Last two games

[Silverdaz]

I cant help it but my mind keeps going to out last two games Sunderland Away, QPR at home if we are still with 4 points with thes two to play I can see us getting out of it.  Plus can you imagine Sky last games if us, QPR, Burnley and Villa still have something to play for they will be having an orgasm, I can see it now Relegation Sunday winner takes all

[kingcarr21]

Its certainly gearing up to be an amazing final day of the season. Even if we are relegated by then it would be awesome if QPR had a chance of survival and we spoil the party.

[Fox92]

Burnley are playing Villa last game of the season.

[Benguin]

QPR

 

Newcastle (H)

Leicester (A)

 

Burnley

 

Stoke (H)

Aston Villa (A)

 

Hull

 

Tottenham (A)

Man United (H)

 

Sunderland

 

Leicester (H)

Chelsea (A)

 

Aston Villa

 

Southampton (A)

Burnley (H)

 

Sunderland and Hull are screwed on the last day if they are not 3 points clear!

 

Think we've got it the best so indeed gotta be within 4 points min

[Fox92]

QPR

 

Newcastle (H)

Leicester (A)

 

Burnley

 

Stoke (H)

Aston Villa (A)

 

Hull

 

Tottenham (A)

Man United (H)

 

Sunderland

 

Leicester (H)

Chelsea (A)

 

Aston Villa

 

Southampton (A)

Burnley (H)

 

Sunderland and Hull are screwed on the last day if they are not 3 points clear!

 

Think we've got it the best so indeed gotta be within 4 points min

 

Sunderland have got Arsenal away too, because of Arsenal still being in the FA Cup. So they've actually got:

 

Leicester (H)

Arsenal (A)

Chelsea (A)

[Benguin]

Just to add Week 37 is the most crucial IMO.

 

All our rivals are playing games where their opponents would likely be faves.

 

We have to beat Sunderland and we could move 3 points further than ALL of the other teams if odds prevail

[davieG]

Premier League: What if the dead men aren't actually dead?

 

 

"They still feel like an untrustworthy horse to back, but Leicester have a better looking run-in than many of their rivals, and meetings with West Brom, Burnley, 

Sunderland and QPR

 mean it’s still just about in their own hands."

Andy Brassell

 Published:

07 April 2015

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Spanish sports daily Marca has many fine attributes, but the use of understatement is rarely one of them. After Cristiano Ronaldo's five goals in Real Madrid's 9-1 tanking of Granada on Sunday, its headline simply read "Resurrección" - Resurrection. It may well have been Easter Sunday, but how exactly a forward who had 31 La Liga goals before kick-off needed resurrecting is a matter for some pondering.

Anyway, the word's use would have been far more appropriate in a couple of cases at the bottom of the Premier League at the weekend. It's hard to judge whether Queen's Park Rangers' emphatic victory at West Bromwich Albion or Leicester City's rather more nervy home win over West Ham was more of a surprise. If you remember our last look at the relegation picture at the start of the international break, this column wasn't expecting either of them.

The race to avoid the bottom three was pretty interesting anyway, but the possibility that the last two maybe aren't quite finished makes it absolutely fascinating. It's especially the case given that the two this column thought were near enough safe, Aston Villa and Hull City, are tripping over themselves to get involved again. Villa have lost four of six league games under Tim Sherwood. As for Steve Bruce's Hull, Villa and QPR are the only two sides they've beaten in their last 11 league fixtures.

What also promises to keep the tension going is that five of the bottom six have very similar goal differences, ranging between -20 and -23 (Hull have the relative advantage of only being -14). So it's all up for grabs, starting with QPR making a return visit to the surrounds of Birmingham for a meeting with Villa tonight.

Even a week ago, you'd have said that this fixture was pretty easy to call. It's not Villa that have changed in that period, even if the three successive wins at the start of March rather overstated the extent of their recovery, with one of the victories coming the FA Cup. They performed reasonably in defeat at Manchester United on Saturday, with Old Trafford hardly a venue they would have expected to take points from looking at their remaining fixtures anyway.

It's QPR that should be our focus. They were simply so convincing at West Brom; there were no real catches to the win. It was simply a performance of real authority that absolutely nobody saw coming, and which reminded us that Chris Ramsey does have some very good players on the books.

