Hughie77
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All those games are winnable? Having said that our away form is awful , so I'm not confident on the away games, home ones should be wins hopefully. Let's just go 1 game at a time.
6 pointer against Norwich. Never thought I'd hear that.Big 6 pointer against Norwich. Need to peel away from the bottom 3 here. Will be a tough game with an away thursday european night.
The Man Utd of old I to would have expected to win all these five games, but I'm afraid those days are gone with the wind, & reality beckons. We are now a side that counterattacks, makes few chances & struggle to score more than a goal a game. If Ole won all five there would be celebrations all round, & I hardly think there will be great pressure on him if we don't. Unless of course we do very poorly & are in the relegation zone.We should be looking at taking all 15 points from those games. Bournemouth may be a difficult match but we really should be winning against all of those teams and I worry for Ole if we don’t.
After today's match, think this might be a L as well.Norwich - W. We really should win. They're so defensively bad and lost the majority of their games. City game was a fluke.
Bournemouth - L. We'll be back to being shite here.
Brighton - D. They'll park the bus and I doubt we'll find a solution.
Sheffield - D. Same. Has a banana skin written all over it.
Villa - W. They don't park the bus and the game is at home. Should be a win.
Agree with this but can see us drawing against Norwich as well considering we haven't won a game away from home since Paris.Norwich - W. We really should win. They're so defensively bad and lost the majority of their games. City game was a fluke.
Bournemouth - L. We'll be back to being shite here.
Brighton - D. They'll park the bus and I doubt we'll find a solution.
Sheffield - D. Same. Has a banana skin written all over it.
Villa - W. They don't park the bus and the game is at home. Should be a win.
It's quite bizarre how everyone is so optimistic after a semi decent performance against pool (where we ended up parking the bus after scoring).I am reading comments on here and I dumb founded.
We have scored 10 points from 9 games so far. These are actual results.
But we have people on here predicting 12 pts from the next 5 games?
Am I living in some twilight zone where the last 9 games didn't actually take place?
Based on this kind of logic, Newcastle supporters should fully expect to be in 10th place after playing their next 5 games.
And MCFC and LFC will probably draw/lose every one of their next 5 matches.
And then there is the Jan transfer window. Some believe we will buy players.
We spent very little in the Summer, so what makes anybody think that we'd save money in the Summer, so we can spend in January?
What logic is being used here, when people think we are going to spend anything in January?
Do people realise that we are saving as much money as we can, we have hired a manager with no relevant experience to manage a top club and we have made (and continue to make) the worst start to an EPL campaign ever?
It should be no less than 15 points for these next 5 fixtures, we have a £500m team and we need to act like a £500m team.27/10 - Norwich (Away)
2/11 - Bournemouth (Away)
10/11 - Brighton and Hove Albion (Home)
24/11 - Sheffield United (Away)
1/12 - Aston Villa (Home)
With the players slowly coming back and getting the tough one out of the way, we should be targeting maximum points in those 5 games.
Didn't you lose at Norwich in his final season? I do get the general point though, they'd always be a major reponse if you had a bad defeat and you'd reel off 4-5 straight wins.As has been correctly said, the old United of Ferguson would have won all five games. Those days are gone and I can see no more than one or two, at a push, wins, both the home games.
In terms of Points they are better - but Liverpool to me looked a lot better last year...it's just that all the other teams closest to them look even weaker than they did last year. Last year Liverpool ran riot over most teams - this year, they have been...not exactly lucky, but consistently good rather than brilliantJust to put a small caveat on the league table, through nine games last year:
1) City - 23 pts
2) Pool - 23 pts
3) Chelsea - 21 pts
4) Arsenal - 21 pts
5) Spurs - 21 pts
6) Bournemouth - 17pts
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10) MUFC - 14 pts
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18) Fulham - 5pts
Through nine games this year:
1) Pool - 25 pts
2) City - 19 pts
3) Leicester - 17 pts
4) Chelsea - 17 pts
5) Arsenal - 15 pts
6) Palace - 14 pts
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14) MUFC - 10 pts
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18) Newcastle - 8 pts
Outside of Liverpool, the good aren't as good this year and the bad aren't as bad. Even Watford, last on 4 points, is better than Newcastle last year on 2 points (and Newcastle survived). A lot more of these games are going to be tight "surprises" if things hold up the way they have been.
I still think if our front line figures out where the goal is, we go on a tear, and Norwich is a good place to start that...
I can go with that. It kind of drives my real point home even further: If we can right the ship on scoring, we're not out of it yet.In terms of Points they are better - but Liverpool to me looked a lot better last year...it's just that all the other teams closest to them look even weaker than they did last year. Last year Liverpool ran riot over most teams - this year, they have been...not exactly lucky, but consistently good rather than brilliant
Grealish pick up an injury yesterday, could be a 2-3 week job so we'll certainly do much less counter attacking if he isn't available for your game.Bournemouth and Villa could destroy us on the counter. Whilst Sheff Utd could be to stubborn defensively to concede. Let's see how Ole manages.