And Arsenal. The difference is that Arsenal have a greater reason to win with a European spot at stake. man U will want to win but their eye is on Monday's match...could see Sunderland getting a 1.0 today.
Yep I know the feeling! Needs must though. If Sunderland lose then they are going to be really twitchy! Their next two are Chelsea and Newcastle away. Then Everton at home and Villa away. They could be in major trouble in a couple of weeks time.
I'm more relaxed than usual, because I have divided the games up in my mind. Four points from Norwich, Liverpool and Chelsea keeps us on target. Will also take 4 from Reading, West Ham and Swansea. That will put us on 35 points going into the final tranche of games against West Brom, Spurs, Sunderland and Stoke. Unless two teams below us go on a run, we will be in a strongish position. Any earlier points will be most welcome though.
I am beginning to think that it's hard to look any further than Sunderland for 18th spot.They have awful fixtures and awoeful injury list.How they must wish that Fletcher had been overlooked for Scotland.
If their plight didn't affect ours, to a certain extent, I would feel sympathy for them. They are in freefall and all the alternatives seem to be taken away. I bet they didn't start out this season remotely thinking they'd be staring at relegation. Their match today has become so important for several teams.
Wigan vs Norwich is the big game today for me. Wigan are of course the team currently sitting in 18th, and that is a game which they can definately, definately win. And if they do, not only will they almost certainly move right alongside us, Villa and Sunderland, but also if any of the three of four sides right above us lose, then they really will be part of the relegation battle. West Ham in particular.
Thankfully SAF has still put out a decent XI. No Rio, Evra or Rooney, but still an XI which is comfortably good enough to win should they turn up and perform.
Man U up 1-0 against Sunderland, which is probably one more goal than Sunderland has a hope of scoring today.
And as someone said. A team comfortably good enough to beat Sunderland, given their present dilemma. EDIT: The once LIVE BBC football league table isn't so LIVE anymore.
Goal-scoring has been a problem all year, but they've also gotten leaky at precisely the wrong time. Tighten up at the back and they might grind out the pair of low-scoring wins that will keep them up, but it's hard to keep a clean sheet when teams are flooding forward with impunity.
Okay...good result, but a couple of goals would have helped us more. However, Sunderland are dropping into trouble as we all thought.
