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