paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
I think that sums it up in a nutshell.
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The midweek/weekend games thread
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I think that sums it up in a nutshell.
Naughton16
Clive Wilson
Problem is their odds of a top 3 finish are now shorter than ours. Not much profit to be made there, certainly not enough to cheer me up.
we've been doing well this season, uncharacteristically, against the weaker teams - this is my main cause for optimism going in to the run in . we have to play 3 of the bottom 5 (which seems to be the mini relegation league that has formed) Bolton, Blackburn and QPR - not much use making point predictions as these things never go to plan but i can see us getting enough from our last 11 games to secure 3rd, i honestly can.
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Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Last season isn't a good precedent then where we totally collapsed after Madrid.
It's what fit teams do. And unfit teams concede late goals.
paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
I wouldnt go that far. If we pick up say 22pts from our last 10 games and finish 4th, then so be it and Arsenal will have deserved it 38pts from the last 15 would be a superb finish.
Now if we only won say another 3 games this season, I would class that as a disaster and probably worthy of shame
arsenal have absolutely capitulated in the last 2 months of the season for the last 2 or 3 years
yiddo2786
Steed Malbranque
So much hyperbole in football. There's no place for rational middle ground. We're either good enough to challenge for the title, or guaranteed to finish below our rivals who haven't been in front of us since September, and still aren't. Arsenal will drop points, we will stop dropping points. Fortunes change.
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Ronnie Rosenthal
You are forgetting that guy called Terry Henry who scored in the 94th minute just recently to nick another three points. ](*,)
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Ronnie Rosenthal
Like two season ago when we beat all the top sides in the space of a few days/weeks culminating in our win at Eastlands?
I know what you are going to say- last season we faded away. Did you see how the Goons went from title challengers to end up seeing City breeze past them and stutter over the line in fourth place, having to qualify for the CL?
If our track record is questionable then so is their's.
They haven't in the past, played well in the big games, when it really matters.
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Ronnie Rosenthal
The thought of us finishing above them?
It's galvanised them, just like it did in the 2005-6 (lasagnegate season).
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Ronnie Rosenthal
I did that a long time ago. Few days before the game with them (the scum), walked into Paddy Power and tooks odds of 11-2 for us to finish outside the top four.
?ú60 to win ?ú330.Too late for you guys now, after the horse has bolted.
At the time everybody was predicting HOW MANY GOALS WE WOULD WIN BY at the Emirates.
Insurance bet, i saw the fixtures and knew they would get closer to us, i really hope i am wrong and i lose my money.
Honestly thought we would get between 0-2 points from the last three games but was hoping the Goons would only take 6 or 7, meaning we would still have a 4-6 point lead, even on that basis i still saw problems ahead at Sunderland and Chelsea.
I still think we can win at Chelsea, in fact, we must. We have to step up to the plate like Arsenal did against us and kill off Chelsea once and for all.
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Ronnie Rosenthal
At the time i placed the best i thought Chelsea would get it together but wasn't sure if Arsenal would. It now looks like it could be the other way around.
Just hoping Chelsea continue looking impotent and struggle to score goals because ominously,they are keeping clean sheets now.
Nothing would please me more than losing third place to the Goons and snatching it back at the death, followed by them drawing Napoli or Juventus or another difficult team and going out in the qualifiers.
Us being the only London team in the CL would be very sweet.
mudshark
Chris Armstrong
I can only admire your bullishness but, with the best will in the world, to suggest those cases are representative ... well, I think you'd struggle to sustain that argument.
funster
Danny Murphy
Let's face it - who here really thought it would be anything less than a point before tonight's game? The fact that they got the winner in the 95th bloody minute just rubbed salt in.....
I'll maintain a positive enough attitude. It'll be all the more satisfying to finish ahead of them having given them a sniff. (Or so I hope)
I'll maintain a positive enough attitude. It'll be all the more satisfying to finish ahead of them having given them a sniff. (Or so I hope)
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indianspur
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thats 4 games in a row that the scum have come from behind to win the game. Prem league record i think
theyve got the momentum now. I remember back in the 97-98 season when they were miles behind Utd, 11 points i think, and then they went on an unbelievable winning run, 10 or 11 games in a row, and i kept thinking that during that run surely the next game is when it will end but like a machine they kept notching up win after win after win
Now it feels the same. its not just the fact theyve won the last 4 in a row whilst we have fcuked up, its the way they are doing it. Coming from behind, winning late on is just feeding their confidence, they feel invincible. We are the opposite, against Utd and Everton we played well enough to pick up something from those games but ended up with zilch. At this stage of the season that is soul destroying for the players
It will take a monumental effort for us to turn this around. One thing that maybe in our favour is that Arse seemed to have peaked a little early. There are still 10 games to go, we both have similar run ins, if we can find some confidence from somewhere then with the talent we have it should be possible to finish the season strongly.
Stoke next week. Season definer.
theyve got the momentum now. I remember back in the 97-98 season when they were miles behind Utd, 11 points i think, and then they went on an unbelievable winning run, 10 or 11 games in a row, and i kept thinking that during that run surely the next game is when it will end but like a machine they kept notching up win after win after win
Now it feels the same. its not just the fact theyve won the last 4 in a row whilst we have fcuked up, its the way they are doing it. Coming from behind, winning late on is just feeding their confidence, they feel invincible. We are the opposite, against Utd and Everton we played well enough to pick up something from those games but ended up with zilch. At this stage of the season that is soul destroying for the players
It will take a monumental effort for us to turn this around. One thing that maybe in our favour is that Arse seemed to have peaked a little early. There are still 10 games to go, we both have similar run ins, if we can find some confidence from somewhere then with the talent we have it should be possible to finish the season strongly.
Stoke next week. Season definer.