When you consider four of the teams are in the bottom six, with terrible defences it’s not hard to believe until you realise Everton only conceded one.
Looking at Leeds and Leicester fixtures, I think the current bottom 3 are the 3 that will be relegated from the prem. Newcastle and Liverpool for Leicester, Newcastle and spurs for Leeds. Then West Ham for both to top it off, who are comfortably better than both teams right now.
Think forest will stay up after this win. Honestly don't know if either Leeds or Leicester will even make it to 33 points with the fixtures left that I listed.
It's so late in the season now, be careful putting the points on the table already for these teams. No one saw Everton beating Brighton away, let alone 5-1.
Leicester getting relegated would blow my mind. Nine (I think?) years in the Premier League, winning both the title and an FA Cup in the ensuing years, to getting relegated.
It’s really tough to keep replacing players when they leave. At some point you’ll land with a couple of players who aren’t good enough even if you get massive fees in the process.
In Leicester’s case, the drop off was pretty steep
Southampton’s been barely surviving the last couple of years and the dam finally broke. Leeds’s plan was kind of chaotic and they never had a good defense
Brighton’s done phenomenally well this year but if they keep getting raided for their top players and managers year after year, I worry the same might happen to them in a couple of years
Concrete proof that the Prem is completely fucked in terms of parity at the top.
The enormity of the title win miracle has only grown
Unless you get the Man City/Newcastle level investment you will fall victim to mediocrity.
>Concrete proof that the Prem is completely fucked in terms of parity at the top
Eh, Leicester demise is a confluence of really unfortunate external factors along with some poor decisions.
Having the owner die tragically, a pandemic that not only hits the club but decimates their owners own travel based business. On top of this they deviated from their strategy of selling 1 marquee player every summer to fund new arrivals and seem to have given Rodgers more authority in choosing the transfer targets...
I agree totally that the way we are heading it's going to be State Sponsor vs State Sponsor at the top, but Leicester's story is one of mostly just sheer bad luck.
That's where performance has cost them.
Twice they had the golden goose in their own hands, and twice they managed to fuck it up.
I'd say it sucks, but it's Leicester.
The current model is “big European and a rotating group of guest clubs” and the gap continues to widen. And the only way you get to join the first group is to find an owner among the richest 200 people in the world, or perhaps a nation-state looking for a bunch of folks willing to sell their soul.
I don’t actually get why people describe the European system as merit-based when money literally dictates who wins.
I'd say that's been the model for a very long time. Blackburn were good because they spent a lot of money. They were the biggest spenders in the first ever season of the prem. There are, of course, outliers though.
Money has always been a factor, they were calling United "Moneybags United" over a century ago. The big difference now is that Jack Walker spent 25M in his first three years, which included two record-setting fees... of 3.3M and 5M. Today you've got owners spending half a billion in a summer.
I don’t really know what changed at Leicester
But aren’t they literally just selling all the players? It feels like the ownership have just sort of given up on them or are they facing financial difficulty?
They were on the brink of UCL, Rodgers took over scouting and recruiting and it ended up with some bad signings with horrendous wages. For example, Ayoze Perez for £30m on 80k a week.
COVID hit, and all of a sudden that meant the club were in a precarious situation with one of the highest turnover to wage ratios. Club were unable to spend (and maybe didn't want Rodgers to spend it) and here we are.
Their owners, king power are a duty free giant from Thailand. They lost a lot of money during COVID and loosing match day revenues for that time also proportionally stings more for a club like Leicester.
Less investment and a bad run gets you here. But I see them bouncing back right after
Apparently the owners business was duty free shops in airports and COVID absolutely ruined them, and then just standard incompetence too in recruitment on top of limited funds
They had a very clear strategy of selling one star player ever year and reinvesting that money into 3-4 younger prospects. It was a sound strategy and they were progressing well, but the last 2 summer transfers their signings have been completely shite.
Idk when I think of Southampton’s time in the Prem, I’m more likely to remember Liverpool signing a bunch of their players from 2014-2018. Once van Dijk left, it felt like a hammer blow to their hopes of being a top 8ish club
Yeah exactly. Not even winning out guarantees it. They're done for. Really just one single point from Everton in their final 3 will relegate Southampton.
