The Plot to Escape Relegation Thread 2015.

[dave.woodhall]

Benteke - four in four games, right?

[supertom]

Benteke - four in four games, right?

The goal yesterday was virtually the only thing he did right (and quite fortunate). I felt he was showing signs of getting back to his old self against West Brom and Sunderland. Which makes the last couple of performances pretty galling.

Had he held onto the ball better yesterday and imposed himself on a pretty weak Utd defence, then who knows, the result may have been different.

And of the 3-4 decent displays he's had this season, I count West Brom and Sunderland in there. But out of 20 odd games, that's not good enough.
But I suppose it also highlights our over reliance on him too.

[saunders_heroes]

7 games to go, all to play for and we're not in the relegation zone. I was as pissed off as anyone yesterday but we were playing Man Utd at Old Trafford. Our 4 home games are winnable. They'll keep us up.

[dave.woodhall]

Four games - four goals. If that's a poor player I wish we had eleven of them.

[supertom]

Four games - four goals. If that's a poor player I wish we had eleven of them.

If he scores a few winners in the next four then he can play as badly as he wants. Trouble is we've often relied on an on fire Benteke to drive the team. If the team plays shit, he can still pull something special out the bag single-handed, but those days are become too infrequent.
Four in four is all well and good. But 6 in 22 doesn't look as impressive.
He needs to be fired up tuesday. In principal we should have a field day against QPR's slow and brittle backline.

[PaulWinch again]

Win on Tuesday and it looks ok. Lose on Tuesday and we're in an awful lot of trouble.

Even a win won't get us too far away from it.  Just looking at the remaining fixtures and some of the teams around us have got difficult run-ins.

I don't know. We'd be 5 points clear of the drop zone, which would be a decent cushion. If we lose on Tuesday we're in a lot of trouble.

[Billy Walker]

I'm going to be putting a whole load of jinxing bets on Hull, QPR, Burnley et al between now and the end of the season.  My old pal karma will do the rest. 

[ciggiesnbeer]

Fair point supertom. I think he is doubly important because he is the one genuinely good player in our squad. Others can play for whatever national team they like but we all know Benteke really is a class above the rest. We need that quality back and fast.

[olaftab]

The results this weekend have been very bad for us however despite that we are 2 clear of the relegation places. If we don't beat QPR we are going to be in serious trouble.

[olaftab]

Four in four is all well and good. But 6 in 22 doesn't look as impressive.

Damn stats!

[Richard E]

The bookies still don't think we are going down.

[silhillvilla]

If anything positive can be gleaned from the weekend, this set of results should really focus our players minds . If they thought they were safe then they now know better.

[adrenachrome]

The bookies still don't think we are going down.

To save pauliewalnuts from posting, at this stage it is the punters and not the bookies which determine the betting market, although you could argue that the term "the bookies" might well encapsulate that idea. 

I have a feeling that the punters sentiment is that we are "too good" to go down. Which we really are not.

I still think we will survive but I would say that the odds are generous.

[Clampy]

If any player needs to turn up, it's N'Zogbia.

[silhillvilla]

If any player needs to turn up, it's N'Zogbia.

? He's been a star performer of late .