The battle for 4th place

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prof-taf said:
If Liverpool win Europa is 4 th irrelevant
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Nope. 4th will only miss out if 2 English teams outside the top 4 win both CL & Europa League. E.g. if United came 4th, they'd miss out if we won CL & Liverpool won Europa League.

If L'pool win EL & we don't win CL then there will just be 5 English teams in CL (top 4 + Liverpool).
 
stablemcfc said:
Nope. 4th will only miss out if 2 English teams outside the top 4 win both CL & Europa League. E.g. if United came 4th, they'd miss out if we won CL & Liverpool won Europa League.

If L'pool win EL & we don't win CL then there will just be 5 English teams in CL (top 4 + Liverpool).
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Phew
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
It's going to be very tight indeed.

United have three at home on the bounce, perhaps Palace can give them a game, but the Villa fixture is essentially a one-point gap, at any stage, if we don't win all our remaining games.

We need to get a win from one of Chelsea or Newcastle, and cement that with one against Stoke.

That will set up the Arsenal game. My fear is, West Ham might be taking their foot off if they beat United on Wednesday in the Cup, and start to focus about a potential final.

The United loss at home has really left little margin for error us.
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Spot on Tolms. It's the United lose which has cost us and this is going to be so close. It would be a nightmare if Utd sneak it and Pool do it via the Europa. I hope KDB makes the difference and Utd focus on the FA Cup. A draw at Chelsea and win at Newcastle will settle my nerves a little.
 
I'd love to see us jump Arsenal for 3rd. Would hate to have to play CL qualifying games.
 
Fabulous said:
I'd love to see us jump Arsenal for 3rd. Would hate to have to play CL qualifying games.
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Me too but looking at their fixtures that is going to be very tough. They play 4 at home and these games include Palace, West Brom, Norwich and Villa. They also have Sunderland away. They could hardly have picked a better set of fixtures. We will probably have to beat them and perhaps even win all our remaining games to overtake them. Anything more than one loss/draw and I can't see it.

The loss to the rags was a blow to us. Instead of being above Arsneal and 10 clear of them, we are still not sure how it will pan out. We really could do with a win at Chelsea tomorrow.
 
If we get draws at Chelsea and Saints and then -

Win against Stoke, Newcastle, Arsenal and Swansea then even if United will all their remaining fixtures we should top them on goal difference.

However for us to achieve the above will need a big improvement which could come from the returning players, however we could get side tracked by the Champs League.

We have to get fourth and it's not good that we have got dragged into this position.
 
Massive victory against Chelsea most people thought we would lose so I think providing we win our home games we get top 4. Even if the RAGS go on some unthinkable unbeaten run that doesn't look possible all season.. They barely beat Villa who was already relegated ! LOL

4 points is virtually 5 with our goal difference so 2 wins and with only a few games left of the season.. I think we are over the line

Enjoy it blues great times ! =) haha !
 
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