Other Games 6th - 8th May
A normal round of 10 fixtures, spread over 3 days with 5 today, 2 tomorrow and 3 on Bank Holiday Monday.
Today's only really relevant fixture sees Sam Allardyce's first game in charge of Leeds as they travel to Man City. Other matches see Bournemouth host a Chelsea side looking to stop the rot, Spurs at home to Palace, Wolves at home to Villa and Brentford away to Liverpool in the late game.
Tomorrow we play at the very unusual, especially as there are only 2 matches, time of 7pm, with Newcastle at home to Arsenal in the day's other fixture.
Monday sees 3 fixtures which between them feature 4 of the 5 clubs below us. Firstly Leicester travel to Fulham, by far their best chance of picking up points before their all important final game of the season against us; their next two matches are Liverpool at home and Newcastle away. A defeat on Monday could easily see Leicester unable to catch us even if they beat us in the season finale, even if we pick up no further points; a draw for Leicester on Monday could see them overtake us on goal difference by beating us in the final match, especially with goals effectively counting double between the two of us on that last day. A win for Fulham would do us a huge favour, and avoiding defeat would certainly help as well.
The second match on Monday sees Brighton at home to Everton. Hopefully we'll see a Brighton bouyed by their dramatic win over Man Utd on Thursday rather than one tired by their efforts in that game. A defeat for Everton, given their next match will be against Man City, could well leave them needing to win their final two matches against Wolves and Bournemouth to stay up.
The last match of the weekend sees Soton travel to Forest. Soton will surely see this as a last chance saloon, given that they're already 6 points adrift of safety. They need to win all of their remaining 4 matches (barring a huge swing in goal difference) to overtake our current tally, and whilst their survival would seem unlikely even with a win on Monday, Soton could put a big dent in Forest's hopes of avoiding the drop if they manage to take points off their hosts. A draw for Forest might well not be enough, given their next two matches are Chelsea away (yeah, I know, but surely Frank has to get a result sooner or later) and Arsenal at home; a draw and 2 defeats would likely leave Forest unable to match our current position even with a win against Palace in their final fixture.
A routine City win today and then results going our way on Monday could have a big impact on our preparation for the final few matches of the season, regardless of our own result against Man Utd on Sunday.
Today's only really relevant fixture sees Sam Allardyce's first game in charge of Leeds as they travel to Man City. Other matches see Bournemouth host a Chelsea side looking to stop the rot, Spurs at home to Palace, Wolves at home to Villa and Brentford away to Liverpool in the late game.
Tomorrow we play at the very unusual, especially as there are only 2 matches, time of 7pm, with Newcastle at home to Arsenal in the day's other fixture.
Monday sees 3 fixtures which between them feature 4 of the 5 clubs below us. Firstly Leicester travel to Fulham, by far their best chance of picking up points before their all important final game of the season against us; their next two matches are Liverpool at home and Newcastle away. A defeat on Monday could easily see Leicester unable to catch us even if they beat us in the season finale, even if we pick up no further points; a draw for Leicester on Monday could see them overtake us on goal difference by beating us in the final match, especially with goals effectively counting double between the two of us on that last day. A win for Fulham would do us a huge favour, and avoiding defeat would certainly help as well.
The second match on Monday sees Brighton at home to Everton. Hopefully we'll see a Brighton bouyed by their dramatic win over Man Utd on Thursday rather than one tired by their efforts in that game. A defeat for Everton, given their next match will be against Man City, could well leave them needing to win their final two matches against Wolves and Bournemouth to stay up.
The last match of the weekend sees Soton travel to Forest. Soton will surely see this as a last chance saloon, given that they're already 6 points adrift of safety. They need to win all of their remaining 4 matches (barring a huge swing in goal difference) to overtake our current tally, and whilst their survival would seem unlikely even with a win on Monday, Soton could put a big dent in Forest's hopes of avoiding the drop if they manage to take points off their hosts. A draw for Forest might well not be enough, given their next two matches are Chelsea away (yeah, I know, but surely Frank has to get a result sooner or later) and Arsenal at home; a draw and 2 defeats would likely leave Forest unable to match our current position even with a win against Palace in their final fixture.
A routine City win today and then results going our way on Monday could have a big impact on our preparation for the final few matches of the season, regardless of our own result against Man Utd on Sunday.
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Chelsea also winning against Bournemouth, and Wolves against Villa.
I see C&B has changed the name.
COYI tomorrow, let's put this to bed....
;yercoat
Stonewall penalty against them not given (our game) and an unbelievably fortuitous one given for them (versus Fulham). It's almost as if someone wants them there 🤔
Every little helps. 😄
And now Arsenal score.
Just is so obvious they shouldn’t have pundits involved on games who are so biased.
Shearer losing it moaning about was it a clear mistake giving the penalty, and yeh, wake up Shearer ..It was…..
But he’s livid, haven’t seen him so worked up…
Was never a penalty IMO and correct decision was eventually made…
Like a little spoilt Geordie brat …