If we could either finish or defend this could have been 6 win in a row and of course 7 really given the mancs will be giving a walkover thursday. Those two draws mean we need favours, we could be in the box seat for 4th right now with leicester sweating bullets.
No point crying over spilt milk but this is what I said before. If we don’t get CL it would have entirely our fault for squandering easy multiple chances. But the incredible thing is that even after all that we still have a great chance of getting in. Of course we need results to go our way but so far so good. Leicester are right in sweating buckets. Get the fear in Gary lineker’s and Brendan Rogers’s voices when they talk about it? The bookies are now giving both Liverpool and Leicester very similar odds on getting top 4.
If you play like you did tonight i will be very disappointed if our second string don't get points from you on Thursday.
Relieved at the win - yeah, this is what it's come to! - but it was same ****, different match. Followed the same pattern as ones before
Should talk about form WWWDDW. that's us. Cant ask for much more collectively. Our max available was 73. Now its 69. Its individual **** like salah missing two one on ones with forester. We need a big favour from someone v Leicester. One more loss there. We need some favour v west ham, one draw min there. We also need to apply Gd pressure to leicester as 1 win and 2 draws will see them home.
Hmm. Think we need more favours than that, as we're not going to get 12 points from the last four games. I think 7 at most, probably 5, but we'll see.
That simply will not happen. Our best hope is that the Green and Gold have said they'll target Thursday's game again to get it stopped: I actually think, to save face and have a rest, United will only half-heartedly object to the points being awarded to Liverpool after two forced cancellations. Besides that, no way will this team beat even United's third string, let alone their second. They only thing to expect is not to miss so many chances, as we won't be getting as much.
The Utd team against us should be close to their favoured team as the obvious game to rest players in is the Tuesday match versus Leicester . If we had been slotted in on the Tuesday and Leicester moved back to Thursday then that would have left Utd with a dilemma .
They have to play villa first so thoughts of resting could go.out the window with a few. The hilarious thing is even if they roll over for Leicester all they are doing is costing themselves 2nd. They will end up 3rd here behind chelsea as a result of their fans going too far. They are likely to be run out rags against villareal as well.
It is but is it good enough? The aim should be to have as fresh a side v villareal as possible as really that's what matters If we work back from there which games really make most sense?
Villa today - First team 3 pts Leic 11th - second team 0 pts Liv 13th - first team 3 pts Fulham 18th - half and half 3 pts Wolves 23rd - second team 1 pt Villareal 26th - first team