CarefreeMuratcan

And the harsh cold reality is that Liverpool have barely been top, it only looks like they've been there more than they have because of City usually having a game in hand, until now.

It is one of the few games ( like VS us ) that West Ham actually turn up for. So I'm quietly confident.

This 4th place race is more of a rollercoaster than any of our title races have been.

Yep. We’ve messed up dearly by not having it in our hands (AGAIN!).

I was the opposite. Watched the first half, looked at live updates for the second half. At one stage I thought, hmmm I better stop looking at this. But I kept refreshing...Then I kept refreshing in the insane hope Brighton would score. I miss the days when we would look at other results in the context of a title race. Not in the context of a 4th place race.

Spot on. The way we aimlessly cross, aimlessly hit corners in etc. it’s clear these moments are not worked on in training.

I don’t mind the Burnley shenanigans. I mind that our players can’t go toe to toe in these gritty battle type of games. We would have won this game with JT.

I don’t want to get ahead of ourselves, but a curious thought I had re: us winning the Europa League. Wouldn’t it technically count as us retaining it from the 2012-2013 season? Since we haven’t played in the Europa since then? One could make the argument that because we didn’t qualify for Europe in 2015-2016 it doesn’t count. However the counter-argument would be we haven’t utilised our “qualification berth” as winners until now.

I think Watford will be an easier game than they appear. At home we usually put quite a few past them and they’ll be focusing on the Cup Final. United should be a win for us looking at how poor they’ve been and how their confidence will be even lower from inevitably getting hammered by City. And we’ll be playing Monday and Sunday, their run in to the game is Sunday, Wednesday, Sunday. Leicester away is the only concern for me. Would be nice if it works out to us only needing a draw for that. My main concern is goal difference vs Arsenal, which would be nice to catch up on.

This formation with Giroud as a starter would have had us comfortably in the Top 4.

Like everyone else, I haven’t even been thinking about our Top 4 race in the build up to this game at all. It’s all about stopping their circus again. Good thing is we’ve got several players who were part of the squad last time. Hazard, Azpilicueta, Willian, Luiz, Cahill! I think the collective memory and experience might be the difference.

Deserves to be Goal of the Season.

If the rumours from a few weeks ago are true, then the board supposedly said they will sack him if the fans vocally revolt again.

Sarri still out surely? We won that out of pure luck.

Same pattern every ****ing game.