I was at Villa Park in 2017 . It was miserable. And yes ta for reminding me.
That’s just one of the scenarios - there are plenty but you’re right none are easy. But this season we’ve slayed plenty of our demons.
For a team that have done the double over both Chelsea and Man Utd this season then...
There's lots of points in this thread and i wasn't replying to that one
I was replying to someone else who was being very half empty because Villa had won and reflecting on Europe and i asked them - in one of the few scenarios where we don't make Europe - that would mean losing 5 or 6 games out...
Beat Southampton ..and Villa and lose the rest - Brighton are definitely in Europe next season. Puts us on 61 and Villa can then only get to 60. We'll also definitely be in the Europa League if that happens if Spurs fail to win their last two.
We've already lost 1 i mean -so it would take quite the losing streak - 4 more losses out of 5 probably to deny us the conference league at least but as you say we're unfortunately not playing the likes of Forest or Everton down at the bottom...hang on.
Our last three wins have been Man Utd...
Newcastle drew 2-2 with Leeds today, Villa lost 1-0 with Wolves last week (who we beat 6-0), Arsenal have in the last month failed to beat West Ham (we beat 4-0 and 2-0), Southampton and Liverpool and also lost to Everton under Dyche, and Southampton now have nothing to play for. Predicting...