Champions League Contention

[London Villan]

But look at this…

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/tabellenachminuten/wettbewerb/GB1?saison_id=2023&range=Kickoff%3BHT&time_start=0&time_end=HZ

Clearly teams are changing things to get back in the game at half time.

Yet, we adapt and change in the game to get back in control…

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/tabellenachminuten/wettbewerb/GB1?saison_id=2023&range=75%27%3BFull+Time&time_start=76&time_end=AB

[PaulWinch again]

Given that a punch was missed shouldn’t Maddison get a post game ban?

[Demitri_C]

4th is far from over.

But 5th, Champions League football and a trophy? Yeah, go on then.

Yep i agree with that

[pauliewalnuts]

Yesterday was pretty fucking terrible, and it's gut wrenching to look at the table and see where Spurs are after tonight.

Yeah yeah yeah lots of football to come, but turn the tables around and if we were ahead of them with a game in hand, we'd be cock-a-hoop.

We've absolutely blown it. We're playing poorly, too, at a time when Spurs are starting to fire more consistently.

Gutting.

[SamTheMouse]

Yesterday was pretty fucking terrible, and it's gut wrenching to look at the table and see where Spurs are after tonight.

Yeah yeah yeah lots of football to come, but turn the tables around and if we were ahead of them with a game in hand, we'd be cock-a-hoop.

We've absolutely blown it. We're playing poorly, too, at a time when Spurs are starting to fire more consistently.

Gutting.

Careful now, or you're going to get called a b*d-w****r!

[PaulWinch again]

Yesterday was pretty fucking terrible, and it's gut wrenching to look at the table and see where Spurs are after tonight.

Yeah yeah yeah lots of football to come, but turn the tables around and if we were ahead of them with a game in hand, we'd be cock-a-hoop.

We've absolutely blown it. We're playing poorly, too, at a time when Spurs are starting to fire more consistently.

Gutting.

Couldn’t agree more and it’s the point I’ve been trying to make around these phases of games where we just stop playing. We’ve had a fantastic season, the 1st half absolutely incredible. But we’re definitely stuttering and it’s disappointing, even if you’d have taken this position at the start of the season. Hopefully we can react to yesterday’s 9 minute shambles, it seems like it’s being openly called out, and pull out some big displays in the next few games.

[PeterWithesShin]

Sometimes it's small margins.

Forest should have gone 2-1 up, who knows from there.
Man U should have been hammered out of sight by HT.
Brentford's first was a scuffed cross and then a complete air shot but the ball hit his standing leg and goes in. They don't jam a complete fluke, who knows.

[Dave P]

Spurs will get 3 more wins max. No more than 70 points. I think we get 4 more wins so 72 points min. Believe.

[Jon Crofts]

Given that a punch was missed shouldn’t Maddison get a post game ban?

VAR apparently reviewed it and didn’t find fault. The referee has 2 days to submit his report to FA HQ I believe but I can bet my house on it nothing will be mentioned.

[PaulWinch again]

Spurs will get 3 more wins max. No more than 70 points. I think we get 4 more wins so 72 points min. Believe.

I salute the optimism and I can see Spurs getting that return, although I suspect they’ll surprise one of the big teams. But honestly us winning 4 in 7 seems pretty unlikely to me, unless we start playing better.

[PaulWinch again]

Given that a punch was missed shouldn’t Maddison get a post game ban?

VAR apparently reviewed it and didn’t find fault. The referee has 2 days to submit his report to FA HQ I believe but I can bet my house on it nothing will be mentioned.

Typical.

[Smithy]

Yesterday was pretty fucking terrible, and it's gut wrenching to look at the table and see where Spurs are after tonight.

Yeah yeah yeah lots of football to come, but turn the tables around and if we were ahead of them with a game in hand, we'd be cock-a-hoop.

We've absolutely blown it. We're playing poorly, too, at a time when Spurs are starting to fire more consistently.

Gutting.

I absolutely guarantee that if we were level on points with Spurs, ahead of them by a goal difference of 3, but our next five games were Newcastle, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City - we would NOT be cock-a-hoop.  We'd be moaning that we didn't get properly in front when our fixtures were easier, and now we only have our selves to blame that with 7 games to, points look very hard to get. 

They have one more game than us to play, but five of them are pretty difficult and Burnley and Sheff Utd will likely both be down by the time they play them, and how often do you see relegated sides get good results once they're already down?

I think right now Spurs are *slight* favourites for that 4th place spot.  But it's still very close, and all to play for.

[taylorsworkrate]

Yesterday was pretty fucking terrible, and it's gut wrenching to look at the table and see where Spurs are after tonight.

Yeah yeah yeah lots of football to come, but turn the tables around and if we were ahead of them with a game in hand, we'd be cock-a-hoop.

We've absolutely blown it. We're playing poorly, too, at a time when Spurs are starting to fire more consistently.

Gutting.

It's our poor performances that are the concerning thing. I can't shake the feeling that we've just run out of steam.

[PaulWinch again]

Spurs probably won’t get a load of points, I think it’s us that the problem. As Paulie says we’re just not playing consistently well - we do it in patches, but we also have terrible periods in games. Whatever is causing that we need some leadership in the team to step up and get us to play better for longer.

[eamonn]

Run out of steam mainly cos we've run out of players.