Who should we beat?

[LanguedocFox]

OK, it is a bit premature, and I don't want any of us to sound arrogant/up ourselves.

 

 

But...

 

Assuming Norwich go down, who should we beat out of the 18 teams we know we will be playing next season? Not a poll, just a thought process: 40 points for survival will be the immediate target, so where will they come from?

 

Arsenal   

Aston Villa

Burnley    

Chelsea    

Crystal Palace    

Everton    

Hull    

Liverpool   

Man City    

Man Utd    

Newcastle    

Southampton    

Stoke   

Sunderland 

Swansea   

Tottenham    

West  Ham

West Brom   

 

 

[theessexfox]

Arsenal   

Aston Villa

Burnley    

Chelsea    

Crystal Palace    

Everton    

Hull    

Liverpool   

Man City    

Man Utd    

Newcastle    

Southampton    

Stoke   

Sunderland 

Swansea   

Tottenham    

West  Ham

West Brom   

 

Twice each

[Fez of Mahrez]

Sunderland and Arsenal

[Guest LCFC_World]

Man Utd

[Mark_w]

There's no reason we can't aim to finish above and potentially beat Aston Villa, Burnley, Hull, Newcastle, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, West Ham & West Brom. Palace should be strong under Pulis and I can't see us finishing above them, the rest should all be too strong for us. But there's no reason we can't aim to out perform those teams and achieve a top 10 finish.

[Corky]

Barcelona, Real Madrid

[StanSP]

Sneaky feeling we'll do the double over one of the bigger teams.

 

 

[Fox42]

Looking at the teams now...

Arsenal - 0pts

Aston Villa - 3pts

Burnley - 6pts

Chelsea - 0pts

Crystal Palace - 3pts

Everton - 1pt

Hull - 4pts

Liverpool - 0pts

Man City - 1pt

Man Utd - 1pt

Newcastle - 3pts

Southampton - 2pts

Stoke - 4pts

Sunderland - 3pts

Swansea - 2pts

Tottenham - 1pt

West Ham - 4pts

West Brom - 6pts

43pts.

[iancognito]

Lets have none of this, beat the teams around you, the rest are a bonus nonsense either.

 

There's points to be won in every game, the Prem's becoming more and more like the championship with a lot of wannabes and neverwillbe's who can finish 10th or 17th in the space of two results.

 

Any 9 wins, any 9 draws and just get ourselves safe as early as possible

[Fez of Mahrez]

Lets have none of this, beat the teams around you, the rest are a bonus nonsense either.

 

There's points to be won in every game, the Prem's becoming more and more like the championship with a lot of wannabes and neverwillbe's who can finish 10th or 17th in the space of two results.

 

Any 9 wins, any 9 draws and just get ourselves safe as early as possible

Agree with this, Cardiff beat Man City at home and it did them no good. Chelsea beat all the title contenders and messed up at home to bottom half teams.

[foxile5]

I'd settle for beating Andy Gray.

 

The blokes a dinosaur and needs a good thrashing.

[65RosesFox]

Sunderland and Arsenal

The scousers by the score.

[Corky]

Lets have none of this, beat the teams around you, the rest are a bonus nonsense either.

 

There's points to be won in every game, the Prem's becoming more and more like the championship with a lot of wannabes and neverwillbe's who can finish 10th or 17th in the space of two results.

 

Any 9 wins, any 9 draws and just get ourselves safe as early as possible

 

Absolutely, we should have no fear and believe we can get points from any game. I think the attitude of taking some games as more important than others is a dangerous one if you don't make the most of those more important matches.

 

We're playing these sides on merit, we aren't some lower league team on a nice day out in the cup.

[Trav Le Bleu]

We will beat teams we really shouldn't (Liverpool, Man City, Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, Everton, etc) and we will lose to teams we should beat (Villa, Sunderland, Hull, etc).

 

That's the beauty of football!

[Agent Fox]

Said it before, we can do a Southampton!

 

If I was offered survival now I'd take it but I really do think, with one or two additions we can finish 14th-10th

[Finnaldo]

No-one.

We should take it game by game. There won't be a team we 'should' beat. If we play to the best of our ability, we could sneak it against Man City or Liverpool. If we're shite, we'll probably get beaten by Burnley.

Expecting to beat teams can just end in disappointment. I'm going to take it game by game and enjoy our first season in the Premier League for 10 years

[Guest kristianity77]

I dont care who we lose to or who we beat.  As long as at the end of the season we have won about 9/10 matches out of the 38 with a few draws thrown in then we should be ok.  What I'd hope for though, is a reasonable run of early fixtures.  You dont want Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City all in the first month so to speak as it might make a big dent to confidence!

[Jace]

Any games a potential win 

[Bryn]

Should be aiming for winning half of our home games and drawing half of our away games and that will keep us up.

[lgfualol]

"Easiest ten games coming up"

No sir, I aint doing this again.

[David Lowe]

We will beat teams we really shouldn't (Liverpool, Man City, Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, Everton, etc) and we will lose to teams we should beat (Villa, Sunderland, Hull, etc).

 

That's the beauty of football!

I can't see why we should be beating those teams...but they are teams we could beat on a good day.

[benpicko]

Sneaky feeling we'll do the double over one of the bigger teams.

 

 

 

I hear Man United are practically handing out points nowadays

[Stadt]

They'll make a mighty bid

[ScouseFox]

tbh unless norwich do something against arsenal then 33 points and a gd that's not monumentally shit would've kept us up this season. easy. 

[Guest LCFC_World]

Who should we beat? Hopefully for the first season enough teams to keep us up. So that means beating the teams around us, for example West brom, palace, hull, Swansea, west ham will all be vital games that we need to pick up points from. Also, I would like to pull one over Man United, but that's just because I dislike them.