Looking at our defence and the way we are letting in goals i am a tad bit nervous about this run of games coming....i am finding it hard to see a win in there going on our current performances. I hope however that my worries are ill founded and that we can get something out of this upcoming run of games. Southampton v QPR West Ham v QPR QPR v Liverpool QPR v Aston Villa Chelsea v QPR QPR v Man City Giving soft goals seem to be a major bloody problem now....it needs to stop or we can forget about the January window because anyone worth a look at won't come our way.
Have to agree, we're heading for crisis point. All we can hope for is to stay injury free and somehow pray that they go easy on us
I actually think we're in with a shout of picking up points in the first 4 games although injuries are a bit of a concern.
Certainly a tough run. Beating Villa at home is essential. Liverpool on a bad day might yield a draw and we always seem to play well against City. West Ham are hugely improved and I'm afraid that Chelsea will double our goal difference! 5 points would be good: anything more, amazing.
0-3 points from the future six matches without some unexpected to happen. When the team have problems in both defencing and attacking it wont change quickly. Arrry seem to say that our team hasnt have time to gel because of so many newcomers. Then just look out for saints who also have many newcomers and new manager too and they dont have any problems at all. Future dont look good for us......
The difference with Southampton is they have a set format of playing a good passing game and are all comfortable on the ball, they also have several good young home-produced players coming through that play that system at youth-level, their set-up is light years ahead of us and that is why losing half their best players hasn't affected them so badly as many expected. We are already showing signs of a repeat of our last season in the PL and it's unlikely to be pretty...
That's a depressing list of games based on our current performance levels. However (her comes the 'hopeful hoop' bit) a string of not losing will build confidence, and could provide a platform to gain points we would not expect to. That said I could only see 3 points and us in 18th position in the table
Soton are not as good as last season - so you may get something there. Yesterday, until Bony was stupidly sent-off, we were comfortably the better side. Second half they understandably bossed possession yet really struggled to break us down.
In the following six games we have Leicester, Burnley, Newcastle and WBA so a bit more hope there perhaps? That takes us to Christmas. If we are out of the bottom three by then, we will be doing well and I fully expect more (hopefully vaguely sensible) signings in January.
If it's that easy to predict I assume you lot make thousands of pounds a week on football accumulators?! With a worse team of our relegation season those fixtures turned out 8 points... who would have predicted that? You never know, a team starting to gel, ref decisions and red cards going our way, taking our chances. If we're writing off the next 2 months already then what's the point?
It's still very early days yet and (in the 3 home games) can definitely see vast improvement on last season and more importantly on the last time in the Prem. Fixtures have been pretty awful for us, Hull at home, literally the worst possible fixture, a good, well established Premier League team who were 2/3 weeks ahead of us due to their early pre-season and had already played 2 competitive games before playing us. What makes that fixture even worse is that in 3 months, that was a possible 3 points at home. Then Spurs away, a new manager, first home game, dissapointing opening game they were bound to be up for it. Man Utd away, spent millions, getting slaughtered in the media and then had an international break before playing us at home. I think whoever they played that day would have taken a beating. So, that leaves Sunderland and Stoke. We beat Sunderland and got a decent point against a very good Stoke team, on another day, with a ref that isn't blind (I honestly believe he has visual issues given the amount he misses or thinks he sees, should have lost his job 3 years ago) we might have got a win......but then so could they. Our next group of fixtures aren't great but the way people on here are going on you'd think we were relegated already. We definitey need to improve and a fit Sandro will be a massive help but why all the doom and gloom? We're not even in the bottom 4 and had we won yesterday would have been above United. Chill out, it's a long season and the squad has quality.
no matter what our next 6 games are we would be sayng the same thing, it going to be tough. Are the 6 after them any easier. Just get behind the team FFS
