Champions League Contention

[Demitri_C]

We need to beat Forest and get our home form going again. Three losses has shaken our confidence at Villa Park after almost a full year of battering pretty much everyone.

Even before that its not great we almost lost to sheff utd and just about beat Burnley.  We need to get that confidence back at home starting with forest!

[Toronto Villa]

We should have been miles clear of Sheff Utd before Archer scored. Ollie penalty not given, Bailey goal wrongly disallowed, blatant volleyball incident in their box. Burnley we did ok but gave up two daft goals. It wasn’t a great performance but it wasn’t as bad as it was made out to be because of some poor defending.

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[The Edge]

Forest will be tough, because annoyingly Awoniyi has timed his return for us. He makes them a completely different side and gives them a focal point, and they have some dynamic players like Gibbs-White who create plenty of problems. We should expect to win, but we’ll have to be ruthless.

We were pretty poor at the city ground. If we play anywhere as bad as that we will lose again. 3 losses at home in a row this a opportunity to get back on winning ways at home. Losing 4 at home on the trot will be very very poor.

We won yesterday at a tough place to go and with a much depleted squad. It's better to focus on the positives than dwell on the potential negatives. There's an awful lot to be positive about this season.

Absolutely agree. Sorry if im coming across negative.  That united less really knocked the stuffing out of me. I so hope luton stuff those manure bastards today

And right on cue they get two lucky breaks in the first 5 minutes to go 2-0 up. God I hate those fekkers.

[Demitri_C]

It just makes you sick at how blatent the corruption is as united should be down to 10. Hows casemerio escaped a second yellow.

Makes me sick to my stomach

[eamonn]

Yanited don't tend to draw, at all. So even though they've lost a fair amount, they're also able to hoover-up the wins, when playing mostly shit.

[London Villan]

Rashford should have had a booking for the petulant retaliatory challenge on the Luton full back too.

[darren woolley]

We've got winnable games coming up win them and we can open a gap if the others drop points.

[Brazilian Villain]

We've got winnable games coming up win them and we can open a gap if the others drop points.

If we can get to 71 points Yanited will need 28 points from 13 games. With Citeh, Chelsea and Brighton away, plus Liverpool, Newcastle and Arsenal at home that's a big ask.

[Somniloquism]

Some analysis of our run in compared to Spurs and Man Utd.

Separating the league into top 6, "bubbling under" next 5  (Brighton, Chelsea, Newcastle, West Ham, Wolves) and bottom 9.

Our split is 4-4-5
Spurs 4-3-6
Man Utd 3-3-8

So we have marginally the hardest run in on paper. Man Utd's looks quite a bit easier, which makes last week's robbery all the more frustrating.

The only game between the three of us is us v Spurs on 10th March. We all have to play all of the top 3. Spurs and Man Utd both have Burnley, Sheff U and Luton to play, whereas we only have Luton. Spurs play the top 3 in consecutive weekends towards the end of the season before finishing against Burnley and Sheff U.

Although as the season goes into the last third, that is when the teams at the bottom can get weird results. I do expect both Burnley and Sheff U to be walkover for most of the rest of the teams but once relegated and the pressure is off them..... especially as they won't be putting Eric "Manager, what is that" Black in charge after relegation.

[Brazilian Villain]

Hopefully, Palace will have nothing to play for and 'on the beach' come the last game. Even better if we are.

[eamonn]

We've got winnable games coming up win them and we can open a gap if the others drop points.

If we can get to 71 points Yanited will need 28 points from 13 games. With Citeh, Chelsea and Brighton away, plus Liverpool, Newcastle and Arsenal at home that's a big ask.

Ure have all those to come? And some were saying they have a far easier run-in...

We're the only boneheads that they've managed to get points off in the top nine away in 18 months, or something ridiculous like that.

[Paul.S]

With the injuries we’ve had and still got then being in the position we’re in is unbelievable.
If Konsa is back when we’ve been told then we have a decent chance because our coach is better than “Ange” and the Dutch bloke.

[eamonn]

I don't geddit with the "Ange" love-in. In interviews he's mumbly, head-down, no eye-contact and gets very defensive with questions when they lose/play poorly.

[Risso]

I don't geddit with the "Ange" love-in. In interviews he's mumbly, head-down, no eye-contact and gets very defensive with questions when they lose/play poorly.

Yep, he looks like a 15 year old boy being asked to explain himself in front of the headmaster.