Rayvin

It's a very slow evening for me

Gemmill is correct, Brighton and Villa are on the same points and Brighton are higher. It can't be alphabetical. It looks to me like it considers Man Utd more likely to finish 3rd than us based on games remaining. The infographic isn't solely dedicated to top 4 or not, it also tries to predict league placement.

Now that we have CL pretty much, I do actually think we should win the final two games anyway to finish above Manure. Only team we've never finished higher than iirc?

At least we will clear the finish line on our own terms, as much as it would have been nice to get it done today. 1 point from two games. Surely we've got this.

That's a hard tempt on fate there, let's see if the universe buys it

Howay man, there is no chance at all that Liverpool lose this game. Firstly because they're Liverpool, and secondly because it would directly benefit us, and we're Newcastle. It ain't happening

I think at this point Spurs have pivoted from being a football team to a high end comedy act.

Glad we did sign him though, imagine what a player capable of what he's managed this season would be costing us now. I think he's a great player for us, I really think he's one of the best in the team. Howe clearly thinks he's a fantastic player too for his tactical brain and workrate, but for me it's just his sheer determination and constant threat he poses. Really pleased for him that he's had such a good season.

Just reading the thread actually, they are having a full on breakdown today tbh. A few of ours are on there talking about how 'good for the North East it is that one of our clubs will be in the CL given that the others are performing so poorly' They're all climbing over each other to adamantly protest that they don't care, demonstrating the sort of indifference a starving man might have to a 3 course meal. They also managed to crowbar Brexit into it, and then fall out with each other about it. All in all it's been a productive day for RTG's NUFC thread denizens.

I mean which is it, luck or match fixing? It's neither, and he knows it's neither.

Aye Brighton fully deserve Europe this season IMO. Good luck with it.

I got the impression that he was a bit concerned everyone was going to think it was job done last night. Which tbf is exactly how I'm viewing it if not the players He looked agitated by the talk of CL football and I think he's probably really feeling the pressure to keep us on the rails to get over the line. This is new territory for him too I suppose.

Think this is my fave post so far from the Leicester board: I do feel for them, they can't even really hope for complacency with the stakes as they are.

Aye, this - also City spent the lions share of their money further back in time. It seems like it's possible to remain competitive at a lower and more sustainable level once you have that established foundation, but it takes a lot of expenditure to get up to it. Man Utd and Chelsea consistently overspend because they only believe in the galactico approach to buying players, not the team building one.

Yes but that seems to be because they think that either player might throw the game to ensure they're playing CL football next year Suppose it does have a certain logic to it.

Is there absolutely no chance of Longstaff being fit?

I guess coming from the perspective of never having won either, I find it hard to imagine this reality Maybe I'm over egging it, but I believed the CL was a much grander accomplishment than the PL. I suppose in different ways perhaps, but still. The best teams in history are remembered for winning in Europe, not the league - I think this will be a defining trophy for you.

Fuck sake

I'm a bit surprised by that tbh - I would have thought the CL would be the absolute pinnacle for you? I'm personally really hoping that you manage it as I think Guardiola has earned it for what he's achieved this season.

One of them later on in the thread notes that they've only got 29 tickets left of their 3k allocation and that this is some commitment by their fans. Then another lad comes in and corrects him saying that they gave 2000 back to us as they were unable to shift them So we'll have 1000 miserable Leicester fans cheering their team on. Poor bastards.

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/131803-toon-away/#comments They are not confident. Quite a few of them just wanting to forfeit the game and get it over with, some wanting to get beat 7-0 to make a point to the players, but none of them expecting anything at all. They're talking as if this game relegates them which I don't think it actually does unless Everton and Leeds both win at the weekend. Fish is in there and all.

I feel bad for Leicester because I don't really want them to go down, but they're losing on Monday. Whether Liverpool drop points to Villa or not, we're ending our involvement in any 'race' for top 4 here.

Here is De Zerbi explaining it himself: The reasoning behind rotation: "Because Welbeck, Buonanotte and Gilmour are the same as Mac Allister, they can't play 90 minutes today and 90 minutes Sunday. I said yesterday in press conference that I have to think in this period of 12 days and not one game because we are not used to playing three games per week and I have to analyse the situation in the best way. "I think on Sunday we will be with energy and in the best condition. With change or not we have the possibility to score another goal when we were in 2-0. But we have too many injuries and we have to think about this. We are not in the best condition to play four games in 12 days and I had to think in a different way. I think in Newcastle's stadium we can lose the game. I think we needed six points and we are capable of winning two games in the last three."

Man I'm fucking psyched about this one, great fucking result. Dumped all the pressure onto Liverpool and Manure. Superb.

Was full of praise for us beforehand too, said we deserved the CL finish. Maybe RTG is right and he was bought off after all.. I imagine they're absolute beside themselves tbh.