After Bromley (H) VNL - 02/11/2019 (1-0)
What a difference a Pearson makes. Looking at the league stats, our performance with Pearson and Lawlor as the centre backs is W4 D2 L3 and includes all the clean sheets. Any other combination (i.e. Chambers and Lawlor/Pearson) has resulted in W0 D5 L6.
Dean is no doubt delighted at 3 points and a clean sheet. So am I but I'm not excited about having to watch that type of performance for the next 26 games. If Hooper comes back quickly, and wants to stay, maybe we'll see more wins than draws. We still need 31 points for the magic 50 that may save us. That translates to 10 wins and a draw or, more realistically in my mind, 7 wins and 10 draws. Will a January shake-up come too late? We have 9 games before the window opens and 14 games after it closes.
Playoffs? PPG says we'll need 72 points from 26 games, will we only drop 6 points from now until May? Dreamers dream on!
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