Zatman Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 11 hours ago, ferguson1 said: 25 points after 19 games. Emery has helped us obtain 13 points already. It’s looking very decent but still think we’ll finish between 8th and 10th place. 16 points in the last 8 games The club will be absolutely regretting keeping Gerrard as long as they did 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 17 minutes ago, Zatman said: 16 points in the last 8 games The club will be absolutely regretting keeping Gerrard as long as they did So 2 PPG since Gerrard left. That’s 76 points and Champions League form over a season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Let’s take it game by game and see where it takes us to. We can’t just say we surrender to get to Europe, what’s the point of playing without hope? Hoping and playing for it doesn’t mean expecting it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 1 hour ago, ender4 said: So 2 PPG since Gerrard left. That’s 76 points and Champions League form over a season One point more than Gerrard got over the same number of games after he took over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 I'd imagine top ten is the least we will get... However the aim will be to push for top six, it won't be spun publicly though. We are three points off seventh, if results go our way this and next week Villa are right in the mix for top six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 We gotta be looking at overtaking Fulham. I remember in the Championship this was a foolhardy task as they just kept winning, but they'll fall away at some point this season. Chelsea look shaky as well. We'll need to finish above both of we hope to get 7th. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 Who would of thought we'd be level on points with Chelsea and 3 points behind Liverpool going into the halfway point of the season? (Me of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 Dont really care about the Chelsea or Palace result. We just gotta keep picking up points. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 26 minutes ago, messi11 said: Dont really care about the Chelsea or Palace result. We just gotta keep picking up points. Chelsea needs to keep losing points. Especially against Low and midtable teams. Fulham to win or draw against Newcastle. Palace to win (atleast draw) against Chelsea. Spurs to lose against Arsenal and City. Brighton to draw against Liverpool. Bournemouth to get something from Brentford. Forest to win against Leicester. Wolves to win against West Ham. Those are our best results to happen this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Brighton vs Liverpool - obviously a draw is best for us, but if we have to have 1 team winning, feels like we’re equally likely to catch Brighton as Liverpool so better for us that Brighton win? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blasterpocket68 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Top ten would be great but anything else very optimistic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 5 hours ago, DCJonah said: Nothing really matters this season. If we can get top half then that's fantastic. Next year is when the expectations should rise. It would be good to finish a season very strongly though. If you look back historically we had that amazing run when Gregory came in Feb 1998 and that helped us start next season in brilliant form and top the league. In MON's first season we actually had a pretty good last 10 or so games so it does help with morale and general belief rather than just limping over the line as we did for last few months of last season which I didn't think was a good sign at all and so it continued into the next season. Think a target now should be to win 10 home games. We last did that in premier league in 07/08. Wins v Forest, Bournemouth, Palace, Fulham and Brighton gets us to double figures home wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 5 hours ago, DCJonah said: To some extent. But then we did Deano's 2nd season. To be fair, expectations always have to be reigned in when a new manager comes in. Even in DS season many (including the players) just seemed to write the last three months off as soon as Grealish got his shin splints. We had a very poor run until he came back and we won our last two and got to 55 points but we really should've finished on 60 + points and comfortable top half. Fulham, Brentford and Brighton won't keep on winning forever so we should be targeting finishing above two of those and that will be 8th-9th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 2 hours ago, messi11 said: Dont really care about the Chelsea or Palace result. We just gotta keep picking up points. Chelsea got Liverpool away next weekend so they'll drop points there for sure in their current state. Indeed it wouldn't shock me if today Brighton beat Liverpool so next weekend we could be playing to go level with Liverpool (I assume Liverpool-Chelsea is a Sunday game). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junxs Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Has that new competition been scrapped or do we not count it as being in Europe? Europa Conference or whatever it was called, don't think you need to finish 7th to qualify for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 1 hour ago, abdulaziz1 said: Chelsea needs to keep losing points. Especially against Low and midtable teams. Fulham to win or draw against Newcastle. Palace to win (atleast draw) against Chelsea. Spurs to lose against Arsenal and City. Brighton to draw against Liverpool. Bournemouth to get something from Brentford. Forest to win against Leicester. Wolves to win against West Ham. Those are our best results to happen this week. Chelsea's remaining away fixtures: Liverpool, Man. United, Man. City, Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham, Wolves, Leicester, Bournemouth. I don't see many away wins for them there at all in their current state. Could easily lose 4-5 of those games and I don't think they'll get much over 50 points this season. Of course could change if they sack Potter soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 41 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Chelsea's remaining away fixtures: Liverpool, Man. United, Man. City, Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham, Wolves, Leicester, Bournemouth. I don't see many away wins for them there at all in their current state. Could easily lose 4-5 of those games and I don't think they'll get much over 50 points this season. Of course could change if they sack Potter soon. It’s easier for Chelsea to wake up than Fulham or Brighton to keep winning. For me we should reduce the gap between us and Newcastle (with whoever in between). Now it’s 10 with Newcastle (they have an important game against Fulham which hopefully Newcastle doesn’t win it). If we do that and take it week by week, we could see ourselves in a very good position to compete. We won’t be above all, but once we’re there, atleast we can have more chances to achieve something. And instead of waiting for one to lose we could do by one out of three. We need to take it seriously but without putting much pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david-avfc Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) 6 hours ago, Zatman said: 16 points in the last 8 games The club will be absolutely regretting keeping Gerrard as long as they did It was obvious from Bournemouth on the first day of the season that it wasn't going to work. Even if it was a few weeks later than it should have been at least Nassef stepped in before it was too late, I don't have confidence Purslow would have made the call Hopefully Emery has the time now to get us into a solid mid-table position ready to push-on for next season Edited January 14, 2023 by david-avfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 1 hour ago, VillaChris said: Fulham, Brentford and Brighton won't keep on winning forever so we should be targeting finishing above two of those and that will be 8th-9th. Yep, they are 1-6 points ahead of us with 19 games to play. That has to be our aim to try and overtake those 3 and then we’ll see where we finish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) This season is super frustrating. Whenever we win the teams above us just seem to win. I can't believe how poor Liverpool are this season, yes Brighton are a decent side but Liverpool haven't even turned up today. Edited January 14, 2023 by AshVilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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