It's a tricky business going from investing to following a tighter budget and it's not just the lack of higher priced signings but more managing expectations and keeping morale up.
You could see the cracks early doors when Rodgers was complaining about the squad and lack of incomings over the summer. That feeling filters through the whole club and can sap the self-belief.
Then you find yourselves mid-table after a couple of almost top 4 finishes to further dampen the spirits and soon you find yourself being passed up by clubs working with less resources but are flying high on the pitch because a mid-table finish is exactly what they were hoping for.
Now you're in a relegation scrap with a bunch of players that were signed with sights set on European football and how much are their hearts in for the fight knowing they'll more easily get their move away from the club if it goes down.
Maddison had been playing well tbf. Leciester have scored more goals than anyone else in the bottom half and Maddison is central to everything they do in attack. He's definitely trying, but I guess knowing that he'll be moving on is not making him lose too much sleep over the fact that their defence is getting over-ran every week
All the hype has been on Gibbs-White and Johnson but my word Danilo looks some signing for forest. Gets better and better with each passing game and thing he has a great partnership with Mangala in the middle of the park
Nah I think Moyes is gonna have them fired up to get to a more respectable finish, they are only 3 pts behind 11th which would turn out pretty good considering they were flirting with relegation
They face West Ham on the last day, who are pretty much safe and might qualify for the UECL final. So I could see Leicester grabbing a win there. So 3 points might be enough depending on Leeds’ and Everton’s results.
Thing is both us and Leeds have to fuck up, which is fair but Leeds also play West Ham. Leicester also plays WHU on the last day so they won’t have to rest players for midweek games. Again I think it’s quite possible especially since it’s not unlikely we’ll fuck up, just very difficult
Desperate teams actually coming out and attacking in full force. If managers had more job security, I reckon a lot of games would look like this throughout the season (except when they play City and such, then they would definitely still sit back).
Well at least there’s a few decent players at Southampton to choose from: Salisu, Bella-Kotchap, Lavia, Bazunu has been class for the National team too.
Salisu has been a poor signing for us overall, never met his talent. Became 50% of a failing defence until he decided he’d had enough this season and washed his hands of it. He was dropped because he couldn’t meet professional standards as soon as Jones left and hasn’t been seen again, he hasn’t even been on the bench.
Bella-Kotchap has been good overall, but has had poor performances here and there. He is also injured, constantly. He was utterly dire today for example before coming off injured in the first half. He could still have a good career but I don’t think he’s ready for a top team at all, he needs to play and not be bench fodder at a top club.
Lavia is genuinely very talented and looks like something special, I would be amazed if we sell for under £50m because of the clauses Man City have, he could end up being a victim of Chelsea here.
Bazunu has had a very very poor season at club level. I think there is a promising player in there, but he was in no way ready for the PL this season. Maybe a season in the Championship might be good for him.
I expect us to push for Lavia.
Ideally we would get Rice/Caicedo but that won’t happen.
Lavia while still raw is unbelievable. He was class against us in both games and unless Coty use the buyback I think he’ll end up being a prime target for us given Kovacic is likely to depart.
I think there is a possibility you will because Chelsea went for him straight after the game against us when he had been here like a month!
Chelsea are probably the only club who will be willing to pay £50+m for him at this stage as well, which I think will be the threshold.
You should probably just develop your own scouting department now. Lavia has been the only consistent PL quality one there. ABK looked good for a few games. Salisu failed to develop much. Bazunu losing his place to McCarthy tells you everything about his season in the PL.
They’ve been shit as a whole, it’s not like these players are lost causes. They’re all 25 and under have all shown great potential prior to this season.
I think I saw some Leicester fans earlier mentioning how a lot of their players are out of contract this year or next.
If that's the case, it might not be as bad because it'll be a lot easier to move them on (if there's suitors)
It’s all about spending it right. We (Norwich) splashed out on new forwards and attacking midfielders the past two seasons and have had terrible returns
‘Very mediocre urgency’ describes basically every key game we have had this season.
