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Relegation 2022/23

Are Everton going to stay in the Premier League?

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The Binman said:
What will be, will be. We’ve 2 wins in 8 now I think? I’m passed giving a crap, if we get relegated, we do… etc

Hopefully we won’t, but we’ve as much chance as anyone, apart from being hamstrung by the fact we hardly score. So either he finds a solution with what he has, Dominic Calvert-Lewin gets fit or we carry on regardless, and hope for the best - I expect it’s the last option. I also expect Leicester to get the new manager boost from smith he will at least get them together, so this will make it harder. I also think we will get beat by Fulham, just to make things even harder.

Anyway, let’s hope we survive and let’s not get too downhearted - it’s only football!
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Pretty much it. The scoring goals is the issue and what i thought would get us relegated when those at the club sat on its arse. Will still be the reason if we get relegated as i think dyche has done what he can with whats available. All the points at home have come from all bar one defender. I dont care who scores but to be that relieant on defenders to win you games is not something that will continue tp get you out the sh!t. Kick punch scratch our way to survival if we can and then lets see where we can go.
A good start if that happens is showing alex iwboi the door.
 
Street end man said:
Agree with all mate. Also we have arguably the easiest run in, Forrest, Leeds and Leicester have some terrible games ahead of them.
If we don't out point them then we can't complain. It really is in our hands now to get this done.
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Leicesters run in if i was them would look decent to me if they get a new manager bounce. 5 of their last 8 are wolves fulham everton leeds and west ham. Forest have the nightmare run in. Not sure leicester do.
 
Gilbert.. said:
Leicesters run in if i was them would look decent to me if they get a new manager bounce. 5 of their last 8 are wolves fulham everton leeds and west ham. Forest have the nightmare run in. Not sure leicester do.
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To be fair they play City and the RS who are fighting for the title and Europe respectively. Wolves are no mugs either. The other fixtures are against fellow relegation teams which is not easy for them.
 

Street end man said:
To be fair they play City and the RS who are fighting for the title and Europe respectively. Wolves are no mugs either. The other fixtures are against fellow relegation teams which is not easy for them.
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Makes it more in your own hands though
Im hoping they get no manager bounce because i was looking at them and forest. It makes 3 points against fulham even bigger now as they will likely get done at man city first. We need that gap.
 
Swartzy said:
The need and expectance of a win on sat, is giving me heart palpitations.
I just want it over and done with.

A season definer, if there ever was one..
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I dont look at it that way entirely, tbh.

Fulham are a very good team and I dont see us as automatic favourites. We'll have to work just as hard to get any points from that as we'll have to work to get points away to Palace, Wolves and Leicester.

If we beat them it'll be a big deal.
 
davek said:
Smith: you judge a manager on their fit for the job in hand and their recent past. Has Smith had experience fighting a relegation battle successfully at this stage of the season? Did he do well in his last job? No.

What am I basing Leicester being cut adrift on? They've lost 11 of the their last 15 games, taken 1 point from the last 24 on offer, they play City away next, after that they play a Wolves team that are much better than them and then an away match at Leeds which they'll be second favourites in.

I can easily see Leicester still on 25 oints by the time they play Everton.
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This is all true but that's a massively talented squad there though. They could be sitting in 8th and nobody would bat an eyelid.
 
The way I`m looking at it... If we can win v Fulham that should put us 5 clear of Leicester meaning in the run in they need to win 2 more games than us which I believe we can cover that off.

We could be 7 clear of Southampton if they lose to Palace, 6 if they draw etc but again I`d back us to cover them off.

Forest have a horrid run in, we just need to match their results to stay in the league but our form is good and I think we can catch 1 or 2 more like Leeds and Bournemouth.

I don`t want to say this week is pivotal but there is a massive chance with other teams playing games they won`t win, it would be a massive shot in the arm for us as supporters to move 3 clear of the zone, I think we will finish 15th or 16th but it could easily go the other way with the unpredictability this season.
 

mikel_88 said:
Feels like that after a bad weekend of results i am trying be positive as still out of the bottom 3 after this tough set of games.

Still said before do they have enough time and will the players respond to them as being on a short term deal. Could go both ways might work but also to go wrong, can not compare dyche to him at all having a full time deal, worked with some of the squad before.
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It could go either way but Shakey has worked with the Leicester squad before and clearly knows Leicester quite well. The point I was disagreeing with Dave was that he said that Smith and Dyche can't be compared as Smith hadn't experienced a relegation battle before and I corrected him as Smith was in a relegation battle with Villa. Then Dave said that the manager's recent performance should be used for comparison rather than going back a few years. It was this that spurned the question then why EFC employed Dyche as his recent performance was poor at Burnley and clearly Dyche was employed as a result of his achievements prior to last season. Dyche is a great appointment for EFC, I have always thought it was but Dave's argument that Leicester will be cut adrift as Dean Smith doesn't have relegation experience just doesn't stack up
 
LucBesson said:
This is all true but that's a massively talented squad there though. They could be sitting in 8th and nobody would bat an eyelid.
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Yeah, I've been saying that all season too. I constantly forecast them to put back to back wins and get out of the mess.

However, when they kept on losing games I had to wonder when the star players turn up to help them. The reality is that Leicester are Maddison and Barnes. Vardy looks spent and Tielemans is injured...and wanting a move to Arsenal anyway and wont want to jeopardise that I wouldn't imagine.

The thing with Smith is that he'll want Leicester to do a lot more running off the ball than Rodgers did. I'm not sure those players they have in midfield and up front are built to do it. They were put together to have possession of the ball.
 
Villa_Fan said:
It could go either way but Shakey has worked with the Leicester squad before and clearly knows Leicester quite well. The point I was disagreeing with Dave was that he said that Smith and Dyche can't be compared as Smith hadn't experienced a relegation battle before and I corrected him as Smith was in a relegation battle with Villa. Then Dave said that the manager's recent performance should be used for comparison rather than going back a few years. It was this that spurned the question then why EFC employed Dyche as his recent performance was poor at Burnley and clearly Dyche was employed as a result of his achievements prior to last season. Dyche is a great appointment for EFC, I have always thought it was but Dave's argument that Leicester will be cut adrift as Dean Smith doesn't have relegation experience just doesn't stack up
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I didn't say they will be cut adrift, I said I could envisage them being cut adrift after the next three games. He might well energise Leicester's players. Who knows.

I'm not sure it's a good fit though. I said above that Leicester are a possession based team and I dont associate Smith with teams that particularly want to control the ball for large parts of the game.

Also, there's the more mundane point that Leicester have City away and therefore we're talking in reality about Smith having 7 games to get - I would say - 4 wins to get to 37 points and safe. That sounds like a tall order for a man coming in and needing to get a team refocussed into another way of playing football.
 

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