Will we qualify for the CL?

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Forest (A)
Sunderland (H)
Fulham (A)
Spurs (H)
Burnley (A)
Liverpool (H)
ManC (A)

You'd be disappointed not to get 4 wins out of that with most of our players back.

[Drummond]

Chelsea need 6 points more than us in 7 games to deny us .

[brontebilly]

Chelsea need 6 points more than us in 7 games to deny us .

Think they are done. No break last summer, coach I suspect few of the players have faith in and likes of Enzo prioritising fitness for the WC. As poor as we were against them recently we still created plenty of chances that night.

Hard to get any kind of read from Liverpool's form.

[Toronto Villa]

Forest (A)
Sunderland (H)
Fulham (A)
Spurs (H)
Burnley (A)
Liverpool (H)
ManC (A)

Also important to look at what Liverpool and Chelsea have. It won’t be easy for either of them in current form. They’ll need to improve drastically to bridge the gap to us. And in any case we are going after 3rd.

Liverpool

Fulham H
Everton A
Palace H
Man U A
Chelsea H
Villa A
Brentford H

Chelsea

Man City H
Man U H
Brighton A
Forest H
Liverpool A
Spurs H
Sunderland A

[The Man With A Stick]

If we qualify twice we should be allowed to keep one in our back pocket for the future.

[Brazilian Villain]

After weekend I firmly believe we're 3 wins away from being guaranteed top 5 and CL.

Yeah, that's what I was alluding to last night. Win another 3 games, and Chelsea and Liverpool would likely need 15+ points each out of a total of 39 available. That seems unlikely on their current form.

[RamboandBruno]

We’ll qualify. The midfield, all of a sudden, McGinn, Tielemans, Onana, Luiz, Barkley, looks fooking strong

[eye digress]

As it always was (even with our dodgy form), it is very unlikely that all three pursuers could generate the title winning form required to overtake us, especially given that they have to play each other (which is still the case), unless we showed form not seen under Unai.

We’ve been doing our best to oblige on the latter front, clearly, though you get the sense today that we’re reverting to the mean.

Chelsea put a few wins together, and United have been in terrific form (belying those who were calling them shit, in passing). But even with that momentum, we remain 6 points clear of fifth with 7 games to play - and you could argue, with effectively 6 games to play, really, given the 3 head to heads between those teams in match weeks 33 to 35.

[adrenachrome]

We’ll qualify. The midfield, all of a sudden, McGinn, Tielemans, Onana, Luiz, Barkley, looks fooking strong

Yes, we seem to have weathered the storm, and the signs are that we will back to our best soon.

Huzzah!

[algy]

We’ll qualify. The midfield, all of a sudden, McGinn, Tielemans, Onana, Luiz, Barkley, looks fooking strong

Yes, we seem to have weathered the storm, and the signs are that we will back to our best soon.

Huzzah!

Was just about to write this almost word for word.

Early days, but if we have in fact come out of our dip and get back to the form we’re capable of, I’d be confident of CL football next season, and I think 3rd place would still be very much on the table for us.

Very, very pleased.

[Mellin]

As it always was (even with our dodgy form), it is very unlikely that all three pursuers could generate the title winning form required to overtake us, especially given that they have to play each other (which is still the case), unless we showed form not seen under Unai.

We’ve been doing our best to oblige on the latter front, clearly, though you get the sense today that we’re reverting to the mean.

Chelsea put a few wins together, and United have been in terrific form (belying those who were calling them shit, in passing). But even with that momentum, we remain 6 points clear of fifth with 7 games to play - and you could argue, with effectively 6 games to play, really, given the 3 head to heads between those teams in match weeks 33 to 35.

Let's not kid ourselves. Chelsea have won one in five (us) and Liverpool haven't won in three. If they had simply gotten their shit together, rather than title winning form, we'd be in big trouble.

But they haven't, and you'd like to think we have enough now, so fuck it.

[Steve67]

I wish our goal difference was better but given the fixtures ourselves snd Chelsea have, top five is enough, I am really beginning to fancy us.  Almost a shame that the international break has come at this point.  Could have done without it. 

[PeterWithesShin]

ManU were shit under Amorim, as soon as he was binned they sadly stopped being shit.

[PeterWithesShin]

I wish our goal difference was better but given the fixtures ourselves snd Chelsea have, top five is enough, I am really beginning to fancy us.  Almost a shame that the international break has come at this point.  Could have done without it. 

Helps SJM and Youri get fitter, plus anyone else with knocks that's not away.

[KRS]

Taking Liverpool and Chelsea fixtures into consideration, I think we’ll need 9pts from our next 5 fixtures (takes us to 63pts). If we do that, then I don’t see Chelsea being good or consistent enough under Rosenior to catch us or Liverpool…so worst case scenario would be 5th place. To stay in 4th, we may need to get a draw when Liverpool come to Villa Park…but if we take care of our own business in the next 5 games then it will be done and dusted by then (hopefully).