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I could not be bothered to start a fresh post for the Palace game last night, but still wanted to mention it.
I fully understand that we have one eye on PSG next week, however, that performance just wasn't good enough.
People are still paying good money to watch this end of season dross.
Looking at the remaining fixtures we are going to finish third in a two horse race (behind City), if we are lucky.
I am still relieved that the top 5 qualify for next season Champions League.
I don’t think anything you’ve written here is unreasonable
From my own perspective, I look at it two ways. Was the performance last night acceptable? No, was it understandable? Yes
I was definitely hoping that we would win comfortably and make it a bit of a dress rehearsal for the European cup semi final. I still think we will finish 2nd, I’m annoyed because we haven’t put it to bed and it’s still left up in the air
There’s two ways of looking at it
We could have signed Watkins in January in the hope that we could have made a title push, but I think as much as I don’t think Liverpool are all that great I just think they’d have done what they needed to do to keep their noses ahead.
Signing Watkins I think would have had a negative impact on the transfer business we could have done in the summer (not in terms of transfer fees but in terms of wage bill)
We decided not to do that, and by mid February it became evident that it wasn’t going to be possible to sustain a title challenge (you can’t have a circumstance when not only is your striker out, but your two first choice wingers and expect anything good to happen, frankly it’s near on miraculous that we’ve only lost once in the last ten games given those circumstances).
No argument there. But this isn't a Spursy situation when we were genuinely in a 2 horse race for the title and then somehow contrived to finish 3rd.
We hung on to their coattails for a while but then as HCZ the injuries were the final nail in the title coffin.
Since then we've been fairly comfortable in 2nd place although we are contriving to make that less certain that it seemed it would be.
Overall it's been a complete mess of a season although obviously the CL would change that.
I agree, it wasn't as bad as Spurs finishing third in a two horse race. We also had some terrible luck with injuries, however, with the players we have got, we should have won several of the games that we ended up drawing. I don't think we will finish second, but that will obviously be forgiven if we win the Champions League![]()
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