By the same token, that draw we got against them second game of the season (and dropping tracker points) is looking a far better result now than it did at the time. On a similar vein, we've still got some underperforming teams (Leicester, West Ham, Wolves, Villa all present opportunities) to come that we could tally up some big + points from as well.
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[Albion] To Avoid De Zerbi Bashing - The Staying Up/Europe Tracker - season 2022-23 FINAL Update - 22 OVER
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Machiavelli
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Taking teams from the top 11, this shows:
Arse, ManU, Brentford and us are doing even better than expectations and -- with Arse excepted -- our positions in the table
Fulham aren't doing quite as well as their position suggests, and City really aren't (might this suggest an Arse title?)
Machiavelli
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If you divert attention away from the tracker, we've now nearly played half a season, and the only two teams we're yet to play are Muff and Palace, and we could easily pick up three, four, even six points from those two fixtures. Six would take us to 33 at the halfway stage (and I'm well aware that one of the tracker's greatest strengths is that it differentiates better between who we play at home and away -- although our away form has been as good as, if not better than, our home form for a while now).
father_and_son
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14? When have we EVER be 14 Over?
Never.
CaptainDaveUK
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- Oct 18, 2010
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I’m so confused, I’ve forgotten why I’m here!
10 more points and we’re safe
30 points is the same as Stains and car crash Everton's points added together. We’re not at the season’s half way mark. 9 wins just one less than the bottom 3 combined, and equals our season’s total in each of our first 4 EPL seasons. 35 goals so far beats our season’s tally of 34 in 2017/18.
Not so many seasons ago we were chiselling out EPL draws and rare wins to be in the running to stay up come April/May.
What a journey.
Not so many seasons ago we were chiselling out EPL draws and rare wins to be in the running to stay up come April/May.
What a journey.
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Thompson720
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I think I speak for the rest of the regular viewers of this thread when I say, I hope we stay up...
- Aug 8, 2005
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14 over. That is an official record. Fabulous.
And 5 over Europe, although I am a little less confident about that measure. Will 60 be enough? Big games to come on that front and we have to win most of them.
And 5 over Europe, although I am a little less confident about that measure. Will 60 be enough? Big games to come on that front and we have to win most of them.
- Aug 8, 2005
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Worth saying I think that although we are in mid January, we are still not yet half way through the season. In normal football season terms we are end of November. Long way to go, which with the trajectory we are on can only be a good thing.
I reckon we’ll smash the target 5 points from 9 games in that run from 4th March.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Blimey! 
‘Gonna need a bigger axis’
Well, I reckon this ought to keep the inevitable De Zerbi bashing at bay…
- Aug 8, 2005
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And the REALLY BIG NEWS, ahead of today's games we are up in a Champions League spot in what is arguably a "real" measure. Heavily reliant on now beating the lower table teams but it looks good doesn't it.