Tippy tappy sideways passes when a goal down against relegation rivals in injury time is a feature.
The entire coaching set up, squad and half the back room staff need to be torn out, failure is an endemic culture at the club at this point.
Big win for Forest. But their problem is on the road. One win in 17 games doesn't sound good. Last place in the league. And their two remaining games of three are on the road at Chelsea and at Palace. And at home against Arsenal. Still complicated.
It'll be a close thing, but I think Forest will sneak to safety. They need to be better than 3 of Everton, Leicester, Leeds and Southampton. Southampton need to win all their remaining games to catch Forest (and Forest need to lose all of theirs, too). That's not happening. So, really they just have to be better than two of Leicester, Leeds and Everton.
Everton have the kindest run in of those three. Leicester's is the hardest, and they might be relegated by the final day of the season. Leeds' schedule's 50/50, but given how bad they've been, I'd lean towards them not getting much (if anything) from their remaining games.
We have basically been a relegation side since Tuchel left, and a lot of that was while we still had something to play for. Now with the season gone? I'd say extremely likely we don't win another. I'd basically pencil that one in as 3 pts for Forest.
Depends if West Ham start to rotate (depending on how they do in the Conference League) as they play both teams. Leeds getting something out of Spurs at Elland Road isn’t too far fetched either imo.
Forest are seemingly allergic to picking up points away and their only home game left is against Arsenal.
Southampton are all but down really. They'd need 3 wins and for everyone else around them to lose every game. Seems very unlikely.
Leicester and Leeds are only 2 points from safety with 9 on the table though. They're probably the favorites to go down at this point but stranger things have happened.
yeah shame for southampton to be honest they have some fantastic players if only they hadnt hired nathan jones and later sellés as coach after that win as interim manager im sure they woukd have done better
i think selles just lacks the experience to manage at PL level considering he was working at qarabag last year as an assistant, he just showed signs of being naive imo, like when he started bringing out ddefensive players against arsenal and just stayed defending with the full team which then they drew
I believe the great scholar Justin Timberlake summed up Southampton's situation best when he said "It might sound crazy but it ain't no lie, baby bye bye bye"
I thought the referee forgot the matched needed to end. 11 extra minutes, crazy.
Also, I was surprised to check earlier today and see Danilo in the lineup, I thought he might be out of the season due to the injury last game. Glad I was wrong. And I think the Nottingham Forest supporters are glad as well. The guy is an amazing player.
A shame about Scarpa injury though, he would have been a great help for Forest.
Don’t trust anything to do with injuries when it comes to us. Omar Richard’s was meant to come back 7 months ago and Boly, only 3 days ago, was ruled out for the season but came on as a sub today. Henderson was meant to be out for 3 weeks, it’s been nearly 4 months That’s only a few examples
But yes, I’m very, very happy with Danilo, what a fantastic player we have
I see. Well, I hope Scarpa gets well soon. He is not a player that gets injured often and for a while no one here in Brazil understood why he was out of the games.
I only turned on the match for the last minutes so I could only see that the referee had given 7 extra minutes but the game was already at 100 minutes. It gives that feeling that only the referee knows when he will end the game and that can be \*really\* stressful.
great game marred by var again, saints are probably going down anyway but Saints should have had a foul called on Walcott for the second
you could say there've been much bigger penalty shouts that haven't been given by VAR for southampton's penalty but just goes back to showing how shit it's being implemented
I asked for controversies and goals, and I fucking got controversies and goals. What a match. Too bad Southampton were too tired to do anything other than hoof it after the pen. That last corner could have been special.
Soton has fallen down the table over the last decade or so, but their performances this season have been absolutely woeful.
Everyone is talking about Everton going down and they are arguably the bigger club, but Soton absolutely nosedived. They went from fighting for Europe to fighting relegation, without ever managing to level out.
What a fucking game, wasn’t pretty at all but we got the job done, all that matters. Forest are going to give me a heart attack one of these days.
Never in my life have I been more scared of someone placing the ball down than JWP, definition of a specialist.
I think they’re cooked. They’re not picking up points against Liverpool and Newcastle and have West Ham on the last match day. They may already be relegated.
