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    Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
    I reckon our only hope is against teams like Wolfsburg and Zenit, I would however give Wolfsburg a good chance of beating us as well and with Zenit being a long trip I could imagine that going wrong too.

    Realitically though we'll probably get Real, Athletico or Barca in which case we have no chance of going through (even though Real are managed by an amateur like Benitez).
    You really are having to scrape the barrel right now to still have a moan, aren't you?
    Cheer up, we might lose against City.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters To Santa View Post
    You really are having to scrape the barrel right now to still have a moan, aren't you?
    Cheer up, we might lose against City.
    Not really, we hardly setting the world alight, we're no better than last season, circumstances mean however that we are better placed.

    I don't fancy our chances in the CL, we're proven failures in this competition, so its hard to be confident against any team, just look at our record if you don't believe me.

    Wenger's done his bit now, he can't put his feet up and pat himself on the back, half of our goals is achieved, when we secure 4th place it'll be another one of those glorious seasons we should feel proud about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
    Not really, we hardly setting the world alight, we're no better than last season, circumstances mean however that we are better placed.
    We're 7 points better off than at this stage last season. We'd have been in 3rd last season with this number of points, 6 points off the top.
    Conversely, on last year's form we'd be 5th right now, level on points with Spurs.
    We're not going to win the CL, we've got a decent chance at the league though. That's where I see the success (or not) of our season lying.
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    Wenger's done his bit now, he can't put his feet up and pat himself on the back, half of our goals is achieved
    Agreed
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    when we secure 4th place it'll be another one of those glorious seasons we should feel proud about.
    No, it won't.

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    Id love to get Marketing and i really fancy us against them more so than against Barca who would destroy us.

    Apart from Barcelona, all the other teams are more than beatable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters To Santa View Post
    We're 7 points better off than at this stage last season. We'd have been in 3rd last season with this number of points, 6 points off the top.
    Conversely, on last year's form we'd be 5th right now, level on points with Spurs.
    We're not going to win the CL, we've got a decent chance at the league though. That's where I see the success (or not) of our season lying.
    No offcence but the standard of the league this season has been shocking it really has, one of the poorest PL seasons ever in terms of quality. Man City should be coasting but Pellegrini is really making a mess of it and Mourinho is having a mare this year. It's the best chance we'll ever have but in terms of competition there's not a lot which explains our position right now.....I still expect us to mess it up mind, I'm just explaining our false position if you like.

    Looking at our performances this season we're nowhere near the quality that should be required to win a league, neither is anyone else fortunately, I don't think I've ever seen such a poor level of competition, Man U won it a few years back with a dogshite team too, but they had Ferguson who managed to raise the level of the players by 200% and performed miracles.

    Wenger isn't even in the same universe as Fergie, but I still think that the team that wins the title should perform like champions and by all intents and purposes we're performing more like chumps.

    I still see Man City winning this thing though as they have Aguero and we have Giroud, a world class forward vs a one dimensional average joe and that's a big advantage they have.

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