Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Significantly, all of the five sides immediately above us have picked up points against the top six. We gave Arsenal two good games, but can anyone honestly say that there was any time in the second half of our matches against the other five that you thought we could get something out of the game? As mentioned earlier, it's the nature of our performances against Spurs, Chelsea, the Manchester clubs and Liverpool that has been almost as disappointing as the results themselves - I reckon if we play with the intensity in our next game that we showed in our last one, we've got a chance of getting something against Chelsea, but we've been like a side that was beaten before a ball was kicked in all of our matches against the five sides I mentioned earlier (I'd say that's what we've been guilty of, rather than not trying).

One other thing, perhaps if we would have treated the FA Cup with some seriousness we might not be having all of these long breaks between fixtures - look how damaging the last one was to us.
A lot depends on the opposition.
On their day these sides can all blow bottom 6 teams away.

But then if they have loads of injuries to key players like Spurs did, or Euro games a few days before then it gives you a tiny chance.

Our best chance was Spurs away, although we also did well at Arsenal.

We were unlucky with Man U - getting them post Mourinho.

Don’t think we’ve had the luck of the draw overall with these games.

On the other hand it might work out better for us in the next few weeks with so many involved in Europe and the FA Cup 🤞