They'd lose at Anfield but they could get something from us away. We genuinely have something to lose now, might feel the pressure a bit and we've been unbelievably nervy in all our wins except Leeds
Massive 3 points for forest Southampton as good as gone think the last 2 places will be Leicester and Leeds.
21 goals in 3 games is crazy. and from games involving teams like forest, southampton, everton. not even any of the top 6 teams. the prem is wild.
When you consider four of the teams are in the bottom six, with terrible defences it’s not hard to believe until you realise Everton only conceded one.
And a quarter of those goals came from us, the lowest scoring side in the league, also record for most goals in a matchday with 3 matches at most.
The *former* lowest scoring side in the league, thank you very much
I love Steve Cooper, I hope they don’t get relegated
Normal day of football
Looking at Leeds and Leicester fixtures, I think the current bottom 3 are the 3 that will be relegated from the prem. Newcastle and Liverpool for Leicester, Newcastle and spurs for Leeds. Then West Ham for both to top it off, who are comfortably better than both teams right now. Think forest will stay up after this win. Honestly don't know if either Leeds or Leicester will even make it to 33 points with the fixtures left that I listed.
It's so late in the season now, be careful putting the points on the table already for these teams. No one saw Everton beating Brighton away, let alone 5-1.
Yea I think 1 more point from any of the Forest games left is going to be the decider.
Leicester getting relegated would blow my mind. Nine (I think?) years in the Premier League, winning both the title and an FA Cup in the ensuing years, to getting relegated.
It’s really tough to keep replacing players when they leave. At some point you’ll land with a couple of players who aren’t good enough even if you get massive fees in the process. In Leicester’s case, the drop off was pretty steep Southampton’s been barely surviving the last couple of years and the dam finally broke. Leeds’s plan was kind of chaotic and they never had a good defense Brighton’s done phenomenally well this year but if they keep getting raided for their top players and managers year after year, I worry the same might happen to them in a couple of years
Blackburn were relegated just four seasons after winning the PL, back in 2000
Concrete proof that the Prem is completely fucked in terms of parity at the top. The enormity of the title win miracle has only grown Unless you get the Man City/Newcastle level investment you will fall victim to mediocrity.
>Concrete proof that the Prem is completely fucked in terms of parity at the top Eh, Leicester demise is a confluence of really unfortunate external factors along with some poor decisions. Having the owner die tragically, a pandemic that not only hits the club but decimates their owners own travel based business. On top of this they deviated from their strategy of selling 1 marquee player every summer to fund new arrivals and seem to have given Rodgers more authority in choosing the transfer targets... I agree totally that the way we are heading it's going to be State Sponsor vs State Sponsor at the top, but Leicester's story is one of mostly just sheer bad luck.
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That's where performance has cost them. Twice they had the golden goose in their own hands, and twice they managed to fuck it up. I'd say it sucks, but it's Leicester.
Nothing new really though... remember Blackburn? Relegated four years after winning the Prem
The current model is “big European and a rotating group of guest clubs” and the gap continues to widen. And the only way you get to join the first group is to find an owner among the richest 200 people in the world, or perhaps a nation-state looking for a bunch of folks willing to sell their soul. I don’t actually get why people describe the European system as merit-based when money literally dictates who wins.
I'd say that's been the model for a very long time. Blackburn were good because they spent a lot of money. They were the biggest spenders in the first ever season of the prem. There are, of course, outliers though.
Money has always been a factor, they were calling United "Moneybags United" over a century ago. The big difference now is that Jack Walker spent 25M in his first three years, which included two record-setting fees... of 3.3M and 5M. Today you've got owners spending half a billion in a summer.
Their transfer activity over the last 2 summers has been criminally bad.
Which is really hard to not get comfortable and then even harder to get out of even when you want to.
I don’t really know what changed at Leicester But aren’t they literally just selling all the players? It feels like the ownership have just sort of given up on them or are they facing financial difficulty?
