The battle for 4th place

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stablemcfc said:
West Ham's run in:

Arsenal (H)
Leicester (A)
Watford (H)
WBA (A)
Swansea (H)
United (H)
Stoke (A)

Certainly not an easy run in, and 3 (arguably 4 with GD) points off the pace currently; whilst I think they're probably most deserving of 4th to be honest, I think they could struggle now. Can see them picking up 10-14 points most likely.

United's run in:

Spurs (A)
Villa (H)
Palace (H)
Leicester (H)
Norwich (A)
West Ham (A)
Bournemouth (H)

Spurs, Leicester & West Ham obviously not easy, but Villa, Palace, Norwich & Bournemouth are arguably (replace Norwich with Sunderland/Newcastle) the 4 teams you'd hand pick at the moment to play. Have to think there's at least 12 points coming from that run for United; and probably sneak at least 1 point from the other 3 matches, so 13+ would be my guess. Could be relying on Norwich to upset them again (B'mouth have nothing to play for as we saw against us, and Villa are hopeless).

City's run in:

WBA (H)
Chelsea (A)
Newcastle (A)
Stoke (H)
Sot'on (A)
Arsenal (H)
Swansea (A)

We've been almost entirely predictable this season, beat the lower teams, struggle away & lose to any decent opposition. If we follow that pattern we end up with 12-13 points from that run (WLWWLDW). What I would say that could be in our favour is that out of those teams only Arsenal are still competing for anything; and even they may well be safely in 4th & mathematically out of the title race by the time we play.

Luckily our goal difference could count as an extra point over both WH & United, as it wouldn't surprise me if we end on even points with United come the end.
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Why is Chelsea a loss? The are not a top 6 - 8 team. I thought we were good against those.
 
chaddblue said:
Would be even funnier if they pipped us to fourth, then us and the dippers won our euro cups meaning scum had to relinquish their place in the CL
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I think the idea of having to beat Barca in the CL final after the season ends to qualify at all for the CL is not a prospect many supporters would find funny unless it happened. Way too traumatic to even think about that prospect.

We have to focus on earning CL via the remaining matches.

Getting to the final and losing and getting nothing but a place in Europa next season will bring far more hilarity to the rest of football.

We must not let them have that pleasure.
 
Dax777 said:
Why is Chelsea a loss? The are not a top 6 - 8 team. I thought we were good against those.
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They would be top 8 if they had started the season under Hiddink and had the form they have had for months now. They could still finish above us don't forget. Beat them and that will not happen.
 
chaddblue said:
Would be even funnier if they pipped us to fourth, then us and the dippers won our euro cups meaning scum had to relinquish their place in the CL
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might be funny but would do much for my heart, if we had to play barca in final to secure our spot i be hooked up to a life support machine, the old ticker just couldnt take it, :)
 
welsh_andy said:
might be funny but would do much for my heart, if we had to play barca in final to secure our spot i be hooked up to a life support machine, the old ticker just couldnt take it, :)
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Totally agree... The prospect doesn't make me smile either... But if it happened it would be nearly as funny as beating them to the league with two goals in injury time
 
I know you're gonna tell me iv'e thrown my money away but i have just put £5 @ 400/1 us to win the league.
Stranger things have happened
Come on City!!!!!
 
I don't feel comfortable against Stoke. They made us look awful at their place. Maybe one of our worst performances of the season and that's not an easy title to snatch this year.
 
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