Burnley v Aston Villa Sunday 10th May 1400 hrs

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Right back to the league and it would cap off a great few days if we secured our CL spot.

Unai will have their minds back on the task in hand today I'm sure.
 
I'm not uneasy about this one as I was before spuds.
I think Burnley will not like what they saw last night one bit and will be fearing a hiding. Which won't necessarily work that well for us because I think they'll try to stop us scoring and hope to hit us if they can.

But, didn't work well for Forest last night. Swarm Burnley the way we did Forest and they'll go the same way.
 
sirdennis said:
Right back to the league and it would cap off a great few days if we secured our CL spot.

Unai will have their minds back on the task in hand today I'm sure.
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Won’t be saddled with the pressure of the Euro semi final on their minds. Surely should be a routine win with some small rotation. If the plan was to completely rest up for the spurs game, go full tilt and hammer Forest then I’d imagine it will be focus and getting the job done and three points against Burnley.
 
And I'm in no way being complacent when I say this but they are a shit team.

They have lost as many as Wolves, won fewer than half the number either spam and spuds have.
In the last 10 games they have had two draws, one against against 10 man Chelsea, the other against Bournemouth. The other 8 they've lost, including to Mansfield.

We should and, I believe will, put them to the sword and secure CL.
 
JW1985 said:
This. Go as strong as possible then we can fuck the last two games in the league off.
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I expect some light rotation, like Ollie might be a sub an Dougie place of Lindelof at the start. The team did so much running. I’m sure they’ll all be on a high so mentality they probably aren’t tired. Just think we have to be careful because it was a monumental effort.

Unai will know.
 
I don't think we will have it in us to have the same intensity again so soon after last night. We've shown how we can play when something massive is on the line. But I don't think the lads can give the same levels again and not burn out. But realisically we shouldn't need the same levels to beat Burnley.

Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford all play tomorrow so we'll have a better idea if they can still catch us before we play. If we lose all 3 remaining games
Brighton need to win all 3 remaining games
Brentford need at least 2 wins and a draw
Bournemouth need 2 wins

If we win on Sunday only Bournemouth could catch but they'd need to win all of their games. And they also play man City.
 
Chieftoast said:
I don't think we will have it in us to have the same intensity again so soon after last night. We've shown how we can play when something massive is on the line. But I don't think the lads can give the same levels again and not burn out. But realisically we shouldn't need the same levels to beat Burnley.

Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford all play tomorrow so we'll have a better idea if they can still catch us before we play. If we lose all 3 remaining games
Brighton need to win all 3 remaining games
Brentford need at least 2 wins and a draw
Bournemouth need 2 wins

If we win on Sunday only Bournemouth could catch but they'd need to win all of their games. And they also play man City.
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Win and we are fine, I'm confident of that. I've just done another predictor and have our threats generally winning their winnable games, us only beating Burnley and it still comes out like this again (which is very similar to the one I did at the start of the week).

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Chieftoast said:
I don't think we will have it in us to have the same intensity again so soon after last night. We've shown how we can play when something massive is on the line. But I don't think the lads can give the same levels again and not burn out. But realisically we shouldn't need the same levels to beat Burnley.

Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford all play tomorrow so we'll have a better idea if they can still catch us before we play. If we lose all 3 remaining games
Brighton need to win all 3 remaining games
Brentford need at least 2 wins and a draw
Bournemouth need 2 wins

If we win on Sunday only Bournemouth could catch but they'd need to win all of their games. And they also play man City.
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A huge amount of that was the crowd, all that energy just pushed and drove them on. They'll be high as kites and if we score early I'd expect us to go and hammer Burnley. We might get a bit leggy if they score first tho.
 
No excuse now, the next 4 games have to be with the intensity of the Forest game. It was great to watch, and if we do lose any, it won't be from a lack of effort.
 
Villan57 said:
No excuse now, the next 4 games have to be with the intensity of the Forest game. It was great to watch, and if we do lose any, it won't be from a lack of effort.
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For me it’s a huge push tomorrow, it seals the deal, Liverpool we can rest players ahead of Freiburg. City by then should be a total non entity of a fixture and glorified victory parade.
 
Go for the throat and finish them off early. Full strength team to start then mass substitutions once we’ve got a healthy lead. If we beat Burnley I think the fan reaction to us possibly losing to Liverpool will be like Highbury in ‘81 when we heard that Ipswich were losing and we’d won the league. Nobody gave a stuff that Arsenal won the match.
Just turn up tomorrow and hammer them.
 
There's no way we are playing with the same intensity tomorrow. Firstly, although being buzzing, I think they will be pretty physically and emotionally exhausted. Secondly I think Unai will set us back to the usual stroocture and control, which should be more than enough to see us win btw.

No doubt though the win would be huge in terms of having perfect prep for Istanbul.
 
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Melon Donkey said:
There's no way we are playing with the same intensity tomorrow. Firstly, although being buzzing, I think they will be pretty physically and emotionally exhausted. Secondly I think Unai will set us back to the usual stroocture and control, which should be more than enough to see us win btw.

No doubt thought the win would be huge in terms of having perfect prep for Istanbul.
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They have to find a way to play like they did Thursday every week; losing has become a habit since the turn of the year. I don't want ever to see another lacklustre game like the 3 before the Forest game.
 
I'm not expecting a high energy performance like Thursday due to the crowd factor. However I do expect effort and commitment across the board and if we press half as well as we did against Forest then our quality should win out.
 
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