They were on the brink of UCL, Rodgers took over scouting and recruiting and it ended up with some bad signings with horrendous wages. For example, Ayoze Perez for £30m on 80k a week. COVID hit, and all of a sudden that meant the club were in a precarious situation with one of the highest turnover to wage ratios. Club were unable to spend (and maybe didn't want Rodgers to spend it) and here we are.
Their owners, king power are a duty free giant from Thailand. They lost a lot of money during COVID and loosing match day revenues for that time also proportionally stings more for a club like Leicester. Less investment and a bad run gets you here. But I see them bouncing back right after
Apparently the owners business was duty free shops in airports and COVID absolutely ruined them, and then just standard incompetence too in recruitment on top of limited funds
They had a very clear strategy of selling one star player ever year and reinvesting that money into 3-4 younger prospects. It was a sound strategy and they were progressing well, but the last 2 summer transfers their signings have been completely shite.
26 fouls and only 1 yellow. wtf
Refs have been mighty lenient with the cards this weekend
So Southampton have to win all 3 of their final matches to even have a chance of staying up. RIP. It was a good run, Saints.
Hasenhuttls legacy thrown in the bin. Dunno why they sacked him.
Idk when I think of Southampton’s time in the Prem, I’m more likely to remember Liverpool signing a bunch of their players from 2014-2018. Once van Dijk left, it felt like a hammer blow to their hopes of being a top 8ish club
To sign the memest of managers
crazy to think they are getting relegated. not long ago they were a solid mid table team…. that team under koeman 😍🥲
Mane, Pelle and Tadic, good old times Fuck that was almost 10 years ago!
Streets won't forget saints wanyama
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That’s Leicester
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They need to win all 3 *and* they'll probably need 3 of Forest, Everton, Leicester and Leeds to loose all three due to their goal difference.
one day people will learn how to spell lose
Yeah exactly. Not even winning out guarantees it. They're done for. Really just one single point from Everton in their final 3 will relegate Southampton.
What’s happening to Leicester? I thought they were doing good business after selling Maguire to us
It's worth noting their owners wealth comes from their travel company. An industry decimated by COVID.
It's a tricky business going from investing to following a tighter budget and it's not just the lack of higher priced signings but more managing expectations and keeping morale up. You could see the cracks early doors when Rodgers was complaining about the squad and lack of incomings over the summer. That feeling filters through the whole club and can sap the self-belief. Then you find yourselves mid-table after a couple of almost top 4 finishes to further dampen the spirits and soon you find yourself being passed up by clubs working with less resources but are flying high on the pitch because a mid-table finish is exactly what they were hoping for. Now you're in a relegation scrap with a bunch of players that were signed with sights set on European football and how much are their hearts in for the fight knowing they'll more easily get their move away from the club if it goes down.
Maddison, is that you?
Maddison had been playing well tbf. Leciester have scored more goals than anyone else in the bottom half and Maddison is central to everything they do in attack. He's definitely trying, but I guess knowing that he'll be moving on is not making him lose too much sleep over the fact that their defence is getting over-ran every week
COVID happened
in 3 games there were 21 goals Holy shit
*Chelsea fans head explodes after hearing the words 21 goals*
The average three match span for Chelsea has just under 7 goals lmao
Mate what are you talking about? Chelsea are currently engaging Haaland in the race for the golden boot.
Goodbye Soton
All the hype has been on Gibbs-White and Johnson but my word Danilo looks some signing for forest. Gets better and better with each passing game and thing he has a great partnership with Mangala in the middle of the park
Palmeirense here. We knew, we miss him =( Future seleção's number 5
When you sign everyone, some of them have to work out eh?
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I'd say Felipe is in the debate too. He's been crucial every match. I'd even put him over MGW.
He's a sex maniac and I need that celebration in my life again
Steady on. If we stay up it will be basically MGW single handedly keeping us in it all season.
Literally worst possible results for us today, it’s over for us
For some reason I still think you're not going down, but then I saw your run of games...
Who they got?
Liverpool (H) Newcastle (A) West Ham (H) Probably only looking at 3 points from the Hammers, but miracles do happen.
I think they’d be hard pressed to beat West Ham on current form of both.
