If it weren't for the Europa, we'd be leading the league

[Black]

I thought AVB always played a more positive team in europa and a negative one in the league

 

[BaFa94]

I can't see us ending up in a low enough position come the end of the season to avoid Europa League football again next season, assuming we don't make top 4, so may as well get used to it.

 

[Spurz]

If our players turn up in all our matches, we will be on top of the league. I think for 80% of the games so far, most of them decided some other player will do it for them.

 

[tttcowan]

what part or effect of playing European football is costing us?

http://worldfootballacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WFA_Study-on-recovery-days.pdf
0.41 points per Europa league game.x

 

[tttcowan]

The stats suggest we would be 4.92 points ahead of where we are... To be fair that's based on the average across Europe so would be a very conservative estimate... It could in fact be used as a "at the very least" estimate.

Basically come the end of the season if we're 5 points or less off 4th and haven't won the EL we shouldn't of bothered with the EL in hindsight.... Or in my case foresight.

 

[SandroClegane]

I've posted this before and I'll post it here for you...

Ok, the first loss was Arsenal, and the game against Dinamo Tbilisi played no role because we were home and already massively ahead on the aggregate and heavily rotated the squad. Arsenal didn't walk all over us either.

Second loss was West Ham, I guess you could blame it on the trip to Anzhi but once again we had heavy squad rotation.

Third was Newcastle, where we created the better chances, Krul played a blinder, and we couldn't finish. It was played after a home game to Sheriff Tiraspol so once again, shouldn't have affected us.

Fourth was Liverpool and that was after our last Europa league game in the group where we were once again at home, played a heavily rotated squad, and didn't overstress ourselves.

I don't think it affected us at all.

You might be able to claim the Norwich game as an actual example of this but the rest is bullshit.

 

[fortworthspur]

http://worldfootballacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WFA_Study-on-recovery-days.pdf
0.41 points per Europa league game.x

thats a great report. a simple solution would be to move our league fixtures after a Europa match to Monday night. The truth is, with tues/wed games in the CL and the option of Sat/Sun before and after, CL teams dont always have to play on two day rest. we do.