So not the same team except for Meyler, in other words. This gives us the opportunity to bring back together the balanced midfield trio of Huddlestone, Livermore and Diame that worked pretty well earlier in the season, giving Diame licence to get forward and help out the strikers.
Win v Crystal Palace Win v burnley Plus One Draw or even a win from one the other games. 7 points - or 9 points to come. Think we will stay up....but not bothered if we go down Palace away should have been free travel to encourage as many as possible to go and roar City to victory Idiot owner !
our goal difference wont save us if other teams keep winning and we keep losing because theirs will be a lot better and ours will be worse
I've changed my mind on this now. Villa also play Burnley at home (and West Ham who are pants now) so we need Villa to beat both QPR and Burnley. Looking at their home fixtures I'm pretty sure Villa will stay up.
We could get one more point all season. Looking at the fixtures, and how we've consistently lost comparable games all season, it really isn't that unlikely. I can see Sunderland not getting many more either. Leicester have a couple of nice home games so they coule close that gap a bit.
I reckon we will get a point at Palace and Tottenham and get a scrappy win against Burnley. Also, against Liverpool depending on whether Sterling and Coutinho are having their concentration befuddled by agent speak and preferably if they have got to the FA cup semis, it could give us a point or three.