Will we qualify for the CL?

[paul_e]

Yeah we've only finished third in the top flight twice, 1894/95 and 1928/29.

I've mentioned that on here before. It's a bit of a quirky stat, given how often we've been runners-up.

Always the bridesmaid never the flowergirl?

[jwarry]

I've resigned myself to accepting that we will be playing in the Europa league next season. It's the only one we haven't had a crack at yet and Unai's got a great record in it so we have a chance of winning it. CL would be a bonus of course but we have the worst goal difference out of the competing teams. We've struggled to get our goal difference into the positive column all season long and it's turned out to be our achilles heel.

Our Achilles heel turned out to be tha last minute goal we conceded against Citeh - and if I remember rightly Unai’s face said it all when it went in, he was devastated

[cdbearsfan]

Maybe. Or maybe it'll turn out that our injury time winner against Chelsea was the vital goal?

[jwarry]

Maybe. Or maybe it'll turn out that our injury time winner against Chelsea was the vital goal?

True but if the Citeh goal hadn’t gone iin we’d have 67 and they would have 66

[Dave]

Maybe. Or maybe it'll turn out that our injury time winner against Chelsea was the vital goal?

True but if the Citeh goal hadn’t gone iin we’d have 67 and they would have 66

And if the Asensio goal hadn't gone in we'd have 64 and they'd have 67.

[The Edge]

I've resigned myself to accepting that we will be playing in the Europa league next season. It's the only one we haven't had a crack at yet and Unai's got a great record in it so we have a chance of winning it. CL would be a bonus of course but we have the worst goal difference out of the competing teams. We've struggled to get our goal difference into the positive column all season long and it's turned out to be our achilles heel.

Our Achilles heel turned out to be tha last minute goal we conceded against Citeh - and if I remember rightly Unai’s face said it all when it went in, he was devastated

The defence switched off in the 95th minute and it was a hammer blow. Not only for our CL ambitions but it carried over to the semi final a few days later. Over the season we've dropped plenty of points in games where we've missed great chances. We also developed an alarming knack of conceding from the first shot on target. All in all it lead to us having a negative goal difference right up until quite recently. When you look at it that way it's quite an achievement that we're still in with a shout of CL football going into the last game. I guess what I'm getting at is we need to score more goals and concede less. Who knew.

[The Edge]

Yeah we've only finished third in the top flight twice, 1894/95 and 1928/29. Once in the second tier (1972/73) the year before they extended promotion from the top two to the top three. 🥺

Bloody hell that must of took some serious research. Fair play .

[Somniloquism]

Yeah we've only finished third in the top flight twice, 1894/95 and 1928/29. Once in the second tier (1972/73) the year before they extended promotion from the top two to the top three. 🥺

Bloody hell that must of took some serious research. Fair play .

He just looked on the right wall of his bedroom.

[RamboandBruno]

If everything goes to form on Sunday, which it of course might not, but form usually does count for something, then we should win, man city should beat Fulham, Newcastle should beat Everton and Chelsea shouldn’t win at Forest. Which would mean we qualify.
I don’t buy all this talk of the man city game, why not go back to any game during the season, what about Bournemouth at home, the two Ipswich draws, how about Malens last minute miss against Liverpool, or Ollies two open goal misses against Arsenal back in August.
We are where we are and we have a good chance on Sunday.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Yeah we've only finished third in the top flight twice, 1894/95 and 1928/29. Once in the second tier (1972/73) the year before they extended promotion from the top two to the top three. 🥺

Bloody hell that must of took some serious research. Fair play .

He just looked on the right wall of his bedroom.

What's on the left wall?

No. Don't answer that.

[Drummond]

I don't think it's going to happen. There I've said it. 😔

[Duncan Shaw]

I don't think it's going to happen. There I've said it. 😔

You and the Beeb by the read of it, their take this morning reads to me that they think Forest have got more chance of it than us. 

I think it depends on us winning, obviously.  If we can turn up and get a result under pressure, then I think one of the other results will go for us.  But whether we do is what I'm wrestling with!!

[Rigadon]

I don't think it's going to happen. There I've said it. 😔

You and the Beeb by the read of it, their take this morning reads to me that they think Forest have got more chance of it than us. 

I think it depends on us winning, obviously.  If we can turn up and get a result under pressure, then I think one of the other results will go for us.  But whether we do is what I'm wrestling with!!

Ever the bridesmaid… the bbc has pictures of the ‘other 3’ managers this morning.  It will never change. 

[cdbearsfan]

The BBC article I read predicts us to finish fifth.

[Somniloquism]

I don’t buy all this talk of the man city game, why not go back to any game during the season, what about Bournemouth at home, the two Ipswich draws, how about Malens last minute miss against Liverpool, or Ollies two open goal misses against Arsenal back in August.
We are where we are and we have a good chance on Sunday.

The reason I'm looking at that one is because we were in the middle of a great run (and is the only blip in the league since the Palace game) and we just didn't play as well as we could have. Even on 90 minutes it would have been a result to take and if we had held on for the draw we would have been on 67 and they would have been on 66. So all we had to do was match Newcastle, Citeh and Chelsea instead of relying on other results even with a win.

Yes any dropped points could be pointed out but to me this is the killer if we don't make CL.