Not sure how true it is but my dad was saying our failure in the EL may mean only 4 CL places are available next season. This could be good for us as if its 5 then Villa and Spurs are basically assured of CL with united miles behind.
But if only 4, then they are neck and neck with something to fight for. Granted we have to play them both but so do arsenal. So hopefully villa can give arsenal a game on sunday.
The issue though is that arsenal look solid at the back. And they score goals. We cant stop giving gifts at both ends. City will just win out.
I believe 7 wins wins us the league. I just dont see the steel and backbone there though to dig in and do it.
I think some are a bit narrow minded on here, they say our attack can’t be that bad as we’ve scored this many goals etc
The reality is, and I may be wrong in seeing it this way. I see us as a better offensive team than city and Arsenal. Evidence is in how many chances we create and once we get momentum, we are relentless, you say that against city and arsenal surviving by hoping we don’t score when they played us recently.
That in turn leaves more chances for us to be hit in transition especially when teams have quick and good players against us. So I expect us to give up more chances. I can even accept that but what I will say that is with how much we create, with the risks we take in games so to speak, we should be scoring more and for me it’s our attack that has let us down more than anything this season
We should concede more chances against us but we should off set that by scoring more
Ultimately, look at some of the key games this season, United, city and Arsenal at home. 6 points, but we had our chances fluffed by Nunez and Diaz, simple as that.
We have a chance don, and it rests on two players, jota coming back and Salah finding a decent level of form. We can’t rely on Nunez and Diaz, impartial football fans can see they are among the worst finishers in the premier league but jota and salah could yet keep us in it
I even fancy us to batter Atalanta if those two can find their finishing boots. Bench Diaz, put Nunez on the left and let him create as people keep jacking off of that on here about him.
Keep the faith, jota and salah can salvage our season yet. We’ve seen them do it before and they can be relied upon again.
Just no more of Diaz and Nunez starting, we can’t be playing with two dreadful finishers in the same team imo