Can we realistically go on a decent run?

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Just need to take one game at a time because the more we challenge the top 6 the more things will go wrong like weird sending offs and long injury lists.

We're still only at about 3/4rs full strength, just wish we could get a lot of luck live wolves have and string a load of consecutive games together with our first team.
 
I think there's nothing wrong at this point in taking a 'one game at a time' approach to things really.

On paper, yes, our next 3 homes games should be wins but we just need to start concentrating on the next opponent. I think it tends to be the medium-term thinking that gets us so wound up at times - this season is effectively a freebie so let's just take each game as it comes.
 
Next five games we can get 10 points from. That would put us top 7 maybe even top 6 if things work out. Then we'd be into the winter and the teams above us will have European games (and LC games maybe) coming thick and fast until mid-December.

If we get players fit and continue to improve I can honestly see us top 5/6 coming up to Christmas. But we'll need a very good attacker in during January to not fall away badly in the new year.
 
EFC78 said:
It's not just about individual quality, it's about mentality too, and Arsenal's players have a winning mentality within their squad that we just don't.

Their strikers are way above the level of anything we have in our squad in any position, and their all round team is comfortably better. We won't come close to Arsenal at the end of the season in my opinion.
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Agree with the first bit. It isn't just a winning mentality either, you could argue that we have leadership issues on the pitch and tend to be at our most vulnerable when we've just conceded. Heads go down and apart from Pickford there doesn't seem to be anybody able to or ready to take on the responsibility of rallying the troops. I really thought Williams was going to bring those leadership qualities but he just treated us as a retirement home.

But apart from their 2 strikers, I'm happier with our overall squad than theirs. I'm not saying that we'll finish above them or Spurs or United. What I'm saying is that the gap between us and those teams is being bridged, and you can say the same with the likes of Leicester, Wolves, West Ham, Bournemouth and Watford too, and possibly even Palace.

I really think that City, Chelsea and the RS will be clear at the top, and the gap between the other 3 teams and ourselves and the ones mentioned above will be a lot closer than in recent years.
 
jackyboy said:
More worried about Palace at home than United tbh.
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Yeah me too. I think we're playing really well away from home and the results haven't reflected how good we've been. We've had some tough games too. It's at home against the "easier" teams that we've under performed.

I'm actually looking forward to all the big away games coming up.
 
Neiler said:
Yesterday was a good performence and result, we had the advantage of doing something different yesterday that was probably unexpected. You can on,y do that once.

We have quality players though and getting closer to the right blend combos, the fixtures stiffen shortly.

We have more players to come in and hopefully continue to develop and develop consistency, I would be happy with competing with Wolves and Bourmouth for 7th and the Europa. Anything beyond will need a 20 goal striker.
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20 goal a season strikers are quite rare mate. In the last 5 seasons City and Spurs have had Aguero and Kane. But the other top 6 clubs haven't done as well. Liverpool have managed it twice with Salah and the Rat. Chelsea twice through Costa. Arsenal once with Sanchez. And United haven't had a 20 goal striker at all.

I'm not saying that we don't need an upgrade on Tosun (who isn't as bad as some n here make out by the way) but we can certainly break into the top 6 without having a 20 a season striker provided the other players all chip in. Players like Richarlison, Siggy and Walcott all have it in them to bring in 10/15 goals a season.
 
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