BM - "We will get 4th", Good statement or not?

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Yer won't get any manager, 4 games left, all to play for, taking a look and the fixtures and saying "Oh shit! We're buggered! If Dick Van Miffy plays in the Arse game, and Jimmy Greaves in the Spuds game, we're doomed!"

Exactly!

If the manager doesn't believe it (or at least appear to believe it), how can the players be expected to?

And saying it in our postition with four games to go is worlds apart from Benitez's 'guarantee' half-way through the season.