The race for the Top 4

[FryattFox]

7 matches remaining (I'm excluding Spurs and Everton as it must be pretty unlikely that they maintain a serious challenge). Top 2 look locked in, but all to play for below.

Chelsea have the hardest run, but their fate is also very much in their hands given that they play us and WHU. Liverpool have an ominously easy run in, and unlike Chelsea probably won't have to worry about this season's Champions League for much longer.

Who's your money on?







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[Joe_Fox]

Hate to say it but we've ****ed it, again.

 

[fitz]

Not us. As pitiful as the performance yesterday was, there's much more to why we just don't have the mentality.

 

[SilverFox]

Hate to say it but we've ****ed it, again.

It’s a shame there isn’t a CL place for best bottlers.

 

[SilverFox]

Bright side... we are staying up.

 

[Micky]

We play West Brom and Crystal Palace next in the league. West Ham play Newcastle and then Chelsea. Things could look quite different in two games.

 

[homer]

We play West Brom and Crystal Palace next in the league. West Ham play Newcastle and then Chelsea. Things could look quite different in two games.

Indeed

We could be out of the top four

 

[mabrah]

Fat ladies and opera, and I'm obviously hopeful but I'd be lying if I said I was confident.

We've wobbled at a bad time; both with results and discipline. It doesn't augur well. A good performance, and victory, in the semi might stabilise things and get us back to a good place. We've got a lot of work to do.

 

[mabrah]

Hate to say it but we've ****ed it, again

My fear is not just missing out on a CL spot but then losing players in the summer, players in search of CL football.

And I could see the 'Covid 5' taking the blame for that from some.

Cripes, I hope I'm just being my usual miserable self and have got it all wrong.

 

[Miles Away]

My fear is not just missing out on a CL spot but then losing players in the summer, players in search of CL football.

And I could see the 'Covid 5' taking the blame for that from some.

Cripes, I hope I'm just being my usual miserable self and have got it all wrong.

No, you are onto something there. Failure to qualify will have our very best eyeing the exit.

What we had in our favour was team spirit but that very well could be damaged now.

Yesterday was potentially very costly.

 

[mabrah]

Yesterday was potentially very costly.

And I'm guessing you mean not just the result.

 

[parafox]

Here's hoping we at least get into the Europa League again and have another pop at that.

 

[City Fan]

Here's hoping we at least get into the Europa League again and have another pop at that.

Like we did this year?

 

[parafox]

Like we did this year?

Maybe next year we won't flop out of it quite so embarrassingly. And hopefully there will be fans too

 

[Lako42]

Like we did this year?

When we throw away European progression to focus on gaining betterer European qualification but then **** that up as well.

Lovely jubbly

 

[Feriol]

2 points ahead is still better than 2 behind, it's still in our hands. We are capable of maintaining the top 4 place, just a question of the mentality.

You would expect Chelsea and Liverpool to thrive with the pressure. They have the weight of expectation but they are more accustomed to coping with it than us.

The danger is if we are already thinking "it's been a good season whatever happens now" then it can be difficult to keep pushing yourself

 

[parafox]

Could we still conceivably drop out if we somehow manage to win the next 4 matches? I'd argue we can still put in a performance against spuds on the last day, but never in a million years will we beat chelsea or man utd. But then I highly doubt we have what it takes to win the next 4. Of course we have more quality than them but you would say that about Burnley, Fulham, Leeds, and other teams we've dropped points against.

 

[homer]

People on here couldn't wait for us to get knocked out the Europa League competition this season, so getting stuck back into it again would be complete ****ing bollocks

 

[SJN-Fox]

Well that’s Liverpool well and truly in the race. Given their remaining fixtures I can’t see them dropping many, if any, points on the run in. Six points behind us with a game in hand.

 

[Miles Away]

If we beat Chelsea twice in the next week it would go down in City folklore.