CityFanFromRome wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:No. I was hoping for at least 3rd spot, which means finishing above Chelsea. They have been playing worse than us on the whole, werte fucking diabolical v Liverpool & have been underperforming & average all season.None of their players are used to struggling for 4th, they're used to fighting for trophies. A defeat last night would have put them under immense pressure & been a shot in the arm for us. They needed something like last night in order to kick them into gear. They got it; ahuge psychological boost which gives their multi trophy winning players a goal to aim for.
If they beat us, we may well be looking at a table with Spurs & Chelsea ahead of us the next day. Who will be favourites for 4th then? Us? We'll take points from Anfield & Goodison & beat Spurs at home for sure?
Our job just became much much harder.
Who gives a fuck though, so long as Utd didn't win. We can have the satisfaction of them winning the league with 3 less points, which is so important..
I see where you're coming from Ted but I think you're being a bit too negative here. Liverpool and Everton are two games we can win, Everton lost at home to fucking Reading yesterday, FFS, and Liverpool have been average all season; Anfield will lift them but only so much. As for Spurs, it's a tough game for sure but by then we might have recovered our form. As for the Chelsea game, they didn't impress me at all last night and I believe we can at least draw with them, which would defuse part of the scenario you described.
Winning tonight can give us that psychological boost we need to get back into form.
We CAN beat anybody, however we haven't beaten ANY kind of decent team home or away since the home game v Chelsea & that was a backs to the wall tactical battle. We tend to pick up most of our points against poor teams & our game v Fulham was crucial because of that. The Fulham result meant we now have to get those points back. Rags beating Chelsea would have given us back those points as far as our competition with Chelsea is concerned. The fact that they won, means that, if we want to finish above them, we will have to play better, against tougher teams, than we have done pretty much all season. I recon the same thing will apply if we want to finish above Spurs too, so we need both of those teams to lose whenever possible.
We are undoubtably capable of doing it but we were undoubtably capable of beating Birmingham (twice), Blackburn, Wolves, Villa, Sunderland, Stoke, Everton, Fulham, Poznan, Aris, Notts County & Leicester. All teams who have got results against us so far.