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Race for The Top 10

stormfly

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I know I’ve had a few but I think we should change the title to ‘Race for the top 8’.Hell we’re only 41 points away from top!!
 

ItsBoris

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With Leicester losing to Arsenal, we might still have a chance of 5th if we can win all our games (unlikely I know). In that scenario, we would get 63 points.

Let's say Leicester win against Bournemouth, they go up to 61 points. Then they have Sheffield, us, and United. We would need them to lose to ourselves and United and draw with Sheffield. Then they would be on 62 points (1 below us if we won all our games). And Wolves would have to win no more than 3 of their 5 remaining games.
 

ShaunL84

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With Leicester losing to Arsenal, we might still have a chance of 5th if we can win all our games (unlikely I know). In that scenario, we would get 63 points.

Let's say Leicester win against Bournemouth, they go up to 61 points. Then they have Sheffield, us, and United. We would need them to lose to ourselves and United and draw with Sheffield. Then they would be on 62 points (1 below us if we won all our games). And Wolves would have to win no more than 3 of their 5 remaining games.

I was thinking this too. Win our last five and we'll be on 63 points, ahead of Arsenal for definite.

Leicester could throw it away...
 

ItsBoris

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I was thinking this too. Win our last five and we'll be on 63 points, ahead of Arsenal for definite.

Leicester could throw it away...

I knew if we won all our games after United we would do it for sure, but the Sheffield result made it much more improbable. Still I think IF we could win all 5 we would have about a 40-50% chance of being 5th (assuming Leicester lose tonight)
 

SirNiNyHotspur

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I was thinking this too. Win our last five and we'll be on 63 points, ahead of Arsenal for definite.

Leicester could throw it away...
If we win all 38 from kick off next season we'll win the title...

Just curious from what you have watched last year and half say, what makes you even consider us winning 5 in a row? To me at this point that is just crazy talk.
 

Mr Pink

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If we win all 38 from kick off next season we'll win the title...

Just curious from what you have watched last year and half say, what makes you even consider us winning 5 in a row? To me at this point that is just crazy talk.

Its highly unlikely but if we could win the Bournemouth game and the NLD off the back of it...well that would certainly provide a huge lift going into the last 3 games.

Mourinho would excel in these sort of situations, get the win at all costs etc
 

ItsBoris

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If we win all 38 from kick off next season we'll win the title...

Just curious from what you have watched last year and half say, what makes you even consider us winning 5 in a row? To me at this point that is just crazy talk.

Well I think we really just need to win 4 in a row, because if the last game is effectively a CL qualifier against Crystal Palace, I really doubt we'd not win that (or more correctly, I doubt Jose would screw that up).

Bournemouth is a completely winnable game, so that just leaves 3 remaining. Arsenal since it's a derby, we'll be up for and probably play pretty well, so I'd say winning that game is definitely possible. Leicester is in pretty bad form so I think we could win that. The obvious banana peel is Newcastle away.
 

ShaunL84

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Out of their last four, I can see Leicester losing three times (Bournemouth, us and Utd) and picking up a scrappy draw against Sheffield.

Best case scenario is that they pick up a draw at Bournemouth.

Even then, we would finish ahead of them.
 

NickHSpurs

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Out of their last four, I can see Leicester losing three times (Bournemouth, us and Utd) and picking up a scrappy draw against Sheffield.

They won’t lose to Bournemouth, other games are tough though, Sheff Utd, Us & United.
 

djee

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Love the optimism, but shocked if LCFC and Utd don't pick up the 4pts (from 4 games) and 8pts (from 5 games) respectively, that will be required to finish above us - even in the (very unlikely) scenario, we win our remaining matches. That is also ignoring the fact we are 3 pts behind Wolves!

Utd will win their next 2 (Villa and Soton)
LCFC will beat Bournemouth

The race for the op 5 (involving us at least) will likely be over within a week.

A strong finish will see us either 6th or 7th.

City will likely win their appeal so pretty academic anyway. Ho hum...next year...
 

hellava_tough

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Love the optimism, but shocked if LCFC and Utd don't pick up the 4pts (from 4 games) and 8pts (from 5 games) respectively, that will be required to finish above us - even in the (very unlikely) scenario, we win our remaining matches. That is also ignoring the fact we are 3 pts behind Wolves!

Utd will win their next 2 (Villa and Soton)
LCFC will beat Bournemouth

The race for the op 5 (involving us at least) will likely be over within a week.

A strong finish will see us either 6th or 7th.

City will likely win their appeal so pretty academic anyway. Ho hum...next year...

I'd 100% take 6th place right now
 

SUIYHA

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Even if Leicester do completely implode (unlikely with Maddison and Chilwell coming back), I see next to zero possibility of us overtaking them because that would require us to win six (five + Everton) games on the bounce - which only Spurs teams in the thick of title races in 2011, 2016 and 2017 have ever done in my lifetime.

Watching Arsenal and Leicester last night actually made me feel sad - both teams seem to move the ball around way better than we do and seem so much more organised. Arsenal looked a complete mess not too long ago, now through changing the formation and integrating a few talented, hungry young players into the side instead of twats like Ozil and Guendouzi, they now look like a half decent team. Even Luiz and fucking Mustafi are looking solid now - without the red card they'd have likely picked up their fifth clean sheet in a row. But apparently it's impossible to create chances without "sorting out the defence" and "something something winning mentality" first.

We have to play both of these teams between now and the end of the season, and on current form both are going to come to the Lane and beat us. Mourinho has had Arsenal's number for years (though that was all under Wenger), so I pray he has some trick up his sleeve, but at the moment the best I can hope for seems to be us nicking a goal from a defensive mistake and then putting 10 men behind the ball like we did against Man Utd and hoping not to concede - can anyone really see a scenario where we take the game to these two teams and emphatically beat them like we used to?
 
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