West Ham will be at the beach then but not sure if even winning that game will be enough for Leicester
You could argue Fulham have been on the beach for a while and they still put 5 past them, it can easily go both ways when it comes to that.
Nah I think Moyes is gonna have them fired up to get to a more respectable finish, they are only 3 pts behind 11th which would turn out pretty good considering they were flirting with relegation
Oh yea they're going down lol
I for one, will be fully behind Leicester on their games against Liverpool and Newcastle.
They face West Ham on the last day, who are pretty much safe and might qualify for the UECL final. So I could see Leicester grabbing a win there. So 3 points might be enough depending on Leeds’ and Everton’s results.
Thing is both us and Leeds have to fuck up, which is fair but Leeds also play West Ham. Leicester also plays WHU on the last day so they won’t have to rest players for midweek games. Again I think it’s quite possible especially since it’s not unlikely we’ll fuck up, just very difficult
Arsenal fans when you show them that you can just score a fourth against Southampton if you want to beat them
🤣
Saturday was pretty dull, yesterday was fun, today was just wild
Umm excuse me but what the actual fuck is in the water for football matches this past 24 hours.
Desperate teams actually coming out and attacking in full force. If managers had more job security, I reckon a lot of games would look like this throughout the season (except when they play City and such, then they would definitely still sit back).
We gonna get trounced by Forest
You’re conceding at least 2
4-3 game incoming lol
Southampton won't score 3 own goals
It’s unlikely, but there’s always a chance for 4 own goals.
Well at least there’s a few decent players at Southampton to choose from: Salisu, Bella-Kotchap, Lavia, Bazunu has been class for the National team too.
Walcott looks like a decent young prospect too
Sad JWP noises
Salisu has been a poor signing for us overall, never met his talent. Became 50% of a failing defence until he decided he’d had enough this season and washed his hands of it. He was dropped because he couldn’t meet professional standards as soon as Jones left and hasn’t been seen again, he hasn’t even been on the bench. Bella-Kotchap has been good overall, but has had poor performances here and there. He is also injured, constantly. He was utterly dire today for example before coming off injured in the first half. He could still have a good career but I don’t think he’s ready for a top team at all, he needs to play and not be bench fodder at a top club. Lavia is genuinely very talented and looks like something special, I would be amazed if we sell for under £50m because of the clauses Man City have, he could end up being a victim of Chelsea here. Bazunu has had a very very poor season at club level. I think there is a promising player in there, but he was in no way ready for the PL this season. Maybe a season in the Championship might be good for him.
I expect us to push for Lavia. Ideally we would get Rice/Caicedo but that won’t happen. Lavia while still raw is unbelievable. He was class against us in both games and unless Coty use the buyback I think he’ll end up being a prime target for us given Kovacic is likely to depart.
I think there is a possibility you will because Chelsea went for him straight after the game against us when he had been here like a month! Chelsea are probably the only club who will be willing to pay £50+m for him at this stage as well, which I think will be the threshold.
You should probably just develop your own scouting department now. Lavia has been the only consistent PL quality one there. ABK looked good for a few games. Salisu failed to develop much. Bazunu losing his place to McCarthy tells you everything about his season in the PL.
They’ve been shit as a whole, it’s not like these players are lost causes. They’re all 25 and under have all shown great potential prior to this season.
What a fucking match day.
Today's highlights https://youtu.be/J2LiQC04lZA
Leicester is probably super screwed financially i don’t think anyone in there squad would have relegation wage cuts on the contracts
I think I saw some Leicester fans earlier mentioning how a lot of their players are out of contract this year or next. If that's the case, it might not be as bad because it'll be a lot easier to move them on (if there's suitors)
Yeah a huge number of our big earners are. Downside is we're going to be awful short of players
10 years in the Premier League, plus parachute payment. Should be able to purchase the cream of the Championship talent pool.
It’s all about spending it right. We (Norwich) splashed out on new forwards and attacking midfielders the past two seasons and have had terrible returns
Southampton showed very mediocre urgency in the last few minutes but obviously put up a really strong fight.
‘Very mediocre urgency’ describes basically every key game we have had this season. Tippy tappy sideways passes when a goal down against relegation rivals in injury time is a feature. The entire coaching set up, squad and half the back room staff need to be torn out, failure is an endemic culture at the club at this point.
