everton then chelsea

[allez les rouges]

what would be a good return for the next two away games. For me, it would be a drawn in both games and getting two points. Strange as it sounds, but from a league title persepective, i think it would be a better result than beating everton away and then losing to chelsea event though we would collect 3 points in that scenario

 

if someone offered me two points today, i would take them.

[smithdown]

I'd be happy with four points. I'd probably have taken two points if we'd have beat Sheff Utd, though.

 

 

Agreed.

 

The Sheff Utd result adds a little early pressure, just as it will to chelsea after losing at boro. The losers could find themselves a good few points off the lead.

 

Anyway, never mind all that...one game at a time eh?

[John am Rhein]

We should always aim to win at Goodison - anything less would be a setback for us.

 

At Chelsea a draw would be a good result, but we'd need to at least give ourselves a chance to win if luck falls our way.

 

but we could quite easily lose at goodison. remember wayne clark? and our team is not as good as the team that he scored against.

 

You could say that about any match.

[allez les rouges]

We should always aim to win at Goodison - anything less would be a setback for us.

 

At Chelsea a draw would be a good result, but we'd need to at least give ourselves a chance to win if luck falls our way.

You could say that about any match.

 

but more so everton away, manure away, chelsea away, arsenal away.

[John am Rhein]

but more so everton away, manure away, chelsea away, arsenal away.

 

Certainly the last three. Everton away needs only be a problem if we make it into a psychological problem for ourselves - as we have done on occasion. Winning's never guaranteed but we certainly should be favourites when we play Everton and we need to set our attitude accordingly.

[Gomez]

2 points wouldn't be a disaster, but I wouldn't take them now because I have leart my lesson in underestimating Rafa's team. 6 points is possible, 4 points is do-able and whilst that is the case we would underselling ourselves to accept less.

[Tommy Cockles]

2 of the most difficult games of the season. It doesn't matter how crap Everton are its always hard going in to it. As it happens they have started well and its a bad time to play them.

 

Have a strange feeling that we may well get beat at Everton & win at Chelsea.

[Skillz]

Is it just me or are those outside Liverpool more wanting a draw in the Derby and those In Liverpool wanting nothing less then a convincing win.

 

Its the f***ing derby for christs sake!!!!

 

Definitely not, Ant. I was just responding to the OP question which is a valid question. We all want to smash the S**** and to be honest we should win, but the derby is always a difficult game, particularly there.

 

Having said that we do need to beat them to really get our season moving in the right direction early. A draw would not be the end of it however.

Edited September 3, 2006 by Skillz

[Guest Scot]

what would be a good return for the next two away games. For me, it would be a drawn in both games and getting two points. Strange as it sounds, but from a league title persepective, i think it would be a better result than beating everton away and then losing to chelsea event though we would collect 3 points in that scenario

 

if someone offered me two points today, i would take them.

 

If we're serious about the league we need 4 at least. Most important is to take points from Chelsea.

[fyds]

We haven't lost a league game in an age, We need to win both, simple as. We've beaten Chelsea in the last two of two - they will be the more worried.

 

Time to throw down a marker.

[Internationinteroperability]

Everton really haven't been that great so far. I'm not saying we have, but we should be able to beat them regardless of our semi-slow start.

 

The game against Chelsea will be difficult but we have possibilities as Rafa would say, so we can indeed beat them

[RedHarvest]

Have a strange feeling that we may well get beat at Everton & win at Chelsea.

Funnily enough I have the same feeling - nervous about the derby and more confident than ever of extending our hoodoo over the chavs.

 

Might put money on it

 

6 points from these two fixtures would be a title winning platform.

[Guest Jack Bauer]

We'll batter them in the derby.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

1 game at a time, 1 game at a time....

[Guest AussieGerrard]

Dirk is going to tear Everton to shreds

[Guest Scot]

fecking mockering cn*ts!

[Powelly]

Bring em on, lets batter these c****!

[Guest Anders Honoré]

Have a strange feeling that we may well get beat at Everton & win at Chelsea.

 

That would be a good result.

 

Chelsea losing points is the most important.

[windy city red]

if we get 2 points, I will be ambivalent - I still dont think we are ready for the title yet so 2 draws is no disaster.

if we get 4 points, thats a fantastic return. Dont really care where the win and draw come from.

if we get 6 points, I think its time for me to revise my expectation for the season.

[psl]

We've got PSV away in between the two which will likely be the toughest game of our Champions League group.

[_00_deathscar]

Would be disappointed with a draw against the Blueshyte, but will quite happily take one against Chelsea.

 

4 points minimum please...

[blago]

I think we'll beat Everton and get at least a draw at Chelsea.

[RP]

A draw against Everton has never been a good result, IMO. A point would be ok I guess, depending on how the game goes - but no way on earth "I'd accept a point now".

 

A win at Goodison and draws in Eindhoven and at The Bridge would be a set of very good results.

[Jeff guitar]

Everton need to play better than they have done so far while we have to play quite a bit worse than we have done so far, for the blues to get a result against us. A bad result (draw or loss) can never be ruled out (as in any derby) but i think Rafa 'gets' the Derby games now and knows what team is required to win these very important and potentially dangerous games. Should be a cracker.

 

Chelsea will be difficult and we need to stop them making a statement like they did last season at our place in the league. So although a draw would definitley not be taken before the game it might be taken at half time if we are finding it hard going, but then again theres always little Luis.

[Guest Cardie]

In the greater scheme of things two draws in two of our toughest games of the season wouldn't be a bad result, if we got 4 it'd be excellent.