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Offline Luke8

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1335 on: February 01, 2020, 08:33:03 PM »
I doubt we will play a worse team away than Bournemouth, so realistically where are we going to get enough points to survive.
Our away record is awful, we have won 2 and we have top 10 teams to play at home.
We are in deep shit.

Yet in our last two away league games we have taken four points from teams that are better than Bournemouth. Throw in an away draw in the cup against the team in third in between them as well.

We will continue to drop points when we probably don’t expect to and I’m sure the opposite will occur with us picking up some unexpectedly.

I’m not sure if we will stay up. I expect it will go down to the final few games of the season at least. Thinking we are in deep shit is a bit of an overreaction to a poor result/performance in my opinion..

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1336 on: February 01, 2020, 08:36:00 PM »
West Ham vs Aston Villa on the last day of the season. A potential 'winner takes all' scenario?

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1337 on: February 01, 2020, 08:44:54 PM »
I dont think we have a bottom 3 team. Certainly Bournemouth's players are no better than ours. It's just other teams are better set up tactically and are more confident than us.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1338 on: February 01, 2020, 08:46:27 PM »
I doubt we will play a worse team away than Bournemouth, so realistically where are we going to get enough points to survive.
Our away record is awful, we have won 2 and we have top 10 teams to play at home.
We are in deep shit.

I fancy us at Newcastle. Beyond that it will be a scramble for a draw or two.

Might be enough with 10 points from home games.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1339 on: February 01, 2020, 08:55:39 PM »
And just as I was beginning to become less worried I’m back to being very worried again. Well done Villa FFS.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1340 on: February 01, 2020, 09:23:18 PM »
Realistically, when can we get McGinn back?

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1341 on: February 01, 2020, 09:24:30 PM »
Realistically, when can we get McGinn back?

Apparently Smith has said he has a chance of making the LC Final 

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1342 on: February 01, 2020, 09:25:29 PM »
Realistically, when can we get McGinn back?

March.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1343 on: February 01, 2020, 09:33:16 PM »
I dont think we have a bottom 3 team. Certainly Bournemouth's players are no better than ours. It's just other teams are better set up tactically and are more confident than us.
They also appear to want it more.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1344 on: February 01, 2020, 09:39:29 PM »
It was a classic post cup win game. They got going quicker than us, were first to everything, generally looked like they wanted it more. And that was enough. I don’t think we were that bad, especially in the first half, grealish could have had a couple and there were some bad decisions from the ref. But they just generally looked more like a team who were serious about scrapping their way out of the relegation shit than us.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1345 on: February 01, 2020, 09:42:47 PM »
We've given Bournemouth a bit of bounce now, which is disappointing.  We are still making the same stupid mistakes at the back, we still cannot defend well from the centre of midfield or against set pieces, we seem to lack motivation and consistency.  That said,  if we can win more of our home games, then we still stand a chance.  But, yes, I am worried and don't think we have enough to stay up.  Tough fixtures coming up too.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1346 on: February 01, 2020, 10:35:01 PM »
We could go down this year for sure but there's still 13 games to play and we currently sit outside the bottom 3. I really don't understand the utter conviction some people have that we're doomed. I'm guessing it's some sort of reverse psychology or something to try and soften the blow because there's certainly no logic to it.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1347 on: February 01, 2020, 10:38:16 PM »
I still think we’ll be ok, just. Those were shattering results for both Watford and West Ham today in their manner.


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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1348 on: February 01, 2020, 11:12:17 PM »
Our midfield is so inconsistent play well one week and disappear the next.

Offline Luke8

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1349 on: February 01, 2020, 11:18:38 PM »
I still think we’ll be ok, just. Those were shattering results for both Watford and West Ham today in their manner.



That’s the thing - obviously what we do ourselves will define whether we stay up or not, but you could genuinely make a case for pretty much anyone from Newcastle down to be concerned about relegation. I might be wrong, but I don’t remember the table being this condensed for a while.

 


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