Originally Posted by
jozza800
If we still have any ambition of finishing in the top 4, it's going to take an enormous turnaround from ourselves. I fancy the sides aboves all dropping enough points. I just cant see us getting out of the current malaise.
Probably right to be fair. Have made a personal, conscious choice not to despair this season (even if we lose to Chelsea today) and to try to focus on what I hope will be green shoots for future seasons, such as Darwin, Stefan etc.
in terms of our (admittedly outside) chances, Newcastle and Man United are the sides we are trying to reel in. No easy thing when we keep dropping points ourselves. A 12-point gap or less (4-game swing) and I'll retain a sliver of outside hope. A 5-game swing and I think it is absolute "lights out" on things.
Anyway, when both Liverpool and Man United had played 18 games this season, there was a 10-point gap (28 and 38) with Newcastle also on 38, but having played one match more. To claw back this 10-point deficit over 20 games, I thought I'd divide the remaining fixtures up into two sets of 10 - if we claw back 5 points on the sides above us after 10 matches, I think we may believe a little more and it will present a bigger sample size for us to look at.
So I'll be coming back to the following lay-out to see how well (or poorly!) we are doing on that objective by checking the gap after fixtures. I'll personally find it an easier visual than looking at the League table, where on result can potentially make you rise/fall by 3 positions.
Niche post is niche
Starting point - Gameweek 18 for Liverpool - 10 points behind Man United and Newcastle (game in hand on Newcastle)
Cluster One
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Have we clawed back 5 points? Less? More? Answer -
Cluster Two - The Business End
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Will update accordingly over the coming weeks.
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