The relegation battle - get out of my league!

alderz

Lukerz said:

If we lose then I can’t see how we can stay up, but then they’ll be saying the same thing

I mean, if we lose we will still have games left to make up for it. It’s key, but it’s not a done deal

Hammerex

William hill relegation odds.
West Brom 1/100
Stoke 1/3
Huddersfield 6/4
Southampton 2/1
West Ham 9/4
Swansea 4/1

I would have thought, that the form that we are in, we would be about level with Huddersfield.

baracks_a_hammer

We will be in deepest trouble if Southampton beat us. Not just because of the result itself, but would indicate that the side is in freefall on the field as well as being in crisis off it. It would be very difficult to arrest such a slide especially when we have games against the top sides in our run in

steve

only way we might get an upset against the top sides is if for what ever reason they don't play there best 11 or there heart is not in it .like if city are still in champions league .and arsenal still in Europa ,man u in fa cup ,when do we play them by the way .but I take your point barracks loose against the saints then will be very hard even if the top teams play there 2nd 11

ClaretandBlueforLife

Macca85 said:

We MUST beat Southampton

Thing is they might be on the up turn now.......I DO HOPE NOT THOUGH.....

baracks_a_hammer

To brighten the gloom around our current predicament, I have just you-tubed some of payet’s 15/16 free kicks - v palace, Bournemouth and Man U - the last one even drawing reluctant admiration from Michael Owen on comms. Can’t believe all of that wasn’t that long ago...

ClaretandBlueforLife

We have no one to blame for our current predicament but ourselves, it’s therefore up to us to put in a performance and get the points starting with 3 against Southampton.

Hammerwombat

We Will beat Manu as well. It’s the sort of strange thing we do when we are under the cosh.
#westhamway

Hammerex

Hammerwombat said:

We Will beat Manu as well. It’s the sort of strange thing we do when we are under the cosh.
#westhamway

I think you must have been having too many ; ;stout and ;redwine

Lukerz

So, Stoke play Arsenal at the Emirates next, we play Saints.

IF we were to win (I'm not too optimistic my self), then that would be 6 clear of Stoke (should they lose), 5 clear of Saints, the ones above us would be back in it even more than they currently are.

Stoke then have Spurs at home, before playing us.

The Saints game is so huge you can't even put it into words. With Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea and City all still to play, it could literally be make or break for us. Although I think Everton and Leicester are good fixtures to have towards the end of the season with neither playing for anything.

alderz

Personally, I don't think there's ever a good time to play Leicester. But otherwise I agree with most of that. It wouldn't surprise me at all for us to nick a 1-0 against one of the big boys, tbh.

Yeoldhammer

I'd be more than surprised considering our form.

grey_til_I_dye

Yeold

But that kind of result often comes against form. We didn't have much form going in to our home game against Chelsea, but won 1-0.

Cuz1

And Man Utd won’t relish playing us either

Hammerex

No, they will be shaking in their boots as we have such a fantastic team. ;hmm

Cuz1

Hammerex and obviously united have too oh ye of little faith

Lukerz

How have we imploded so badly over the past 3 games?

Before LFC, we had accumulated 20 points from our previous 12 games. Top 8 form. We'd beaten Watford fairly comfortably, had only really had poor results against Newcastle at home and Brighton away and seemed to be almost over the line.

To then witness the 4-1, 4-1 and 0-3 results since then and the manner of them. What on earth has gone wrong so quickly?

Complacency?

ASLEFshrugged

We missed Masuaku

IronHerb

I don't think we imploded against Liverpool. We played ok but Liverpool do that to better teams than us.
We lost 2 CB's before the Swansea game and another 15-20 minutes in. In a team with a shaky defence, and against a fired up Andre Ayew, it wasn't going to be easy.
Same goes for Burnley. Doing better than ok until they score and then with the crowd issues the wheels fell off.

So, imo, all is not lost. A half decent performance on Saturday and we're halfway there.

COYI

baracks_a_hammer

I think the performance is almost secondary to the result on this occasion. The points themselves to me are all that matters. Don’t really care if it comes about as a result of a grotesque performance.

buffybegood

Southampton haven't got a game against a current bottom half team left after today, will be tough for them if we hold on.

PrestonHammer

Their next three games are against Arsenal, Chelsea and Leicester.

Hammerwombat

9 points then.







Well, 9 points available ;whistle

Cuz1

7 points then

imagelost

We have Chelsea do double over them
And stoke
Beat them
And cigar time is here ;whistle

MunichHammer

I reckon we are safe now

Adam

Still a long way to go, we’re not safe yet. Beat Stoke and we are nearly there.

MunichHammer

I don't expect us to be in trouble from.now on. We are 5 points off 17th and we have 7 games to go. We actually have a game in hand on a lot of our rivals.

MunichHammer

Looking at the table and the remaining fixtures I expect the bottom three to stay as they are (albeit not neccessarily in that order).

Expat_Hammer

Such a shame we can't include an extra one and get rid of palace too ;lol