Relegation 2022/23

[ToffeeTim]

If (huge if because we are expected to lose our next two games) Dyche keeps us up it will be a truly astonishing achievement.

This must be the worst squad in Premier League history - and frankly it's not even the players' fault. They try and they give their all, but many of them are simply not good enough. Or, in the case of the brilliant DCL, they have rotten luck with injuries.

Dyche inherited a team firmly ensconced in the bottom two with an impossibly hard run-in and all the 'easy' teams having already been played twice under Frank.

And of Dyche's two main strikers: one (Maupay) is a guy who scored just 1 goal every 4 games on average at Brighton and the other lad (DCL) has scored just 3 goals from open play in 2 whole seasons.

It would be truly a miraculous feat to keep this squad in this division.

Not a huge fan of Dyche, but if he does it he will always have my backing.

I dont expect to lose both games. That would be pretty terrible

 

[formerly manx toffee]

A win for us against Wolves relegates Leicester I think. Newcastle will murder them at home

 

[Exeter_Gently]

A win for us against Wolves relegates Leicester I think. Newcastle will murder them at home

I think if we beat Wolves it's over .

 

[barneygumble]

Why are you expecting us to lose our last two games?
We just smashed Brighton away and we were capable enough to beat Arsenal at home let alone Bournemouth!

I think we’ve looked like a good team when Dyche has had most of our few good players available, the problem is we have zero depth.
Fortunately Patterson has replaced Coleman well now he’s back fit so for me, if we have Pickford, Patterson, Tarkowski, Mina, Gueye, McNeil, Dom all fit and ready then given Wolves and Bournemouth both have nothing to play for I’d expect us to be looking for four points minimum.

Throughout time, certainly more so in the last 10 years, Everton turn up for the big games, where no one expects; it’s the games where we’re expected to take it to the opposition which totally does us in.

This season alone; see home

Southampton L 1-2
Wolves L 1-2
Leicester L 0-2
Fulham L 1-3

Cause of the soft underbelly of this squad, we struggle against sides who sit in deep against us.

We always have a big result in us, and maybe Bournemouth represents that. I’m concerned, no breeze this last couple of games.

 

[Goodisongang]

If (huge if because we are expected to lose our next two games)

Dyche keeps us up it will be a truly astonishing achievement.

This must be the worst squad in Premier League history -

and frankly it's not even the players' fault.

It would be truly a miraculous feat to keep this squad in this division.

Mate?

 

[barneygumble]

A win for us against Wolves relegates Leicester I think. Newcastle will murder them at home

Let’s see how Newcastle do on Thursday against Brighton.

They’ve played with freedom all season Newcastle, but with the run Liverpool are on, and the last couple of slip ups, I don’t think anything’s a given.

That Leicester game will be a very tight, cagey affair I think. So much riding on it. Newcastle May have to win to keep CL alive or even qualify; Leicester will need to win to be able to stay up.

 

[Thomasc]

….terrific result last night but for some reason I’m still playing different scenario’s in my mind and still feeling very uneasy.

With Leicester’s demise, it’s now looking like 1 team from 3 rather than 2 from 4 but it still feels very precarious.

Same

The voice in my head reassures me though that all we have to do over 2 fixtures is match whatever Leeds do and we are safe, and I think that is highly likely.

 

[brieverton]

We don't know how many more points are required. I would think 4 would do it, but we can't say that with certainty of course. We might need less.

A win at Wolves and there is enormous pressure on Leeds the next day. A defeat and they know a win gets them out of the bottom three with one game remaining.

It will be a very tense time to say the least. We never did anything the easy way.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

All I can say is I'd have snatched your hand off for this scenario the way things were looking.

 

[Drico]

There are no guarantees and too many permutations. But I think we can all agree that if we cannot match the points total of whoever does best out of Leeds and Leicester over these last two matches then we utterly deserve to drop.

This team has put us through agony - again! Enough is enough. I'm feeling almost angry at this point - which reassures me. This anger needs an outlet. Any capitulation at Wolves now deserves utter contempt. But two matches left against modest opposition: if we cannot see this out, no complaints from me. And I won't be blaming refs or VAR. We have put ourselves in the margin of error because of our incompetence. That places us in peril of a VAR blunder or a stupid sending off. But that's all on us.

Let's get it done at Molineux and spare the fanbase the horrors of another week and traumatic final day ordeal.

 

[Miked1e]

A win at wolves and it is basically done as others have said, so it's in our own hands....

Still cannot see Forest, Leeds or Leicester getting anything from this weekend (maybe Leeds could scrape a point). So hopefully by Monday evening (if we can of course go and win):

Southampton 24 R
Leicester 30 R
Leeds 32 (possibly)
Forest 34
Everton 35

Only then to go down to last game for GD if we get beat and Leeds can beat Tottenham!

Strange things happen, but can see us getting at least 1 win (ideally this weekend), Forest (1 point max), Leicester (3 points max last day) and Leeds (2 points max).

Meaning that 35 points will do us!

 

[Drico]

We don't know how many more points are required. I would think 4 would do it, but we can't say that with certainty of course. We might need less.

A win at Wolves and there is enormous pressure on Leeds the next day. A defeat and they know a win gets them out of the bottom three with one game remaining.

It will be a very tense time to say the least. We never did anything the easy way.

A draw could get Leeds out. A win would get Leicester out.

That Wolves game is monumental.

 

[Gilbert..]

Let’s see how Newcastle do on Thursday against Brighton.

They’ve played with freedom all season Newcastle, but with the run Liverpool are on, and the last couple of slip ups, I don’t think anything’s a given.

That Leicester game will be a very tight, cagey affair I think. So much riding on it. Newcastle May have to win to keep CL alive or even qualify; Leicester will need to win to be able to stay up.

Im loathe to say it because i hate it coming back but they look cooked. Leicester players look to have accepted it.

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Let’s see how Newcastle do on Thursday against Brighton.

They’ve played with freedom all season Newcastle, but with the run Liverpool are on, and the last couple of slip ups, I don’t think anything’s a given.

That Leicester game will be a very tight, cagey affair I think. So much riding on it. Newcastle May have to win to keep CL alive or even qualify; Leicester will need to win to be able to stay up.

Fans booing them at half time again. Honestly I think they are scared stiff. A goal from Newcastle will open the flood gates. Mentally they are burst

 

[Miked1e]

There will be nothing other than a Newcastle win against Leicester...

Leicester are awful... even worse than us. They will be relegated my Monday evening after Newcastle hammer them!