The relegation battle 2011/12

I think there are five teams who are in seirios danger of facing the dreaded drop wigan,bolton,blackburn,qpr,and wolves. But all of those teams can get out of it if they string a decent run together

Why these teams are here

Bolton

I didnt expect them to be where they are but losing their to best players in the summer sturrige and elmander didnt help with no real replecement being brought in by owen coyle. also, this seasons defending from bolton has been below par also if they want to stay up they must improve their home form.

Wigan

Wigan always seem to be in the bottom 3 at this stage in the season ,and somehow find a way to avoid relegation. but the reason they are down here this season is because of their lack of goals and pace upfront , but saturdays 2-1 win against local rivals bolton has lifted spirits around the DW stadium there next few games are winnable with 2 home games agaknst swansea ,and villa amongst them.

Blackburn

Well again its their defending thats put them where they are ,also the protests against manager steve kean have really not helped at all and have only really put a gloomy affect around ewood park and have caused blackburn to play much worse in that particular game. However in the recent defeat at arsenal in witch they lost 7-1 they can have no complaints


Wolves

Wolves are down at the wrong end of the table for not simply converting te chances they create, aslo they struggle to keep a lead.and key players like mathew jarvis , and kevin doyle havent played up to their potential so far.

Qpr .

There is no doubt in mind that there squad has talent, but there is so many players there that team morale cant be good players like dj cambell have bearly had a sniff of action all season, also a problem is there defence but mark hughes chould sort that out.


What players can provide the spark to keep their team up

Bolton : mark davies

The midfielders driving runs from midfield are going to be needed if bolton are to survive, aslo he needs to start scoring more goals.

Wigan : victor moses

The pacy winger needs to carry on playing how he is playing, but also chould do with getting a few more assists , and goals due to wigans strikers failing to score.

Blackburn : yakubu
He is a proven goalscorer at this level, and he has been the main source of goals for rovers so far, so he needs to be firing.

Qpr : joey barton he makes the midfield tick if he is on form, And will create chances galore for the strikers if he is playing well.


Wolves : steven fletcher

Wolves create many chances, so fletcher needs to fire , also he must stay fit.


The teams ratings and where i think they will finish

Wolves 3/5

At times this season wolves have looked like they have a chance of staying up , but recent results especially at home have dampend there chances of staying in the premier league and sacking manager mick mcarthty was not a wise move.

I think they will finish 19th

Wigan 4/5

Wigan have been inconsistent this season what the pattern has been is go on a losing streek of about 7 games and then have a mini revival for about 5 games.but if wigan are to stay up they need to improve their home form and score more goals,however i think roberto martinez' men have what it takes to beat the 'dreaded drop'

Predicted finish 17th


Bolton 2/5

Bolton,Bolton,Bolton Where has it gone wrong this season?

Bolton have lacked firepower this season and there defending is a shadow of last season.On paper boltons strike force isnt to bad with players like martin petrov, David ngog , mark davies, tuncay and more all bieng proven top-flight players.
This season has been extremly poir and i cant see where it stops as tere confidence is certinetly the lowest out of all the 5 in this scrap also the january buys arent up to standered

Predicted finish 20th


Qpr 3.5/5

I really cant understand why the hoops are down in this dog fight there strikeforce is europa league quality and even since the january buys have come in results have not improved at all tey chould do with taarbat and barton creating chances now and scoring to.
I think that they will go down simply because they need to 're gell " wotch chould take months also they have a very big squad so many players will be unsetteled.



Predicted finish 18th

Blackburn 4/5

Similar to wigan inconsistent but different to each of there other relegation rivals they have a striker who will score goals, yakubu the nigerian has provided many goals at vital times for rovers this season and, if he can keep firing expect a fight from blackburn

Predicted finish 16th

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