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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: The Red Baron on April 18, 2016, 09:32:36 pm
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... now looks to have made the right decision.
Spurs look irresistible, and I can't see Leicester winning the next two with Vardy banned.
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Looks to be going to the wire now
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Could have been 5 or 6 this game and there's still 10 mins to go! Supers were 4/1 yesterday to win the league not sure if they're that big now but I fancy them to do it.
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Looks to be going to the wire now
I can see them being neck and neck going into the last two games.
Wish I was as confident that we'd win the next two games as I am about Spurs!
Stoke are possibly on the beach, but this second half looks like a Premier League side picking off non-Leaguers in the Third Round of the FA Cup.
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Spurs have massively superior GD.
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What a goal that is by Ali. He's going to be some player if he keeps his head down.
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Spurs have to play Newcastle away in their last game. For all their troubles Newcastle have a pretty good home record and there is a good possibility they will need to win that game to be in with a chance of staying up. I reckon Leicester will probably win the League if they can get one win and two draws from their last four games. That should be doable from Swansea, Everton and Chelsea.
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Is the Everton game at Goodison? If so then the title is all but heading to Leicester.
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No it is at Leicester.
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Still nowt left for Everton. They will either be fretting about the semi final or the final, or they will have been knocked out and be mentally crushed and on the beach.
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If they beat Swansea, then it's going to be tough for Spurs,
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I don't think they will beat Swansea without Vardy. Lump on a draw.
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Leicester have Man Utd away. How many have United lost at home?
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I did a double today, us to stay up and spurs to win the league, 30/1
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Swansea are on the beach, probably the best side in the league to be playing
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Last time Leicester were in a similar position they messed it up years ago, different side and times though. Spurs will win it, it won't be by much, but they just have a better all round squad.
Vardy missing games and Kane not will clinch it for them. As much as Kane impresses me, Alli is one another level to everybody else at times, it's frightening how good he could become!.
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Nah don't be daft , although I fancied Spurs to be right up there - they should still fall just short. Still the best two teams overall are up there.
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Spurs have been far and away the best side all season.
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Leicester have Man Utd away. How many have United lost at home?
Not enough !
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Spurs have been far and away the best side all season.
The table says different! ;-)
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:thumbsup: :that:
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Newcastle vs Spurs on the final day has potential to be very interesting.
Surprised more hasn't been made of perennial bottlers Arsenal, bottling a title bid yet again. They could probably find a way to f**k up a four-point lead with one game to play.
Maybe because it's an annual event! I'm sure they'll struggle into fourth, when this year they should have been winning it.
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I think it's wrong to claim that someone cashing out on that bet looks to have made the right decision, if this was any other team holding a 5 point lead everyone would be saying the title is sewn up. I also don't think that missing Vardy will necessarily be a killer blow for them, if they beat Swansea next weekend the task becomes very difficult for Spurs to overhaul them, and let's not forget they still have to go to Chelsea as well. I think the gap may shorten but Leicester will hold out, as providing they beat Swansea and Everton at home (both very likely) Spurs would have to win every match.
How good it is though that we're debating a Leicester v Spurs title race in mid-April, a wonderful breath of fresh air.
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Haven't we learned by now not to write Leicester off? They are an exceedingly good football team, and not totally reliant on Vardy at all. Mad to assume they won't beat two mid-table nowt-to-play-for cloggrers when Drinkwater, Mahrez, Kante etc are still on the pitch.
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Agree with that RoversAlias - people have been saying that their run won't last since the start of the season, and suddenly now that they've drawn a game and Spurs have romped to victory the title is going to White Hart Lane?! It was only a couple of games ago that Spurs drew with Liverpool, and not long before that they could only draw against 10 man Arsenal and lost to West Ham.
I'm not saying that Leicester will definitely win the title but it's still theirs to lose. Beat Swansea and that will really put the pressure on Spurs for next Monday.
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Eight points from four games is not beyond Leicester, but I think they need to win at least one of their next two. Otherwise I think the pressure will be too much.
The key thing for me is it is difficult to see Spurs doing anything other than winning their last four.
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They could very easily only get one win against Swansea and not get another point, also they could win the lot. I have been wrong all season with them. I don't mind who wins it both have been very good in different ways, Leicester play more as a team, spurs have the individual stars.
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Leicester really struggling without Vardy today...
They've only got 3, they should have 4 or 5!
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Fair play to them. They have responded magnificently. You have to give a lot of credit to Ranieri. He takes the pressure off his players brilliantly.
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Pressure is put firmly back onto Spurs now. What a way to silence the doubters!
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They could very easily only get one win against Swansea and not get another point, also they could win the lot. I have been wrong all season with them. I don't mind who wins it both have been very good in different ways, Leicester play more as a team, spurs have the individual stars.
i even got it wrong earlier than sammy chung i thought it was a stupid appointment of claudio so listened to the friendly Lincoln v leicester -- leicester's first match of the season -- i had a funny feeling lincoln might win
lincoln took a 1-0 lead (told you so feeling) me thinking Leicester were certs to go down
here are the goals from that match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6_nf8jIhaY
by the way i checked out who that foreigner (who hadn't read the script which said the match was an "organised" friendly draw ) who "dived "for that penalty
at leicester
bl**ding mahrez
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Leicester really struggling without Vardy today...
