Top 4? 2020/2021

[Billy Bob mate]

Before every season on here there's fear over a team who are 'winning' the transfer window and are gonna be much stronger than us.

Every season that team fails.

Usually it's Everton. This year it's Chelsea.

We'll finish above them and Man Utd.

3rd for me.

 

[Trotter]

Personally think Man City, Leicester and Man Utd are uncatchable for us.

Chelsea have already righted their issues with appointing Tuchel, win tonight 6 points clear of us. We won't be catching them. Then there is Liverpool, we are giving them a head start, do we really think we are catching them ?
And that is not to discount Everton, Villa and West Ham, who we are all giving head starts to and are playing much better than us.

Only hope is to do a Chelsea, get rid of manager and hope for new manager bounce.
As things currently stand don't expect Mourinho to get us any European Football at all for next season, and apart from games against maybe Sheff Utd, West Brom I would not be backing us to win.
We should still be good enough to beat the likes of Newcastle, but I wouldn't back us to beat any other team in League currently under this manager. I currently rate us at a Palace. Burnley, Brighton, Fulham level of team (and considering we have drawn with 3 of them and lost to the other recently think that is fair). Would you see any of them going on a run we would need to ?

 

[Spursidol]

We have 13 games left to play and 39 points...... and we have 39 points on the board now.

1 Where we want to get to.

So still all to play for, and 6 points off Wham in 4th with a game on hand.

And above them in 3rd place are Leicester with 49 points.... but they seem to be in freefall due to injuries.

So there may well be 2 places in the top 4 up for grabs still.

2 Players Back

If Bale's improvement in form continues, he gives us a 3rd reliable goalscorer to add to Kane and Son....and maybe Dele is back in some sort of form to add to the forward options we have had available this season.

So more rotation options to ensure Kane and Son are not over-played ..... and more goals scored than in the first part of the season.

And if Lo Celso is back fully fit in the next 10 days, adding a tenacious creative player to our CM options vastly increases our rotation options in a place where we have been short ......... giving more protection t our defence and chance creation for our forwards.


So all options open, we just need to pick up the points.

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[Don Corleone]

We definitely ain’t getting top 4 guys. Think we need to take a step back for a second and not get too over excited here. Yesterday was a breath of fresh air and I am excited as anyone to see Bale come back to form in the last 4 games, but for us to get top 4, we need to rely on pretty much 3/4 teams dropping a huge amount of points, plus us winning most of our remaining games. With our dogshit defence, this isn’t happening. We are finishing 6th or 7th at best unfortunately. Our piss poor form the last 2 months is our downfall. Europa league though is a different story and this is by far our best chance of winning a trophy, plus getting into the CL. The league cup to come too obviously.

 

[mummy]

Why is it going to take 10 wins from 13?
Win our game in hand and we're 3 points from 4th.
Our goal difference is better than West Ham, Liverpool and Everton. Leicester are in utter free fall.
All we need to do is win that game in hand and then win a game more than the teams between us and 4th.

"All we need to do is..."

or maybe...

 

[TheRealTI]

If ManU won EL and Liverpool /Chelsea won CL , still a possible problem for us if we finished 5th for example.

A lot of permutations to consider atm.

Let's just win the EL and not have to worry about it

 

[hiatus]

4th place and beating Woolwich in the Europa League final, thus denying Chelsea, West Ham, Liverpool and Woolwich places in the Champions League next season?

 

[TimothéeAtouba]

I’ve just seen Chelsea, West Ham and Everton’s schedules and I think we have the easiest of the lot.

With the way Leicester are playing and with the schedule that they have, I think they could blow their lead as well.

We simply have to win tomorrow, can’t describe how important it is.

 

[Dr Rocktopus]

I take it we’re in the unusual position of wishing Woolwich well this evening against the Dippers?

The usual. Meteorite.

 

[Juno]

All aboard the hype train (again)

Yes, Chavs and Leicester both lose today. We’re ice cold killers when it comes to capitalising on our rivals slipping up.

 

[Don Corleone]

Far to many chances we have had and far too many times we have fucked it. Chelsea and Westham won’t keep dropping points and neither will Liverpool. All 3 will come above us easily. We are the biggest bunch of bottling shit cunts on the planet

 

[tommyboyspurs]

Delusion if we think we get top 4. Liverpool will finish higher and so will chelsea even if spam come crashing down

 

[Don Corleone]

Good result tonight. Everton drew with BHA.
Newcastle just hit a bit of form. 10 man Leeds just beat City away.
But you have to say that the Everton game really is must win.
OK, we lost but I was encouraged that we didn't lose because of feck ups and we put in a reasonable performance against the 2nd best team in England, unbeaten away for over a year.
The fat lady ain't sung yet.

	Fr 16Apr 2021	Everton	v	Tottenham
	Sa 17Apr 2021	Newcastle	v	West Ham
	Sa 17Apr 2021	Southampton	P - P	Crystal Palace
	Sa 17Apr 2021	Wolves	v	Sheff Utd
	Su 18Apr 2021	Woolwich	v	Fulham
	Su 18Apr 2021	Man Utd	v	Burnley
	Mo 19Apr 2021	Leeds	v	Liverpool

oh here we go, the next “must win “ post. Then, when we inevitably drop points to Everton, it will be the next league game is the must win. Then the next. Just give it up mate ffs. This Spurs team under this gutless coward are a fucking shambles. We can’t defend a lead. We can’t win games. We don’t beat teams in the top half. We don’t take advantage of others misfortune. We are an absolute shambles of a team and we are not getting Top 4 or coming remotely close to it, 8th or 9th at best and it’s what we throughly deserve. Stop with this delusion mate, it’s embarrassing.

 

[sudoku]

Jesus

We could lose our next 5 games 5-0 and you would still look on the bright side and be posting tables for our next must win game in our aim to finish 13th.

We're 7th, not 17th.
We are 7 points behind Leicester who are in 3rd and we have to play them.
We are not a team of mugs. We have great players and are well capable of putting a run together.
But if you and others want to wallow in misery-be my guest.
I am looking forward to the Everton game as I look forward to every game we play.

2		Man Utd	31	27	63
3		Leicester	31	18	56
4		West Ham	31	12	55
5		Chelsea	31	19	54
6		Liverpool	31	16	52
7		Tottenham	31	17	49
8		Everton	30	3	48

 

[Tomo]

Wish we’d have sacked Jose a month or two ago, might have had a real chance of top 4. We are now reliant on other fucking up to some degree.

Jose a man who has declined so much that Ryan Mason produces better football in his first game than we have for many many months.

 

[Nabil Bentaleb]

Just delete and burn this thread down

 

[Nabil Bentaleb]

We won’t finish top 4. No chance in hell. Fifth is the highest we could go

 

[To Dare Is To Do.]

Back in our hands to finish above Everton, good chance that will be the case for Liverpool and West Ham after this set of games.

And Leicester have Man U and Chelsea to play; before facing us last.

If we win the remaining 5 games, I think we get top 4.

 

[TheRealTI]

I still don't think it will happen unfortunately.

Still though, I would take Europa again, despite the way it ended, there were still some fun matches along the way and it would be great to get players like Skipp and Rodon a lot of minutes.

 

[Kekerinho]

Top 4 was gone for a long time. Finishing 5th wouldn’t be that bad given the state we’ve been in this season and that’s what we should try to do.