all this "advantage playing first" rubbish

Originally Posted by Coracao

If you play later on then it can clearly have an effect in terms of pressure on the game. .

How about it effects the later playing team in a positive way.....

Team X won, so now Team Y just goes straight out with attack in mind, get a couple in the first half and have it sewn up 3-0 on 70 minutes.

They knew what they had to do as Team X had won.

They couldnt do much else but go for the win.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

How about it effects the later playing team in a positive way.....

Team X won, so now Team Y just goes straight out with attack in mind, get a couple in the first half and have it sewn up 3-0 on 70 minutes.

They knew what they had to do as Team X had won.

They couldnt do much else but go for the win.

I didn't say it couldn't have a positive affect.

If you acknowledge one, you acknowledge the other.

Originally Posted by Coracao

I didn't say it couldn't have a positive affect.

If you acknowledge one, you acknowledge the other.

But one of the ones is never acknowledged by the ones that know nowt.

any situation united has is automatically an advantage, generally an unfair one and certainly grounds for devaluing any success we have.

if there is any advantage to be had then it has to be by the team playing second.....

but if youre in a battle for the title (or against relegation for that matter) you always have to pressume your rival will win and you need to gain maximum points yourself....if your rival drops points then its a brucey bonus....

the pressure to win is always there.

to say the first team has an advantage is %@#$&!s.....


although i do laugh when i think of citeh thinking they were safe on the last day of the season, with 5 minutes to go ...before realising they hadnt done enough to avoid relegation

and now we have chelsea playing first......so its United "again" who have the advantage

@#%&!s the lot of em.

Originally Posted by denis lawless

and now we have chelsea playing first......so its United "again" who have the advantage

@#%&!s the lot of em.

Tbf, I think the argument of some is that playing first is an advantage IF you are already ahead.......

Whereas it is a must-win game for Chelski today, regardless of which order it is played in.

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Tbf, I think the argument of some is that playing first is an advantage IF you are already ahead.......

Whereas it is a must-win game for Chelski today, regardless of which order it is played in.

so you get yourself an advantage by being ahead (on points) which then gives you an advantage no matter what order the games are then played.
the media may be onto something here

its rubbish, its all rubbish.

Step closer tmrw now......

we play second.

away.

TBH the team that is most consistent over 38 games and has the most points has the advantage... Stays on here.

A win tomorrow and it's good as over IMHO.

Originally Posted by Mr_Ed

A win tomorrow and it's good as over IMHO.

If Spurs get anything tonight it's all over tbf.

....of course, the chances of Spurs getting anything at Stamford Bridge is pretty much zero.

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

If Spurs get anything tonight it's all over tbf.

....of course, the chances of Spurs getting anything at Stamford Bridge is pretty much zero.

Haven't won there since 1990 apparently, and Spurs have only won one of their last ten games

Originally Posted by jaffo

and Spurs have only won one of their last ten games

They have drawn quite a few, though - that will do today