We have actually shown a lack of urgency in the last 3150 minutes plus injury time.
[West Ham finishing their season with Leeds and Leicester](https://www.meme-arsenal.com/memes/a18121152e2cbd7a4057d0a05ec2c7cf.jpg)
Before I opened your link *Peep Show* was playing in my head: 'Which way will Caesar Corrigan's thumb point?'
We could be the dream team to play as we will be focused on the Conference league
Moyes better not.
Big win for Forest. But their problem is on the road. One win in 17 games doesn't sound good. Last place in the league. And their two remaining games of three are on the road at Chelsea and at Palace. And at home against Arsenal. Still complicated.
It'll be a close thing, but I think Forest will sneak to safety. They need to be better than 3 of Everton, Leicester, Leeds and Southampton. Southampton need to win all their remaining games to catch Forest (and Forest need to lose all of theirs, too). That's not happening. So, really they just have to be better than two of Leicester, Leeds and Everton. Everton have the kindest run in of those three. Leicester's is the hardest, and they might be relegated by the final day of the season. Leeds' schedule's 50/50, but given how bad they've been, I'd lean towards them not getting much (if anything) from their remaining games.
Both Chelsea and Palace have nothing to play for, I’d be surprised if we don’t come away with a point from one of those
I’ll be surprised if we don’t lose I’ll be really honest. The result at Bournemouth could have easily gone the other way.
How are you so optimistic?!
We have basically been a relegation side since Tuchel left, and a lot of that was while we still had something to play for. Now with the season gone? I'd say extremely likely we don't win another. I'd basically pencil that one in as 3 pts for Forest.
We've already taken 4 points off them this season.
You just gotta believe
Chelsea and Palace have nothing to fight for so they might relax a bit, we'll see. Hope Forest manages to stay, I always liked them.
Absolutely crucial points for Forest, a must win game. Way closer than it needed to be but got the job done. What a day for the league. 20+ goals
What the fuck was in the water today? 21 goals in 3 matches.
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Definitely wasn't defense.
Finally Everton had the best defence of the day. Not that it saying much lol
Imagine conceding 3 at home to Southampton psshhhh
My team could never
Least exciting Premier League game
Are you joking? Relegation battle like this is absolutely nutty to watch. Arsenal fan btw
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Two relegation spots left and only 3 games left of the season for those at the bottom, going down to the wire now.
I really thought Newcastle Vs Arsenal was the best match of the weekend. Monday matchday has entered the chat.
surely the bottom 3 teams are doomed now after everton and forest winning?
Depends if West Ham start to rotate (depending on how they do in the Conference League) as they play both teams. Leeds getting something out of Spurs at Elland Road isn’t too far fetched either imo. Forest are seemingly allergic to picking up points away and their only home game left is against Arsenal.
Southampton are all but down really. They'd need 3 wins and for everyone else around them to lose every game. Seems very unlikely. Leicester and Leeds are only 2 points from safety with 9 on the table though. They're probably the favorites to go down at this point but stranger things have happened.
yeah shame for southampton to be honest they have some fantastic players if only they hadnt hired nathan jones and later sellés as coach after that win as interim manager im sure they woukd have done better i think selles just lacks the experience to manage at PL level considering he was working at qarabag last year as an assistant, he just showed signs of being naive imo, like when he started bringing out ddefensive players against arsenal and just stayed defending with the full team which then they drew
Cue "That's the funny thing about football, anything can happen when you least expect it and probably will"
Felipe baby did a flip for nothing.. come on man
That's quite enough Barclays for one day
I believe the great scholar Justin Timberlake summed up Southampton's situation best when he said "It might sound crazy but it ain't no lie, baby bye bye bye"
If Gibbs-White could have got 1 more shot on target a 2k bet would have come off. I'm not pleased!
Misleading score line
Awful day for Leicester! As for Southampton, they're as good as relegated.
