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Bournemouth and Villa simply have to win this evening to stand any chance of survival, otherwise it’s all over with, IMO. 

Bournemouth looked abject against United at the weekend, though Tottenham have been poor for much of the season. It’s potentially one of those games that are a good advert for why all games aren’t televised. Villa have looked woeful all season, unfortunately, so I don’t fancy their chances this evening. 

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12 points left on offer for the season.

Norwich will be officially relegated if they don't win. If they draw, and Watford avoid defeat against Newcastle, then that will relegate them too.

Brighton can confirm survival if win and Bournemouth/Villa fail to do so. 

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What an abysmal failure Norwich have been. Have to ask questions of the manager surely? They've got way more individual quality than other teams that have bottomed out with 20 points. Their problems were evident in the first game of the season against Liverpool and they never addressed them after a whole season. They might as well have just forfeited the remainder of their games from the point they benched Pukki, Buendia and Cantwell against us to rest them for an FA Cup tie that they lost anyway. That's awful management, getting knocked out of the FA Cup whilst also sending out the message that you've given up on survival when you're only 7-8 points from safety with 8 games left. Bizarre.

You can only assume that theres some truth to the rumours that they plan to "do a Burnley" by not investing after promotion, basically accepting relegation and using the parachute money to rebuild a team that can get promoted again and then stay mid table the year after. Seems mad though. They should have made a real fist of it with a handful of decent attacking players, two good full backs and a solid, experience goalkeeper.

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Heard a stat earlier that Norwich are the only side in Europe's top 5 leagues not to have got any points from losing positions. That is just terrible for a Premier League side.

How they took 4 points off us this season is embarrassing from our perspective.

Hoping we can do Nige a favour by beating Bournemouth tomorrow night.

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Brighton losing and the 4 sides below them all winning was unlikely. But it happened!

West Ham play Watford after Bournemouth go to Man City/Villa go to Everton. 

As they play each other, neither Bournemouth/Villa can get relegated but any points could be valuable before the weekend's games. Brighton can guarantee survival if they win should Bournemouth & Villa both lose. 

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West Ham done themselves a world of good with their victory tonight! Safety all but guaranteed being 6 points ahead, 6 points left on the board and also with a far superior GD over Bournemouth & Villa...

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The penultimate games...

Man Utd vs West Ham
Brighton vs Newcastle
Watford vs Man City
Bournemouth vs Southampton
Aston Villa vs Arsenal

West Ham could have their safety officially guaranteed as they play after everyone else.

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Massive result from Villa, out the relegation zone on goal difference now. Big game on Sunday now, big big game.

Really hope Smith keeps Villa up, he deserves a second season in charge to prove his worth after the shower of shite their transfer policy has been for the last few years.

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1 hour ago, Danny said:

Massive result from Villa, out the relegation zone on goal difference now. Big game on Sunday now, big big game.

Really hope Smith keeps Villa up, he deserves a second season in charge to prove his worth after the shower of shite their transfer policy has been for the last few years.

The turnaround in their defence since lockdown doesnt get spoken about enough.

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Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few days, here's what needs to happen for the relegation spots in case anyone didn't know

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Villa can draw and hope Watford don't win. If they lose, they need to hope Watford & Bournemouth don't win.
Watford can draw and hope Villa lose to survive.
Bournemouth need to win and hope Villa & Watford both lose to survive.

 

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