Relegation 2022/23

[blue to the bone]

We are still 3rd favourites for the drop. (Probably because we’ve already played the bottom 3 twice). That’s probably how I’d call it too, still lots of hard work and clean sheets needed

Everton's relegation rivals' next six matches

Nottingham Forest

25/02 West Ham (a)

05/03 Everton (h)

11/03 Tottenham (a)

17/03 Newcastle United (h)

01/04 Wolves (h)

08/04 Aston Villa (a)

Leicester City

19/02 Manchester United (a)

25/02 Arsenal (h)

04/03 Southampton (a)

11/03 Chelsea (h)

18/03 Brentford (a)

01/04 Crystal Palace (a)

Wolverhampton Wanderers

24/02 Fulham (a)

01/03 Liverpool (a)

04/03 Tottenham (h)

12/03 Newcastle (a)

18/03 Leeds United (h)

01/04 Nottingham Forest (a)

AFC Bournemouth

25/02 Man City (a)

04/03 Arsenal (a)

11/03 Liverpool (h)

18/03 Aston Villa (a)

01/04 Fulham (h)

8/04 Leicester City (a)

West Ham United

19/02 Tottenham (a)

25/02 Nottingham Forest (h)

04/03 Brighton (a)

12/03 Aston Villa (h)

19/03 Man City (a)

01/04 Southampton (h)

Leeds United

25/02 Southampton (h)

04/03 Chelsea (a)

11/03 Brighton (h)

18/03 Wolves (a)

01/04 Arsenal (a)

08/04 Crystal Palace (h)

Bournemouth will be cut adrift soon

 

[Tony’s Carp]

We are still 3rd favourites for the drop. (Probably because we’ve already played the bottom 3 twice). That’s probably how I’d call it too, still lots of hard work and clean sheets needed.

4th favourites now. Bournemouth, Southampton and Leeds all more likely now.

 

[MikeH72]

We are still 3rd favourites for the drop. (Probably because we’ve already played the bottom 3 twice). That’s probably how I’d call it too, still lots of hard work and clean sheets needed.

How are Leeds’ top 4 prospects looking?

 

[blue to the bone]

How are Leeds’ top 4 prospects looking?

Results DONT matter

 

[MACCA75]

4th favourites now. Bournemouth, Southampton and Leeds all more likely now.

Just going on oddschecker

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Just going on oddschecker

Think Oddschecker has them slightly out of order but the odds effectively flipped between us and Leeds today, they are definitely more likely than us now.

 

[MACCA75]

How are Leeds’ top 4 prospects looking?

Looking at Europa League now IMHO.

 

[Wat Tyler]

2 wins out of 3 is the ratio I expect to continue now, 26 PL wins next season incoming.

 

[Saint Domingo]

3rd favourites for clueless arseholes who dont understand how football works or how Everton roll.

Lampard’s Everton went and beat United Chelsea and Leicester away, before coming back from 2 down to Palace to stay up, just because we had to and we’re Everton it happened.

We are the big fish at staying up, and everyone around us knows it. When we need unlikely results we get them (see the Arsenal game, can’t see too many of the bottom 7 beating them at home). There’s still work to do but as soon as we got Dyche I was more confident of staying up this season than I was at any point last season.

The defence is miles better, the midfield is better, we’ve got better depth everywhere except upfront, and the manager is better. The board have made it harder by depriving us of any credible attacking option but if Dyche had a decent striker up top we’d all be sleeping a lot easier.

 

[4737carlin]

Despite what happened at Stamford Bridge I still think Southampton certain

 

[davek]

Lampard’s Everton went and beat United Chelsea and Leicester away, before coming back from 2 down to Palace to stay up, just because we had to and we’re Everton it happened.

We are the big fish at staying up, and everyone around us knows it. When we need unlikely results we get them (see the Arsenal game, can’t see too many of the bottom 7 beating them at home). There’s still work to do but as soon as we got Dyche I was more confident of staying up this season than I was at any point last season.

The defence is miles better, the midfield is better, we’ve got better depth everywhere except upfront, and the manager is better. The board have made it harder by depriving us of any credible attacking option but if Dyche had a decent striker up top we’d all be sleeping a lot easier.

That's the only drawback that lack of a striker. It was despicable what that owner and board did in the January window. Just for that they should be chased out of town. This is a 145 year old institution and one of the great sporting clubs of the world never mind England, and those chimpanzees should never have been let near it.

The rest of the group we're in - from Forest down - will take this new course of ours VERY seriously if we beat Villa next week.

Dyche is a massive factor in our chances to stay up. He said midweek that the goals will have to come from across the team and we saw that today with chances for two of the central midfielders, 2 CBs, LB and the goal from the RB....oh, and the forward.

Plenty of teams have adapted before and we have the quality and strength in numbers to do that in the last 15 games...and you never know, we may even get a few goals out of the forwards we do have...Calvert-Lewin included.

 

[davek]

The Death Cult on here all week: "Leeds can score loads, they create all kinds of chances. We're going to get beat".

Leeds today: no shots on target.

 

[knowing your history]

Bournemouth & Southampton winning those away games..

That's relegation battles for you.

Teams go months playing terribly and not winning then start seriously looking at league table from Feb onwards and suddenly starting beating top 6 teams.

When Burnley won at Watford last season to go 5 points clear of 18th they probably didn't expect the guy in your avatar to turn into Neville Southall v Chelsea but it happened and that was the result that gave everyone the belief to stay up.

Will be interesting if either can back it up. Bournemouth got Man. City and Arsenal back to back so hopefully they won't.

 

[knowing your history]

….it’s a difficult one is that. Not sure if it’s better to get a few detached and scrap it out, or have 6 fighting for 3 places.

Regardless, at this stage it’s just about us winning 5 more games to give us a chance. ‘5 more’ sounds a lot better than ‘7 more’ just a few weeks ago.

I thought it was easier last season. Look back at that table and Norwich and Watford were basically done with still three months left so it just became a quest to try to avoid Burnley overtaking and just about made it over the line despite their good run with Mike Jackson.

It looked like Southampton and Bournemouth were going to get cut adrift with their poor runs since October but both nicely in the mix again,

 

[knowing your history]

Are they though? Everyone keeps mentioning them as certainties, but I keep looking at the table every week, and they always seem pick up points and stay a couple of matches away from the relegation zone.

They haven't lost a home game since middle of September.