They've only got 3, they should have 4 or 5!
they did get 4!!
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When I saw Ulloa had scored twice the first thing I thought of was this thread.
Struggle without Vardy indeed. I cannot see Spurs winning all of their last four games either, the title is almost Leicesters now.
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Well deserved it will be as well. Generally the club that sits on top of the pile has a fine balance of quality, tactical awareness and resilience . All tightened up with an immense strength of both individual character and a massive teamwork ethic.
Leicester has this in spades they are definitely NOT a one man team , they are a team of gifted individuals.
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Spurs currently drawing with WBA and looking stylish but frustrated. Leicester could win the title on Saturday as it stands.
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According to this thread and, admittedly quite a few people elsewhere, Leicester were going to chuck it after that draw with West Ham. Spurs of course were going to win every game.
Well not the case. A home draw with West Bromwich Albion. If Leicester win at Old Trafford next Sunday they are champions of England!
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Leicester will more likely beat Everton the following game. Either way, they need 3 points from 3 games, assuming Spurs win their final 3 matches.
I can't see any other outcome now..
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Amazed it's taken until this stage - where it would take a stunning capitulation from Leicester to lose the title - for people (not just on this forum) to come round to the idea of Leicester winning the title. People have been saying it's their week to bottle it every week and it just never happens. Best team in the Premiership by a country mile, have been all season, reminds me of Mourinho's Chelsea team back when they won their first title.
While the circumstances regarding them being in the PL in the first place are fishy, on the merits of this season alone you have to say well done for shrugging off the TLO Leicester doubters every week.
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United will beat Leicester, so i expect spurs will be back in the race. They need to beat Leicester to keep any sort of pressure on Arsenal
It's going against general consensus, but i don't think Leicester will win another game this season, if they do Everton are they're best opportunity.
As much as Chelsea don't like spurs, unfortunately i would expect them to get at least a point.
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Why are Leicester going to stop winning all of a sudden?
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Why are Leicester going to stop winning all of a sudden?
exactly this. Spurs also realistically need to win their last 3 games against Chelsea, Southampton and Newcastle (unless Leicester go on to lose the last 3) and they've just drawn at home to West Brom?
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They have lost three games ALL SEASON so far. Highly unlikely they won't get at least a point from the final games.
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Leicester got through their big test on Sunday when they showed they could win, and win well, without Vardy. They may well lose on the next game, but they will soon bounce back.
In contrast, Spurs have blinked first. They couldn't reproduce the level of performance from last Monday. I'm not convinced they will beat Chelsea even if the door is left ajar for them by a Leicester defeat.
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According to this thread and, admittedly quite a few people elsewhere, Leicester were going to chuck it after that draw with West Ham. Spurs of course were going to win every game.
Well not the case. A home draw with West Bromwich Albion. If Leicester win at Old Trafford next Sunday they are champions of England!
Yea, & some had Rovers relegated after losing to Blackpool. We'll see.
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Man u won't beat them. I don't think they will anyway.
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If it was a big 4 team that had only lost 3 games all season, nobody would be saying they wouldn't win another game, that's for sure.
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United have a lot to play for, for one fa cup final places, and they are hitting a little bit of form after a disappointing season.
Fourth place and an fa cup win would be seen as not good enough by most but when you consider the season they have had it would be decent.
They still have to beat Palace who on they're day can be a dangerous side!. Weird that i remember the 1990 final and it's back round again the same opponents, with all the retro kits this is a retro final!.
Martial has slowly developed into a very good player, to carry a team on his back at times at that age he is some player!. I just see the united defenders handling Ulloa better than they would Vardy, they drew at Leicester, home advantage and Vardy not playing, narrow win for united.
Chelsea owe they're fans one big performance, Hazard in the last game showed flashes of how good he is, it will be very tight but just a narrow victory for Chelsea.
Everton are the best chance of three points. The problem is Martinez also needs a big performance just to keep his job. This will either be a draw or a game where Barkley and Lukaku sign off with a great game!.
Tottenham have a striker that Chelsea cannot handle in Kane, a midfield that is too fluid for them to deal with, though Alli's ban is a massive blow, they will edge a very narrow win.
Southampton are dangerous at the minute, trying to get into a european spot, but they don't quite have enough to trouble spurs, another narrow win, with a few goals in this one.
Newcastle are the side they could drop points to, the pure desperation for survival will make this a tough game, i see goals in this 3-2 to spurs.
I see Leicester getting one more point, Spurs getting all nine. I have been wrong all season Leicester, i just think this season is Tottenham's time!.
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Chelsea are a shade better than West Brom, and they just about handled Kane and certainly stifled the 'fluid' Spurs midfield in the second half last night.
I honestly think you are nuts if you think Spurs are going to win the title from this position. "Leicester's opponents all need a result for x reason" is a poor justification. Every team in the bloody league has a reason to go for a win in every game! The best example in that division right now of a team who you would struggle to find a good reason to really, really need a result is West Brom, and they just got a hard fought draw away at Spurs!
Nuts, I say.