Champions League Contention

[TelfordVilla]

Last season we had Cash, Diane, Mings and Konsa and a fully fit martinez. The defence was impenetrable.  Every big game against our rivals we rose to. This season we have a makeshift back 4 and a rotating midfield due to injury and suspension. This is why performances between games and even in games are so inconsistent.  We just have to try and focus on one game at a time.

[RamboandBruno]

I think we just need to ask ourselves out of all the games left, can we beat 3 of Bournemouth and Chelsea at home and Brighton and Palace away?

I think we can.

On ‘shipping’ goals, i think there is a Mings hole in there.

[aj2k77]

Which needs to be filled by Konsa.

[ChicagoLion]

I think we just need to ask ourselves out of all the games left, can we beat 3 of Bournemouth and Chelsea at home and Brighton and Palace away?

I think we can.

On ‘shipping’ goals, i think there is a Mings hole in there.

That should be enough for 5th, but not 4th.

[SoccerHQ]

I think we just need to ask ourselves out of all the games left, can we beat 3 of Bournemouth and Chelsea at home and Brighton and Palace away?

I think we can.

On ‘shipping’ goals, i think there is a Mings hole in there.

Took 10 points from them first half of the season so that has to be the goal now.

If we can still get up to 70/71 points that still requires Spurs to do a bit of work as beating all of Forest, Burnley and Sheffield United gets them up to 66 points so they'd need two wins from their more difficult ones left.

[ChicagoLion]

I think we just need to ask ourselves out of all the games left, can we beat 3 of Bournemouth and Chelsea at home and Brighton and Palace away?

I think we can.

On ‘shipping’ goals, i think there is a Mings hole in there.

Took 10 points from them first half of the season so that has to be the goal now.

If we can still get up to 70/71 points that still requires Spurs to do a bit of work as beating all of Forest, Burnley and Sheffield United gets them up to 66 points so they'd need two wins from their more difficult ones left.

We are no where near our performances in the first half of the season.

[Percy McCarthy]

Teams to begrudgingly support in next week or so in terms of the bigger picture and to favour Villa.
But most importantly Forest and Newcastle

Sunday:
Forest at Spurs
Liverpool at Man Utd

Tuesday
Arsenal v Bayern Munich
Man City (though I won't do that)at Real Madrid

Thursday
West Ham away at Leverkusen

Saturday
Newcastle at home to Spurs
Bournemouth at home to Man Utd

Did a comprehensive list just above, but still. Anyway, you missed Liverpool v Atalanta.

[Percy McCarthy]

These are the games for us to watch out for re: the thread title:

Man Utd v Liverpool
Spurs v Forest

Tuesday 9th April:

Arsenal v Bayern
Real Madrid v Man City

Wednesday 8th April:

Atl Madrid v Dortmund

Thursday 9th April:

Aston Villa v Lille
Leverkusen v West Ham
Liverpool v Atalanta

Saturday 13th April:

Newcastle v Spurs
Bournemouth v Man Utd

Sunday 14th April:

Arsenal v Aston Villa

Tuesday 16th April

Dortmund v Atl Madrid

Wednesday 17th April:

Bayern v Arsenal
Man City v Real Madrid

Thursday 18th April:

Lille v Aston Villa
West Ham v Leverkusen
Atalanta v Liverpool

Sunday 21st April:

Aston Villa v Bournemouth

Haven’t gone further at this stage as it might not be up in the air by then, particularly regarding the co-efficient.

There you go footy.

[tomd2103]

I think we just need to ask ourselves out of all the games left, can we beat 3 of Bournemouth and Chelsea at home and Brighton and Palace away?

I think we can.

On ‘shipping’ goals, i think there is a Mings hole in there.

Let's be honest, we've conceded sloppy goals all season.  Thankfully it hasn't cost us too often.

[Ads]

Having your most aerially dominant centre halves knee ligament explode midway through the opening half of the first game of the season is unhelpful when looking to defend crosses.

[Demitri_C]

Having your most aerially dominant centre halves knee ligament explode midway through the opening half of the first game of the season is unhelpful when looking to defend crosses.

I was hoping thats where carlos would fit in but fod me he hasnt

[Footy-Vill]

These are the games for us to watch out for re: the thread title:

Man Utd v Liverpool
Spurs v Forest

Tuesday 9th April:

Arsenal v Bayern
Real Madrid v Man City

Wednesday 8th April:

Atl Madrid v Dortmund

Thursday 9th April:

Aston Villa v Lille
Leverkusen v West Ham
Liverpool v Atalanta

Saturday 13th April:

Newcastle v Spurs
Bournemouth v Man Utd

Sunday 14th April:

Arsenal v Aston Villa

Tuesday 16th April

Dortmund v Atl Madrid

Wednesday 17th April:

Bayern v Arsenal
Man City v Real Madrid

Thursday 18th April:

Lille v Aston Villa
West Ham v Leverkusen
Atalanta v Liverpool

Sunday 21st April:

Aston Villa v Bournemouth

Haven’t gone further at this stage as it might not be up in the air by then, particularly regarding the co-efficient.

There you go footy.

Oh brilliant ! Apologies!
Great insights!
Thanks!

[PeterWithesShin]

It's much more enjoyable hoping the like of Liverpool, Man City, Arsenal beat Spurs/Man U as we're also at the top end rather than the years of hoping they beat QPR, Wigan, Hull etc to help us stay up.

[Richard E]

Especially given said teams’ propensity for dropping points to QPR, Wigan and Hull in those years.

[eamonn]

Having your most aerially dominant centre halves knee ligament explode midway through the opening half of the first game of the season is unhelpful when looking to defend crosses.

True but the coaching team have had all season to train Carlos and Torres into dealing with such battles far better than they are. One plus point yesterday from a defensive point of view is that we didn't concede from a corner/free-kick where we've been Lambert-like recently.