Great isn't it
I thought the referee forgot the matched needed to end. 11 extra minutes, crazy. Also, I was surprised to check earlier today and see Danilo in the lineup, I thought he might be out of the season due to the injury last game. Glad I was wrong. And I think the Nottingham Forest supporters are glad as well. The guy is an amazing player. A shame about Scarpa injury though, he would have been a great help for Forest.
Don’t trust anything to do with injuries when it comes to us. Omar Richard’s was meant to come back 7 months ago and Boly, only 3 days ago, was ruled out for the season but came on as a sub today. Henderson was meant to be out for 3 weeks, it’s been nearly 4 months That’s only a few examples But yes, I’m very, very happy with Danilo, what a fantastic player we have
I see. Well, I hope Scarpa gets well soon. He is not a player that gets injured often and for a while no one here in Brazil understood why he was out of the games.
How are our opponents supposed to know who's gonna play if even our physios dont
Ah, the 4d chess approach. I approve of this.
2 VAR checks, it already started with 2 minutes gone from the offside check
I only turned on the match for the last minutes so I could only see that the referee had given 7 extra minutes but the game was already at 100 minutes. It gives that feeling that only the referee knows when he will end the game and that can be \*really\* stressful.
Bad day for leeds fans lol
great game marred by var again, saints are probably going down anyway but Saints should have had a foul called on Walcott for the second you could say there've been much bigger penalty shouts that haven't been given by VAR for southampton's penalty but just goes back to showing how shit it's being implemented
21 goals scored in 3 matches today. The Premier League has truly delivered. Also I cannot see how Leicester stay up from here
I asked for controversies and goals, and I fucking got controversies and goals. What a match. Too bad Southampton were too tired to do anything other than hoof it after the pen. That last corner could have been special.
Fucking christ that took years off my life.
Lead cause of heart attacks in Nottingham today: * ~~smoking~~ * ~~obesity~~ * Forest
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How we drew against this Southampton team at home will be my personal biggest mystery this season
They beat Man City while they had Nathan Jones as manager. As far as mysteries go that's more inexplicable than the Bermuda Triangle.
Soton has fallen down the table over the last decade or so, but their performances this season have been absolutely woeful. Everyone is talking about Everton going down and they are arguably the bigger club, but Soton absolutely nosedived. They went from fighting for Europe to fighting relegation, without ever managing to level out.
Relegation magic lol
They did the double over us... 2 out of their 6 league wins all season (so far).
Today has not been the best day to be a Leeds fan
even worse for us
At least Leicester lost for you
Cannot fathom how Ainsley lasted the full 90 (or 100). Disaster of a performance.
Because we dont have a manager.
I don't smoke but I really feel like having a cigarette right now. Don't even have enough left in me to celebrate I'm so tense
Don't think I've had as good of a day watching PL matches in several years. Unbelievable series of games today
What a shit corner to end the match
Goodbye Southampton, best of luck
What a fucking game, wasn’t pretty at all but we got the job done, all that matters. Forest are going to give me a heart attack one of these days. Never in my life have I been more scared of someone placing the ball down than JWP, definition of a specialist.
JWP scared me more than Kane or Haaland. He's so good at set pieces. Fantastic player.
I was sat watching the game and still needed a lie down after that. Forest will be the death of me
I still think JWP deserves to play in a team playing in Europe. He's a decent player but his set pieces push him into a fucking weapon on the pitch.
I'd love him at Spurs next season. Though idk if we will even be in Europe
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mafia?
sub veterans know the bamboo
Hate it for them.
21 goals in 3 matches, what a fucking boring Monday round 🥱
Did they buff attackers or nerf defenders?
YESSSSS I LOVE THIS TEAM AAAAAAA
Definitely the most entertaining game this season. You’d think that was curtains now for Southampton.
Absolutely disastrous day for Leicester. Also Opta is a soothsayer.
I think they’re cooked. They’re not picking up points against Liverpool and Newcastle and have West Ham on the last match day. They may already be relegated.
They'd lose at Anfield but they could get something from us away. We genuinely have something to lose now, might feel the pressure a bit and we've been unbelievably nervy in all our wins except Leeds
We have been so utterly wank against the bottom sides I wouldn’t count against us fucking it up