UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski

[PaulWinch again]

We just need to try and beat Spurs and then see what happens. We’ve got a poor record against them at home, need to address it.

[Steve67]

Brighton’s next couple are tough games. You never know. Might just come down to the last game after all. We still need favours though.

[LeeB]

"So it's still all to play for?"

"I think so, do you want to bet against us?"

[olaftab]

I don’t buy this teams have worked us out, against Newcastle we were full of energy, movement and accurate passing and since then not.

IMO you’re wrong. Newcastle came to us full of bluster, totally confident team absolutely not worried about us. They got smacked. Other teams including manu have worked on how to stop us and lately most have been successful.

[pauliewalnuts]

"So it's still all to play for?"

"I think so, do you want to bet against us?"

The only problem with that is the literally hundreds of times in the intervening 42 years in which we could have said that, and probably did, prior to proving it would have been a very good idea indeed to bet against us.

[olaftab]

Brighton’s next couple are tough games. You never know. Might just come down to the last game after all. We still need favours though.

The only thing in our favour is that they have 5 left to play in effectively 3 weeks. That’s going to take its toll however it will only help us if we help ourselves.

[paul_e]

I don’t buy this teams have worked us out, against Newcastle we were full of energy, movement and accurate passing and since then not.

IMO you’re wrong. Newcastle came to us full of bluster, totally confident team absolutely not worried about us. They got smacked. Other teams including manu have worked on how to stop us and lately most have been successful.

I disagree. Wolves didn't figure us out, we were far the better team, we just didn't take our chances and they took their only decent one. Man U maybe bullied us a bit but if the ref had given Casemiro the yellow card he deserved for scything through Moreno after about 15 minutes I don't think he dominates the game in the way he did. Fine margins really. Aside from that we've played well in spells for about 4months, Newcastle was the first time everything clicked for extended periods, not because they thought they could brush us aside but because we were just too good, the movement on our left in particular was unplayable, we made Trippier look like a pub league player.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't think Wolves figured us out - in fact, I think if they have figured us out at any point this season, it was the match at our place where we couldn't get near them for 45 minutes.

It just didn't work out for us at the weekend, shit happens, we're not going to play well / win every week. Not yet, anyway.

[eamonn]

It'll be curious to see who dictates possession in the Spurs game or if it will be quite even. They'll probably be happy to play on the break.

[Scott Nielsen]

I don't think Wolves figured us out - in fact, I think if they have figured us out at any point this season, it was the match at our place where we couldn't get near them for 45 minutes.

True, that was a dismal experience for us. Lopetegui does well against Emery though so I think it is also OK to recognize he set them up a certain way and he got the result. They are both very accomplished managers.

[Risso]

I just don't want this season to fizzle out disappointingly like the last two have. It would be great to go into the Brighton game still in with a chance of qualifying.

[Toronto Villa]

I just don't want this season to fizzle out disappointingly like the last two have. It would be great to go into the Brighton game still in with a chance of qualifying.

That’s really it. We can look back if we don’t qualify and say didn’t we do great to even be in contention but in the moment, and overall given the position we put ourselves in it would be disappointing and a bit deflating. Even if we all hope that next season we won’t be giving the rest of the league an 11 game head start.

[PeterWithesShin]

Last season there was nothing to fizzle out, the season before we finished it with 2 wins.

[olaftab]

I don’t buy this teams have worked us out, against Newcastle we were full of energy, movement and accurate passing and since then not.

IMO you’re wrong. Newcastle came to us full of bluster, totally confident team absolutely not worried about us. They got smacked. Other teams including manu have worked on how to stop us and lately most have been successful.

I disagree. Wolves didn't figure us out, we were far the better team, we just didn't take our chances and they took their only decent one. Man U maybe bullied us a bit but if the ref had given Casemiro the yellow card he deserved for scything through Moreno after about 15 minutes I don't think he dominates the game in the way he did. Fine margins really. Aside from that we've played well in spells for about 4months, Newcastle was the first time everything clicked for extended periods, not because they thought they could brush us aside but because we were just too good, the movement on our left in particular was unplayable, we made Trippier look like a pub league player.

So, summing it up, you agree with me.

[Risso]

Last season there was nothing to fizzle out, the season before we finished it with 2 wins.

We'd started the season well, wanted to stay in the hunt for Europe and at the start of May were 9th, 5 points behind 7th. The last two wins didn't make any difference to that, as we finished 11th. The season fizzled out.