I'd say i've been pessimistic since the turn of the year, and not necessarily because we've been bad, but because the others haven't been great but grinding out results. If you look at Spurs, they haven't been doing anything amazing, but are getting 3pts, week after week, and it just doesn't feel like we're getting it. I'm certainly not giving up, we're still one point off, but we just seem to be getting a lot of injuries, and it's just frustrating isn't it!
That said, football is a funny old game, if we win next week at the pit and Spurs lose to City, we find ourselves in.... 4th, so it's not the be all end all drawing at WBA, we are all allowed room for error, it just sadly means that we're gonna need less slip ups in the final 15 games now, and you have to look at games versus Newcastle, Fulham, Sunderland, Hull and Southampton and hope for a very minimum of 12 out of 15 there, knowing that we only got 5 from a possible 15 at Cardiff, Norwich, Stoke, West Brom and Palace. I'm not saying it isn't possible mind, and our next home fixtures are Villa, Palace, West Ham, Cardiff and Swansea, if that isn't an incentive, i really don't know what is?
Either way, August-December has provided some amazing memories so far, and we still have 4 months to play, we can still do it, we just need a break on the injury front, Barkley, Deulofeu, Pienaar, Alcaraz and Coleman could potentially be back for the derby, and how much of a timely boost will that be?
