DJBOB Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 15 minutes ago, AVFCDAN said: Can someone remind me what results we want tonight for 5th place to be champs league? A Lazio win, PSG/Sociedad is a bit indifferent. Then tomorrow - Madrid and City wins. And next week - Arsenal and PSV wins. In Europa, we want results for Brighton, Liverpool, West Ham (especially). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted March 5 VT Supporter Share Posted March 5 18 minutes ago, AVFCDAN said: Can someone remind me what results we want tonight for 5th place to be champs league? Any German, Italian, Spanish team to lose 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 40 minutes ago, S-Platt said: Any German, Italian, Spanish team to lose That’s tricky to have all 3 lose so for now might be best to want Italians to win, Germans and Spanish to lose. In particular we have to overtake German results to move into the top two countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Looks like Bayern will go through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 8 minutes ago, omariqy said: Looks like Bayern will go through Someone hold Mr Withe’s pint for him and young Nigel’s. UTV !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinebro Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 ,If we beat Spurs on sunday I think it's sealed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Simon Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 7 minutes ago, Pinebro said: ,If we beat Spurs on sunday I think it's sealed Our games against Liverpool, City and Arsenal still make me nervous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkiller1981 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 5 minutes ago, Don_Simon said: Our games against Liverpool, City and Arsenal still make me nervous. Spurs have to play them 3 as well in consecutive games starting the week after they play Newcastle away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Simon Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 2 minutes ago, punkiller1981 said: Spurs have to play them 3 as well in consecutive games starting the week after they play Newcastle away Did not know this! Now feel slightly better. Keep em' coming Punkiller! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Vancvillan Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 4 minutes ago, punkiller1981 said: Spurs have to play them 3 as well in consecutive games starting the week after they play Newcastle away Spurs also have loads of injuries and we have none. Or so I'm told. 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zatman Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 (edited) I would prefer the English clubs except ourselves win nothing and go out early if honest. I would prefer we got 4th on our own merit and not be panicking and relying on others for assistance if needed We just need do our own job Edit: actually I dont mind Brighton winning something Edited March 6 by Zatman 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fightoffyour Posted March 6 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 6 (edited) 2 hours ago, Zatman said: I would prefer the English clubs except ourselves win nothing and go out early if honest. I would prefer we got 4th on our own merit and not be panicking and relying on others for assistance if needed We just need do our own job Edit: actually I dont mind Brighton winning something Most English teams progress to the semis and the 5th CL spot is all but guaranteed. Villa then cement 4th place, win the ECL, but Man City lose the CL final and during the EL final between Liverpool and West Ham a sink hole opens up swallowing both clubs. The extra spot is handed to Germany. Happy days. Edited March 6 by fightoffyour 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Presumably this year is a pretty good one to qualify with the changes coming in. Everyone definitely gets 8 games, rather than 6, so more ££ in the new format? Playing a wider spread of opponents (8 x once instead of 3 x twice) should make it a bit easier to avoid being in the bottom part of the league. Maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mic09 Posted March 6 Popular Post Share Posted March 6 7 minutes ago, rubberman said: Presumably this year is a pretty good one to qualify with the changes coming in. Everyone definitely gets 8 games, rather than 6, so more ££ in the new format? Playing a wider spread of opponents (8 x once instead of 3 x twice) should make it a bit easier to avoid being in the bottom part of the league. Maybe. That is the Villa way; we get a manager who is the biggest achiever in cup football and the cup format changes to a league format. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Wasn't the original plan 12 games? 8 is still far too many. In another 5 years it will go up to 10 no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 3 hours ago, Don_Simon said: Our games against Liverpool, City and Arsenal still make me nervous. Won't be sealed at all. There will still be 30 points to play for. 3 - 5 points is pretty easy to swing with just 2 - 3 games of dropped and gained points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 3 hours ago, Zatman said: I would prefer the English clubs except ourselves win nothing and go out early if honest. I would prefer we got 4th on our own merit and not be panicking and relying on others for assistance if needed We just need do our own job Edit: actually I dont mind Brighton winning something England, like Spain etc only have 4 CL spots because their teams do well in Europe every year over a five-year period. If English teams regularly went out in the group stages, they'd quickly lose 4th, maybe even 3rd spot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 32 minutes ago, duke313 said: England, like Spain etc only have 4 CL spots because their teams do well in Europe every year over a five-year period. If English teams regularly went out in the group stages, they'd quickly lose 4th, maybe even 3rd spot. I am OK with that. I have no pleasure in seeing these scum 6 and the plastic fans win trophies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picicata Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 36 minutes ago, Zatman said: I am OK with that. I have no pleasure in seeing these scum 6 and the plastic fans win trophies You realise if we started winning trophies we would soon garner our own plastic fans and be grouped in with the 'scum' 6? Qualifying for CL and then increasing the likelihood that it can happen year upon year, whether that be through our own continued investment or through more spaces available, is the best scenario for this club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 6 VT Supporter Share Posted March 6 6 hours ago, Pinebro said: ,If we beat Spurs on sunday I think it's sealed Yep same. An 8 point gap with only 11 games to overturn it would be too much I think. Again I go back to looking at eventual totals. If we win against Spurs we'd have 58 points with 10 games to play. The highest points total required for 4th over the last 10 seasons is 76. That would only require 1.8PPG from us to hit from there. Usually the points total needed is around 71 which would be 1.3PPG For Spurs to hit those numbers if they lose against us they'd have to hit between 1.9 and 2.4 PPG which is higher than they've averaged all season (or would be when you include the loss) I don't feel very confident about our game against them. But if we do win then it's as good as done, imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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