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Without an out-and-out goalscorer, I think it will be very hard to do. Even though we won yesterday, we still struggled to score and only scored from a set piece. But then again, stranger things have happened in football like united losing 7-0 today.

 
Sexyfootball said:
Missing out on Top 4 is going to be piss poor when you consider the relatively low bar needed to get it this season.

Tottenham are sat in 4th right now, and have lost over a third of their games. 

If Potter had any ounce of a winning mentality we'd have been in contention ... 

We will need to win at least 11 of our last 13  games to have any chance, and probably all 13. Possible, but highly unlikely ... 
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That's one of the things that frustrates me this season. It's been a poor season overall in terms of performance levels and we didn't take advantage.

 
Top 4 is gone, putting a dent in Arsenals title charge could still be possible though, if Kante is back to his best.

 
top 4 was achievable  post the world cup break but was hard. It no longer is. The bigger problem is actually imagining that recent form is going to just change because we have some new players including those coming back from injury.

 
Top 4 talk is just lunacy .. I am glad we won a game so aren’t going to be dragged in a relegation scrap..

Gp needs to show consistency in tactics, formations, player selections etc before we can get consistent results.

Currently we play like 11 strangers on the park.

 
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PhilH930 said:
Failing that, I’d rather avoid conference league altogether and have a solid domestic focus. 
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Having no European football distraction worked great for us in our title winning season under Conte, but that was with a small squad with limited rotation. Imagine trying to keep our current 30+ player first team squad happy with just league appearances......

 
Frankie8Lampard said:
That's one of the things that frustrates me this season. It's been a poor season overall in terms of performance levels and we didn't take advantage.
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If I'm honest I think the overall level of the PL has been poor (scaled for the hype and especially money involved) for over a decade. The league is living off the 00s period almost as much as Liverpool pre Klopp were with the 80s. We keep hearing the PL is so so much better than La Liga but the results in Europe in recent times strongly suggest otherwise. 

Any other league where the 3rd place team loses 7-0 and it would be the final proof needed to show how 'weak' a league it is.

 
PhilH930 said:
Love the optimism, but can’t see us getting there. Top 6 and Europa would be good so this group maintains European focus. Failing that, I’d rather avoid conference league altogether and have a solid domestic focus. 
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While we would get bantered to hell and back I would rather be in it than not in any Europe tournament.

A big chance to play some youngsters and a ridiculously massive chance of silverware, we need the first trophy of the new regime as quickly as possible.

 
Argo said:
If I'm honest I think the overall level of the PL has been poor (scaled for the hype and especially money involved) for over a decade. The league is living off the 00s period almost as much as Liverpool pre Klopp were with the 80s. We keep hearing the PL is so so much better than La Liga but the results in Europe in recent times strongly suggest otherwise. 

Any other league where the 3rd place team loses 7-0 and it would be the final proof needed to show how 'weak' a league it is.
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I don’t agree with this one .. RM in UCL is an anomaly.. if anything the league is ultra competitive causing such results and also injuries form dips for players.. there are games in Laliga where RM and Barca just turn up to win. 
 

the fact that these players need to be full tilt all the time with no winter break gives us more of these results and poorer performance in the continent.

Utd got thrashed but so did we by city .. Astonvilla spanked pool a couple of seasons back and city also has had some 4-0s .

I genuinely think the levels of epl mean that the moment you have an off day any opponent can spank you. I don’t see that in any other league.

 
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