I'll be OK with a good performance and a narrow loss. A draw is great, a win brilliant but I just want signs that we are a good bet going into QPR and Reading.
The betting has us at roughly 60:40 to go down and I think this is about right. Gabby and N'Zogbia coming good has made me more optimistic than I was (Richey Edwards circa 1995).
Vlaar and Dunne will return, combined with a couple of unspectacular but half decent signings in midfield offering a certain steely determination that spreads throughout the site. Benteke and Weimann chip in with important goals. We start holding onto draws. The team that beat Norwich 4-1 and Liverpool 3-1 will return and we will settle into being a deeply tedious mid-table tub of shit that narrowly avoids relegation in the final week.
Clark, Baker and Lowton really good. Westwood very nice again. Gabby had one of his better games. Lichaj is very limited.
Stoke defended very well. Disappointed with Ireland when he came on. He never seems to step up.