Have updated my feelings on the games you have remaining. With Europe and cups surrounding your "relegation battlers - beware!" games these will not be easy. Physically or mentally. Not forgetting Man City "- oh yeah baby!" in there somewhere.
Its not inconceivable with everything at stake for the three clubs concerned and your fatigue by then that you may end up with 1 point or even zero points in the whole of May. Now that's rough!
To counter this fatigue, we just need a boost in morale. Ideally winning mid season Mickey Mouse League Cup.
We don't play much cracking attacking football. Liverpool early on in the season did that. Real and Barca do that. Relative to last season it's great (most kinds of football would be) but we're a long way away from playing brilliant attacking football.
That's because we didn't play great attacking football towards the end of SAFs time either. We're making progress for sure but a long way till being a great attacking team. We're not particularly caviliar either. Jose will have to let the team loose even further for that. But I suppose that can happen only when he has complete confidence in the players (if he wants to).
With our abysmal record against the top 6, the final few fixtures seem to be really daunting. A lot will depend on the form of the teams at that stage. As far as Europa goes, I think we have the squad to cope up if Jose can mix it up well. We need to score more goals in our home games in the Europa so that we can rest players in the reverse fixture.
We did fairly well, scoring in our EL home games thus far. Away in EL though, we had been underwhelming.
Yes, hopefully the home form in the EL continues. Away games are always going to be tough. Didn't we go into the final Europa group away game with some terrible record of not having won an away game since the 5-0 win against Bayer Leverkusen during Moyes' season? But I feel more confident now with the way our team is playing.
I find comments like this so strange, they're both above United and 9 draws doesn't exactly scream winning mentality. What has happened this season to show United have a better winning mentality than those two sides?
Tbf the games we lost against the top 6 could be put down to Jose still finding his best team and also against Chelsea it was just a ccatalogue of errors from the first second. Our performances against Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool were more in the standard expected, I fully expect us to be more competitive when we play each of them plus the gap isn't as big as it was back in November so getting draws won't be terminal to our chances. They all have to play each other so when they do we have to make up groung on the loser so that by the time we face them we will be in a position to either overtake them or maintain a strong footing on the log.
Them both ditched the League Cup very early playing a weaker team even though at the times they were in better form. For Tottenham, did you miss how they fare in the Champions League group stage? Both caught the disease of prioritize getting top 4 so they can participate in CL than actually advance in the competition itself.
Spurs don't have any depth. They will likely throw Europa League and put all their eggs (in Glaston terms) in top 4 basket.
No way City get past Monaco, their defence will get taken to pieces.
6 points dropped in 11 games screams winning mentality to me.
Not really arbitrary when the win v Spurs is the natural starting point since it signalled the start of our run which has us closing in on second place.
This. If we had the ruthlessness to match our performances we'd have scored 4/5 a few times this season. We're capable of being a really exciting attacking side these days. To put it into perspective, remember how excited we all got about Martial's goal on the counter against Stoke last season? Well we're scoring that kind of goal pretty regularly this year.
