2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)

[knowing your history]

What’s relegated the teams at the bottom is the goal difference. Nearly every season the teams with the worst goal differences are sure indicators of the ones that end up at the bottom. Even when Dyche left those teams had huge negative goal differences whilst we had a very good number of clean sheets. The quality of our defence, organisation, work ethic, set pieces, would have in my opinion comfortably seen us finish ahead of the three absolute shambles at the bottom now.

I'm sure they'd have been more draws under him but there wouldn't have been many wins either and ultimately that's the only currency that gets you safe by March/early April.

Today was very much a Dyche game/result. Scrappy goal, performance but organised and dug out a good away point. I really don't think he'd have won at Brighton or Palace though and in five away games Moyes has already got more away wins than Dyche managed in all of 2024.

He had won three premier league games in half a season when he was sacked let's remember. Luckily the standard at the bottom now is so poor you're not in the relegation zone winning so few games. Lampard had also won three games when he was sacked at a similar point in Jan 2023 but the situation was far worse then with the promoted teams far more competitive.