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Relegation 2022/23

Are Everton going to stay in the Premier League?

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If we get Onana, Coleman, Yerald, Doucore and the invisible man back in the side we have a better chance of staying up. Time to take Keane, Mykolenko/Godfrey, Maupay and Davies away from the starting 11 and immediate subs bench.
I’d take Coady and Holgate over Keane, purely on the basis that when his confidence isn’t on point he’s prone to horrendous displays.
Dyche won’t drop his Burnley boys.
 
So this Leeds team look to have imploded.

Extend the fight to between Everton, Leeds and Leicester for that final relegation place.

Three of the last 4 games they've conceded 4, 5 and 6.

Their fixtures on the run in:

Fulham A
Leicester H
B'mouth A
City A
Newcastle H
WHU A
Spurs H
Same kind of run as we have left to be fair.

Although that was a cracking result in our favour 2night, all I kind think of was how much more annoyed I was with Saturday's performance.
I was only looking at the Goal Difference between us before the game, wondering how we could claw that back.
Even a draw Sat would of done that now, and a win would of put us ahead with a better GD. All hyperthetical really though..

Palace, we're coming for you Sat.
 
Difference between deserving to be sacked and relegating us. Benitez deserved to go but he left us in 16th, 4 points above the bottom 3 spots with half a season still to play.

The fact it took that Tory divvy until fixture 37/38 to have us safe with Richarlison up top tells you all you need to know about that bluffer.

If we drop this season he should never be welcome in this city ever again imo.
Have you ever read any of your own posts ?

I mean, it's completely normal to have your own opinions on subjects, but maybe try it once before hitting the reply button cos I'm pretty sure you'd be scratching your own head !!!

Just a Word of Advice..
 

I hope Dyche has learnt from the last 2 games that starting any match with a 4-4-2 is not an option. Absolutely has to revert to 4-5-1, regardless of who is available. Also hope he’s realised that Maupay should never be given a start and Mina needs to be given a go. I’d be tempted to give Mills some minutes as well. I know it’s not ideal throwing a youngster in to such a high stakes, pressured situation, but it might actually help that he’ll be keen to prove himself and won’t have the same experience of failure and rolling over that the first XI seem to have. He seems to be pacy, direct and know how to score- qualities desperately missing from our team.
 
A very welcome boost seeing Leeds' tremendous goal difference advantage over us disappear in the space of a week.

I'm confident we'll have at least 2-3 weekends where we better their result, but who knows what will happen over 7 games.

Forest will now need a few completely unexpected victories and they have the toughest run of the lot, while I'm certain Leicester will dig in and their quality will ultimately show.

I think 7 points may be ok, a point a game, but can we do it. With the fixtures and a striker returning we should, but it's still very much up in the air for me.

DCL simply has to start the next game. How can it be that big a risk when he's been in full contact training now for weeks?
 

Could be mate.

I'm encouraged by that 2nd Leeds collapse in 8 days. They really are stumbling badly now.

And I still dont buy into all this "Leicester will get a bounce" malarkey.

The way some of our supporters have gone all in on Leicester as survivors is crazy. They literally cant get a win and have been a disaster since the restart after the WC...but somehow they'll get 11 points from their last 21 and stay up....because....erm...we lost against Fulham!
The other thing to remember is that it is...Leicester City. Perhaps the younger posters are impressed by that admirable club, given their impressive last two decades, but to people of my age - 50 - they are a yo-yo club and have simply reverted to their true selves this season.

Leicester were always fodder. They were to be grouped with Norwich, Stoke, Brighton, Crystal Palace, and Sunderland among the basement dwellers of my youth.

Don't underestimate the race memory of Evertonians if we can get a sniff of safety with five games to play. It's in our DNA to demand far more than mere survival and deeply resent that being in question. At Leicester, their own race memory is very different. They will start to accept the natural order of things if they start to see others move away from them as the matches run out.

As for Leeds? Too many years of oblivion makes them even more likely to accept their fate. It might only take a defeat to Leicester to finish them off in their own heads - and resuscitate their rivals.

We need to get something at Palace - anything - to keep the fires burning. Then the win at Leicester to extricate ourselves.
 
Sacking a manager with 6 games to go if he loses his next game. Talk about rolling the dice it took them awhile to identify and get him in so how many games would the new man get like 4 to save them it’s a massive risk.

There are managers out there that can come in and have an immediate positive impact as we have seen with Hodgson, De Zerbi, Emery, Lopetegui, Gary O’Neill and, to a lesser extent, Dyche. I expect we will see something from Dean Smith too if the 2nd half performance vs City is anything to go by.

In some seasons, it’s less common that a managerial change leads to a negative immediate outcomes. When it does, as we are seeing with Gracia, it usually means another change needs to happen. Another change at Leeds could signal the positive changes they need. If they stick with Gracia, they will go down.
 
It's so annoying because if you look at our goals against we're doing way better than the rest of the bottom 5 when it comes to defending

We just can't score any chuffing goals
if you look at the games , even the games we’ve underperformed, we’ve had chances sometimes quite decent chances which any half decent striker probably not even premier league standard would have a chance of scoring . Instead we’ve had to rely on defenders scoring from nothing or set pieces .

I’ll keep banging the drum the situation the board left us in is criminal.
 

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