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The win against Blackpool has brought Wolves into line with the point a game minimum target for the season but whether a point a game will be enough from the last ten games is questionable, and the reality is they probably need to find four more wins to save their skins. But it’s been 19 points from the last 14 games so Wolves don’t need to improve on what they are currently doing to meet their target.
The remaining games sees 5 homes games against Spurs, Everton, Fulham, Albion and Blackburn, and 5 away games at Villa, Newcastle, Stoke, Birmingham and Sunderland. It’s not the worst of run ins and maintaining the current level of form would likely be good enough.
With Wolves going into March in 18th and Stoke in 10th just 6 points above them then all the teams is the bottom half of the table are under threat. After West Ham’s win over Liverpool on Sunday Avram Grant was claiming his side could finish in the top half. I can’t see them being good enough for that but with only 8 points to catch up it’s not totally impossible. In reality I don’t see Everton or Villa going down so the battle is likely to see three from Wolves, Wigan, West Ham, Albion, Birmingham, Fulham, Blackburn. Stoke and Blackpool go down.
I think many people would end up with a smaller list of real relegation contenders. But it doesn’t always go as reputations suggest. Stoke, for instance, still have to play Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City and Spurs. But I am convinced that Wigan and Blackpool will be two of the teams to go down despite the Seasiders excellent early season. Whereas Wolves are improving and now averaging more than a point a game, Blackpool have got just 7 points from their last 11 games.
With the FA Cup 6th Round coming up and an International break there are only two full weekends of Premier League football in March. Wolves will have to face Spurs at Molineux next weekend without loanee O’Hara and then face Villa away. 2 or 3 points from those two games has to be the target.
The defensive record of Wolves since they turned to the current team of Hennessey, Zubar, Stearman, Berra and Elokobi continues to impress. They have conceded 9 goals in 9 games together and thats a record that compares well with the defensive record of the best teams in the country and it includes games against most of those best teams. And on Saturday Wolves showed that they can find goals with only one striker. No question how important O’Hara is for that. He never stops moving and prompting and always wants to be positive and keep the pace of the game high. I read that he was on the ball more often than any player in the Premier League this weekend with 110 touches. No better measure of his non stop contribution.
So there will be time to take stock and rest some limbs in March before the crucial final two months of the season. No way now that the relegation fight will be decided until May. But its got to be reassuring that Wolves have been producing good enough form for a third of a season now and with only a quarter of the season to go, its not miracles we are looking for, its just more of the same.
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