The battle for 4th place

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Not that it will mean anything, but I won't be watching us again this season in the league, only because of the fucking annoyance it's causing me. Season has quickly become pointless so imo its the long wait for pep.
 
Marvin said:
We also dominated the game even if it was against a visibly tiring Utd team.

Nasri and De Bruyne are big misses. We had so much possession outside their box. Surely those two would have added some much needed quality. We also lost Sterling and his pace against tiring defenders would have been a big asset. Losing him was a big loss.

Nothing is going for us at the moment. But we create problems too by playing players who really should not be playing in high intensity Derby games.
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Yeh the stats make it look like we played better than we did but there were some chances that normally would have resulted in goals when things are going well for us. Bony was falling over and not on the same page as anyone who was trying to find him but to be fair he was making a real effort to get hold of the ball so it was half them choosing the wrong passes too, it was just as if the players lost belief I think the crowd played a small part in that... "oh ffs here we go again" is not what the players need to hear so early on in the game. We want them fighting for it but smart about it... not sheer desperation looking at the clock, psychologically that works against you.
 
Savage surely feels like idiot for backing from his pre-season claim that we won't finish in top 4.
 
I thought I was being pretty pessimistic a few weeks ago when, based on our form and the lack of enthusiasm in the squad, that a top 4 finish was 50-50.

But then the rock of our defense, Kompany, got injured.

And we lost to the Rags - thought we'd be up for that one and win.

Now.... I just don't know. Will Nasri and De Bruyne make enough of an impact? I hope so.

Your thoughts?
 
I wouldn't bet on it.

There again I wouldn't have bet on us winning our last 6 on the bounce last season.
 
karen7 said:
You could have searched for the several other threads asking the same question

Just saying
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Yeah... but those threads, where ever they are, have all dropped of the front page of the forums. So, I thought, maybe the loss of Kompany is a new variable, worthy of a new thread.

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Seems like the moderators have merged my thread. Thanks!

But the loss of Kompany is huge! So I hope this doesn't drop off the radar.
 
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I will probably get abuse for this but I laid us on Betfair on the top 4 finish market when we were 1.2. I win 500 quid if we don't. I'd be happier to not win the money but if it continues to go tits up at least I get the consolation of having next season's season ticket paid for, in fact more than paid for now I'm in SS tier 3. So in answer to your question, no.
 
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Looking at the fixtures for us United and West Ham I have West Ham getting 4th us 5th. FML
 
Chippy_boy said:
You see us finishing above the scum?
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From working out how many points we both will get from our remaining games I had us gaining an optimistic 14 and them doing the same so if that happened yeah however I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't. We are in the Europa from the league cup so there is no escaping it even with a major slide
 
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