Match Thread Barnsley vs. Everton - Wednesday 26th August - Capital One Cup Second Round - 19:45 KO

[Moomin]

Big well done to Barnsley, I know we have a few of their fans on here and they are all sound and reasonable supporters.

I was very impressed that you guys always tried to play football the right way. Young team who should definitely at least make the playoffs in league one.

 

[Nymzee]

Glad Dan Crowley got a loan move away to show off his talents. Definitely a future England captain that lad.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Have they announced a date for the Reading match yet?

It's not on the fixture list of the OS yet

 

[DrEFC]

Unable to watch the match last night and any highlights so could someone (seriously) tell me what happened yday?

What was Stones' reception like?
Who played the best?

http://www.footytube.com/teams/england/everton/?ref=top_trend

 

[ijjysmith]

Highlights on Sky Sports 1 now if anyone wants to watch again.

 

[Professor Toffee]

Oh god. Not this competition again. For the last few years of writing these previews I've been saying 'surely this year', so time for a massive change of tact. It's not happening this season. We all know it. The team we put out will be weird. Barnsley will be well up for it, more on them later. And to top it off, it's live on Sky so the world can see the Everton League Cup jinx carry on.

Like last year.

Arguably the grimmest of the grim nights last season, possibly Kiev away aside. Martinez waxed lyrical about being up for the League Cup, so started with Atsu (bless you), Alcaraz (we've finally escaped from him) and was the last we ever saw of Sylvain Distin. Honest to god, I'd love to know what him and Eto'o got up to. It always sounded like they tried some sort of coup de gras on Martinez but failed badly. Anyway, Everton lost out big style and took a tonking at Swansea. Bloody Swansea who have a trophy in recent years. A what? One of them shiney things we used to win loads of but haven't for time. Loads of time.

The draw this season has been at least a little kinder to us. As we take a trip to South Yorkshire for what people are calling the John Stones derby. And by people, I mean me.

You know what's weird? I'm scared of even putting that picture in as Chelsea will probably have bid £34.5m for Stones by the time this game comes around. I mean what are they playing at? Who starts bids at £20m, gets told to do one, but comes back time after time with bids that they must know won't work. Cockney fools.

Anyway, Barnsley.

Fresh off a 0-0 draw at home to Bradford on Saturday they'll be well up for this. Probably. To be honest I know little about current Barnsley FC. A quick glance down their squad on Wikipedia suggests few names of note. Not even a rickety old Premier League striker who would definitely score past us. DO ONE NIGEL JEMSON.

A name that stands out is Lewin Nyatanga. My limited knowledge of Welsh toga, recalls he has a couple or so caps for the country. But since they got good hasn't had too much of a look in. A couple of loan players from Man United, and as we well know they probably have a couple of decent young defenders that we will sign for £2.5m in a year or two and then sell to Chelsea for £1billion a year or so later.

I actually grew up in and around Sheffield. I always heard about Barnsley, but never ever heard one good reason to go there. It was like that place on the outskirts of Vegas where you can get married for $10 when you could nip in a bit further and have nice time for a few bucks more.

As a southern Everton fan I can probably get away with saying that Barnsley sounds like the most northern place in the country. The epitome of chips and gravy and thinking it's dead funny to sing 'It's just like watching Brazil' when they had a Swindon Town esque season in the Premier League what seems like ages ago. But they did snot Liverpool at Anfield so there is that. Ashley Ward? Think that was him. Probably set up by Neil Redfearn. Second only to Dean Windass in stereotypical northern lad done good.

So Everton. Started the season with a win, a draw, and a loss. A loss that was perhaps not unexpected, a draw that should be a win, and a win that nobody saw coming. I never bet on Everton games as a superstition thing rather than actual logic. But would you ever bet on Everton really? Anything could happen, and it usually does.

Speaking to some fans at the Southampton game the other week, everybody seemed to to agree on one thing (a rarity among fans). This competition must be taken seriously. Not that we didn't last year. Just that we were a bit crap. You'd want a strongish line up for this. Full strength? Does anyone even know what that is? I bet you Martinez doesn't know it. If he starts 2 defensive midfielders at Oakwell then you'd have to worry.

