Interesting seeing a lot of people predicting a lot of draws after the Burnley game even though we've got the least amount of draws all season.

39 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Interesting seeing a lot of people predicting a lot of draws after the Burnley game even though we've got the least amount of draws all season.

Recency bias. Only as good as your last game. We are going to struggle to win and city wil go undefeated til the end of the season, or something.

Edited February 16, 20179 yr by Stim

2 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Interesting seeing a lot of people predicting a lot of draws after the Burnley game even though we've got the least amount of draws all season.

I think we've done well to avoid drawing too many games up to this point in the season. 

Personally I think we'll drop a few points between now and the end of the season by drawing a few games just because we have some tricky away games to come like United and Everton. 

You would take a draw at united and city at home, Everton, well a draw is not the worst thing. The issue is the lower teams and the timing, swansea who we have next as an example are now in full swing, confidence up, and they are fighting for their lives. 

On ?14?/?02?/?2017 at 23:23, doctorblue said:

And one of Swansea's best players Nathan Dyer is out for the season with a ruptured achilles tendon...best wishes to him and a speedy recovery...

I'm sorry to hear that, he's one of the nicest blokes I've met in football. One of the very few who actually remembered that I was someone he'd met before!

Bit of a stretch to say he's one of Swansea's best players though... although I will never forget him knocking himself out scoring a late winner against Aston Villa when he was on loan at Leicester.

So are we going to be mathematically champions before Leicester are mathematically relegated?

20 hours ago, CarefreeSimmo_ said:

So are we going to be mathematically champions before Leicester are mathematically relegated?

I'm just happy Leicester are going to smash our record of the worst champions.

5 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

I'm just happy Leicester are going to smash our record of the worst champions.

Proves a point though, you can't sleep on their league even if you win it, you have to keep improving the squad and freshen things up 

17 minutes ago, DonAntonio said:

Proves a point though, you can't sleep on their league even if you win it, you have to keep improving the squad and freshen things up 

 

In term of leicester then no, fighting relegation has always been their level more or less, last season was a mix of identity swap between chelsea & leicester.. joke aside, to be fair, leicester's board did their utmost in keeping the squad competitive.. They retained their best players in vardy, mahrez, drinkwater, kasper bar kante.. they did have a couple of new signings.. I think their problem run deeper than just simply a case of transfer window...

 

 

 

Not gonna lie, after watching utd game last night, Everton I think will be tough away. Utd I actually think we could get 3 points as utd are on a poor run at home.

I don't think spurs will continue on their winning run for long, but likewise we won't go on a poor run. I am unsure on the arsenal/utd fixtures for spurs, could potentially be 4 points from those games with them beating arsenal. 

Barring everton, city, west brom, I think we got a great chance of securing 3 points in each of the remaining fixtures. However as we saw vs palace, anything is possible, but we had so many chances we couldn't put away I am hoping they finally go in vs the remaining games against minnows.

I hope the motivational issues from last season don't rear their heads though. Costa does seem fired up from recent interviews he done since the weekend so really hoping tonight he will come good and show his class again and prove his doubters wrong. 

Btw, spurs got Leicester end of season. Wouldn't it be a great ending to the season for Leicester to beat spurs to help us secure the title?  

I'm very nervous about this run in, we do have 2 gimme games in Boro and Sunderland at the Bridge but Spurs run in is much easier, IMO.

I just hope we can hold on. If we lose tonight and Spurs win, theyre on at 12.30 Saturday so by the time we kick off we could be 1 point clear only. :o

4 minutes ago, Delnino said:

I'm very nervous about this run in, we do have 2 gimme games in Boro and Sunderland at the Bridge but Spurs run in is much easier, IMO.

I just hope we can hold on. If we lose tonight and Spurs win, theyre on at 12.30 Saturday so by the time we kick off we could be 1 point clear only. :o

Tempting fate. Palace was a gimme game.

10 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

Tempting fate. Palace was a gimme game.

Yup, there is no gimme games anymore.

Pressure is all on us now so every game becomes that bit more difficult.

 

I'm a natural pessimist, so I really can't shake the feeling that we're going to mess it up. I lack confidence that Spurs will drop many points.

Dont like the Daily Fail but here's some historical perspective

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4381036/Tottenham-shouldn-t-hopes-winning-league.html

1 hour ago, Backbiter said:

Tempting fate. Palace was a gimme game.

I only say that as Boro and Sunderland will more than likely be relegated by the time we play them and if our mptivation is the league and theyre thinking of the sun loungers, we should turn them over. Should.

I did a Premier league predictor and gave us the following results:

Home: Watford, Southampton, Boro, Sunderland (W), City (D)

Away: West Brom, Bournemouth (W), United (D), Everton (L)

That should be a fair reflection on what we should achieve this season, and that gives us 89 points.

I did Tottenham's fixtures in turn and was very generous, giving them an unbeaten finish between now and the end of the season, bearing in mind they have no Kane for a further few weeks, and they finished on 83...

Now that even allows us to drop a further five points from the predictions above, which is very generous and would be a poor finish by all accounts. It would be catastrophic if we finish 2nd from this position, and especially to Spurs.

Palace was a blip, we will get through it and I'm confident!

 

i think a win tonight and the momentum will carry us over, another stumble though, who knows

A lot hinges on tonight, a win would be huge for us, a loss damaging, let's hope for a miracle in Wales.

I'm not at all worried. But if we lose this match vs City, then I'll feel a little nervous. But hey, we have better squad. In Conte I trust.

Today's win, if ever, will stop all these worries.

That win was huge for the confidence.

5 hours ago, Cam said:

That win was huge for the confidence.

Conversely it will also be a massive kick in the teeth for Spurs, this is a game they would have expected to close the gap with after us losing to Palace.

It's still gonna be the old cliche of "take each game as it comes". Would like to think that Spu*s will drop points somewhere, but think we have to work on the basis that they could win all 8 of their remaining fixtures which means we have to win 6 and it doesn't matter what they do. As each games goes by and IF they do drop points, it will make our task easier, but we could do with Costa finding his scoring boots again.