Honestly, I look at our last games as a combination of poor form and playing tricky games.
I look at our upcoming fixtures as a chance to gain some momentum, confidence and importantly wins too.
Losing at home to an out of form Liverpool really knocked the confidence out of us.
Similar thing after the Champions League final.
L (A) Liverpool - as mentioned above.
L (A) Brighton - the fixture after the morale crushing loss where the players couldn't bounce back.
L (H) Chelsea - Always a tough game for us. New manager thing going on there too.
W (H) WBA - We could have believed this was a return to winning ways.
L (A) Everton - A good, but tough game full of errors. Ultimately out the cup. Morale dented further.
L (A) City - We had no chance.
W (A) Wolfsberger - Yay, beat a trash side... back to winning ways??
L (A) West Ham - They are really flying at the moment. Thought we deserved more regardless.
Coming up..
W (H) Wolfsberger - Expect a thorough win here with lots of goals.
W (H) Burnley - Expecting to win.
D (A) Fulham - Historically tricky fixture for us.. Expect a draw but a win is certainly possible.
W (H) Palace - They have been picking up wins, probably feeling a bit safer now - expect a win.
D (A) Woolwich - Like us, have been poor. Dull draw for me here.
W (H) Southampton - Is this postponed? A side in poor form I expect us to beat.
W (A) Villa - Hard game to call.. By this time I'm expecting us to be in form and pick up 3 pts.
W (A) Newcastle - Another ground I worry about us visiting. They are bad though.. expect a win.
L (H) United - It's a long way off right now, but current feeling is this looks like a loss.
L (A) Everton - Would like to say a win, but probably a 'Mourinho out' style defeat.
L (N) City - We don't win cups any more. 'Mourinho out'.
W (H) Sheff Utd - No cup win.. We really need to fight for top 4 and it starts here.
W (A) Leeds - win
W (H) Wolves - win
W (H) Villa - win
L (A) Leicester - Final day of the season drama to secure Europa League spot
65pts. Finish 7th~ but above West Ham and Woolwich, and roughly 5 points off top 4.
14 games to play. I predicted 29/42 pts. I think around 34/42pts will challenge top 4 which isn't beyond possible.
West Ham have to play City, United, Woolwich, Leicester, Chelsea, Everton yet. Some true tests for their supposed European credentials.
Woolwich to play Leicester, Spurs, West Ham, Liverpool, Everton, Chelsea.
Spurs have United, Woolwich, Everton, Leicester - but otherwise I would suggest a more favourable set of fixtures.
Will look back at this post in the summer thinking what a pessimist I was hopefully too.
COYS!