John Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 On 12/02/2021 at 09:41, ender4 said: These are some of the teams still in the Europa league this year - Who wouldn't want to be playing against these teams next season... Ajax Rangers Antwerp We have some history with these three. Nice memories of beating Ajax, a rude awakening on our first venture into Europe against Antwerp (that it would be nice to put right) and Rangers didn't much like being beaten even in a friendly. Bring them all on! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Keyblade Posted February 14, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2021 That point yesterday is looking really good now. It's in our hands to finish shove Spurs and Everton now. We play both twice too. Whether we get Europe or not that in itself is a huge achievement. I wouldn't believe anyone if they told me in 2019 that we'd do that in 2021. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PaulC Posted February 14, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2021 28 minutes ago, Keyblade said: That point yesterday is looking really good now. It's in our hands to finish shove Spurs and Everton now. We play both twice too. Whether we get Europe or not that in itself is a huge achievement. I wouldn't believe anyone if they told me in 2019 that we'd do that in 2021. All these problems and we are within touching distance of 4th spot. We're not doing doing too badly for a team that nearly got relegated last season 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Fulham beating Everton 2-0 I guess the league is very weird this season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Good result for us. Hopefully Sheff Utd can do something similar tonight. Newcastle will get bummed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 West Ham are really having a good season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaAlex Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 West Ham are having a good season but have also played Fulham, Sheff Utd and Palace twice. These are teams I'd be expecting us to do the double over but time will tell... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceoftheshamen Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 If we can come out of the next two, Leicester & Leeds, with 4 points or more I may start to think we could actually achieve Europe. We will have to do this having just possibly played our worst football of the season however so it really is "lets see what you're made of" time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 24 minutes ago, danceoftheshamen said: If we can come out of the next two, Leicester & Leeds, with 4 points or more I may start to think we could actually achieve Europe. We will have to do this having just possibly played our worst football of the season however so it really is "lets see what you're made of" time. I don't see it our fixtures in April and May are horrible and we aren't in great form at the minute to get a running start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Unfortunately other teams around us and particularly above us are finding form. Whilst we continue to stutter. However top ten is a great return considering. I don't think we are quite good enough or consistent enough for top six, yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNVillan Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 2 hours ago, paul514 said: I don't see it our fixtures in April and May are horrible and we aren't in great form at the minute to get a running start. Everton, Man U, Palace, Spurs, and Chelsea in May. i don’t fear anyone at the moment, but that isn’t the friendliest run in you’ll ever see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 1 hour ago, MNVillan said: Everton, Man U, Palace, Spurs, and Chelsea in May. i don’t fear anyone at the moment, but that isn’t the friendliest run in you’ll ever see. Liverpool, Man City, West Brom, Everton, Man Utd, Palace, Spurs, Chelsea. That is the list from April 10th onwards. Before that we have Leicester, Leeds, Wolves, Newcastle, Fulham. We aren't playing well at the moment, this isn't the performance levels of the first few months on the season, we need to pick up a lot of points in the next 5 games if we are to qualify for Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 To make it to Europe, let’s just keep every game at a time. Now we only have to think of Leicester (and hope other results to come our way). If we started thinking from now, we’ll definitely think it’s hard. Just win one at a time and see where you are. I used to say that at the beginning of the season and I still do. For me, all teams apart from City (and possibly Chelsea) won’t be far from our reach (if we continued doing well). So it’s critical if we could stop Leicester, while United lose too and whoever below. We still have another huge challenges apart from the weekly games, we play Everton and Spurs twice. It could either benefit us or the other way round. However, if we were with reach it might help us playing them directly at the end of the season. A lot of things to think of, but once at a time and hopefully we all celebrate going to Europe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Chelsea are back now under Tuchel no doubt and they will 100 % make the top 4 with the squad they have. No question. Top 6 still a possibility but will be rough. Especially considering we can't seem to put a good run together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 I was goint to write, 'I think we all know that in our heart of hearts we're not going to get into Europe, too inconsistent' but then changed my mind, lets see how we get on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One For The Road Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 I still think that if we manage to finish in the top half we will have made great progress. There isn't a cat in hells chance of us finishing in the top 6 this season. I would be amazed if we win any of our next two games tbh and think 2 points would be an impressive return. We are at least a season too early for this thread and our recent form shows that. When did we last get back to back wins? Because to make Europe, you need to win consistently, something we just do don't do. I predicted somewhere between 10th and 12th this season and I still think that's accurate. I'll be optimistic and go for 10th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 The league's wide open, of course it's possible for us to make Europe. From the expectation level in the summer to where we are right now, we're doing really well. If we fall a bit short this season, I'm sure we'll get there next year - not worried in the slightest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 A good run could see us breach the top for ala West Ham, a bad run could see us slip right down, ala Southampton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 (edited) West Ham and Chelsea are the only ones being consistent of late and are right up there now because of it. We still have the games in hand but our performances have dipped. But whilst we still know how to keep clean sheets, there’s always the foundation to go and win games. Definitely need to pull a shock out the bag this weekend though. Just dont think we match up well with our next 2 opponents. 2 losses and we could be looking at bottom half so hopefully we get something. Everton have City and Liverpool next 2 West Ham have Spurs and City next 2 Arsenal have City and Leicester next 2 Teams around us have tough games too, so if we can get a big performance or 2 now we’d be in a great position. Edited February 16, 2021 by BleedClaretAndBlue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 really need to get 3 points from either Leeds or Leicester to stay in contention for Europe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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