If we don’t get a win against Southampton I think we’ll be in a relegation scrap.
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I think you are a little optimistic.
I would go for a draw against Soton and a defeat against Arsenal at home. The only winnable game is against Leeds at home but so was the Brighton one.
Interesting use of the word "fine".
Assuming we dont get a win from liverpool, that Soton game will be absolutely must win. Just dont see a way in which we dont get a result in that scenario. Shit assuming im still in the last man standing at that point i might even go with united to put my money where my mouth is haha
I hate to have to ask the hard question, but looking at the situation, can a loss be a win?
Thanks.
Yes agree with this unless we dramatically improve with hopefully new players coming in
Every upcoming opponent looks unbeatable right now but we will find our way and scrape our way into the top ten, which is the very least Erik ten Hag should be able to manage for us this season.
Any talk of relegation is fun banter, but in all seriousness we will not be relegated this season.
Any talk of relegation is fun banter, but in all seriousness we will not be relegated this season.
Thought the same. Arsenal look dangerous
Ain't beating Leicester based on the story so far.I think so too. That would put us at 4 points from 5 games and it's not even worst case scenario
Before I didn’t, but don’t know why I’ve got a sneaky feeling we might get something Vs Liverpool. I just think it will force the players to step up, the manager to be a bit pragmatic
Nah man
Only points behind Liverpool after 2 games. Not the worst start ever is it.
I personally feel more confident going into the Liverpool game after last night, but they’re still miles better than us.
I can see our first win coming against Leeds.
I can see our first win coming against Leeds.
At worst we'll be 6th with a game in hand. I'm deeply shocked that the caf's fortune tellers have got it wrong once more.
The apocalypse is always near! But realistically we could have lost all games as well, the Southampton and Leicester games could have gone either way. Maybe even the pool game as they did have more attacking intent and shots on goal than we did. Arsenal was clearly the better side.
But often team spirit and a never say die attitude is enough and hopefully we continue and grow in this aspect!
The games might have been nervy but either team didn't really trouble us. DDG hardly had uncomfortable moments in any game.
Bruno doesn't miss the sitter vs Brighton at 0-0 we win that. DDG doesn't drop a clanger at Brentford at 0-0 we don't have that shitshow of a first half. Ifs and buts are ultimately pointless.
Feck off
We were never in any danger in the Leicester or Soton games.
Arsenal were not clearly the better side, they held more of the ball without threatening.
Some people need to realise that we are actually becoming a decent robust, hard to beat team again.
Their fans have been rationalising the defeat by clinging on to the fact that they 'dominated' United. We were better than them where it mattered.Feck off
We were never in any danger in the Leicester or Soton games.
Arsenal were not clearly the better side, they held more of the ball without threatening.
Some people need to realise that we are actually becoming a decent robust, hard to beat team again.
Someone who watched the games solely on MOTD would have a better insight than this.
If possession stats is the be all end all, we too would've "dominated' Brentford with 67% possession despite getting hammered 4-0.
We battered them until we scored. Hit the post, tons of possession, shots etc. Then we scored and they took over the game to be fair to them, hit them on the break twice and that was it. But to ignore that we battered them (and Liverpool) for a solid 30 minutes is unfair to how good we looked in those games.
It's nice to start strong at Old Trafford. Really we have been finishing strong too when we have been losing (we should really have scored against Brighton as @Samid says and probably should have equalised against Sociedad too in my opinion.) which is a sign that the team can get to another level when needed.
But our consistency isn't there over a match yet.
Look if you’re hanging by a thread like utd have been doing in basically all matches you win some, you lose some but being impressed by it all? Sorry I am not that positive…
That said and I said it before, defensively we look like a team and that should get us over the line in a lot of games.
That said and I said it before, defensively we look like a team and that should get us over the line in a lot of games.
And we will easily have had the toughest fixture list after 7 games - we will have met 4 of the best 6 times we could have met - in Brighton, Liverpool, Arsenal and City.
Exactly this, I won’t lie after the first couple of games I was really worried about our season but then four wins on the spin coupled up with far better mentality and performance has given me a lot of encouragement especially having played the teams we have and up next.
If we lose two games in a row, the caf insists we'll be relegated. If we win 4 in a row, we'll challenge for the title.
To be fair to the OP, they’re only 3 points out on what we did manage from the run to the international break.
Admittedly out of the 6 games they had us getting 9 points from, we got 12 with 2 games postponed, but still. The end result isn’t far off.
Admittedly out of the 6 games they had us getting 9 points from, we got 12 with 2 games postponed, but still. The end result isn’t far off.
I've had many of those....
Season over.
Despite how solid we've been since I'm still not over that Brentford mauling, what a horror show. I genuinely was starting to think we could be in a relegation scrap.