Red Okktober wrote:Trapper John wrote:Atleti don't score prodigiously either, depite Griezman and Costa, the team seem to follow Simeone's pragmatic regime religiously, lets hope he calls it wrong against us.
Not bothered about the league either, Man Utd or otherwise. We need to beat Burnley the week after which should ensure our 6th place, I wasn't worried about that until I realised 7th place gets a Europa qualifier placing.
if we don't win the EL and qualify for next season's CL, I'd rather we messed up our league run in (don't think AW will let that happen though seeing as it's his final few games with us) and somehow fail to qualify for next season's EL.
Thursday is a shit day to be playing European football before the more important weekend league fixtures, particularly against teams that aren't in Europe (Newcastle last week, Man Utd next week for example) - its a big disadvantage.
So for me, CL football or nothing re Europe. A year off to rebuild under the new manager, get a top 4 (or better, you never know what affect the new manager will have) - then back as we were.
Yeah, like I said earlier that was my thinking until I discovered 7th place, where Burnley are now, gets a Europa place. So even if we play shit and try to throw it, it's not likely to work as Leicester who are 8th are 10 points behind us.
We need to win the bloody thing or it's Europa all over again next season.