Jamie Carragher believes that Nottingham Forest will miss the qualification of Champions League after their crushing defeat of Brentford.
The former defender of Liverpool thinks that the last place will be fought by Aston Villa and Chelsea, while Manchester City and Newcastle will easily continue.
Indeed, Carragher has supported the city and the magpies to end up for second place Arsenal, who stays in the competition and will travel to Paris in the semi -final next week.
“I still think Newcastle and Manchester City Arsenal can catch,” he said at Sky Sports. 'Just with the situation that Arsenal has in the Champions League, Bournemouth will not be easy at home, then they will go to Anfield, they must also play Newcastle. It is a brilliant race.
“Aston Villa has to win in the next few games to give himself a fight.”
City moved to third place after a 1-0 win over Wolves on Friday evening, ten points free from Villa who have a match in hand. Villa comes from a miserable week after the suffering of a devastating last closed defeat in the Etihad before collapsing from the FA Cup.
The men of Unai Emery may have the most difficult remaining competitions, but the progress of Tottenham and Manchester United – their last two opponents – in the Europa League can work in their favor.
“Spurs and Manchester United playing in their last two games can even fall on their lap in terms of the Europa League final,” he added. “I think this goes directly to the thread. I don't think Nottingham Forest is going to make it now, Villa can make a late push. I still think that Chelsea will find it difficult to look at their luminaires. '
The slate of the blues includes collisions against the newly award -winning Premier League champions Liverpool, United and colleague Champions League Chasers Newcastle and Forest on the last day.
Last month, the Supercomputer of Opta predicted that City, Newcastle and Forest would join Liverpool and Arsenal in the top five.
Villa is the next hopeful to play, because they welcome Fulham on Saturday afternoon in Villa Park.