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Author Topic: Relegation Watch  (Read 148885 times)

Offline levico

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #225 on: March 01, 2020, 10:46:15 PM »
Disastrous weekend. Little chance of avoiding relegation in my (often wrong) humble opinion.

Let’s hope we go down with dignity, not the wimper of last time.

Some dark days ahead for our glorious club I’m afraid.

Offline Villan82

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #226 on: March 01, 2020, 11:07:33 PM »
I am crossing my fingers and toes that we can dig out 4 wins.

Online ChicagoLion

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #227 on: March 02, 2020, 05:35:15 AM »
I am crossing my fingers and toes that we can dig out 4 wins.
Struggling to see 4 teams we can beat.

Online OzVilla

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #228 on: March 02, 2020, 05:48:35 AM »
I am crossing my fingers and toes that we can dig out 4 wins.
Struggling to see 4 teams we can beat.


Depends which Villa turn up. The Villa against Spurs or Leicester and there's plenty, the Villa against Southampton or Bournemouth and there's none.

Therein lies the problem.

Offline SheffieldVillain

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #229 on: March 02, 2020, 06:11:55 AM »
I am crossing my fingers and toes that we can dig out 4 wins.
Struggling to see 4 teams we can beat.


Depends which Villa turn up. The Villa against Spurs or Leicester and there's plenty, the Villa against Southampton or Bournemouth and there's none.

Therein lies the problem.

Very true.

It would be difficult for anyone to say that Palace or West Ham are unbeatable. We've already beaten Everton, Newcastle and Leicester from the teams we've still to play so we certainly can beat them. Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal are all wildly inconsistent so who knows? There are plenty of points to be had there if we are at it.

Offline ROBBO

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #230 on: March 02, 2020, 09:05:51 AM »
Fat Sam went for my picks Norwich, Brighton and Bournemouth hope he's right.

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #231 on: March 02, 2020, 09:22:05 AM »
The worrying thing is we play monday night and the gap could be extended further. Lets hope for skme luck results wise.

Leicester are gunnibg fir us after we beat them but they ahve hit a bit if a purple patch at the mo.


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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #232 on: March 02, 2020, 09:25:20 AM »
They've drawn 2 and lost 2 of their last 4 games since we beat them in the cup.

Offline Des Little

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #233 on: March 02, 2020, 09:30:20 AM »
We need a big result at Leicester.  Like Double Diamond, it would work wonders.

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #234 on: March 02, 2020, 09:30:34 AM »
They've drawn 2 and lost 2 of their last 4 games since we beat them in the cup.

Vardy isnt fit and when he dont play well Leicester tend to struggle.  I personally think we can get something if we show yesterdays team performance.  If its the ine against Southampton we will get tonked.

Id take a point if offered now

Offline Luke8

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #235 on: March 02, 2020, 10:03:59 AM »
I am crossing my fingers and toes that we can dig out 4 wins.
Struggling to see 4 teams we can beat.


Depends which Villa turn up. The Villa against Spurs or Leicester and there's plenty, the Villa against Southampton or Bournemouth and there's none.

Therein lies the problem.

This is the key. I think we have shown enough times that we are capable of competing against any team in the league (yesterday, Liverpool at home, Leicester twice in the cup) but also that we can throw in utterly abject performances (Bournemouth, Southampton, Watford).

If we can have some sort of consistency in our performances to somewhere near the level that we are capable of playing to we should be fine.

Obviously, this also applies to the teams around us. Feels worse as this was a bad weekend where everyone picked up points. But the other teams in the bottom eight picked up a whole one point combined just the weekend before.

Offline Villan82

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #236 on: March 02, 2020, 10:05:14 AM »
Fat Sam went for my picks Norwich, Brighton and Bournemouth hope he's right.

Oh really? Where was this?

Offline Richard E

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #237 on: March 02, 2020, 10:43:17 AM »
Fat Sam went for my picks Norwich, Brighton and Bournemouth hope he's right.

Oh really? Where was this?

Hopefully it was at a top secret meeting with the Premier League, the referees and copious amounts of money in brown envelopes.

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #238 on: March 02, 2020, 11:09:03 AM »
Chelsea to me is going to be like Spurs.

Team with injuries (looks like Tammy is out) and they must be close to conceding as many goals from corners as we are so that's something for Samatta to exploit.

Like any major team they have good players in attacking midfield and final third but don't think they have the pace of what Spurs did.

Can see it being tight (think Chelsea have won only won twice by two goal margin at VP in 20 years) so we really need to get on the right side of the margins e.g. none of our CBs making ridiculous error in the 94th minute and think we'll get at least a draw from it as Bournemouth did at the weekend.

Offline Villafirst

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #239 on: March 02, 2020, 12:10:16 PM »
Let's not forget John McGinn being back for last 11 games - he could just inspire us similar to Jack's return around this time last year.....

 


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