ben1505 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 The Liverpool game is the one that Spurs might get something from (other than the bottom two). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 If Emi is back for Brighton then I think it'll get done on Sunday. It's madness we are in this position really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Brighton are mostly on the beach. anyone made that pun yet??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 13 minutes ago, Jareth said: Brighton are mostly on the beach. anyone made that pun yet??? I sea your pun. I am not gull-ible to fall for it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 People jumping the gun a tad here, I feel. This is by no means done. We have to win a game, and the three games we have are all really really difficult. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted May 3 VT Supporter Share Posted May 3 1 minute ago, Tayls said: People jumping the gun a tad here, I feel. This is by no means done. We have to win a game, and the three games we have are all really really difficult. We don't necessarily have to win a game. We could draw one and still be fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post maqroll Posted May 3 Popular Post Share Posted May 3 37 minutes ago, ben1505 said: The Liverpool game is the one that Spurs might get something from (other than the bottom two). I disagree. Spurs are hopeless. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 22 minutes ago, Tayls said: People jumping the gun a tad here, I feel. This is by no means done. We have to win a game, and the three games we have are all really really difficult. I choose to have faith that the team will beat Brighton as they are more than capable and will certainly want to rebound from last night. Plus Brighton aren’t good. Only thing that makes it really really difficult would be our injuries/if Emi is out. And for Spurs. They’re in a funk, don’t care about 4th as evidenced by their managers words and Pool are still mathematically, however unlikely, in the title race and will not want to end Klopps final season on a string of bad loses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLillis Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Before i start i want to say that we are not out of the Conference league yet and i still believe. No matter what the bookies say (because there odds are based on how many ,generally amateur punters place bets on each team winning) we were not favorites in football terms at the start of the Conference League proper There where lots of teams with an equal shot of winning it. Fiorentina, Bruges, Lille....all good sides and i could add more. I feel like this thread (The Race for the Champions League) will become a regular each season. Villa as a club are back in Europe and we are here to stay. Therefore we have to take last night as a lesson just like Lille was and with Unai i fully believe that we will learn from this and it will stand us in good stead for future success. I am very disappointed about last night....but getting into the Champions League is the holy grail for clubs like us we HAVE to be in it if we want future trophies...because trophies are generally won by teams that compete in it. Its a very dated idea that trophies come first. Did anyone think West Ham would win anything this year....or at the start of next season do you think they will be contenders.....NO they have had their day in the sun. Its Champions Leagues qualification now will enable us to win in future seasons not a Conference League Trophy now however much fun it might be. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zatman Posted May 3 Popular Post Share Posted May 3 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Tayls said: People jumping the gun a tad here, I feel. This is by no means done. We have to win a game, and the three games we have are all really really difficult. Not as bad as people who jumped the gun when we lost to United and Spurs that the season was over and United, Chelsea, West Ham and others would overtake us Edited May 3 by Zatman 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb_82 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 1 hour ago, ben1505 said: Football cliche 101: first goal is crucial in the second leg… if we get it, we are in the ascendancy and we can go on to win…. I’m actually more confident of us going there and having to win , than going there to defend a 1-goal lead… it’s a pity that the penalty was missed. Ideally we need Martinez, Pau, and Yuri back in the team too… maybe even Carlos too. Agree, pen could be the crucial moment as a goal behind i think we do them and bizarrely i do think the same, we have to go there and win now so its a clear strategy rather than thinking do we hold on etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 30 minutes ago, PieFacE said: We don't necessarily have to win a game. We could draw one and still be fine. We could in fact lose all 3 and still be fine ! Obviously nobody wants to go down that path though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Spurs have to win at Liverpool to stand any chance imo. 3 defeats in a row hss cost them there chance. I don't think Burnley is by any means a given win. Burnley will give them a game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tomaszk Posted May 3 Popular Post Share Posted May 3 Torres not starting last night is a big statement from Unai and the club IMO. From here, we can't miss out on 4th. The money is too important. We want the trophy, and the line-up last night was good enough to win, but we must get Champions League. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post markavfc40 Posted May 3 Popular Post Share Posted May 3 (edited) 56 minutes ago, Tayls said: People jumping the gun a tad here, I feel. This is by no means done. We have to win a game, and the three games we have are all really really difficult. Are they difficult games? usually if you have something to play for at this stage of the season you want to play teams with f all to play for. We couldn't hand pick much better sides could we. Brighton are 12th with no chance of qualifying for Europe and have not won in 6 losing 4. Palace are 14th and Liverpool by the time they play us will be able to finish no worse or better than 3rd. If we consider that game at home tough then it is really tough for Spurs as they have to play them away on Sunday. I personally think we have enough already for 4th but if we do need a point or three more we'll get them. Edited May 3 by markavfc40 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 55 minutes ago, Tayls said: People jumping the gun a tad here, I feel. This is by no means done. We have to win a game, and the three games we have are all really really difficult. Spurs have to win three games realistically. Two of those are even more difficult than we have. Again from a few posters on here it's bizarre logic to think Spurs will get something at Liverpool....and yet they'll roll us over with no questions asked at VP. Doesn't really make sense with how both teams are playing currently and indeed what Liverpool are doing home and away. If we draw two of our last three and Spurs win three of the last four then they also have to make up 8 goal swing on the GD (if we both lose one game by a goal). I think we could've done it already with 67 points. I certainly think we'll get 4th without even winning another game from the three left. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted May 3 VT Supporter Share Posted May 3 The first trophy is the hardest, I want us to get one as quickly as possible. Conference league is important Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post markavfc40 Posted May 3 Popular Post Share Posted May 3 I think where getting qualification for Champs league completely tied up can play a big part in our prospects in the conference league is if we could have 4th guaranteed on Sunday, which is very much possible, then what a huge boost that is psychologically going into Thursdays second leg. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Yes if we can tie up 4th before Thurs then it'll be the first time we go into a conf league game without any distractions and I'd expect full strength and full motivation to keep the season going Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Brighton is a huge game tbh. Win and the 10 point gap with Spurs puts enormous pressure on them at Anfield, it also gives us a boost before travelling to Greece. Liverpool for their own drop in form will want revenge for the return fixture and also mathematically stay in the title race for another week at least. It's a huge weekend coming up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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