Ifs, buts and Maybes

[Newty82]

31 minutes ago, Hafnia said:

Well…. We need to win 2 games at least I think. West Ham will be saving players for Europe now and they have Leicester and Leeds to play. 

Hmmmm. Possibly. Shite result for us that, wasn't it?

Can only hope they take that into playing Leicester and Leeds as they could still be sucked in if they lose them 2 games.

Tbh, I think we need 2 wins no matter what.

[Hafnia]

The way I see it is this. Our performance today will set the tone for whether we survive.  Playing Brighton and Man City back to back is like going running with 20kg in a rucksack and then when we play wolves and Bournemouth it should feel like it’s been taken off and the performance levels we need to compete with those 2 teams should see us beat wolves and Bournemouth…… IF we go about it the right way.

Find a way to contain these teams when they have the ball and be clinical in our opportunities - don’t waste corners, don’t make risky passes.

 

if we manage to beat Brighton by some chance I think we survive. 

 

[Palfy]

8 minutes ago, Hafnia said:

The way I see it is this. Our performance today will set the tone for whether we survive.  Playing Brighton and Man City back to back is like going running with 20kg in a rucksack and then when we play wolves and Bournemouth it should feel like it’s been taken off and the performance levels we need to compete with those 2 teams should see us beat wolves and Bournemouth…… IF we go about it the right way.

Find a way to contain these teams when they have the ball and be clinical in our opportunities - don’t waste corners, don’t make risky passes.

 

if we manage to beat Brighton by some chance I think we survive. 

 

As Mike keeps telling people particularly me it’s in our hands, and also I would add in our hearts to win this and stay up. Belief and confidence is a huge factor in football and that shouldn’t just be shown by the management and players but should be expressed by the fans. So those who have in the predict our results thread who have predicted an Everton loss please reflect, you may say you are being realistic which I wouldn’t argue with but you are being defeatist as well

[plaidharper]

Fulham up early!

[plaidharper]

5 minutes ago, plaidharper said:

Fulham up early!

and now doubled.

[plaidharper]

How did we not beat Leicester? 

[MikeO]

27 minutes ago, plaidharper said:

and now doubled.

Three.

[duncanmckenzieismagic]

Leicester all over the place here and their fans rightly giving them pelters at half time, great to see!

Hopefully that’s their new manager bounce done with

[Gwlad]

27 minutes ago, plaidharper said:

How did we not beat Leicester? 

Because we are a team of remnants, the result of previous lack of joined up thinking with transfers.

[Hoof_It_Nev]

4... Come on Fulham let's make it double figures

[chicagoblue]

Leicester right back in it. Sounds like a wild game 

[Romey 1878]

Just now, chicagoblue said:

Leicester right back in it. Sounds like a wild game 

It's 4-1?

[Romey 1878]

2 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

It's 4-1?

Make that 5-1.

[chicagoblue]

Just now, Romey 1878 said:

Make that 5-1.

I'd just seen the penalty call and expected it to be 4-2.  Caught me. 

[chicagoblue]

I remember having a right good chuckle when Fulham signed Willian...

 

[Newty82]

Our boys should be paying attention to this and getting their nut right into it...I mean, it should already be in but with DCL we've shown we're a slightly less wounded animal

[Romey 1878]

5-3 now .

[Newty82]

Oh god. Make it stop

[Romey 1878]

1 minute ago, Newty82 said:

Oh god. Make it stop

It's over, don't worry .

[Hafnia]

Leicester fans turning on tielmanns. It’s always gonna be the way, players out of contract who are keeping themselves fresh for their move. 

[MikeO]

Odds on relegation gone from odds-on to 9/4 today

[Romey 1878]

Going down? ARE WE FUCK!

[Cornish Steve]

Here's rooting for David Moyes. WHam play both Leicester (who also play Liverpool and Newcastle) and Leeds (who also play Newcastle and Spurs).

[Hafnia]

3 hours ago, MikeO said:

Odds on relegation gone from odds-on to 9/4 today

7/2

[Hafnia]

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/premier-league/
 

makes better reading! 

[Hoof_It_Nev]

21 goals in 3 games, including 4 of the bottom 5 teams

[Romey 1878]

23 minutes ago, Hoof_It_Nev said:

21 goals in 3 games, including 4 of the bottom 5 teams

And there's no Match of the Day tonight .

[Hoof_It_Nev]

11 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

And there's no Match of the Day tonight .

I spent 10 minutes googling it, the one time I want to see proper highlights and punditry

[Romey 1878]

We don't need to pick up another point currently.

Now, I'm not saying that will be the case, I think we will need more, but it's a nice position to be in with 3 games left isn't it? Leeds and Leicester would love to be in that position.

[Palfy]

Forest did well tonight which made our win all that more important, still believe we have a realistic chance to get another 7 points from the next 3 games.