Leeds - Nottingham Forest

[Reds73]

Damage has already been done I’m afraid - we need 3 wins and I can’t see us getting them - we will lose or draw tonight. I’m sitting in the Villa end next week and dreading it.

We don’t necessarily need 3 wins.
Every predictor I have done ( and I’ve done loads) has 36 points staying up.
2 wins and 3 draws would do.
It’s far from over

[ozzyten10]

In my opinion staying up is harder than trying to get second last year.

[BadDog]

We can get something tonight, I'm leaving soon, believe.

[Shawoddyred]

We can get something tonight, I'm leaving soon, believe.

I'm genuinely loving that nearly everyone thinks we're going to lose tonight. And it is understandable, but it's exactly the moment when we pull out a surprise!!

[ozzyten10]

God I hope so - time for them to step up

[Madforit]

God I hope so - time for them to step up

:Hat:

[Plymouth red]

The way I see it we were clear favourites to go down at the start of the year. Would we have taken this position at that point, maybe add 3 points on Saturday and probably yes.

We got lucky the fixtures fell this way round, hard fixtures get easier as the season gets on and easy fixtures get harder as teams are fighting hard.

There's a number of openings coming up in our upcoming matches too:

Leeds - have a bunch of injuries to key players too
Man Utd (H) - on poor form but still probably safe in top 4, this game is sandwiched between their Europa league games against Sevilla followed by the FA Cup semi final. I think it'll be a great time to play them and they may well not prioritise the game.
Brighton (H) - 3 days after the aforementioned cup semi final above vs Utd, probably not in top 4 contention, you've got to presume they prioritise the Wembley trip. Wouldn't be the first team to have a hangover after a Wembley trip, fantastic time to play them.
Brentford (A) - Toney may be banned by then
Southampton (H) - perhaps optimistic but could this be the game that relegates them
Chelsea (A) - not playing for much by then
Arsenal (H) - might be already champions or in full on collapse mode. Lots of scenarios here, might need just a point for the title for example which might suit us.
Palace (A) - Likely long since safe and watching Roy disappear in the sunset again.

As I said massively beneficial playing these teams now when they still have cup and Euro games etc.

There's actually still ages left, believe!

I feel this should get some award for most optimistic/positive spin on our remaining fixtures. Would love to share the optimism but not feeling it. However, I hope you are right.

[Joe Baker Legend]

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[Simon]

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[ozzyten10]

Scarpa on the Bench…

[Fumanchew]

For once can a team capitulate like we do