Will we qualify for the CL?

[CT Villan]

Not unless we win it.

Still think this. Via the league it's gone.

Agreed, sadly.

[Demitri_C]

Unless we beat Liverpool  and chelsea back to back ti keep us in it there is no chance via league

We had a great opportunity  to close the gap today and we blew it - yet again

[PaulWinch again]

Absolutely no chance - in the league this season our position is reflective of what we’ve been playing like, a mid-table side. We’ll be very lucky to get European football full stop.

[PeterWithesShin]

Forest, Chelsea and Newcastle have all lost 2 of their last 3 and yet our last 3 games means we dropped a further point behind them.

[PhilVill]

Were too inconsistent, so nope. Maybe another 20 points between now and the end of the season so 58 points and about 9th-8th. Playing that slow laborious shite we do 80% of the time, we don't deserve to.

[Demitri_C]

Lets be honest Bournemouth, forest and Newcastle  deserve it more than we do this season on league performances.  These two in league have been poor and thwy were two of the shittest teams in the league

[eamonn]

We're still in touching distance. It's been stop-start all season in the league but what gives me a glimmer of hope is the ability of Rashford and Asensio. If they start games and can have similar impact to their sub cameos so far, I think that'll win us games.

But it's annoying that we might have to take some scalps (i.e Liverpool next week, Citeh away who will probably have their act together) to finish top five when on paper we've thrown away points against weaker teams than us in recent weeks.

[Small Rodent]

Nay, nay, and thrice nay.

[SamTheMouse]

We're still in touching distance. It's been stop-start all season in the league but what gives me a glimmer of hope is the ability of Rashford and Asensio. If they start games and can have similar impact to their sub cameos so far, I think that'll win us games.

You'd hope so, but they're going to struggle if Emery starts them with strict instructions not to break into anything more than a light jog until the 65th minute.

[itbrvilla]

We're still in touching distance. It's been stop-start all season in the league but what gives me a glimmer of hope is the ability of Rashford and Asensio. If they start games and can have similar impact to their sub cameos so far, I think that'll win us games.

You'd hope so, but they're going to struggle if Emery starts them with strict instructions not to break into anything more than a light jog until the 65th minute.

The lack of speed, directness and intensity has been out biggest issue and that's a tactical choice by the manager.

[Rigadon]

When we’re a couple of wins away from it I won’t give up

[pauliewalnuts]

No.

The football is turgid, slow rubbish far too often, like a really low quality Man City.

The defence is more often than not laughably poor and almost everyone scores against us.

We can’t play against lesser bus-parking sides because we don’t really seem to know what to do, and when we do create chances, more often than not we don’t take them.

It is hard to believe we recently won fifteen home games in a row because this season, in the league, I never feel comfortable we will win.

[Stu]

We're just going to have to win it lads

[rougegorge]

We won't make the top five and we may miss out on Europe altogether at this rate.

Bear in mind we have played 5 of the bottom 7 twice already. Given the opposition, just two points from the last three games has been really costly.

[Beard82]

Today I gave up hope.  I thought beating Ipswich and Chelsea would have put us in the mix but clearly they didn’t failed at the first hurdle.

I really hope we get Europe as worried where that will leave us.  Shame really as I think this year will be one of the easiest years to get UCL.

But all season we have been putting in sub par performances - and have been too easy to score against and miss too many chances