While Newcastle were gaining a valuable away point at Fratton Park today, both Sunderland and Reading lost their home games, and Bolton won at home against the out- of-form West Ham side.
Faye - like a rock in Newcastle’s defense at Portsmouth
While Newcastle are hardly in relegation worries we’ll take this opportunity to see how we did against the two teams above us (Tottenham and West Ham) we can catch above us in the table.
Here the results of the important games today
Birmingham 1 Everton 1
Bolton 1 West Ham 0
Derby 0 Aston Villa 6
Reading - Fulham 2
Sunderland 1 Man City 2
Tottenham 1 Middlesbrough 1
It was a good point for Birmingham and seems to further dampen Everton’s chances of catching Liverpool for 4th place.
Bolton had their first win for a long long time in beating West Ham who seem to be in a big slump, so it’s another point gained by Newcastle on the Hammers, and we still have to play them at Upton Park, which is a must win game if we are to catch them. We are now 5 points behind them with 4 games to play.
Fulham easily beat Reading, who will be lucky to score a goal with their strikers so poor. Fulham won easily, and hit the cross-bar 3 times in the second half, before scoring their second goal in added time.
The loss puts Reading right back in the mix, just 3 points above Bolton and the drop, but it will still be difficult for Fulham to survive, though stranger things have happened. Reading are now 5 points ahead of Fulham.
Sunderland went down to an 83rd minute strike form Darius Vassell after Dean Whitehead had equalized an Elano penalty after 82 minutes. Sunderland are 7 points above the drop and should be safe.
Tottenham again couldn’t win after being ahead against Middlesbrough but a 69th minute Downing right foot goal equalized an own goal from Jonathan Grounds. So Newcastle remain just 2 points behind Spurs.
As far as Newcastle are concerned we are now 10 points clear of the drop, with 4 games to play so theoretically we’re still not safe, since Bolton could still get 12 points if they somehow win their last 4 games, which of course will hardly happen.
Here’s the bottom half of the table after today’s games:
Pos Team Games Won Draw Lost GF GA GD Points 10 West Ham 34 12 8 14 35 41 -6 44 11 Tottenham 34 10 11 13 63 57 6 41 12 Newcastle 34 10 9 15 40 58 -18 39 13 M’Boro 34 8 12 14 31 48 -17 36 14 Sunderland 34 10 6 18 33 52 -19 36 15 Wigan 33 9 7 17 30 47 -17 34 16 Reading 34 9 5 20 37 63 -26 32 17 Birmingham 34 7 10 17 39 52 -13 31 18 Bolton 34 7 8 19 31 52 -21 29 19 Fulham 34 5 12 17 32 56 -24 27 20 Derby 34 1 8 25 16 74 -58 11
We’ll need to make sure we get all 3 points next Sunday against Sunderland, at St. James’ Park, with the KO being at 1:30 pm. We just must win that game.
Comments welcome.
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14 responses so far ↓
1 CRAIGG // Apr 12, 2008 at 20:37
Nice to see Sunderland coming back to normality again.
Interesting end to the season on the cards now with Bolton and Fulham winning and Brum and Reading failing to.
A win next week and the season certainly will end on a high.
2 hanzemre // Apr 12, 2008 at 20:40
We’re ready to beat them. No problems.
3 Macca // Apr 12, 2008 at 20:48
Sunderland were very unlucky, Andy Reid was very impressive yet again. They scored a very good goal. Didn’t deserve to loose really..ah well.
4 Cyprus Mag // Apr 12, 2008 at 20:51
Macca, please go and join a mackem blog, I don’t want to hear such things true or not.
5 Macca // Apr 12, 2008 at 21:05
Sorry would you rather I lie..okay dokey, God they were awful.
6 Cyprus Mag // Apr 12, 2008 at 21:06
Macca, thats better. :c)
7 hanzemre // Apr 12, 2008 at 21:18
8 Egar // Apr 13, 2008 at 0:13
Thanks Macca. (haha)
9 Punk Skunk // Apr 13, 2008 at 1:19
I’d be well happy if we came 4th bottom if s’land went down!..Lol!..
10 joe // Apr 13, 2008 at 3:11
Really hope fulham survive. They’re a group of hardworking honest players who have just been a little unlucky at the beginning of the season.
11 ScottyT // Apr 13, 2008 at 3:46
we could get bullard if they went down though
12 Zero Cool // Apr 13, 2008 at 4:15
Never saying your showing favoritism to scumderland, but how can you say “they should be safe” and then even mention the possibility of our relegation? We are a much better side than the unclean, we’re playing better football, we’ve got an easier schedule, and …we’re from Newcastle…so God likes us better
13 Leo // Apr 13, 2008 at 18:28
well depending on who bolton or fulham have to play we might be safe… if they get their wins and one of them is against a team below us then it puts them in that situation doenst it..?
14 Whumpie // Apr 15, 2008 at 11:43
Nah - can’t bring myself to honestly want the dog-f**%!ers to go down. Just remember the hole left in the season without those two derby matches.
In a perfect world, the mackems should always just grab 17th by goal difference, 10 points adrift of the team in 18th. Who would be the smogs.
C’mon - would you really want to miss out on what’s coming this Sunday? (And I have to admit that the re-schedule was my fault - they moved it to be on my 40th birthday bless ‘em).
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