Champions League Contention

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Not much hubris on display here. Plenty of people who appear to have floppy upper lips or huge posture issues as they convince themselves we'll fuck it up.

[Dave]

I can see us having 4th secured by Sunday night. I don't have to contort myself to imagine it either.

Yep, that's how i see it as well.

Yup. Chelsea are favourites to beat Spurs. We are favourites to beat Brighton. Liverpool are favourites to beat Spurs.

It's improbable that all three of those on-their-own-terms-likely events happen, but all the things that we want are seen as the thing most likely to happen.

[Nii Lamptey]

My betting patterns over the next few days will consist of a Spurs W v Chelsea, Spurs W v Liverpool and Brighton W against us.

We'll be celebrating Champions League qualification by Sunday evening. 😉

[Olneythelonely]

We're 1/6 to finish in the top four. Spurs are 9/2.

If spurs beat chelsea you will see those odds slash drastically

4 points is very small when you consider they would get 6 from burnley amd sheff utd. We will need to win at least one more game to make sure we do it

Cant see us beating liverpool as we havent beaten them at villa paek since that 7-2 with no fans. Its been a while since we beat them with fans at villa park.

That leaves brighton and palace one win out of those two and i think we should be good for CL

If Spurs are getting 6 points from Burnley and Sheff Utd, there’s no reason to think we won’t get 6 from Brighton and Palace. If we’re just assuming better teams automatically get points from less good ones, that is.

How would you feel if we were in Spurs position? I’m guessing you’d be thinking it was all over for us.

Brighton have been decent at least recently, and Palace have improved a lot under Glasner. Meanwhile Burnley are probably going down (quite possibly down by the time they play Spurs), and Sheffield United are probably the leakiest side I've seen in this league since our own relegation year. Not comparable.

The whole point is that you can’t just say Spurs will get 6 points. It’s probable, but not a banker. They only beat Sheff U 2-1 earlier in the season, with two goals after 8 mins of injury time. We beat Brighton 6-1.

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Brighton look fucking terrible. How half arsed is this?

[caster troy]

I have imagined every possible eventuality and I wondered how we would feel about you know who scoring a late goal for Man City on the 14th of May to send us to the Champions League. Not the most likely scenario but perhaps the most ironic.

[Smirker]

I have imagined every possible eventuality and I wondered how we would feel about you know who scoring a late goal for Man City on the 14th of May to send us to the Champions League. Not the most likely scenario but perhaps the most ironic.

I'd rather that didn't happen. The club would post something embarrassing on Twitter and our fans would worship him for it.

[Dave]

We're 1/6 to finish in the top four. Spurs are 9/2.

If spurs beat chelsea you will see those odds slash drastically

4 points is very small when you consider they would get 6 from burnley amd sheff utd. We will need to win at least one more game to make sure we do it

Cant see us beating liverpool as we havent beaten them at villa paek since that 7-2 with no fans. Its been a while since we beat them with fans at villa park.

That leaves brighton and palace one win out of those two and i think we should be good for CL

If Spurs are getting 6 points from Burnley and Sheff Utd, there’s no reason to think we won’t get 6 from Brighton and Palace. If we’re just assuming better teams automatically get points from less good ones, that is.

How would you feel if we were in Spurs position? I’m guessing you’d be thinking it was all over for us.

Brighton have been decent at least recently, and Palace have improved a lot under Glasner. Meanwhile Burnley are probably going down (quite possibly down by the time they play Spurs), and Sheffield United are probably the leakiest side I've seen in this league since our own relegation year. Not comparable.

The whole point is that you can’t just say Spurs will get 6 points. It’s probable, but not a banker. They only beat Sheff U 2-1 earlier in the season, with two goals after 8 mins of injury time. We beat Brighton 6-1.

I reckon you could argue that we broke Brighton's season. They'd won five of the first six games before they came to us in September. Only won six league games in seven months since then. Spurs being one of the six, happily enough.

[LeeS]

For the pant-wetters out there (like me) here are some betting combos you can use. The three matches in order are the Chelsea game, the Brighton game and the Liverpool game. Winnings are from a five pound treble with Bet365. Points are totals for us and Spurs after the three matches

Spurs, Brighton, Spurs (£210) 67, 66
Spurs, Draw, Spurs (£289) 68, 66
Spurs, Brighton, Draw (£262) 67, 64
Spurs, Draw, Draw (£339) 68, 64
Draw, Brighton, Spurs (£317) 67, 64
Draw, Draw, Spurs (£411) 68, 64

I've got all of them. There are others but my budget ran out.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

My betting patterns over the next few days will consist of a Spurs W v Chelsea, Spurs W v Liverpool and Brighton W against us.

We'll be celebrating Champions League qualification by Sunday evening. 😉

Good lad. Save me doing it.

[Percy McCarthy]

Injuries starting to hit Spurs again for the first time in a good while. Hopefully their busy end to the season will see this continue, as it has with us. Davies, Werner and Udogie (sp?) out for the season.

[Risso]

I like the way people are still saying "out for the season" when really there's just over two weeks left. Not having a go or owt, it just makes me smile.

[PaulWinch again]

If Spurs do overhaul us they’ll have earned it. It’ll mean we likely have lost the last three and as a minimum they’ll likely have won 3 of 5 games.

[Percy McCarthy]

I like the way people are still saying "out for the season" when really there's just over two weeks left. Not having a go or owt, it just makes me smile.

Haha, this is true. It’s what it says on the Sky ticker I think.

[Richard E]

Ben Davies being out is probably a boost for Spurs, in fairness. He’s pony.