Still worried that Villa will get more than the one point.
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[Albion] To Avoid De Zerbi Bashing - The Staying Up/Europe Tracker - season 2022-23 FINAL Update - 22 OVER
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Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
- Oct 4, 2003
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We still need 9 as Villa and Spurs can both get to 64 points if they draw when they play each other and win all their remaining games. 8 would leave us on 63 points.
schmunk
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One of Villa's games is against us.
The Divers Cup Final.
schmunk
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Kalimantan Gull
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Yup. So although we need 9 points, 8 if there is a win for either side in the spurs - Villa game, if we lose to Villa we'll have to get at least 2 or 3 points from the Arsenal/Newcastle/ City games.
If we draw with Villa we only need to beat Everton and Saints, that will be enough.
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Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
- Oct 4, 2003
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That still doesn't change anything.
If Villa and Spurs win their 3 remaining games and draw the game between each other they'd both be on 64 points.
We would still need to get 9 points to reach 64 points. 8 points from our remaining games would not be enough if the above happens. 9 would be because of superior goal difference.
8 points would be enough if the Villa vs Spurs game ends in a victory for either side.
A cheats mini tournament, The St Johns Ambulence Cup, should ideally comprise:
ManUre
Fulham
Spuds
Villa
There would be little football. Just a constant stream of stretcher bearers.
I'm not counting the Palace points in my head. We went 1-0 up anyway after that, and still managed to throw it away - so there's no guarantee we would have got the extra couple of points, it was of our own doing. But the Spurs game we basically did everything we could and won handsomely. That's the three points that got taken away...
GT49er
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I bloody am!
- Aug 8, 2005
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Me too. If the decision had gone our way as they admitted it should have done then we win that game. That’s 2 points plus the 3 points from spurs that VAR wrongly cost us. I don’t see the difference between Spurs and Palace other than the multiple errors at Spurs.
banjo
GOSBTS
Safe, another season in the top league. Everything else is a bonus.
schmunk
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It's true - we're guaranteed Top-10, which was the stated aim at the start of the season, so we've hit the target.
But... ...with Europe still in our grasp it would feel like a failure not to get there...
Damnit, I'm ENTITLED.
I think a lot of have considered we might. be, but I don't think that's the case.It's true - we're guaranteed Top-10, which was the stated aim at the start of the season, so we've hit the target.
But... ...with Europe still in our grasp it would feel like a failure not to get there...
Damnit, I'm ENTITLED.
We may never have a better chance to qualify for Europe...
- The best ever squad of players we have ever had, performing well before some are snatched away by big money.
- The under-performance of clubs expected to fair better: Chelsea, Spurs and, to a lesser extent now, Liverpool.
Next season could see the now-Big 7
So, should be fail to embark on a European Tour, it wouldn't be wrong to feel disappointed, not because we have any divine right for that, but because it's within our grasp right now, and we don't know when that will happen again.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Didn't we feel that way before the Middlesbrough game in 2016? Never a better time to get promoted to the PL. It may not happen again.
It did the following season.
- Aug 8, 2005
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Not quite the same though is it. The gap between us and the emergence of the big 7 is likely to get bigger as Chelsea and Spurs sort themselves out, Liverpool will have a better season and Newcastle will undoubtedly spend big in the summer. This may just be the only season realistically to get in that top seven for several years to come.