Mantis Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Ouch. Norwich's last 8 is awful. Every single game! Norwich's next four are all against relegation strugglers? They will need to get a good haul from those 4 but if you are counting those as tough fixtures then every fixture is a tough one. Well, they're all high pressure games where losing any could be absolutely disastrous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Norwich 2-0 up against sunderland at half time. That should be pretty much enough to keep them safe. A loss there and you'd have to have thought the heads would go down and they'd struggle in their next 3 games against relegation contenders, but the win will probably springboard them to at least another 4 points, which would most likely see them alright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 (edited) Arsenal and Liverpool might be out of the title race when they face Norwich so that might help them too. Plus both those matches are at Carrow Road. Edited March 22, 2014 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Out of the title race but playing for top 3 - 4th place has CL qualifiers at the start of the season and nobody will want that, plus it'll affect players' willingness to join them in the summer given the 4th place team has no guarantee of champions league football, while the top 3 do 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunnski Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Norwich 2-0 up against sunderland at half time. That should be pretty much enough to keep them safe. A loss there and you'd have to have thought the heads would go down and they'd struggle in their next 3 games against relegation contenders, but the win will probably springboard them to at least another 4 points, which would most likely see them alright Good. Guaranteed 6 points next season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Everton go ahead against Swansea - sticking my my pre-season prediction that Swansea will drop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Another one for Everton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Biro Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Cardiff/Fulham surely gone now? I'd prefer to see fulham stay up and palace go down tbh and after everyone assuming they'd stay up purely because of pulis it'd be fairly hilarious should they go down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Cardiff/Fulham surely gone now? I'd prefer to see fulham stay up and palace go down tbh and after everyone assuming they'd stay up purely because of pulis it'd be fairly hilarious should they go down. Cardiff, Fulham and Sunderland I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AValon Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Could be as it stands. Sunderland are long overdue, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 I hope Sunderland and Norwich stay up. That's a guaranteed 9/10 points a season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 There's still twists and turns yet. Big win for Norwich but they are far from safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 (edited) Fulham can only afford to lose 2 more games, realistically, if they're to stay up - so they're good as gone with their goal difference. And Cardiff can only afford to lose another 3, assuming they win the rest, so they're most likely going to drop too. The only question is who'll join them. Norwich probably got themselves out of it today, not on paper, but in terms of the mentality needed to get the points they require to stay up. They've 3 more winnable games left, and they'll probably get the 5 points they'll need from them Sunderland have games in hand, so it's tough to know what'll happen with them, but I think they'll just about squeak it, which means it's Palace, WBA and Swansea for the last spot, and looking at the fixtures, I think could be the unlucky ones. They've got an absolutely dreadful set of fixtures left for a team form as poor as they are I reckon 18th will have 36 points come the end of the season, so it's a race to get 37 for the rest Edited March 22, 2014 by P3te Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 You know, I quite fancy Liverpool to bloody win it this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Two of Sunderland's games in hand are away to Liverpool and Man City they've also still got to go to Chelsea and Spurs besides. I suppose they'll be looking at the Home matches against Cardiff, Swansea and West Ham to get points but already this season they've failed to beat a lot of the relegation strugglers at the Stadium of Light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 It's an unpopular opinion on this site but I'd prefer Liverpool to win the title than Chelsea or United, I would have prefered Arsenal out of all the challengers though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 It's an unpopular opinion on this site but I'd prefer Liverpool to win the title than Chelsea or United, I would have prefered Arsenal out of all the challengers though. me too, Two of Sunderland's games in hand are away to Liverpool and Man City they've also still got to go to Chelsea and Spurs besides. I suppose they'll be looking at the Home matches against Cardiff, Swansea and West Ham to get points but already this season they've failed to beat a lot of the relegation strugglers at the Stadium of Light. They also have Man U and Everton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.I.C.O. Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 I reckon those in the bottom 3 now will be the ones to go. Fulham look lost, Cardiff are not far off and Sunderland just cannot pick up results. Still a fair bit to go but the difference is starting to show. West Brom could sweat until the end but they'll fluke their way to safety. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 I keep on tipping Norwich and regardless of them keep on winning vital wins at home I will stick to it as I am a stubborn git. Fulham and Cardiff are down with Sunderland in serious sweaty stuff. A victory for football as Palace will stay up. Yay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 West Ham are not out of it yet folks....only 31 points and they've still go to play Spurs and Liverpool at home and Arsenal and Man. City away, they could easily lose all four which would leave them on 31 points from 34 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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