2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)


….as I said before the game, I couldn’t understand posters wanting Leicester to get something at Spurs. Two consecutive wins for them significantly changes the situation.

Regardless, we can’t do anything about results elsewhere, it is what it is. I’d assume Ipswich will pick up 3 at the weekend so it’ll be a plus if we can maintain our gap with the bottom 4.

4 more wins will hopefully be enough.
 
Eggs said:
….as I said before the game, I couldn’t understand posters wanting Leicester to get something at Spurs. Two consecutive wins for them significantly changes the situation.

Regardless, we can’t do anything about results elsewhere, it is what it is. I’d assume Ipswich will pick up 3 at the weekend so it’ll be a plus if we can maintain our gap with the bottom 4.

4 more wins will hopefully be enough.
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Yes. I still dont get people who wanted Leicester to beat Spurs at all. It puts a little pressure on us, plus with injuries it doesnt help. I want the gap to the 3rd/2nd bottom to stay as big as pos, for if we go on a bad run as no doubt we will do. I think more of staying above the bottom 3, than hoping we can catch a certain team above us

A win this weekend will be huge. Saying it either way though. Ive always said we would stay up.
 
We have a better PPG tally across the season than anyone else in the bottom 6, including Spurs. Also our PPG form over the last 10 / 6 / 4 games is MUCH better than all of them.

Leicester's win were their first points in 8 (EIGHT!) games, and are the only points picked up by the rest of the bottom 6 in their last combined 20 (TWENTY!) games, other than Ipswich's draw against Fulham, in the first week of January.

I'm finding the amount of hand-wringing going on in here quite bizarre, all things considered. It's not like we have a prime 22/23 Leeds or 23/24 Luton to worry about catching us...

Are we "safe"? No. But we've had two wins on the bounce, and other results over the last few weeks have been almost perfect for us.
 

JLW said:
Yes it should, but i dont see Moyes with lots of injuries keeping the FBs as high up as the corner flag and our CBs on the halfway line.

Im amazed he (Big Ange) hasnt tried to grind out a few results with their injury crisis, they could sit deep and hurt teams with the attacking options they have.
Hi stubborness might be his downfall very very soon.
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His unwillingness to adapt was never more on display than in their first meeting with Chelsea last season. Spurs went down to ten men in the first half, and then down to nine with over half an hour to play. He changed nothing. Still played the high line at nearly midfield, which two men short was nothing less than suicidal. The second half felt like an endless conveyor belt of 1 on 1's with the keeper. This was at the peak of Chelsea's malaise last year, and fortunately for Ange it "only" ended 4-1. If Chelsea had been slightly better at finishing they could have easily scored 10 that day.
 
Lee Smith said:
For those that wish to re-live the magic. Page 814

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Thread 'Relegation 23/24 Thread'

The team is dire, the manager is clueless, a possible points deduction next month..... this needs to stay up
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Of course hindsight is great and we finished miles away from relegation last year.

However.. with 5 games to play we were just 5 points clear - with both teams immediately below us still to play. We’d just been tonked 6-0 and the manager was a coward.

It would have been wild to have no relegation concerns.
 
Lee Smith said:
We have a better PPG tally across the season than anyone else in the bottom 6, including Spurs. Also our PPG form over the last 10 / 6 / 4 games is MUCH better than all of them.

Leicester's win were their first points in 8 (EIGHT!) games, and are the only points picked up by the rest of the bottom 6 in their last combined 20 (TWENTY!) games, other than Ipswich's draw against Fulham, in the first week of January.

I'm finding the amount of hand-wringing going on in here quite bizarre, all things considered. It's not like we have a prime 22/23 Leeds or 23/24 Luton to worry about catching us...

Are we "safe"? No. But we've had two wins on the bounce, and other results over the last few weeks have been almost perfect for us.
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What's also interesting... Luton went down with a shocking 26 points last season. After 23 games they were on 20 points... so 4 more than both Wolves and Ipswich are on now having played the same number of games.

That's not to say Wolves and Ipswich will be as bad as Luton were in their remaining 15 games, but they're not on track to do much better.
 

Eggs said:
….as I said before the game, I couldn’t understand posters wanting Leicester to get something at Spurs. Two consecutive wins for them significantly changes the situation.

Regardless, we can’t do anything about results elsewhere, it is what it is. I’d assume Ipswich will pick up 3 at the weekend so it’ll be a plus if we can maintain our gap with the bottom 4.

4 more wins will hopefully be enough.
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Coz it would be funny if Spurs went down
 

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