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

[navidson]

Are any of our midfielders expected back tonight, or is Doucoure our only available midfielder again?

Delph apparently

With our luck he's probably (and hilariously ironically) contracted COVID

 

[Mark Bisson]

We will nick a 0-1 win. Le Bron Don to score the winner.

 

[mikel_88]

Have got feeling he wil go 442 tonite

 

[Canuck Darryl]

I'll be in the bathroom
Tell me when it's over

 

[matty1878]

Delph apparently

With our luck he's probably (and hilariously ironically) contracted COVID

what about donny boy?


christ i can’t even eat

 

[Toffeepot]

It's the Squeakiest of squeaky bum times boys and girls! Gotta say, I'm a bit nervous

 

[4737carlin]

Emotions are going to run high tonight, hopfully this place dosent explode and we can all play nice together

 

[sheedys left foot]

Emotions are going to run high tonight, hopfully this place dosent explode and we can all play nice together

BOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Bluerover]

I'll be in the bathroom
Tell me when it's over

Just about to skin a cold can of Guinness. Probably many more required to get through this evening ?

 

[Bluerover]

Emotions are going to run high tonight, hopfully this place dosent explode and we can all play nice together

Absolutely agree. We are a family but unfortunately too many seem to fall out with each other.

COYB!!!

 

[Goat]

 

[Nymzee]

Saves us trying to get a sleeve sponsor till August.

 

[maccavennie]

Wonder who will be injured who wasn't injured yesterday.

Whose ankle has twisted, who got snapped in half by accident during the last session,who walked straight into the FF glass front door, suddenly taken ill or caught Covid?????

Delph 6/4fav
Doucoure 3-1
Holgate 3-1
DCL 4-1
Richarlison 5-1
Gray 5-1
Gordon 7-1
Iwobi 8-1
Coleman 10-1
Kenny 1000-1

 

[BlueToff]

Seriously, the side that puts a formation out that suggests they want to win the game, will win it.

If we start 5 at the back we're going to lose. We have the better players, especially in attacking positions, so there really is no need whatsoever to try to soak up and hit on the break for 1-0.

We need to break the cycle and get the first goal, and we'll most likely be able to do that by starting with an attacking formation.

4-4-2 or 4-3-3. We have players available to put out a strong enough team to comfortably beat these.

I don't know why you think we're any good, like.

It's not the players we do have, it's the players we don't have.

This might be one game Keane might be useful in, for his height. Branthwaite is tall, but poor in the air.

Godfrey and Holgate are awful in the air really.

Wout Weghorst is 6ft 8.

 

[davek]

A draw is no good.

Watford have a very winnable home game against Leeds on Saturday. We play United at home, and even with the fans on our side that's an incredibly tough game. Let's say we draw both games (for me that's best case scenario), we'd be 5 points clear of Watford by 3pm, but they will probably win so it'll be back to 3 points but we'll have a game in hand.

Our fixtures are much tougher than theirs in the run in.

Burnley play Norwich on Sunday. If we get 2 points in the next 2 games that means we're 5 points clear by Sunday and they have a game in hand and a great chance to win. That puts it back to 2 points if they beat Norwich.

With our respective run-ins, I don't think we can outperform both of Burnley and Watford in terms of points.

Only a win will do.

NIL VICTORIOUS NISI OPTIMUM

Watford are not 'probable' winners against Leeds. They're like all teams down where we are: appalling.

...and even if they did beat Leeds that'd make in your scenario Leeds just 3 points ahead of us and us with 2 games in hand....and they'd still have to play Palace away, Chelsea, City and Arsenal.

In short: a draw tonight is acceptable.