I strongly believe our home form is the key to our top four finish this season. While we must try and gather as many points as possible away we must not drop silly points at home.Home against the following teams are going to be tricky: 1. Manchester United 2. Manchester City 3. Chelsea. 4. Arsenal. 5. Tottenham We must and win these games, because on their own grounds it is going to be very difficult too.
True, I think the mini league between the top 5/6 teams will be even more crucial than usual this season.
Agreed. Home games are important anyway but the home games you have listed are going to be crucial. I hate to say it but look at United's home record last season... Was the backbone to their season.
I do think it's strange how a team can be so good at home (United droped 2 points all season last year) but so bad away in the same season? It does make you wonder if teams tend to roll over for United and think they have no chance anyway so it doesn't matter if they lose? I tend to dissagree and actually think our away form is more important. Home form should look after itself (probbly won't go unbeaten but we shouldn't lose more than 3 or 3) but if we can beat the lower/midle teams away from home and picked up points away to the bigger teams then we will be in with a chance of 3rd/4th.
home form is actually a given for everyone going for top 4... it will not distingush us... no its away form that wins the league. we dropped silly points at home all the time under rafa but it was away form the last two years that killed us..... lets be frank a tight defense and the likes of suarez will get us top 4.
