The struggle for Champions League soccer seems to be turning into the race that no-one needs to win.
For the second 12 months in a row, it’s all however sure that the highest 5 groups within the Premier League will qualify for subsequent season’s Champions League.
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However shock defeats and inconsistency means the type of the so-called high sides is falling off a cliff.
Defeats for Liverpool and Chelsea have opened the door for a staff to come back out of left-field and clinch a coveted Champions League place.
May or not it’s Everton? Brentford? Even Fulham, Tenth-placed Brighton and groups under stay in contact.
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Earlier than Monday’s draw with Wolves, Brentford performed a video on screens round Gtech Neighborhood Stadium exhibiting pre-season predictions from pundits, together with Micah Richards and Alan Shearer, who mentioned the Bees can be concerned in a relegation battle after dropping Thomas Frank to Tottenham.
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The video ended by enjoying lyrics from Stormzy’s music Shut Up, with these two phrases displayed in big letters throughout the display screen.
Below Keith Andrews Brentford have largely performed their speaking on the pitch. Reasonably than wanting over their shoulders within the relegation battle, they’ve written their identify into the dialog for European qualification – one thing by no means performed within the membership’s historical past.
The Bees couldn’t capitalise on groups above them dropping factors on Saturday, the goalless draw a missed alternative to go stage on factors with Chelsea and edge nearer to securing not solely a spot in Europe, however a push for the Champions League locations.
“It is tight,” Andrews mentioned after the sport. “The league is fairly condensed in that half. Seven to go.
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“We’ve performed unbelievably properly to get the place we’re within the league. We should be the place we’re and it will take a mammoth effort to remain there.
“Every thing we can provide, we are going to give, like they do on a regular basis. The intentions are all the time good from our gamers. They’re all the time constructive, embrace the event and problem and I’d count on it will raise them for the final seven video games.”