by ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Thu Mar 30, 2017 8:47 am
Well, let's hope the fact that this game takes place on April Fools day doesn't prove to be an bad omen.
This is how things stand, we are currently hanging on to fourth place by our fingernails, United and Arsenal sit immediately below us in the table and if they win their games in hand they will both catch us, in fact if United win their games in hand they will not only catch us they will overtake us (and have a 2 point lead to boot) and given they play West Brom this weekend you'd have to assume that they are going to be 3 points better off come 5 o clock Saturday.
So as far as the race for 4th goes if we lose against Everton we will be clearly handing the initiative to United, they'd potentially have a 5 point cushion which would take a bit of chasing down with only 9 or 10 games left, especially given that Lallana is going to miss half of those remaining games.
If all that wasn't bad enough Everton are in great form as well so you get the sense that this weekend could be pivotal.
COYR.