It's interesting because even at this early stage Sunderland and Palace are the equivalent of 10 and 11 points behind us (when you take goal difference into account). That will either take a serious nosedive by us or a dramatic change in form for them to catch us. So (without counting any chickens) I think our focus should be on Fulham. If we can maintain the same points gap over them until we play them and then beat them at the KC we will have a 10 point gap on them and probably a far superior goal difference. I know there's a few "ifs" in there, but there is a fair chance we could be in a comfortable position at the end of the year.
The key is beating the teams that are also in a relegation battle - I would take 6 points from those games if we took wins against Stoke and Fulham - so long as we kelp our points and games played equal or slightly ahead we're going fine
Arsenal (away) 0 Swansea (away) 0 Stoke (home) 3 West Brom. (away) 1 Man. U. (home) 0 Fulham (home) 3
michu is back in training and bony injury was not as bad as first thought and could be back very soon..
I can see 7-10 points out of that lot...as long as we get at least 6 points from our home games then that'll ease the pressure when we go on the road. Fancy us to Nick a couple of points away too.
37 points has seen a team safe in 13 out of the last 20 seasons. In reverse order this has been the points tally of the team in 3rd last place 36 36 39 30 34 36 38 34 33 33 42 36 34 33 36 40 40 38 40 maybe the benchmark, but the mean looking at those is around 36-37 Maintain a point per game average and the odds are that you will stay up
Exactly. I said to my mate I'd rather beaten Palace then Liverpool. He looked at me as if I was a alien
Arsenal (a) 0 Swansea (a) 1 Stoke (h) 3 West Brom (a) 1 Man Utd (h) 1 - I can honestly see us getting something from United. I thought this before the Liverpool game by the way... Fulham (h) 3 9pts, 26pts total.
