Just had a glance at the fixtures before the Derby.
Everton have
Sunderland (a)
Fulham (a)
West Ham (h)
I'd fancy them to get six points there.
We have
West Ham (h)
Newcastle (h)
Reading (h)
United (a)
Should be looking at 9 points at least. 10 would be excellent though.
Derby will be interesting.
Everton's fixtures are unboubtedly easier, to be quite frank. And I would not bet against them picking up 9 points. All three games about as piss easy as you could ask for.
As I've just said in another thread we need to stay level with them somehow until the last four games. If we are level or no more than a point or two behind we will be favourites. They play Chelsea, Arsenal, Villa and Newcastle in the last 4. Quite possible they could drop 6-9 points there, and to stick my neck out I could see them dropping 11 points if those other teams came and had a good day.