UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski

[Flin5tone]

If West Ham win the Europa Conference will that be one spot (7th) gone and 6th would be conference?

[Risso]

No.

[olaftab]

We are now secure for 8th place. About 3 weeks ago we at best looked 11th nailed on. This is massive progress when you think about the gap around about end of Feb. 4th is not achievable as we need to do much better than at least 3 teams, Spurs, Brighton and Newcastle for the rest of the season due to points or games gap. We can probably surpass 2 but not all 3. So the target must be now to feel secure in 6th after the next 2/3 games. Big worry is Brighton with their games in hand.   

[Smirker]

Fun fact. The night we sacked Gerrard we were 2 points behind Southampton. We're now 27 points ahead and going for Europe while they need a miracle to stay up.

Fun facts are rarely fun but this one is incredible.

[eamonn]

Hope Brighton get 4th and pip Spurs and Newcastle. They play far better football than either. I think we could catch Tottenham, they're just a plodding bag of spuds these days.

[Brazilian Villain]

Hope Brighton get 4th and pip Spurs and Newcastle. They play far better football than either. I think we could catch Tottenham, they're just a plodding back of spuds these days.

Only if we get 3rd.

[eamonn]

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[chrisw1]

If we manage to finish 6th it will be an incredible achievement.  I'd bite your hand off if offered that right now.

But even if we fall away and end up 8th, it will still have been a superb effort and an excellent launching pad for the summer and next season.

[Risso]

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Out xG yesterday was 1.87, despite having the ball in the net 4 times, hitting the woodwork twice and forcing Pope into a number of good saves.

[Monty]

Was reading that the trouble with xG is that it should only be used to try and measure individual strikers, i.e. just because one scores 5 in 10 and another 2 maybe the latter just plays in a crap team and doesn't get high quality chances.

It doesn't work for teams because you're trying to define what's a 'good chance' by what the average finishing ability is of all teams in the league - which makes no sense, because the whole point is to measure who's better at finishing!

So, in short, time to file under 'Bollocks'.

[Ads]

Watkins goal at Stamford Bridge was a hard chance according to Xg as it was a lob from outside the box. Despite it being straight forward. It's not a useless statistic, but it's nothing to base an entire argument on.

[ChicagoLion]

I think we need a Run in thread.
I notice that Brighton have a lot of fairly easy games, the biggest problem for them is the sheer number of them.
I don’t think we can catch Newcastle or Manure that leaves
Liverpool Spuds Brighton and us slugging it out for 6th and 5th.

[Smirker]

I think we need a Run in thread.
I notice that Brighton have a lot of fairly easy games, the biggest problem for them is the sheer number of them.
I don’t think we can catch Newcastle or Manure that leaves
Liverpool Spuds Brighton and us slugging it out for 6th and 7th.

We can definitely catch Newcastle.

[olaftab]

I think we need a Run in thread.
I notice that Brighton have a lot of fairly easy games, the biggest problem for them is the sheer number of them.
I don’t think we can catch Newcastle or Manure that leaves
Liverpool Spuds Brighton and us slugging it out for 6th and 7th.

Who are you giving 5th to?

[ChicagoLion]

I think we need a Run in thread.
I notice that Brighton have a lot of fairly easy games, the biggest problem for them is the sheer number of them.
I don’t think we can catch Newcastle or Manure that leaves
Liverpool Spuds Brighton and us slugging it out for 6th and 7th.

Who are you giving 5th to?

sorry I mean 5th 6th.