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Spurs still in 5th but with a game in hand over Villa who are only 2 points ahead, with Spurs having a slightly better GD as well.
So 4th place is now in our hands to win or lose.
ManU 6 points behind, and have played a game more, and have only 10 games to try to catch up - very much an uphill task for them
Wham in 7th place and now 10 points behind Spurs having played a game more and only 10 games left to play (but we still have to play Wham at their place) , so any odds on them catching up getting close to zero now,, and same is true for Brighton in 8th place.
2nd and 3rd places are still possible for us but as we are about 10 points behind (albeit with a game in hand), we'd need to win virtually all our remaining matches to get to 2nd or 3rd place (but we do play all 3 above us - Mancity and Woolwich at home, Liverpool away) in our 11 remaining games.
4 Aston Villa 28 17 4 7 59 41 18 55 5 Spurs 27 16 5 6 59 39 20 53 6 ManU 28 15 2 11 39 39 0 47 7 Wham 28 12 7 9 45 49 -4 43 8 Brighton 28 11 9 8 50 44 6 42
Interesting how it shows the score almost always changes the overal rating.Here's our performances (based on the forum ratings) thus far. Red line is the average.
Our game in hand is away at Chelsea where we have a famously bad record. It’s not like it’s a gimmie however it seems to be indicated as being one. If we win it will be one of the most satisfying results for a while, that’s for sure.
All the defeats below 6.0 were bloody awful games. That Chelsea game I think Vicario got over 9.5 by himself so that helped the average!Interesting how it shows the score almost always changes the overal rating.
The only exceptions IMO are Chelsea and Villa at home. You'd argue for the Chelsea game as we were winning and on top and then everything that could go wrong went wrong. And we still nearly got something.
That Wolves away one was 2 minutes away from probably being above the red line due to winning to nil. Had we won that game people would have been raving about the performance, but it still ranks to me as the worst we've had all season anywhere. In some ways, losing it helped people see it for what it was, including Ange who made changes in the next game.
Our game in hand is away at Chelsea where we have a famously bad record. It’s not like it’s a gimmie however it seems to be indicated as being one. If we win it will be one of the most satisfying results for a while, that’s for sure.
The point (I didn't make was that some of the wins weren't much better. But because we won, they got overrated.All the defeats below 6.0 were bloody awful games. That Chelsea game I think Vicario got over 9.5 by himself so that helped the average!
Perhaps of greater significance Villa still have to play the top 3 (Liverpool, Woolwich, Mancity) but all are away games.
Spurs have the same issue but we have 2 home games and one away game against those three, and a probability of more points.
I hear what you say about Chelsea, but I regard it as a free hit - we are certainly capable of getting a draw.
Anyway with 11 games left for Spurs (10 games for most other clubs) there are plenty of points to play for before the end of the season.
It actually depends how the fixtures pan out. City, United and Liverpool are still in the FA Cup so they could drop a game and end up level with us, then Chelsea isn't a game in hand on them.
It could even be that one of those teams play Villa and that game get's postponed meaning 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th all on the same games.
Looking at a well known FPL account for fixture planning and he has it down for game week 34 or 37. So after the man city game (which could be moved itself) or before Sheffield United. The whole, because it was picked for TV fixture has properly fucked us. I can see us having to play Chelsea before the scum game and then City in the last week of the season. Not great, especially if City have to win to tie up the league that day.
View: https://x.com/BenCrellin/status/1765889588218802528?s=20
Looking at a well known FPL account for fixture planning and he has it down for game week 34 or 37. So after the man city game (which could be moved itself) or before Sheffield United. The whole, because it was picked for TV fixture has properly fucked us. I can see us having to play Chelsea before the scum game and then City in the last week of the season. Not great, especially if City have to win to tie up the league that day.
View: https://x.com/BenCrellin/status/1765889588218802528?s=20
All the defeats below 6.0 were bloody awful games. That Chelsea game I think Vicario got over 9.5 by himself so that helped the average!
The Opta Soopercompoo'er says we'll get 70, one ahead of Villa on 69I personally think we will get to 65 to 68 points
We need 17 pts from 11 games to get 70. W5 D2 L4. Would think that’s comfortable . I think 73 would do us for 4th.The Opta Soopercompoo'er says we'll get 70, one ahead of Villa on 69
Personally, I think we'll finish higher than that and they'll finish lower.
Every team above us is in other competitions