Race for the Top 4 - 2018/19

[wrd]

Gutted about yesterday, but honestly the way things have gone so far this season, we could be right back in the running this time next week.

If we are 5 points behind 1st place by the time we play Liv then we have a slither of a chance imo.

 

[TheChosenOne]

Draw in the Utd game was the best outcome for us. Scousers were really poor and looked very nervy, whereas Mancs lost 3 players in the first half to injury and Rashford played most of the match carrying a knock. Goons winning was a bit of a pain but we play them in a week so can pull away from 5th place.

Shame we lost yesterday but just need to regroup and go again.

Elephant in the room time..
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If .. We lose against Chelsea on Wednesday and Arse beat Bournemouth they will only be 4 points behind us.

 

[whitechina]

Elephant in the room time..
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If .. We lose against Chelsea on Wednesday and Arse beat Bournemouth they will only be 4 points behind us.

Booooo
I know it's true but that's gonna give me real grief if off some gooners I know

 

[wrd]

Elephant in the room time..
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If .. We lose against Chelsea on Wednesday and Arse beat Bournemouth they will only be 4 points behind us.

Lucky we play them right after and normal service will be resumed then.

 

[beats1]

Prove it.
You can't.

Thing is, we CAN win all those mundane eventless matches on rainy winter nights. But as soon as the table is positioned in such a way that one or more fans go "if only we do this and that team does that, we will be in such a great position". THAT'S the matches we more than likely bottle it. That is so Spursy.

You can be as disgusted as you like when you hear those terms – but the problem isn't the terms themselves. The problem is that we still simply more than likely won't show up when we really, really, really, really, really should.

This is it, when we fighting Leicester for the title, we made it easy for them as we weren't winning matches that we played before them. We never applied pressure on to them. Yet when they played first after they had won we were winning those matches.

Basically we are great staying in the race for things but as soon as the pressure is on us to put the onus on the other team. We come up short. Same with chelsea the season after. We only took it serious after the gap was huge.

Gutted about yesterday, but honestly the way things have gone so far this season, we could be right back in the running this time next week.

True but we wouldn't deserve to be in it

 

[ohtottenham!]

Elephant in the room time..
.
If .. We lose against Chelsea on Wednesday and Arse beat Bournemouth they will only be 4 points behind us.

Could happen, could well happen, but still we'd be 4 points ahead with superior GD. We could even lose the NLD and be down to a 1 point lead and GD advantage. The "ifs" would still be in our court, and we just have a better team than Arse to see the season out.

 

[spursfan77]

Today's Man U Liverpool result depends on what we think we can achieve. A draw is probably the best result for us as it keeps Man U at bay and Liverpool in touching distance. The worst result is a Liverpool win if we think we can still challenge for the league or second place. Man U winning would be annoying as they'd close in on us but I think we are good enough to pull away from them and their form can't last forever. Solskjaer plays the same team every game pretty much, especially in midfield, and if he continues to do that they will tire eventually.

Just to reiterate my point from earlier, I said tire, but now Man U have injuries, we are yet to know how bad. That could hopefully see them drop some points now.

A draw was probably the best results in the circumstances of the weekend’s games.

Also...

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

What? We're still in with a chance? Despite blowing our title hopes yesterday? Despite bottling it? Despite losing a game we absolutely had to, had to, had to win?

*Takes a couple of Asprins

 

[1882andallthat]

After yesterday's setback I was hoping this one would end in a draw, with both Liverpool and Man Utd not fully capitalising on our loss a draw was the best result I could have wished for.

 

[worcestersauce]

To be fair they've been waiting three weeks to say we bottled it.
Liverpool are becoming the draw spec

Liverpool bottled it

Again.

 

[worcestersauce]

Elephant in the room time..
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If .. We lose against Chelsea on Wednesday and Arse beat Bournemouth they will only be 4 points behind us.

And if they beat us they still won't have caght us.

 

[Gbspurs]

After yesterday's setback I was hoping this one would end in a draw, with both Liverpool and Man Utd not fully capitalising on our loss a draw was the best result I could have wished for.

Losing is never a positive but who knows what the rest of the season has to play out. If we had to lose only 1 game for the rest of the season you might choose this if it meant not losing against Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool or City.

Im relatively confident our title race is run but maybe a shock defeat is exactly what our players need before a run of tough and important games? I seem to thinking our top 4 chances were done in 2010 when we lost to Sunderland only to see us beat Chelsea, Arsenal and Man City during the run in.

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

ET for Chelsea is great news for our prospects on Wednesday

 

[BringBack_leGin]

ET for Chelsea is great news for our prospects on Wednesday

Came in here to post the same thing.

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

Came in here to post the same thing.

Them playing well isn’t so good, might restore their confidence but I will take the physical wear and tear over a confidence shattering 6-0 loss in 90 minutes.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Them playing well isn’t so good, might restore their confidence but I will take the physical wear and tear over a confidence shattering 6-0 loss in 90 minutes.

Kanye, Jorginho, Hazard all playing 120 minutes, plus their first choice defence, should bode well. Throw in City winning in some kind of soul crushing fashion (last minutes or a penalty) and I’ll take that. We need to hound them like a swarm of locusts from minute one on Wednesday.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

And this hissy fit from Kepa is additionally brilliant. Either we face a kid goalie with his head in the clouds or Caballero on Wednesday, both options are great. And Sarri has just blown a gasket too. I’d just tell Harry to shoot on sight from the off, potentially from the kick off.

 

[Roynie]

Well with Chelsea playing 120 minutes and Kepa refusing to come off their dressing room and the training ground will be really poisonous this week. That can't do any harm to our chances on Wednesday!

 

[The Doc]

Just to reiterate my point from earlier, I said tire, but now Man U have injuries, we are yet to know how bad. That could hopefully see them drop some points now.

A draw was probably the best results in the circumstances of the weekend’s games.

Also...

That's rather prosaic by David Lynch's standards. The absolute minimum expectation was a revision of one of his famous quotes. Something like "To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. Firminio on crutches as he leaves Old Trafford. Bit of a worry." Ideally delivered in voice-over by a very scary individual called Frank.

 

[offside_ruel_fox]

Great to see Chelsea play extra time, lose the penalties and have a massive player/manager rift to boot. Fingers crossed it works in our favour Wednesday. Juicy!