You've got to say that, on paper, Chelsea, Pool and City should be winning all of their remaining games, which would mean that the top 4 as it currently is would remain the same at the end of the season. Of course on paper is different to reality but I'm confident Chelsea will win at least three of those games, meaning they're champions. Pool and City will also win at least 3 of their 4 games which will be a better return than Utd, can't see them getting more than 2 wins from their remaining games, I also can't see Arsenal bettering 3 wins out of 4 which means they won't be catching Pool or City, but GD pretty much rules Arsenal out even if they do somehow pull off 4 wins out of 4. Tottenham of course will come in 2nd.
So I'd say that's pretty much it lads. Season's over, right?
Top 4 now decided?
posted on 1/5/17
No chance is the top 4 decided yet. Liverpool have a fantastic chance to gain control of the top 4 places tonight with a win over Watford and open up a gap with little games left to play.
United still have Arsenal and Spurs to come away from home and regardless what either of them teams are playing or not playing for, United I think will draw both of them I think, which gives Liverpool and City a great chance. City themselves don't look in great shape either, a bit inconsistent at the moment as well still.
Liverpool's chance is tonight to take a firm grip of the top 4 and underline what a fantastic job Klopp has done this year with quite a shallow squad as well.
posted on 1/5/17
Not so long ago, the same people more or less on here, were ruling out Spurs from top 4, and in fact GB had Spurs vying with Everton for the 6th spot.
Stuff you all
posted on 1/5/17
In terms of Pool's and City's latest results: Palace needed a win to put real daylight between themselves and the relegation zone and they've also done really well versus the big boys lately, beat Chelsea away and battered Arsenal at home, while Pool's loss was only their 2nd at home all season. I'd look at that game as an aberration the team will bounce back from.
City should've beaten Boro but it was always going to be a niggly game with Boro fighting for their lives in front of their own fans on the back of their first win this year, so confidence was up. I don't think we should use that game as a marker of what City will do in their remaining fixtures either.
Maybe don't start planning trips to Bayern and Barca just yet, but it's tantalizingly close to being a foregone conclusion in my view.
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comment by morespurs (U15748)
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Not so long ago, the same people more or less on here, were ruling out Spurs from top 4, and in fact GB had Spurs vying with Everton for the 6th spot.
Stuff you all
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I'l hold my hands up and say I did forecast Tottenham and Arsenal to miss out this season when making predictions around the halfway mark. Was spectacularly wrong on Tottenham, my bad, I didn't foresee how powerful, hungry and organised Poch would make them. Still, got it bang on with Arsenal (barring a miracle), so I predicted 3 of what will almost certainly be the eventual top 4, not too bad.
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posted on 1/5/17
Had Chelsea as champions too, although that wasn't such a bold prediction at the time...
posted on 1/5/17
I watched the Spurs game yesterday, they were very good indeed, as they have been all season, helped in this instance, no doubt, by Arsenal's abysmal performance. I take nothing from Spurs; a very deserved win. I think final first and second places are beyond challenge. Morespurs? Grow up son, you're making a prat of yourself.
JimmyTheRed
posted on 1/5/17
Nah we have a cack defence
posted on 1/5/17
Wfc 2 lfc 4
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