Top 4 Trophy Run-in.

[SMatthews]

I’m not sure many other managers getting us into this position would be classed as being lucky. He clearly knows what he’s doing, and has figured out his squad and what they can give him over the course of the season. He’s also played the Ozil thing very well - getting him motivated and playing well on a consistent basis (so far).

[Mac76]

Well full credit to Emery now, we're looking in better form for the run in than the teams around us - let's just hope we can keep it together now and avoid any key injuries

But i'm still not sure about the over-caution around christmas which saw us looking shaky and going on a bad run - i know we had some injuries but i still think trying to be so defensive was wrong given especially at that time our best hope was to score more goals than the opposition rather than successfully defend a 1-0 lead

And actually i'm not convinced he had to freeze out Ozil to the extent he did but maybe they've both learnt something from the episode.

But anyway if we finish third all is forgiven