[Football] PL March 9th & 10th.

[Bodian]

We still have Cardiff, Newcastle, Shampton at home and I think they are all absolutely must wins UNLESS we win a few we are not expected to before the Arsenal and Man City games.

Southampton have a pretty decent set of fixtures, and could well catch us. I think it's all about Cardiff now.

If we beat Cardiff it will mean they'll need 8 points from their other 7 games to catch us. Their fixtures are not encouraging for them. Their 'easiest' games are Burnley & Fulham away, and Palace at home. So, even if they win all three of them, the chances are we'll only need one other point from somewhere. The Cardiff game is pretty huge.

 

[fleet]

Cardiff’s next 4 games

That makes it look much better - and I think we will beat them whenever we play them

 

[lizard]

For me, it's beat Cardiff and we stay up.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

It's worth looking at the Other 14 stats and the Tracker thread on here to get a good understanding of the chances of staying up. Lots of teams picking up good points around us today (not Palace - haha) but we're still looking good.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Has anyone posted the relative run ins?

 

[Steve.S]

PL March 9th & 10th.

Cardiff need 6 points to get above us with only 8 games left. That’s a big ask as that would mean we have to stand still. I would expect us to at least pick up 6 points from our home games. That would mean Cardiff need to get to 40 points 12 points from 8 games, that’s definitely a big ask.All Season they have managed just 1.07 a game.

 

[Bodian]

Has anyone posted the relative run ins?

Apologies for it being the Daily Mail, but these were the easiest to find. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6786367/With-nine-games-race-escape-relegation-Premier-League-hotting-up.html

 

[Jim in the West]

Cardiff have 8 games left, but only 3 at home. And those are Chelsea, Liverpool and Palace. I can't honestly see them getting more than a couple pf points (if they are lucky). Away from home they have Man City, Burnley, Fulham, Man Utd and ourselves. You'd like to think that Man City and Man Utd would be nailed on losses, and Burnley won't be easy. So - for Cardiff, they need max points from trips to Fulham and BHA. I'd say if we can avoid defeat against Cardiff (whenever the match is played), we should be OK.

Another way of looking at it is that they will be exceptionally lucky to get more than 9 points from their last 8 games. Given our much superior GD, just a single win from any of our last 9 games should see us safe.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I'm sure I heard Garth Crooks mention that Nathan Redmond is better than Knocky, on FS today

 

[Cozzy]

Hindsight shows today's game in the end was a 'HAD' to win game and our next prem game at home to Saints will be a 'dare not lose' (depending on other results on the day) or we could be in deep do-do

 

[bhaseeer]

Burnley or Cardiff for the drop....their run ins are complete nightmares.

We will be ok with 37 points.....the two clubs i mentioned won't get to 37.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Burnley or Cardiff for the drop....their run ins are complete nightmares.

We will be ok with 37 points.....the two clubs i mentioned won't get to 37.

Well both won't I agree.

 

[BensGrandad]

For me, it's beat Cardiff and we stay up.

I agree but those 3 points today were important as most of the expected results went against us.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Today's result is even better reading now, as most of the teams below us got results as well!
It's still very much in our own hands. Beat any two of Cardiff, Newcastle, or Southampton, and I think we'll be safe.

Spot on and essentially what I was about to post. I won't bother because you've done it for me

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

As much as I'd like Cardiff to stay up at the expense of Southampton or Burnley, they just don't have the fixtures to get the points needed

 

[Peter Ward]

I’m very confident we’re confident we’re staying up and so are the markets.

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After today I'll put a tenner on Burnley

 

[Icy Gull]

Not quite - there's one fewer game in which to be caught.

I am starting to wish that we weren’t playing clubs around us at home. Mid table teams like West Ham seem to be on holiday already, would be much easier to be playing teams like that. Cardiff, Saints and Newcastle will really be up for our games. All must not lose games. Gonna be a very tough and tense run in imo.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Booing at Citeh. Wow

 

[BLOCK F]

I was feeling all warm and fuzzy until those results started coming in!

 

[Hugo Rune]

Citeh don’t need any help from the ref. Oh dear.