The pity is that one of those talents, Chile's Eduardo Vargas, will now miss this one and the entire rest of the season having sustained a knee injury minutes after striking that fine opener at The Hawthorns. Yet Charlie Austin is still firing - hitting his 16th of the season on Saturday - and arguably their best player apart from him this season, Leroy Fer, is close to a return from injury.

Leicester's win was maybe even more of a shock. Nigel Pearson's men have shown such a predilection for shooting themselves in the foot that when David Nugent missed the chance to put them 2-0 up and Cheikou Kouyaté equalised shortly afterwards, few batted an eyelid.

They still feel like an untrustworthy horse to back, but Leicester have a better looking run-in than many of their rivals, and meetings with West Brom, Burnley, Sunderland and QPR mean it's still just about in their own hands.

Their total of 22 points does look a low one, though, even in context. QPR have just three more, but that means they're a tantalising three away from safety as stands. It might be too much to ask for both Leicester and QPR to avoid the drop, but relegation trebles without Ramsey's team in them still pay well.

A Villa/Burnley/Leicester bottom three is available at [15.5], or Burnley/Hull/Leicester is [12.5]. If you don't dare back against the imposing Pearson, maybe Villa/Burnley/QPR at [16.5] is your way to go. 

[Raj]

Why couldn't we have picked up just a few more points over the season!!!

Our run in maybe better but I still think we've left it too late???!!

[Captain...]

QPR

Newcastle (H)

Leicester (A)

Burnley

Stoke (H)

Aston Villa (A)

Hull

Tottenham (A)

Man United (H)

Sunderland

Leicester (H)

Chelsea (A)

Aston Villa

Southampton (A)

Burnley (H)

Sunderland and Hull are screwed on the last day if they are not 3 points clear!

Think we've got it the best so indeed gotta be within 4 points min

Wouldn't be so sure about Hull and Sunderland Chelsea will be champions by then and United appear to heading for a CL spot. Last game of the season is always full of upsets. Especially when a big team has nothing to play for.

[Richard]

If we're still in the hunt by then we should have a superior goal difference

[Silverdaz]

If we're still in the hunt by then we should have a superior goal difference

AS long as we dont get hammered by anyone ie Chelsea

[Finn Claw II]

Chelsea will have the title wrapped up by the last day and the top 4 will also likely to have been decided. I can see a few players at the big clubs being in holiday mode by the last game of the season.

[Osavo]

Chelsea will have the title wrapped up by the last day and the top 4 will also likely to have been decided. I can see a few players at the big clubs being in holiday mode by the last game of the season.

Not necessarily, teams generally like to provide a good show on the last day, especially at home.

[Benguin]

Chelsea will have the title wrapped up by the last day and the top 4 will also likely to have been decided. I can see a few players at the big clubs being in holiday mode by the last game of the season.

 

 

I'm sorry but with the exception of 2011/12 when Man U and Man C had to win there has been little of this over the last ten years. Clubs like to prove their worth, paying fans want to see a win. I don't thin this is often the case

[LCCFox96]

If we are within 2 points of safety with two games to go then I would back us. Its getting to that point where the problem lies. If we could put a few wins and a few draws together in the next 4 games then, with our upcoming opposition, it really is in our hands.

[Renart]

Our problem is that I can see a few of the teams in and around us going on mini-runs. It tends to happen that when it gets to this point in the season teams at the bottom get themselves fired up and give it a go. I can see us picking up points but I can also see others around us picking up points (as this last weekend has demonstrated); there will be some surprise results, especially as relegation threatened teams play teams that have little or nothing to play for. 

[biggs]

With the win v West Ham we gained 1 pt in the battle to stay up. If we move closer after this weekend than the 6 pts adrift we are now, I'm thinking the team and supporters will feel the Momentum stepping onto the field with us. Having Mo is huge as it changes the mindset of players and just might be the ticket to safety.

[rico]

Wonder what the outcome would be if both us and Qpr just needed 1 point each for us both to stay up and send someone else down

[red5]

Wonder what the outcome would be if both us and Qpr just needed 1 point each for us both to stay up and send someone else down

 

The best boring 0-0 ever

 

but it won't happen, we're dooooooomed 

[biggs]

Who could honestly say they would not be a bloody wreck.....and likely would feel worse each day as we approached the QPR match if winning guaranteed staying up?

 

Kick-off to the final whistle might cause some health problems to a few on here.

[doncht]

I can watch a 1-1 score but it's too painful in my eyes for a 0-0.