Champions League Contention

[Monty]

Keep positive and keep posting Footy.

Just stop making up utter, utter shite.

No idea what you are going on about, how about you take a chill pill.

Not you, Footy. The nonsense about Martinez not really being ill.

I've seen it suggested somewhere else that Emi was never going to play we just didn't want Man City knowing until the last moment. Also we didn't want Klopp and Arteta moaning about us resting the world's number one. Probably rubbish though.

There is no dimension of reality where this is true.

[Risso]

Absolute nonsense. What difference would it have made at all to Man City if Martinez was playing or not. And as if we'd give a stuff what Klopp or Arteta think.

[ADVILLAFAN]

If we beat Brentford and Manure lose to Liverpool, I think they'd need to gain over 2 points more than us per game for the remainder of the season.

So even if we got 1 point per game and they got 3, we'd still finish above them on goal difference.

[AV82EC]

Yep, Klopp and Arteta can frankly fuck off the moaning pricks.

[Footy-Vill]

Sours have made the most defensive errors along with Chelsea 18.
Villa have made half that 9 . The fourth least amount.

[Percy McCarthy]

In terms of 5th place, I remain optimistic.
Man City are favourites to win the ECL and even favourites to win at the Bernabeu.
Arsenal are slight favourites to beat Bayern over 2 legs
West Ham are quite big underdogs against Leverkeusen, but then the winners play AC Milan/Roma
Liverpool are big favourites for the Europe League with Atalanta and then Benfica/Marseille
We are favourites to beat Lille and still outright favourites despite having a tougher draw

If the bookmakers are right there will be 3 English teams in finals and only 2 from Italy and Germany combined.

I think we can forget Italy.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Aye, need English teams to beat German teams in Europe.

[Demitri_C]

Keep positive and keep posting Footy.

Just stop making up utter, utter shite.

No idea what you are going on about, how about you take a chill pill.

Not you, Footy. The nonsense about Martinez not really being ill.

I've seen it suggested somewhere else that Emi was never going to play we just didn't want Man City knowing until the last moment. Also we didn't want Klopp and Arteta moaning about us resting the world's number one. Probably rubbish though.

I find it hard to believe a winner like emi wouldnt want to play if he was perfectly fine. You rarely rest keepers.

I do think he was genuinely ill

[Somniloquism]

Sours have made the most defensive errors along with Chelsea 18.
Villa have made half that 9 . The fourth least amount.

I'm actually surprised at that figure being as low but I suppose it depends on what a defensive error classes as.

[Somniloquism]

I've seen it suggested somewhere else that Emi was never going to play we just didn't want Man City knowing until the last moment. Also we didn't want Klopp and Arteta moaning about us resting the world's number one. Probably rubbish though.

I find it hard to believe a winner like emi wouldnt want to play if he was perfectly fine. You rarely rest keepers.

I do think he was genuinely ill

Especially as defensively, we were quite strong. The weaknesses were elsewhere. But I also don't think even Emi would have stopped many of those goals on the night.

[Brazilian Villain]

If we beat Brentford and Manure lose to Liverpool, I think they'd need to gain over 2 points more than us per game for the remainder of the season.

If we beat Brentford, top 5 is done. They'd need at least 15 points from 8 games, and we'd need to lose all our remaining games.

[Drummond]

Aye, need English teams to beat German teams in Europe.

Home and away

[Drummond]

I think they will beat Liverpool on Sunday.

[Nunkin1965]

I think they will beat Liverpool on Sunday.

They may have to score at least three so I can't see it.
United are way too open.

[Percy McCarthy]

Aye, need English teams to beat German teams in Europe.

Home and away

Not really. The point for going through and stopping the German teams from going through are the two biggest factors.