Match Thread Burnley v Everton - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[Simon Buttle]

We are 1 short of 50 league wins in this fixture, lets hope we can get it tonight COYB!

 

[arch stanton]

Have to try and stay positive until mathematically impossible don't we?

have you watched Everton his season? Where would you suggest we start to look for all things positive?

 

[Runub]

Is the anti oil man fit for this evening?

I think he is tied up this evening

 

[snipellis11]

Feel sick with nerves, my day off today and I’ve just been thinking about it all day. Just win.

 

[Steve EFC]

Feel sick with nerves, my day off today and I’ve just been thinking about it all day. Just win.

Me too mate. Keep changing my mind as to whether I watch it. I probably will though and I’ll also age some more over 90 minutes.

 

[Drico]

I'm really looking forward to this. How many matches have we played since the 1995 FA Cup Final where you knew the future of the club basically depended on the outcome? Off the top of my head, Coventry in 1998, Manchester United in 2005, Villarreal in 2005, Chelsea in 2009, Reading in 2010, Liverpool at Wembley in 2012, Wigan in 2013, and United at Wembley in 2016. All bar the first two were in Cup competitions. So, basically, this is one of the three biggest league matches we have played in nearly 25 years.

Make no mistake, defeat tonight means we are very likely to be relegated. Burnley are, demonstrably, one of the worst sides in the league. We only play one other side of their level between now and the end of the season: Watford. This is a bellwether match. It will tell a tale. A win tonight, though, and we are warm favourites to stay up. Moreover, we drag Leeds and Newcastle back into our orbit. Huge stakes.

After years of mediocrity and drifting along on the road to nowhere, at least tonight will get the blood pumping and the adrenaline flowing. I'm all set: a lovely vintage 1998 bottle of Chateau Domestos is already on ice ready for the evening.

 

[Toffeelover]

Me too mate. Keep changing my mind as to whether I watch it. I probably will though and I’ll also age some more over 90 minutes.

Like wise me. Could be case for a mental home.

 

[58 toffees]

Can't see us winning this tbh.

i can

 

[Steve EFC]

Obviously we need a win, but given our disgusting away record and all the players unavailable, am I the only one who’d actually take a draw tonight so that Burnley don’t gain on us?
Or maybe I’m managing my own expectations….

 

[davek]

I keep changing perspective on a draw tonight.

Obviously a win puts us in a good(ish) position. But a draw?

One minute I'm seeing it as one of three more chances to beat a team as bad as us and 1 point is not enough; next minute I see it as us getting 4 points clear of the relegation spots with games in hand...and Leeds almost within reach.


In short: I think I can live with hope if we get a draw. It'll demoralise Burnley and we'd pretty much just need to keep Hodgson's Watford at arms length...which wont be easy either.

 

[sdk]

Given the prospect of a draw or a win, I'd choose the win.

 

[Sharpattack]

Can’t believe we’re the underdogs going into a game where the opposition has only won three games all season. ?

 

[Drico]

Obviously we need a win, but given our disgusting away record and all the players unavailable, am I the only one who’d actually take a draw tonight so that Burnley don’t gain on us?
Or maybe I’m managing my own expectations….

I think we really need to win, but I think we'd all gladly take a point by 10pm tonight given we are quite likely to have been comprehensively beaten again.

 

[davek]

Given the prospect of a draw or a win, I'd choose the win.

The only thing debate is the draw.

A win gets us in a good position; a defeat is catastrophic.

 

[Bluerover]

I'm really looking forward to this. How many matches have we played since the 1995 FA Cup Final where you knew the future of the club basically depended on the outcome? Off the top of my head, Coventry in 1998, Manchester United in 2005, Villarreal in 2005, Chelsea in 2009, Reading in 2010, Liverpool at Wembley in 2012, Wigan in 2013, and United at Wembley in 2016. All bar the first two were in Cup competitions. So, basically, this is one of the three biggest league matches we have played in nearly 25 years.

Make no mistake, defeat tonight means we are very likely to be relegated. Burnley are, demonstrably, one of the worst sides in the league. We only play one other side of their level between now and the end of the season: Watford. This is a bellwether match. It will tell a tale. A win tonight, though, and we are warm favourites to stay up. Moreover, we drag Leeds and Newcastle back into our orbit. Huge stakes.

After years of mediocrity and drifting along on the road to nowhere, at least tonight will get the blood pumping and the adrenaline flowing. I'm all set: a lovely vintage 1998 bottle of Chateux Domestos is already on ice ready for the evening.

No domestos but several cans of Guinness for me. Feeling more nervous than before major exams or interviews.

The logic is probably because there's nothing I can do.....well I can pray I suppose.