Some names should play. Besic, Mirallas and Deulofeu have barely has a kick so far this season, so expect them to come in and show they aren't Steven Naismith. Tim Howard played against Swansea at this stage last season which seemed daft at the time, so it would be safe to guess Joel Robles will get another go here, which may mean at the very least your nearest of posts should be safe. Along side him at the back....well...whoever is fit probably. For a team who has 3 pretty decent left backs on the books we currently have none. Maybe Mason Holgate will get a game to show them what they've lost. Probably a bit too soon for Ramiro Funes Mori to get a game, should he sign as expected.

He looks so boss. Probably the defensive Denis Straqalursi though.

So the Capital Rumblelows Milk Coca Cola One Cup is here again. We might win it. We need to win it. 20 years is ridiculous. Bradford City have made it to the final of this competition while we play Francisco Junior as some sort of joke in the early rounds. Just stop it and snot everyone. Live on tele.

UP THE SWEAR WORDING TOFFEES

Well done Ijjy, you brought home a 0-2 defecit to a 5-3 win
A powerful good luck charm indeed

 

[cjuk87]

I got there at half time due to traffic, we watched the first half on the drive there. So in my mind we won 5-1. Everton are boss, Stones is staying, all is right with the world until tomorrow.

Deulofeu, Barkley, Mirallas and Rom were absolutely fantastic! Drove the team forward every single time. Oviedo however stunk the place out! He didn't defend, didn't mark, didn't get forward enough, didn't overlap.

Really think it's a lad who's had one too many injuries unfortunately.

 

[Swartzy]

So glad miralles signed new contract, absolute beauty of a goal last night to get us started and then showing that ballboy to not get cheeky with us. the lad will have a cracking highlights video come end of his career

 

[bluebrotha77]

Oh everton what do you be trying to do to me at all.following the blues should come with a health warning.ross is just different gravy,absolutely quality last night.kevo had some game to .thank fook he signed that contract.surely has to start v spurs.gerry made massive difference as well.couple of more games under the belt he should be flying.god was oveido poor but lack of game time so he can be excused.credit to barnsely was harsh on them.played really well and i wish them all the best this season.massive shout out to all the blues that attended could be heard from start to finish credit to the club.coyb

 

[streeky]

Ross is back

 

[peteblue]

A cracking game of football. Barnsley played really well but Everton deserved it overall.........Ross had a great game.....

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Chuffed with the lads for keeping going and getting us through to the next round.
Our defending is a shambles at times and needs sorting.
Besic impressed me overall but he was badly at fault for their third and I can see why Roberto might have reservations about starting him in league games.
Barkley and Del certainly changed things up for us and if Del can perform like that regularly and against better opposition he will be an absolute bargain.
If any Everton officials are still in Ukraine, they need to take a detour to Moscow and use some of the lawnmower money to hire a few plutonium experts to 'have a word' with McGeady.

 

[toffeejack]

Come on Jinks can you not afford a league 1 side a well done for giving it a real go. They played really well.

i shared the same view as jinks tbh - but i can never give oppo credit. i don't even think we were that bad in the first half, just the scoreline making people think twice.

two scruffy goals from their only attacks where we defended abysmally and a couple of ricochets bounced their way. and we were terrible in front of goal.

they played nice footy, as we expected though and put in a good shift - i was glad for extra time because i was enjoying what i was seeing and wanted an extra half hour to make up for the first half. we sort of made it into a contest with our bad play if we're being totally honest.

 

[blueblue]

Surprised at both these comments. I missed the first 30 minutes, but at the end of the first half only Mirallas, Oviedo and Besic looked interested. Oviedo and Besic looked gassed by the end of normal time but both were still covering as much ground as possible and did more right than wrong. Mirallas was very good in the second half, a constant threat, linking up well with Rom, Barkley, Del and Oviedo. Tracked back to make tackles in support of Oviedo on more than one occasion and showed more leadership than many others.

Tree.
I think a player of the quality of Mirallas should have a much bigger impact on the game. I would expect Mirallas to have an impact on that game similar to Deulofeu and he wasn't even close.
With the ability he has he should have been running hard at the Barnsley defence and they would have struggled , just as they did in the second half.
But, goal apart , I didn't think he had much of an influence on our game.

 

[Brendan Janus]

Barnsley played like we do, kept the ball well, but generally no end product !!