by bigmick » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:11 pm
Well I've brought up a couple of times the possibility of us being out of it before 10 games is up, and it's very real. Already we've given ourselves a fair bit to do in that our form between now and the end of the season will have to be excellent, and my guess is that in order to prevail we are once again going to have to take plenty of points off the big four.
The one bit of silver inside this very murky cloud is that most of our rivals start playing each other now, which means we have a chance to get into the pack at least. We play Chelea in game 8, and this is how we look up against them upto and including that game:
Liverpool: Chelsea:
Bolton (A) Burnley (H)
Burnley (H) Stoke (A)
West Ham (A) Spurs (H)
Hull (H) Wigan (A)
Chelsea v Liverpool
Sunderland (A) Villa (A)
Man Utd (H) Blackburn (A)
So looking at that, our next few games are pretty important. If we were to match Chelsea's points haul over all the games but lose at Stmaford Bridge, we'd be nine points behind them after 10 games. I would say at that point they were uncatchable for us to be honest. That said, if we can win our next four (I know it's a big IF but they are winnable matches) then fifteen points out of a possible 21 wouldn't be an absolute disaster. If Chelsea and Spurs got a draw between each other then we could probably afford to lose at Stamford Bridge and not be quite read the last rights. Obviously if we go to Chelsea and win, before beating the Mancs at Home a couple of weeks later, then we are right back in the mix I think. Seems like a big ask at the moment but you never know I guess.
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bigmick on Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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