Tayls

We are very very good at it. 

Can we get 9 points to match my prediction at the 25 games played mark? I’m slightly less confident after today! Six to play and two of those are guaranteed defeats now that we have reverted back to type. 

2 minutes ago, Mantis said:

Tbf this is the first time we've done that all season (unless you count United as struggling).

At the time I would have counted them as struggling.. I don’t think they were even top 7 at that point? They were certainly fragile. 
We also got pegged back against Luton but managed to nick a winner. 

So settling for 5th then I guess. Should hopefully scrape through. It’s not great at the minute is it. Losing the games we used to expect to lose, and failing to hold onto leads against struggling sides. 

45 minutes ago, est1874 said:

There goes 4th.

Yea pretty much 5th it is, bar an absolute disaster and we end up 6th. 

Really really bad to have this happen numerous times. Very very fragile mindsets. Pretty disgraceful. 

Yea that’s not great is it 

3 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

God bless you Tayls, that raised a chuckle from me. Probably only 16 points off us if they scramble a win at Sheffield United....

You are most welcome! I really wanted a Chelsea win. I was in no way as confident as many on here with the point gap between ourselves and Utd and their game in hand. It’s still a small concern for me, because it’s not mathematically impossible, but that loss for them today has made me slightly more relaxed. I guess. 

CHELSEA TO CATCH US AND TAKE 4TH!! 

I’m saying nothing! 

1 hour ago, fightoffyour said:

As well as what?

The city game! I wouldn’t say we went full strength there! 

So I wonder if the plan is to throw the Arsenal game as well then? Prioritise the conference league and the other lesser teams remaining in the prem?  I say throw the game, but I mean ‘field a slightly weaker side’… 

7 games…10 more points. Can we do it? Can we make it to the magical 69? 

2 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

Only once in our last 7 PL games have we won on xG. That was against Forest. Unlike the season up to that point where we were winning games on xG and on scoreboard

We will be found out soon if we don't improve our performances. 

What does this mean? 

Well if we continue to play like that we’ll win more than we lose. 

2 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

I commend your ability to put a negative slant on things constantly

Erm. What? 

1 minute ago, romavillan said:

3 points at the weekend will be fine, we don't need to win 5-0?!

Well it’s a slight exaggeration, but I’d prefer to have a better GD than spurs at this point! 

If we fail to win 5-0 at the weekend then this would have been pointless. Might as well of gone full strength. 

Our GD! FFS

I mean, we’re pretty much going to lose this. But I don’t feel like we have shifted out of first, maybe second gear. And I think that has been planned. We probably shouldn’t have had such a shite wall for the free kick. But at the same time, us being stupid enough to give away fouls in those positions is rediculously naive. Have city given one away to us in that first 45? I don’t remember one! We have some things that we need to work on.  
But I think for us to be able to experiment and play like this which is far away from what we normally play like, is brilliant! 

Still a bit naive of our lot to pull back on a player in that position and not expect them to go down. Something we need to learn about pretty sharpish on our quest for success. 

Just now, TheStagMan said:

Commentator banging on about what a brilliant term that was from Doku. He fell over FFS!

Yea but imagine if he pulled it off

Just now, Callum said:

Pep really is the most unlikable bloke in football. 

I was watching the City doc on Netflix earlier, and was thinking that he is an absolute genius. How he gets his sides to do what they do is extraordinary. For that I have to like him a little bit… 

This will be disallowed of course because it was an unexpected and unplanned goal for a Sky side to concede 

If city won 20-0, meaning we have the same GD as Man U… could they then catch us?