Hi Guys. Clearly we are all suffering from mixed emotions after a miserable evening in Madrid and a terrible run of results in the EPL. I see BigV's point that its hard to get enthusiastic when you combine whats been happening. Harry IS being found out - so many people on here have said that his team selection seems to be based on favouritism - why on earth isn't Krankers playing? A gem of a player! He actual does what Defoe doesnt do - score goals! There is something very wrong with our training regime too - look at the injury list - and they seem to happen away from matches. I hear that Charlie is injured now too, so we have no right back with Hutton out, unless Gallas reverts there again, but I understand that he too aggravated his injury during the game last night, so we may have to put Krankers there lol! Seriously, its worry ahead of the last 8 games.
However, as Derry says, it is still mathematically possible to grab 4th or even third, although its a tall order. To be real, we cannot water down our expectations of matches "because the other team is fighting for their lives" - a top 4 team should steamroller them. if we dont, we dont deserve to be in the CL next season as the table doesnt lie come the end of May. We have been watering down our expactions too much of late and fate stepped in and dealt the blows. We cannot make excuses ahead of the Stoke game - its at WHL - we beat them at the Britannia - anything short of 3 points and we realistically have to admit that we will not catch City or Chelase - thats not being negative, just hinest having appraised the situation.
So, lets hope Harry can rally the boys and get them up for the Stoke game - if he rests player for Madrid it will be foolhardy, as that a done deal now.
So now, i am living the fact that on saturday night we will have beaten Stoke and given us something to watch for the rest of the season.
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