Next 10 PL Games

[Montana]

We have 4 more games of this 10 to complete and on current form we must be certs for maximum points, especially as 3 are at Anfield.

Fulham H
West Ham H
Blackburn A
Hull H

Chelsea are the team to beat and will be up there all season challenging but hopefully we can get in front before Xmas.

As for United's challenge, if we win these next 4 games, then I think they could seriously be out of it as they have 3 very tricky away games at Villa, Tottenham and Man City coming up. They could easily drop more points in the weeks ahead.

[Shaggy]

We have 4 more games of this 10 to complete and on current form we must be certs for maximum points, especially as 3 are at Anfield.

Fulham H
West Ham H
Blackburn A
Hull H

Chelsea are the team to beat and will be up there all season challenging but hopefully we can get in front before Xmas.

As for United's challenge, if we win these next 4 games, then I think they could seriously be out of it as they have 3 very tricky away games at Villa, Tottenham and Man City coming up. They could easily drop more points in the weeks ahead.

It's pretty ****ing exciting isn't it

[Liverpool]

Thinking about this yesterday I reckon we could have 90 points and come second, Whats the highest points total of a team thats came second in the prem?

[ukfootballfan101]

Thinking about this yesterday I reckon we could have 90 points and come second, Whats the highest points total of a team thats came second in the prem?

Year / Table Winner Points Second Points Third Points
2007-2008 Man U 87 Chelsea 85 Arsenal 83
2006-2007 Man U 89 Chelsea 83 Liverpool* 68
2005-2006 Chelsea 91 Man U 83 Liverpool 82
2004-2005 Chelsea 95 Arsenal 83 Man U 77
2003-2004 Arsenal 90 Chelsea 79 Man U 75
2002-2003 Man U 83 Arsenal 78 Newcastle 69
2001-2002 Arsenal 87 Liverpool 80 Man U 77
2000-2001 Man U 80 Arsenal 70 Liverpool 69
1999-2000 ManU 91 Arsenal 73 Leeds 69
1998-99 Man U 79 Arsenal 78 Chelsea 75
1997-98 Arsenal 78 Man U 77 Liverpool 65
1996-97 Man U 75 Newcastle 68 Arsenal 68
1995-96 Man U 82 Newcastle 78 Liverpool 71
1994-95 Blackburn 89 Man U 88 Nottingham Forest 77
1993-94 Man U 92 Blackburn 84 Newcastle 77
1992-93 Man U 84 Aston Villa 74 Norwich 72


No team has ever finished 2nd on more than 90 points, only two teams have finished on 85 points or higher.

Only 5 winners have taken 90 points or more.

[Liverpool]

Lets hope this season is no exception.

We could have a Est party in May.

[slimbimjim]

Fulham H
West Ham H
Blackburn A
Hull H

If we win all of these we will avoid relegation

[Craig_H]

It's all pretty surreal at the moment. Played away at Chelsea, Everton, Citeh and Villa, as well as home to the Mancs...and we've still only dropped 7 points. 32 from 13 games is utterly superb and when you look at those next four games, it's not inconceivable that we could have 44 points from 17 games, which would a better ratio than the vast majority of title winning sides over the years.

I just hope we continue and Chelsea dont amass a freakish tally.

[ukfootballfan101]

10 Years ago if we were in this situation the league would be all but over, but as Craig_H said Chelsea could put a big number on the board so lets just take it one game at a time!!

