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OneTrueLegend said:
Tonight against Leicester at home is a great opportunity, they are without Vardy, Bertrand and Ndidi and off the back of a tough game at Newcastle and another against PSV. I think now some of their players will have one eye on the Roma game. Whatever we might think of the Europa Conference, being in a semi final and playing a side like Roma is a big deal. Leicester are in a position now where they have very little to fight for in the league, they are 9th, 9 points behind the team ahead of them.

For us this game is massive, if we win it, we go 6 points clear of Burnley with 7 games to go and we pile the pressure back on them, it makes their game against Southampton tomorrow a "must win" game. Its in our hands, I think we can do it with the players at it from the start and the fans right behind the team. COYB'S!
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They will play their strongest team tonight and rest players weekend.
 

The Liverpool game has the potential to be an utter catastrophe. Beating Leicester, and putting six points between ourselves and Burnley, moves the RS game almost into the territory of a free hit. It will be predominantly an exercise in protecting our goal difference but we know that we have an important cushion despite the expected spanking.

Tonight is absolutely crucial. A draw keeps that same 4 point cushion over Burnley, keeping them at arm's length and gives them one less game to save themselves. Not a disaster but not ideal.

A loss however, Burnley will stay 3 points behind us when they've got Southampton at home next and we've got Liverpool away. We'll be majorly back in the brown stuff if that happens.
 
maccavennie said:
I'd keep him on the bench just for those high fives and use him as Mr Motivator
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Yes macca.

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toffee-L said:
The Liverpool game has the potential to be an utter catastrophe. Beating Leicester, and putting six points between ourselves and Burnley, moves the RS game almost into the territory of a free hit. It will be predominantly an exercise in protecting our goal difference but we know that we have an important cushion despite the expected spanking.

Tonight is absolutely crucial. A draw keeps that same 4 point cushion over Burnley, keeping them at arm's length and gives them one less game to save themselves. Not a disaster but not ideal.

A loss however, Burnley will stay 3 points behind us when they've got Southampton at home next and we've got Liverpool away. We'll be majorly back in the brown stuff if that happens.
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They also play Wolves at home before we play Liverpool.
Win tonight is crucial.
 

toffee-L said:
The Liverpool game has the potential to be an utter catastrophe. Beating Leicester, and putting six points between ourselves and Burnley, moves the RS game almost into the territory of a free hit. It will be predominantly an exercise in protecting our goal difference but we know that we have an important cushion despite the expected spanking.

Tonight is absolutely crucial. A draw keeps that same 4 point cushion over Burnley, keeping them at arm's length and gives them one less game to save themselves. Not a disaster but not ideal.

A loss however, Burnley will stay 3 points behind us when they've got Southampton at home next and we've got Liverpool away. We'll be majorly back in the brown stuff if that happens.
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We will have to live with whatever comes from tonight and move on but to get a win would be massive. The players have to want it tonight more than Leicesters do. Anything can happen over 90 minutes but with home advantage, a raucous crowd and a good tempo from the off, this is there for us to win. It would be back-to-back wins also and doing that at this stage of the season would be a massive boost.

We are likely getting nothing from Sunday so have to go into the next two games with the biggest cushion we can.
 
I think Sunday we come out of that game about minus four to six goals, so really anything but a win tonight and I make us favourites to go down over Burnley. A win tonight and I think we will be ok, but ok this is football.
 
GoldenToffee said:
I think Sunday we come out of that game about minus four to six goals, so really anything but a win tonight and I make us favourites to go down over Burnley. A win tonight and I think we will be ok, but ok this is football.
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A draw wouldn't be terrible but a defeat puts us in a worrying position. Burnley still have to get at least 3 wins out of 7 to stay up though and that's not a certainty as they arent very good.
 
EFC78 said:
A draw wouldn't be terrible but a defeat puts us in a worrying position. Burnley still have to get at least 3 wins out of 7 to stay up though and that's not a certainty as they arent very good.
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This is true but I’m quite serious in that I think Burnley are better than us. I think the only thing that will save us is Burnley’s inability to win many games. I watched them against West Ham and they should have won. When they conceded the equaliser they upped their game. We’d have fallen apart and conceded another couple.
 

Sharpattack said:
This is true but I’m quite serious in that I think Burnley are better than us. I think the only thing that will save us is Burnley’s inability to win many games. I watched them against West Ham and they should have won. When they conceded the equaliser they upped their game. We’d have fallen apart and conceded another couple.
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The penalty miss was crucial but in the end they had their goalkeeper to thank for getting them a point
 
If we win tonight I think we may end the month with more points than Burnley and 2 games in hand on them.

If we draw its not the end of the world but we cant afford a loss here...
 

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