mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
Relegation rivals Watford and Burnley off now cos of Covid, we need an outbreak soon to give us some respite.
Though PL probably still make us play
Though PL probably still make us play
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Relegation rivals Watford and Burnley off now cos of Covid, we need an outbreak soon to give us some respite.
Though PL probably still make us play
The set pieces are what are truly killing us. Last season after about mid-October right through until the end of the season we were just as passive in our intensity and just as clueless on the ball as we are now but keeping set pieces out of our net and scoring them at the other end is what kept us competitive.
The reason the Watford collapse was allowed to happen was because we let them back into it through set pieces, we let Wolves open the scoring with a corner, Crystal Palace and Aston Villa put the game beyond us with corners, West Ham snatched a win in a nothing 0-0 game with a corner and I'm sure I'm missing some other examples too.
It is worrying to think how self obsessed Benitez has to be to insist on his failing methods for set pieces when a superior way literally already exists in the dressing room from last season.
Set pieces are what could send us down. Teams either snatch wins off us in games that are heading for a draw or put us to far out of reach when a comeback may be on the cards. Add to that the fact that we can't score them ourselves and the goal swing that we are suffering from compared to last season is enormous.
The teams below won’t be able to field there full team every week between now and the end of the season and will find themselves in a similar position.. big difference is there teams are weaker anyway and they don’t have the points on the board.There are not three worse teams than us in this division if we are without 2-3 first XI players for an extended period of time. Might be between us and Burnley for 18th place this season if our injury luck continues.
Luckily it won't take 40 this year if you look at the bottom three and how many points they have, but we will still need five wins minimum and some draws and I don't see where they come from right now.22 games of the season left. For 40 points we need to win about 7 of those games. It's a tough ask really, and with our injury troubles continuing as they are it will probably go to the wire. How depressing