West Ham vs Spurs or West Ham vs anyone else?
Let's be serious, Spurs are why they say "there's no easy games"
We are a team who, one season beat Wigan 9-1
Then lose 0-1 the very next season.
We are a team that can go away and beat City, having lost at home the week before to Wolves.
And the week after beating City, lose to Burnley.
On paper, we should win all of our next 5 games.
We won't.
Little bit of recent history worth looking at though.
20/21
1st - City - 86 points (we can match that)
4th - Chelsea - 67 points - we can do that and lose to City, Arse AND Pool
21/22
1st - City - 96 points
4th - Tottenham 71 points (achievable)
22/23
1st - City - 89 points (not miles better than 86)
4th - Newcastle - 71 points
I don't want to get massively ahead of myself here. But 33 points to play for, it's not unreasonable to expect 50% - 16 points, that's 69 and we may even get more. In all of the last 3 prior seasons, 69+ is good for 5th or even 4th.
That's where we're aiming now. Not the title. If we were 11 points off top but sat in 2nd, it would be on. But we won't overtake 4 teams in 11 games. One or 2 of them may bottle it and have a terrible run. but not all 4.