Luton have City and we have Liverpool next week. After that, we both play Fulham, Wolves and West Ham. If we match them in those fixtures, then we will be OK.

We also have a game in hand at home to Newcastle.

Luton are good at home, and they have Brentford, Everton, Fulham at home. That's easily 4-6 points. Away they have Wolves and West Ham, could be 1-3 points there. So I'd put them at 5-9 points from their remaining matches, which means 30-34.

We have Liverpool, Fulham, Wolves away. I'd say 1 point from those. And West Ham, Newcastle, ManU, Villa at home. I'd say 1-3 points from those, giving us 2-4 points, which means 32-34.

So Luton will be on 30-34 points, and we'll be on 32-34. Luton will likely have a better GD than us by the end, it's going to be very close.

We could easily blow this and go down. We've done it before, and literally everything has gone wrong for us this season already, with no end in sight.

Edited by Wilbraham413 (07 Apr 2024 3.46am)

2017 Feb. (Van Aanholt) Palace 1 - 0 Middlesboro
2018 Jan. (Sako) Palace 1 - 0 Burnley
2019 May (Batshuayi, Batshuayi, OG, Van Aanholt, Townsend) Palace 5 - 3 Bournemouth
2020 Feb. (Van Aanholt) Palace 1 - 0 Newcastle

I read somewhere that since we came back up 41 points is the lowest figure we have achieved over a season.
It looks unlikely we’ll match that this season.
This season we’ve gone backwards with not many wins and no outstanding candidate for player of the season.

On paper Luton have an easier run in than us and it would not surprise me if they gain another 9 points.
They have an identity, plenty of spirit and can score goals.

We may need another 5 or 6 points to be clear which may not sound too onerous over 7 games.
However, we’ve really struggled to win games this season and it wouldn’t surprise me if there were more draws than wins in the 7 games.
Next games for us are Liverpool away, West Ham and Newcastle at home.
Not easy and you could easily see them yielding no more than a couple of points.
Then it gets nervous….

With Olise back we will get the points we need to stay in the safety zone .
Good luck to Luton but if they do survive it won't be at our expense

And we still need a striker

I do think that we are in serious trouble and I hope that the players and manager know that.

My main concern with Glasner was that he has never experienced a relegation battle.
He quickly needs to realise that sticking to systems is for another day.
Right now, we need to get results by all and any means. Experienced managers know this.

Does Glasner ?

We could stay up with 6 draws.

Unfortunately that is the reality of this season. We are paying the price for a succession of transfer windows where we haven't done enough business allied with a number of injuries to our better players. As we are under financial restrictions I suspect we will need to sell end of season for a proper recruitment summer. On the plus the new manager may be able to pick up some decent signings based on his knowledge within the game. Priority though is now to get the required points this season to ease any worries.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld