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Middlesbro 0 Wrexham 1o_O Swansea 0 Norwich 3 :ROFLMAO:

But it took a run of something like 27 points from a possible 30 from memory. It can be done but that sort of run won't be achieved from a lower team often.

Jury is still out on them. So far they have beaten Watford, Blackburn, and Oxford, they have lost all the rest. Those results, 2 of which were 1-0 don't immediately shout top 6

These things generally tend to sort themselves out, we will get more injuries, hopefully the timing allows us to keep playing a winning team, and not worry too much who to leave out

Most teams that do what we are doing without the massive parachute money achieve it with cynical football, a bit like a good version of Norwich, but we are so far, achieving it with entertaining and attractive football. That will always win over the neutrals

Boxing day against Swansea is game 23, half way through. After Watford & Sheff U, most of our games until then are against teams currently in or around the top 6, the only ones that aren't are Ipswich and Southampton. So a very difficult run of games. But even looking at it pessimistically I can...

I think Norwich was just one of those games when nothing goes your way. We had an xG of over 4 for that game. The Oxford game was the really disappointing result, ahead twice and giving away 2 soft goals (and being naive to some cheating)

Yet another player who proved the same few on here wrong

I've said it before, I think we will lose one of those, and I don't think it will be on Tuesday. Would be V happy with 3 wins and a draw. 10 points

I think we have to get used to the idea that we are every team's cup final now, at least until we lose a game or two. And teams can play against us with freedom because they are not going to face major criticism if they lose.

Yes, but we did have a run of 25 games without defeat up to the end of the season IIRC

If we can keep this up and have a bit of luck with injuries we are way beyond being "figured out"

I think Ipswich will end up in top 2 so in a way an Ipswich win wouldn't be too bad. If we win tomorrow we would be 4 points ahead of Middlesboro with a goal difference effectively worth a point. Other teams in the top 6 have the possibility to drop points tomorrow as well.

A poster on here compared Morgan Whittaker to Haji recently saying they were similarly valued. I guess that assessment was based on one good season for Whittaker. Look where he is on the graph above, not sure how many minutes he has played this season but he is not massively underperforming his...

It's unlikely a player can consistently continue to exceed his xG, as stated the sample is too small to be meaningful at the moment.

The problem is we have no idea what was going on with Haji at that time. It seems like FL shouldn't have played him due to him being unfit to play?? we just don't know, but if that was the case it wasn't Haji's fault. What we do know is, a few weeks earlier he looked the complete footballer...

Yes, I was fairly sure we had an exceptional player at this level when I saw him do that. Any issues or problems that may or may not have been present since then have not altered my view on his quality at all.

The initial fee wasn't £25M though. so it appears we are disagreeing over around £2M

Near what? This was a reply to my original post (1034) where I said "if he has a good world cup we could probably get somewhere near what we got for Vik if we decided to sell"

Transfer values have gone up since we sold Vik, Haji is only 6 weeks older than Vik and age didn't stop Arsenal paying £60M for him. I appreciate next summer is another year away but clubs will pay a premium for goals.