Given that Chelsea and Spurs play each other, it's back to being "in our hands" now>>Alfred C. Jolibois, PhD
03-30-2013, 09:36 PM
...as they will take points off each other. (Either it's not a draw and one of them loses three points, or it's draw and each loses two points.)
Mathematical: if each team wins all their remaining games (or match each one another's result) then regardless of how the Spurs/Chelsea game ends, we finish at least fourth. We finish third, if they draw and we have a better GD than Chelsea.
Surprised AW has not made that point yet.
(Having said that, unlikely we win all our games of course, especially given that we play United--but all we need to do is match their overall results, and the game they play against each other will see us through.)
Mathematical: if each team wins all their remaining games (or match each one another's result) then regardless of how the Spurs/Chelsea game ends, we finish at least fourth. We finish third, if they draw and we have a better GD than Chelsea.
Surprised AW has not made that point yet.
(Having said that, unlikely we win all our games of course, especially given that we play United--but all we need to do is match their overall results, and the game they play against each other will see us through.)