Can we catch Villa?

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lets not forget that even if we win tomorrow, we are still 8 points behind them, and we have 12 games to make up those 8 points.

the game against them is a given must win, which will leave us with 5 points left to make up. that means out of the remaining 11 games, not only do we have to match each win with a win of our own out of theres, but to make up those remaining 5 we'll need to win 2 games that they lose, or win one game that they lose and draw 2 games that they lose, in both cases i'm not really sure how likely it is.

i think that we can really do it, particularly because the majority of our remaining games all seem very winnable. But lets not forget that even if we do win next week, we differ in points from wigan the same amount as we will from aston villa, so we shouldn't forget that a swing in either direction is easily possible.
 
Looking at Villas fixtures i think they can win all but 3. United, Liverpool and Everton. Looking at ours id say that we could win all but 1 - maybe 2 - Chelsea and Villa.

Its looking doubtful, but you never know.
 

Looking at Villas fixtures i think they can win all but 3. United, Liverpool and Everton. Looking at ours id say that we could win all but 1 - maybe 2 - Chelsea and Villa.

Its looking doubtful, but you never know.

Yeah but the history of run-ins suggests that we won't win all but 1/2 and they won't win all but 3. As I pointed out in my previous post, fatigue, pressure and all sorts of things come into play during the run-in. I'd expect them to win perhaps 5/6 of their remaining 12 games.
 
Its going to be tight, as Villa are [Poor language removed] and a going to completely capitulate, and we are going to go unbeaten for the next 13 games :D
 
I think we could catch Arsenal for 5th but 4th is a tall order. I still think Villa will finish 3rd.
 


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