4th Place - What's it going to take?

bluemantis · April 18, 2014

Just looking at arsenals last four matches 3 of them are battling relegation and ours don't really have mutch to play for. Utd is just for pride, city are pretty much out of the title now, Southampton is a nothing match really for them and Hull will be sorted by time we play them.

doubt it is over yet.

bluemantis · April 18, 2014

Billy Dean said:
That's what I though, and I thought that about Pulis too so now I'm less convinced.

Yeah but moyes isn't going to stick 11 men in there area. We play better against teams that play football not anti - football like pulis. That was also a one off match sometimes a team just has one of those day like eh.

KTH · April 18, 2014

bluemantis said:
Just looking at arsenals last four matches 3 of them are battling relegation and ours don't really have mutch to play for. Utd is just for pride, city are pretty much out of the title now, Southampton is a nothing match really for them and Hull will be sorted by time we play them.

doubt it is over yet.

It is definitely not over yet, I firmly believe we will get 4th if we win our remaining games as I'm confident Arsenal will drop points at Hull and/or Norwich.

The difficulty of course will be overcoming United and City who, make no mistake, are still fighting. United have a game in hand on us and have been much better recently in their attempt to salvage a strong finish from an exceptionally poor season. City only need a result or two to go their way and the title race can swing right back in their favour.

We have a wonderful opportunity here, but however it pans out, I've been extremely impressed with Bobby's first season.

griffla · April 20, 2014

Man City still have Palace away and a trip to us...

Tchnique · April 20, 2014

griffla said:
Man City still have Palace away and a trip to us...

Arsenal also have to play Norwich and West Brom, who probably will be fighting for their lives.

Royal Blue Jersey · April 20, 2014

bluestevon said:
That Fiorentina game was heartbreaking in the end but one of the very best atmospheres I've experienced at Goodison mate

For me, it was THE best (I'm 23). I loved Uefa Cup 08. Every game was memorable

i'm blue da be dabu die · April 20, 2014

A time machine to go back and beat palace as I think our top 4 chances died in that loss. I don't think arsenal would win 3-0 if they were still behind us and chasing our results.

toffeejack · April 20, 2014

Blue Cheese said:
Moyes hasn't got the tactical nous to outwit Berto

showed today. you play on the counter attack away and are quite successful, so we'll do the same to you = martinez wins.

he should have stuck fellaini up top and lumped it up there, we don't cope well with that sort of play.

toffeejack · April 20, 2014

for all 3 gameweeks, arsenal have an easier fixture than us. it's going to be very tough.

bluestevon · April 20, 2014

toffeejack said:
for all 3 gameweeks, arsenal have an easier fixture than us. it's going to be very tough.

the best way is them to stay favourites mate tbh, we perform better in the chasing roll, so lets hope come last game of the season we have a result to chase and see how Arsenal react in it

barneygumble · April 20, 2014

I wouldn't discard it by any means, especially after seeing Sunderland this week, and Norwich's good display today, it goes to show that Anything can happen. But then we know what happened against Palace, and that could prove to be our stumbling block.

3 hard games, where both away games could be seen as 'winnable', in regards that Southampton are comfortably in 8th, and can't go higher or lower, and that Hull will be having one eye on the cup final, the following weekend, and the players won't want to get injured.

toffeejack · April 20, 2014

bluestevon said:
the best way is them to stay favourites mate tbh, we perform better in the chasing roll, so lets hope come last game of the season we have a result to chase and see how Arsenal react in it

yeah true, but we've also failed to perform a few times this season when we've had the chance to go fourth. seem to have improved on that lately though with our results since feb. all we can ask for is just one more chance, if we don't take that, them we definitely only have ourselves to blame.

anyway, chance to put them under real pressure if we beat saints. leave then with 2 days to dwell on being 5th for the time being - see how they cope.