[Joe King]

Year / Table Winner Points Second Points Third Points
2007-2008 Man U 87 Chelsea 85 Arsenal 83
2006-2007 Man U 89 Chelsea 83 Liverpool* 68
2005-2006 Chelsea 91 Man U 83 Liverpool 82
2004-2005 Chelsea 95 Arsenal 83 Man U 77
2003-2004 Arsenal 90 Chelsea 79 Man U 75
2002-2003 Man U 83 Arsenal 78 Newcastle 69
2001-2002 Arsenal 87 Liverpool 80 Man U 77
2000-2001 Man U 80 Arsenal 70 Liverpool 69
1999-2000 ManU 91 Arsenal 73 Leeds 69
1998-99 Man U 79 Arsenal 78 Chelsea 75
1997-98 Arsenal 78 Man U 77 Liverpool 65
1996-97 Man U 75 Newcastle 68 Arsenal 68
1995-96 Man U 82 Newcastle 78 Liverpool 71
1994-95 Blackburn 89 Man U 88 Nottingham Forest 77
1993-94 Man U 92 Blackburn 84 Newcastle 77
1992-93 Man U 84 Aston Villa 74 Norwich 72


No team has ever finished 2nd on more than 90 points, only two teams have finished on 85 points or higher.

Only 5 winners have taken 90 points or more.

The totals there show how much the bar has been raised since Arsenal's invincible team as we realistically need 90 points to win the league. We currently can get more than 45 by game 19 which is the halfway stage. If we can, we have to make sure we maintain that form in the second half of the season. Those next five games are: Fulham, West Ham, Blackburn, Hull, Arsenal. Three of those games are at home, Blackburn and Arsenal away. If we are to look to the end of the year, we have Bolton and Newcastle, again two very winnable games and it could cap off a fantastic year in terms of league form so far which has seen us lose only twice.

Chelsea in that five game period have: Newcastle, Arsenal, Bolton, West Ham and Everton. Looking at Chelsea's games, quite similar to ours, they would think they could possibly win all of theirs. United have: Villa, City, Sunderland, Spurs and Stoke. (The game against Wigan is canceled due to their FIFA World Club Championships). United on paper have the tougher of the fixtures in the same game/time span with Villa, City and Spurs all games away from home. They lose one of their games from that lot, thats one of their games in hand gone in terms of points value so its a massive couple of weeks for them as well it is for both ourselves and Chelsea.

[wiw]

this thread got me looking at the table...anyone seen Chelsea's away record? It's insane

won 7 out of 7, scored 19 and conceded 1

We have the 2nd best defence in the league behind Chelsea, just need to start scoring more..something Nando should definitely bring us

[Elvoz]

Thinking about this yesterday I reckon we could have 90 points and come second, Whats the highest points total of a team thats came second in the prem?

there is no chance of either mate

trust me

[Gaz]

We have 4 more games of this 10 to complete and on current form we must be certs for maximum points, especially as 3 are at Anfield.

Fulham H
West Ham H
Blackburn A
Hull H

Chelsea are the team to beat and will be up there all season challenging but hopefully we can get in front before Xmas.

As for United's challenge, if we win these next 4 games, then I think they could seriously be out of it as they have 3 very tricky away games at Villa, Tottenham and Man City coming up. They could easily drop more points in the weeks ahead.

If we're serious about winning the league then those home games are must win and Blackburn's home form isn't exactly great at the moment so we should definately be looking to take maximum point from those games

[ronanm]

Long may it continue. I just feat we're going to hit a dip at some stage. Chelsea are dangerous no doubt - would have won the Mancs double last year had their players been fit for the season. I hope they start dropping daft points at some stage - can see them beating Newcastle by 7!

[Scratch]

Long may it continue. I just feat we're going to hit a dip at some stage. Chelsea are dangerous no doubt - would have won the Mancs double last year had their players been fit for the season. I hope they start dropping daft points at some stage - can see them beating Newcastle by 7!

I thought we hit a dip earlier, when we weren't playing well and still scraped the results...now we are playing better, and it's looking good...fingers crossed that we have our usual good second half to the season as well!!

[ronanm]

I thought we hit a dip earlier, when we weren't playing well and still scraped the results...now we are playing better, and it's looking good...fingers crossed that we have our usual good second half to the season as well!!

Good point. My "dip" focused on results as opposed to form. Since we got the results despite playing poorly, there's no reason why we cannot continue to get results playing well - onwards and upwards - avante!