Match Thread West Bromwich Albion vs Everton - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[Martin Alvito]

With the exception of Man City, everyone above us is catchable, need to setting our sights on 2nd place.

Leicester still has plenty of time to boot it like they did last season. United would have to have a substantial scoring drought for us to catch them, and we'd have to pick up the scoring pace. The latter is possible with the front line healthy, but far from certain. The former seems unlikely, but stranger things have happened.

People tend to underestimate the difficulty of making up points in the top half late on - top sides are there because they get a lot of points, and they usually continue to get a lot late on, so it takes a real tear to close a gap.

Most likely, our direct rivals are Chelsea with an outside chance of Leicester. Villa's now playing catchup with Tottenham, and Arsenal is all but dead in the race for 4th with so many sides in front of them that can go on a run. On form, Liverpool would probably take guaranteed Europa and run.

West Ham is its own special case, but my guess would be that they won't outrace Chelsea or Leicester. That said, their run-in is fairly easy and they do tend to take care of business against the bottom half both home and away. That match in May could be pivotal.

 

[Toffeelover]

This is crunch time now with a dozen games left. No more Newcastle & Fulham type performances please. 4th is up for grabs here, despite our poor home results.

If that were to come about then I think we would see substantial funds made available to build the squad up.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Results around us going our way

We play a team in the bottom 3

What possibly could go wrong

 

[Toffeelover]

Leicester have been held by Burnley and CP holding out ATM.

 

[Paul Rideout]

Leicester have been held by Burnley and CP holding out ATM.

Palace are playing Athletico Madrid?

 

[Donegal blue]

Come on Everton, we need this, keep it going.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Urgh, Allardyce. I'd hate that fat smug chip loving git to get the chance to be, well, all oily and smug at our expense. Smash them Everton, smash them real good.

 

[SussexToffee]

2-0 I think. One of the more winnable fixtures left to lead us to the end our season.... and a top 4 slot at that!.

 

[Kantareller]

Good results today. 3p here would be very handy

 

[Efctrueblue]

Results have been kind to us tonight. We have to beat WBA tomorrow. Then if we can beat Chelsea we put ourselves right in there and maybe finally get some credit

 

[Ring master]

Results gone our way, hopefully The Everton that mess up when results go our way dont turn up, Just think we could be 5 points off 2nd with 12 games to go and have game in hand on man utd Sticking to 3-1 Everton

 

[Timbucktoo]

3 good results tonight for us makes the game tomorrow a big 3 pointer. Win it and we'll have a nice cushion over Spurs and Villa and we'll right on the heels of Leicester and Man Utd, knowing at least one of Chelsea or Liverpool will drop points too. Would be more than happy with another 1-0 like Monday night and really set up the Chelsea game on Monday.

 

[dublinbluenose]

 

[gonetomorrow]

It's time to win this game and other games where we are expected to win. Otherwise we don't deserve to be in the top six, let alone the top four.

 

[Steve Wigan]

His penguin impressions punching the ball may have injured him

Pickford was excellent on Monday Joey.