The battle for 4th place

[Chippy_boy]

We can bet on the "institution" helping the rags any way they can, starting with making sure Vardy is banned for it. Can't you just guarantee that?

I fully expect he will be and buoyed by that I think the rags might beat them at the swamp.

I think if the unimaginable happens and we don't beat Stoke, we've blown it. How ****ing stupid was it not playing our A game against Newcastle. I'm still fuming about it.


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[Silvercloud]

Still in our own hands this. I'm not worrying until we start having to rely on other teams to help us out.
10 pts from the next 4 games will be enough. Newcastle was a disappointment but the next 4 games are all winnable. 4 wins will see us finish 3rd so it's not all doom and gloom.
It's now up to the players that step over that white line.

 

[Tom_mcfc]

We can bet on the "institution" helping the rags any way they can, starting with making sure Vardy is banned for it. Can't you just guarantee that?

I fully expect he will be and buoyed by that I think the rags might beat them at the swamp.

I think if the unimaginable happens and we don't beat Stoke, we've blown it. How ****ing stupid was it not playing our A game against Newcastle. I'm still fuming about it.


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He will be banned as he rightly got sent off for diving then proceeded to call the ref a ****. I hope he is banned as it's justice. If we lose out on top 4 it is because of our own failings and not on Vardy playing against the rags. You said as much yourself in your next sentance

 

[kupest]

Very nervous now. I think tomorrows game will make or break our top 4 chances. We win tomorrow and I think we will get over the line. I really don't see us winning against Arsenal, they give us a game every time we play them.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Well, thanks to this week's results, we now seem to have gone from a point where we expected to win the Stoke game, because we were on a roll, and would have played it in a relaxed but focussed manner, probably putting in an early goal exactly because of that, to a point where we have to win it, and will consequently be tight and nervy. But honestly, we should be beating Stoke at our place (Stoke, who have got nothing whatsoever to play for, in any direction), in any case. Otherwise, really, what is this squad worth?
Still think we'll get top four, but third place would have been definitely preferable. Could still happen. What we have in our hands is the Arsenal game at the Etihad (just as we had the rags in April 2012). Months back, I was convinced that would be the title decider. I'm now convinced that it's very simply the decider for third and fourth places.

 

[Malty]

We done the number crushing a week or so ago. City could afford a few bad results.

This RAG team ain't winning every game.

Calm down lads.

 

[SWP's back]

horrible feeling he will rotate on saturday vs stoke and we will drop more points.......
The fact that we are in this position fighting for forth is a huge blight on MP - the guy is a bang average manager

I don't think he's as good as that.

I can't think Hughes would have done worse with this squad three years in.

 

[Malty]

Still in our own hands this. I'm not worrying until we start having to rely on other teams to help us out.
10 pts from the next 4 games will be enough. Newcastle was a disappointment but the next 4 games are all winnable. 4 wins will see us finish 3rd so it's not all doom and gloom.
It's now up to the players that step over that white line.

This is a man long in the tooth who knows his onions.

Relax. Not time to panic yet.

 

[SWP's back]

I keep reading posts about Pellegrini only being interested in th c/l but we won all the league games either side of the PSG games, he seems to have got those selections just right to me, and the changes against Newcastle were more or less enforced.

Playing Delph left wing

Toure and Nando centre midfield two

And bringing on Bony

None of those were enforced.

 

[ZZmaestro]

The gooners at home will be the season defining result. Win, and we are in great shape to finish 3rd.
Loose or draw, and we get ourselves into a potential trap in that ultimate game against the sheep-shaggers.