Dave Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Darlow Yedlin Lascelles Clark Manquillo Merino Shelvey Murphy Perez Atsu Joselu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 West Ham, Brighton, Stoke and Swansea needed to yield eight points to give us a fighting chance of staying up. Ten would put us in a reasonable position before the more difficult games to come. And when you consider Swansea's position - and our need for them to stay down there - this is as close to 'must-win' as you can get. I'm wary of the fact that Carvahal did a number on Rafa twice last season, but if we can't win this home game it feels like we'll never win another one again. Hopefully today will have helped with the players' mentally. If Lascelles is playing I think we'll nick it. 1-0, Gayle. You're very dramatic these days. Not sure I've said owt wrong, like? I'm saying I reckon we'll win, aren't I? If you're referring to the first sentence; well, if Stoke - for instance - had beat us, we'd be in the relegation zone with 19 points from 22 games. We have to win or draw most of the games against bottom-half teams if we're going to stay up. I don't see how that's a dramatic statement. Maybe it's in the delivery. But then I did used to get all the major parts in the school plays. Primary school, anyway. Played Santa once. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
morla84 Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Perez to be play striker forward pleasing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Perez to be play striker forward pleasing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Hope we might have a new player or two in by then. Hope being the operative word. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Swansea will also be looking at this as a must win game. They'll come out to attack us I reckon. We'll win. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 They're missing Naughton and Fer for this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 The state of Fer's red card today though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 We've won 3 games in the last 3 weeks like Yorkie. This is no way must win. Rafa will throw up 2 or 3 away wins before the season is through Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 We need to take 3 points here in my opinion. Carry the recent feel good factor on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 The state of Fer's red card today though. That’ll get rescinded then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowlingcrofty Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 We've won 3 games in the last 3 weeks like Yorkie. This is no way must win. Rafa will throw up 2 or 3 away wins before the season is through Have you seen the fixtures? Lucky if we get 6 more away points in total. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Of course! I didn't think we'd win at both Stoke and West Ham though. Did you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 We've won 3 games in the last 3 weeks like Yorkie. This is no way must win. Rafa will throw up 2 or 3 away wins before the season is through Have you seen the fixtures? Lucky if we get 6 more away points in total. Palace, Bournemouth and Watford are away games in which we have a fairly decent chance of picking up wins in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Sorry like but we need to start winning home games. And we need to beat the teams around us as much as anyone. And the teams we absolutely don't want picking up any points are the likes of Swansea. It's not insta-relegation if we only get a point (like I said: 8 from WHU/BHA/STO/SWA is an acceptable return), but it would be a pretty dismal result all things considered. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 It's must win for me. Think we'll do it, mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Hope there's some early incident of any kind, we need the crowd behind the players rather than on their backs if we're not steamrollering them after 20mins. Reckon it'll be tight. 1-0 win or 1-1. Aye. They played a solid 11 on the 18 yard line v Spurs. We're not good enough to break that down if they do the same. Also Carvahal has our number which is worrying. Going to be unable to check the score for this n all which will absolutely kill me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty__mag Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 By the time this massive fixture arrives we will be nearly 2 weeks into the window with fuck all new faces through the door no doubt? Just shite and not good enough. I just hope they dont get extra players in by then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 We need to win this. Swansea are shit, from what I have seen of them this season they just sit back and let teams come onto them and hope the other team gets tired and try to get back into the game on the break. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groo Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 They're missing Naughton and Fer for this. Fer's been in and out and everyone's hoping they extend Naughton's ban for 10 matches at least. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groo Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 We need to win this. Swansea are s***, from what I have seen of them this season they just sit back and let teams come onto them and hope the other team gets tired and try to get back into the game on the break. That's surely over-estimating us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 We need to win this. Swansea are s***, from what I have seen of them this season they just sit back and let teams come onto them and hope the other team gets tired and try to get back into the game on the break. That's surely over-estimating us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 We need to win this. Swansea are shit, from what I have seen of them this season they just sit back and let teams come onto them and hope the other team gets tired and try to get back into the game on the break. I’m sure that’s our game plan for most of the season as well. Should be absolute shit off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Having a feeling this will be 0-0. Really hope we can win, it could make the difference. Plus we should be feeling confident after recent results and performances. Gayle must be due a couple of goals. He has been so close. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakka Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 A win would be so huge for us at this crucial time and opponent. Hoping we dont show are poor home form. Should be fielding new recruits in this game too but that seems to be a ridiculous suggestion in the circumstances. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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