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Relegation run in 22/23 ** Now a Wolves free zone**

100%. If you're not scoring you're only only defensive error away from defeat and while this is an area we've improved on, we certainly still have a rick in us (see Leeds (H)).
The one positive about our goal scoring is that we have started to contribute from other areas. Goals from our wide forwards and midfielders has been a problem for too long. Hopefully if a CF starts (probably next season) bagging goals on a regular basis this greater output continues from other parts of the team.
 
I won't breathe easy until we are on 39/40pts but in terms of the "relegation pack" we are at Palace's level (and Bournemouth probably with their form) as the top teams about to get out the scrap.

What that post-WC table tells me is that it's clear who the five favourites for the drop are. So West Ham should be safe too.
 
It's interesting* to look at points per goal at this stage of the season too. Almost everyone has somewhere in the region of 0.8 - 1.2 (ish, kinda) points for every goal scored, with a couple of glaring exceptions:

Man Utd -don't score so many but have been really mean defensively
Leicester -scored only 5 less than Utd, but earned fewer than half as many points =their defence is fucking grim.





*I'm bored at my desk
 
C.L.D said:
I won't breathe easy until we are on 39/40pts but in terms of the "relegation pack" we are at Palace's level (and Bournemouth probably with their form) as the top teams about to get out the scrap.

What that post-WC table tells me is that it's clear who the five favourites for the drop are. So West Ham should be safe too.
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No way Forest are winning 2 more games than us. Leicester would need to win 3 more.

They've both only got 7 games left. I think we're safe now but 1 more win, 37pts, should be plenty.
 
We're more than 6 points clear at this stage; many versions of this have been said recently, but if we go down from here, it is nobody's fault but our own.

If the players keep focus we should be past the time of weekly heart palpitations.
 
When we drew 1-1 with Forest and scored our only shot on target, I was genuinely fearing the worst and I’m not afraid to admit that. It felt like a low moment. We’d just been hammered at home against Leeds and followed it up with that performance v Forest. We were still watching Lop play Moutinho in this weird number 10 role and any gap we had created had more or less gone.

The two matches since and subsequent wins (both to nil), Julen actually playing a proper formation with a genuine attempt to actually attack the opposition has turned that on its head. We look all but safe and I’m delighted to have been wrong. Like others, I won’t rest easy until we’re mathematically safe (a lifetime of supporting Wolves will do that to you, give me a break!), but it’s amazing what a couple of wins can do. Football, eh?

Well done to all involved. I hope we can finish the season positively & hit the ground running in the summer with the squad restructure under Lop’s guidance.
 
Oh, and Leeds look as gung-ho as ever. They just never look like keeping a clean sheet. They’re just relying on scoring a few goals and getting lucky in their last few.
 
A bad LB playing CB, a bad LW playing LB, a GK who has let in 11 straight SoGs…

Yeah, quaking in my boots.
 
Jinky said:
Oh, and Leeds look as gung-ho as ever. They just never look like keeping a clean sheet. They’re just relying on scoring a few goals and getting lucky in their last few.
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The 2nd goal they conceded was awful for that. 1-0 down and playing that high and loose like it was the last 5 minutes and they really needed to force something.
 
Alan said:
Commence the media slurping Dyche for “working a miracle”. 🙄🙄🙄
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He’s done alright tbf. Their squad is absolute garbage. Got them over 1 PPG, which is all you need to do.

Still a chance they go. I can put a case for them losing every single one of their remaining games.
 
Liverpool at home to Forest next. Good luck Coops!
 
Two of Leicester, Forrest, Everton & Leeds are staying up.
 
Out that 4 I think Everton and Leeds would be most screwed by relegation.
 
Forest’s wage bill seems like it must be massive just by sheer volume.
 
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