Can Boro finally help themselves?
By Shaun • May 10th, 2009 • Category: Boro News
Results, once again, went the right way for Middlesbrough this weekend keeping our hopes of survival alive. For weeks now we have needed help from other teams, losses to Arsenal and Manchester United could have seen us cast adrift but the teams around us were not able to take advantage of the situation leaving us with everything to play for with 3 games remaining.
Yesterday we needed Hull to lose and Stoke kindly provided us with the right result, beating them 2-1 at the KC Stadium. Hull have been in free fall for weeks now and with just two games remaining, away to Bolton and home to Manchester United, can anybody truly see Hull collecting another point all season?
The mackems are 5 points above the drop zone after a 0-0 draw at Bolton and they are still very much in the relegation equation. With a trip to Fratton Park to face Portsmouth and a home tie with Chelsea to come, I also feel they will struggle to pick up any more points this season.
I believe that for the current bottom three 6 or 7 points are required from the remaining games to leapfrog Hull and maybe even Sunderland for safety. Of course none of this means anything if Boro cannot finally help themselves, we need to win 2 from our final 3 and thats no easy task for us.
Our remaining three games are all games in which I could see us picking up points and I would swap our final run in with any other team down at the bottom. Newcastle are a poor team, but we will go there as the underdogs, the Geordies appear to be confident that the game tomorrow is theirs for the taking.
Our fate is in our hands at the moment, with the fact that I believe Hull will not pick up another point all season. Newcastle away is a tricky game but it is definately one which we could pick up at least a point, frustrate them for an hour and I can see the fans turning and getting on their backs.
Villa at home is definately a winnable game, they have been in poor form for a few weeks and were stuffed by Fulham at the weekend. Is West Ham away as tricky a game as it is being made out to be? I certainly think there are points to be picked up at Upton Park.
We have won only 7 games all season and now we need to win 2 out of 3, can we do it? On our day we can beat anybody, it wasn't too long ago we beat title chasing Liverpool at the Riverside so I can see no reason why we couldn't beat Newcastle, Villa or West Ham.
Will we do it, odds are stacked against us thats for sure, but you have to believe.......
Shaun is A Boro fan and owner of BoroMania.com. Born and brought up in the North East. Favourite players are Juninho, Slaven and David Wheater.
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