Yep. At most I’d forecast our average ppg for the games in hand depending on the quality of the opposition. So 1.7 = 5 points for the 3 games would see us just go ahead of West Ham but it’s a really tight race and will probably come down to whoever can go on a run (not sure how the run ins compare )
They were missing all of their CMs aswell as Van Dijk, West Ham and Leicester have both beaten full strength Liverpool teams at home, yet we were super happy with a draw which highlights just how far we have fallen in big games. Wolves beat Man U 1-0 by the way so they have beaten a top team aswell….
They have
Winks seems to be a regular starter for us (too regular for my liking).
When we played pool?
It will be interesting today to see how Saints go against United.
I think Man U will win. A comment that really stuck with me was when England beat New Zealand in semi of the rugby World Cup and the coach of New Zealand said he thought England would lose the final because of the high level of performance they played in the semi felt like their ‘final’ performance - I thought he was wrong and we’d win but we did lose the final. Basically, it’s really hard to raise your game to that level twice in a matter of days. Especially for a middle of the road club like Soton, they were great against us but don’t see them being that level again less than three days after our game. Love to be proved wrong of course….
I get his point, but we might of lost just from the fact we were playing S.Africa?
Yeah there’s always that
I just think there is definitely something to the ‘after the lords mare show’ concept, especially mid table teams in this league who have the potential to put in the type of performance Soton did but to do something similar with all that energy required so soon after I’m not convinced. But I’ve been wrong a million times before, and hope they smash Utd today….
Shocking shot that
They have blown their load
Not sure how much of it was Southampton raising their game and us just being damn right awful. We played inyo their hands with our setup making it relatively easy for them to play their own game. It's may or not do the same but imagine having seen our result they will probably adapt more than we did.
Southampton had 10 fresh players vs us
Player rest or not, we were abjectly awful in what we tried to do even without Southampton's pressure. It was a flat performance on our part regardless. If Southampton had put in a similar performance it would have just been a poor game.
If we had a weekend off I think we may have have had fresher legs to deal with their pressing
Southampton we’re already the better team and had already seen Lloris save an equally good chance for them at that point.