Relegation 2022/23

[royvernon39]

Because the team is poor nobody can be confident about beating Fulham but lets say if EFC fail to win
against a team going through a bad patch then I can't see where they winning.

Fervour, fear and the home advantage will be enough to see off Fulham. I am much more worried about Palace
away and the next home games.

Not to win against Fulham will be a disaster.

 

[Ring master]

Because the team is poor nobody can be confident about beating Fulham but lets say if EFC fail to win
against a team going through a bad patch then I can't see where they winning.

Fervour, fear and the home advantage will be enough to see off Fulham. I am much more worried about Palace
away and the next home games.

Not to win against Fulham will be a disaster.

I am very confident of a win, feel we can beat these more than some of the other teams we have been playing, i dont get this thing which for some reason so many seem to be fearing Fulham way more than they should be

 

[davek]

Because the team is poor nobody can be confident about beating Fulham but lets say if EFC fail to win
against a team going through a bad patch then I can't see where they winning.

Fervour, fear and the home advantage will be enough to see off Fulham. I am much more worried about Palace
away and the next home games.

Not to win against Fulham will be a disaster.

A draw wouldn't be a disaster. How could it be if it more than likley given the games this weekend puts Everton 5 points ahead of S'ton, 3 points ahead of Leicester, and 1 point ahead of Forest?

We need to get Doucoure and Coleman back and that settled starting XI again, then we'll be fine.

If we win against Fulham I'm going to stick my neck out and declare us all but home and dry.

 

[davek]

I am very confident of a win, feel we can beat these more than some of the other teams we have been playing, i dont get this thing which for some reason so many seem to be fearing Fulham way more than they should be

We're weakened, and Fulham are more than just Mitrovic.

They really should have won handily when we played them down there this season. They had loads of scoring chances.

Everton are second favourites for this all day long. Forget their recent form. And they're still trying to get their heads round the loss of Mitrovic.

I expect an absolute war on Saturday. They will be looking at Everton away as the turning point back to good form.

 

[Drico]

Saturday is such a big game, I think if we win we will be safe. Lose and we will go down I think. Draw and I think we will go down.

My predictions for the weekend for the teams at the bottom:

Everton 1 - 0 Fulham
Southampton 2 - 1 Crystal Palace
Forest 1 - 1 Man utd
Man city 4- 1 Leicester
Leeds 1 - 1 Liverpool
Spurs 2 - 2 Bournemouth
West ham 1 - 2 Arsenal
Wolves 2 - 1 Brentford

That would be a poor enough outcome for us, but I'd take it...

We simply have to beat Fulham no matter what happens elsewhere.

 

[Neiler]

We're weakened, and Fulham are more than just Mitrovic.

They really should have won handily when we played them down there this season. They had loads of scoring chances.

Everton are second favourites for this all day long. Forget their recent form. And they're still trying to get their heads round the loss of Mitrovic.

I expect an absolute war on Saturday. They wll be looking at Everton away as the turning point back to good form.

Silva will have a bit of skin in the game as well he wont want to loose here. He will know to try and quiet the crowd and frustrate early doors and make the ground edgy.

 

[Ring master]

We're weakened, and Fulham are more than just Mitrovic.

They really should have won handily when we played them down there this season. They had loads of scoring chances.

Everton are second favourites for this all day long. Forget their recent form. And they're still trying to get their heads round the loss of Mitrovic.

I expect an absolute war on Saturday. They will be looking at Everton away as the turning point back to good form.

We usually are for a lot of teams when they need something no matter what it is, as we know, but i have the feeling we will get the win this weekend,

 

[sbbefc]

A draw wouldn't be a disaster. How could it be if it more than likley given the games this weekend puts Everton 5 points ahead of S'ton, 3 points ahead of Leicester, and 1 point ahead of Forest?

We need to get Doucoure and Coleman back and that settled starting XI again, then we'll be fine.

If we win against Fulham I'm going to stick my neck out and declare us all but home and dry.

It would be a disaster because on paper this is our second easiest game left to play and we need three wins. I know football isn't played on paper and we could get results elsewhere, but it makes survival a lot less likely for me.

 

[davek]

Silva will have a bit of skin in the game as well he wont want to loose here. He will know to try and quiet the crowd and frustrate early doors and make the ground edgy.

I do see quite easily a defeat here unfortunately. That's based on who we have missing.

 

[davek]

We usually are for a lot of teams when they need something no matter what it is, as we know, but i have the feeling we will get the win this weekend,

Hope you're right mate.

 

[Drico]

We're weakened, and Fulham are more than just Mitrovic.

They really should have won handily when we played them down there this season. They had loads of scoring chances.

Everton are second favourites for this all day long. Forget their recent form. And they're still trying to get their heads round the loss of Mitrovic.

I expect an absolute war on Saturday. They will be looking at Everton away as the turning point back to good form.

This is a bellwether match for us. This is what Dyche was hired for. And this is the first time I think the manager is under serious pressure - not for his job or anything like that, but in terms of immediate need and perhaps even in whether there is a future after the summer.

If we do not take the three points - and this is more than a live possibility because every match for us is a battle of attrition at best - then I will resign myself to an agonising month or so ahead. We won't be getting out of this prior to Bournemouth if we fail to win this - and that's if we are to get out at all.

 

[davek]

It would be a disaster because on paper this is our second easiest game left to play and we need three wins. I know football isn't played on paper and we could get results elsewhere, but it makes survival a lot less likely for me.

As siad above: a point isn;t the end of the world.

But we need Doucoure back (who some people unbeleivably believed wasn't any great loss to suspension...ask Dyche if he agrees with that) and Coleman back - our only functioning FB to survive this season.

 

[davek]

This is a bellwether match for us. This is what Dyche was hired for. And this is the first time I think the manager is under serious pressure - not for his job or anything like that, but in terms of immediate need and perhaps even in whether there is a future after the summer.

If we do not take the three points - and this is more than a live possibility because every match for us is a battle of attrition at best - then I will resign myself to an agonising month or so ahead. We won't be getting out of this prior to Bournemouth if we fail to win this - and that's if we are to get out at all.

Hard to argue with any of that.

I'd caution against despair if we get a point though. If others below dont pick a point up then it's a net gain on the day.

Just dont lose.

 

[sbbefc]

As siad above: a point isn;t the end of the world.

But we need Doucoure back (who some people unbeleivably believed wasn't any great loss to suspension...ask Dyche if he agrees with that) and Coleman back - our only functioning FB to survive this season.

We wouldn't be dead and buried but for a lot of us, not getting out of this before the last game (if we do at all), is disastrous. I'm just fed up of it in all honesty.

 

[Drico]

Hard to argue with any of that.

I'd caution against despair if we get a point though. If others below dont pick a point up then it's a net gain on the day.

Just dont lose.

I think the rational amongst us won't be despairing. This is a hard match because every match is hard for this Everton. We are, most likely, going to have to scrap for every point, mentally as a fan base as much as physically on the pitch.

Self preservation tells me that if we do not win, it's prudent to dial back hope and accept it will now be touch and go. A win would be seismic, though. If we are to have confidence in getting out, this is a must. Anything less and it's sleeves up time and an acceptance that this may not end well.