Will we qualify for the CL?

[edgysatsuma89]

I wouldn’t want to be in the Conference League, I very much want Citeh to win the cup now.

Agreed. I feel a bit of a snobby ****** for thinking it, but sides like us shouldn't be in that competition in the first place.

Edit: That's not to say I didn't enjoy our first foray back into European football, but it would be some comedown now.

[cdbearsfan]

Champions League: top five
Europa League: sixth or seventh if Palace don't win the FA Cup
Conference League: seventh or eighth if Palace don't win the FA Cup

[PeterWithesShin]

We'll be 4th going into the last game. A point will be enough. We go 2-0 up. They score 3 in the last 10 minutes, we finish 6th on GD. It's the Villaest thing we can do.

[PeterWithesShin]

And will prove once and for all that GD is worth a point.

[Beard82]

Champions League: top five
Europa League: sixth or seventh if Palace don't win the FA Cup
Conference League: seventh or eighth if Palace don't win the FA Cup

Thanks yuo - so English teams results that are still in Europe doesnt effect this.

[cdbearsfan]

I'm not entirely sure how Chelsea winning the Conference League effects things if they don't qualify for the Champions League. Given their league positions, Arsenal, Man U and Tottenham make no odds.

[Brazilian Villain]

We now play Spurs 3 days before their final with Bilbao. Just need to beat Bournemouth away, and we can win our last four.

[cdbearsfan]

They're playing Man U in the final. ****** always win. And obviously we won't be beating Man U. Champions League has gone.

[Ads]

I hope today creates a feeling of resolve and bitterness so that we respond. I was worried PSG might knock the stuffing out of us, but our response was tremendous. Put a score of Fulham, then we have 3 games to roll the dice and who knows. We've got to swing for the rucking fence every game though. We're absolutely shite when we're cautious.

[OzVilla]

No. No other results are going our way which we need so I think it’s over. I think we’ve run our race tbh.

[Cliftonville Villlain]

I thought the 2 week break was outstanding management. Get them off to the sun, recharge the batteries and ready them for the final 6 weeks. No repeat of last year's run in. McGinn and Rashford ran the fucking show in the PSG second leg. Unai subs them and we go out. Today he picked the one side not to play against a team which has our number. And we were embarrassed. Rogers has been running on fumes all month, too much respect given to a sub-par City side, Mings nowhere to be seen in a game crying out for him, Malen is being criminally overlooked and our season is going to shit at the worst possible time. What Unai Emery has done for the Villa over the last two seasons has been absolutely sublime. But he has cost us.

[Villan82]

I have been obsessing over other results for weeks. Looking at all the permutations and thinking we can make the top5.

But the FA cup was the one I really wanted. It was there for us to win.

After yesterday I couldn't care less anymore. What's the point if there is such a disconnect about the importance of winning trophies? If we were 17th and fighting against relegation i could sort of understand it  but a trophy is the thing missing.

The FA cup is why everybody knows Peter McParland in his 91st year. Will whoever is around in 60 years time really remember Jhon Duran as the player who scored the goal to finish 4th?

Yesterday is such a kick in the balls.

[wince]

Agree with Villan82. Yesterday we had the best chance to win the FA cup but respect to cheat city and palace and we are left scrapping for the leftovers when we have done this to ourselves across the entire season. Not beating key sides this season will cost us big time and 25 years after our other chance this side of the moon landings we failed to turn up to Wembley. Even 10 years ago I knew we wouldn’t beat Arse but we battered Liverpool in the semi. For all the talk of trophies we squandered last year in Conference. Woven into our DNA, acrophobia or just plain shit, we should be winning things regularly.
Like many others I knew we wouldn’t win the CL but the FA cup is the one I want us to win. But I was 12 going on 13 last time we won major silverware. How long will we have to wait and be chasing European slots or top 8 finishes?
I love Emery but yesterday Palace played exactly the same as each time they tonked us and we fanny it around the back and invite pressure onto us all the time.

I said on the match thread they were playing us off the park. And they did because all they had to do was wait for us to tippy tippy it around and run at us.

Taking McGInn off, no Malen, no Mings is shite. When he is right he is right but yesterday there was no game plan at all. And the players looked bored.

Just sore today but he needs to make us invincible away from home as we turn into a wet napkin away from home.

[Ian.]

We’re still in the hunt so we need to freshen up and just go for it now, we need the momentum going into next season.

[ChicagoLion]

I am with Villan82.