28 Feb 2021 14:33:31
One thing that I’m impressed with is, two away games and we are behind in both and come back with wins
Burnley then Spuds in the league two wins and the gap of 8 points between us and 4th place might be 6 or 7.
28 Feb 2021 15:50:32
Leiecesters last 3 games are united chelsea and spurs. Now i'm not saying we can catch them but you never know.
{Ed077's Note - and they have shown that they are well capable of a bottle job.}
28 Feb 2021 17:03:22
Not meaning to be negative only realistic but there are 5 other teams between us and 4th place who will all be looking to capitalise should any of United Leicester or West ham drop out.
I am not saying it's impossible for us only that there is an awful lot we have to get right ourselves over the next 12 games and others have to get quite a bit wrong for top 4 to happen this season.
Personally I'd be very very pleasantly surprised if we were to make top 4.
{Ed077's Note - yeah its not just the number of points you need to make but also the number of teams that need to be worse than you}
28 Feb 2021 17:22:00
Absolutely Ed077 mate, if say 65pts turns out to be the magic number for 4th place then
United need 16pts from 13 games
Leicester 16 from 12 games
West ham 20 from 12 games
Chelsea 22 from 13 games
Liverpool 25 from 13 games
Everton 25 from 14 games
Spurs 26 from 13 games
Vila 26 from 14 games
Arsenal 28 from 12 games
Leeds 30 from 12 games.
That's the reality of the task at hand for everyone involved.
28 Feb 2021 20:19:21
And we all have to play each other.
28 Feb 2021 20:37:26
Within reason of course but so many points will be dropped, I’d say top 6 is a possibility.
28 Feb 2021 20:49:12
So many possible variations of what could happen it makes impossible to make even a half educated guess of what is and isn't possible for us in regards of final league position Banbury mate
Personally my target would be do all we can do ourselves to achieve 65 plus points and leave the rest to fate.
We can only control what we do and that's what we should focus on in my opinion.
01 Mar 2021 15:42:16
Top 4 is a tough ask, agree with gunner62, we should do as much as we can in the league. The form that we need to crash the top 4, if we carry that in the Europa league and win it, that will be a great achievement, trophy and champions league. We desperately need to be playing in Champions league again, sooner rather than later.