Match Thread Everton 0-3 Brighton - Sat 17 Aug 2024 - Kick Off: 15:00

[Saint Domingo]

Just seen the team Armstrong on the bench is a pleasant surprise.

Armstrong on bench, Iroegbunam starting. Good to see some young players in and around the squad.

 

[roy vernon]

Keane and Doucoure starting, FFS. I can understand Young getting a game, although it does terrify me, but, surely Ndaiye and O'Brein are better options than Keane and Doucoure.

 

[MichaelEFC96]

With their attacking pace against our backline it will probably be better if they have the ball as them on the counter attack against our back line will be embarrassing

Yeah. It’s just sad how far we’ve fallen as a club to be fearing Brighton

 

[Encoder]

Big Tim is going to make those midfielders look like they are wearing concrete boots, stand on me.

 

[Frenk]

I take it nobody is going to bother watching the game then?

 

[Paul Rideout]

Tbf, I would have picked Keane as well. He's had a decent pre-season and crucially has PL experience. Although everyone loved O'Brien in preseason, proper matches are different and he is still young and inexperienced. Think he needs to be eased in as he was obviously bought as a replacement for a central defender. (Tarkowski can't go on forever either.)
We need to bring in fullback cover but Young is the best option (again Dixon is nowhere near ready). Young vs Holgate? Young every time.

Not all experience is positive experience.

I believe micheal Keane should be the poster boy for this phrase

 

[Victus]

Doucs was always starting not sure why you're surprised by that one

 

[knowing your history]

Little hope of keeping a clean sheet today with that backline.

Let's hope Doucs and DCL are on it as they usually give Brighton backline big issues.

Bench at least has a couple of decent attacking options on it so hopefully they'll be seen by the hour mark rather than 89th minute.

2-2.

 

[john jako]

Yeah. It’s just sad how far we’ve fallen as a club to be fearing Brighton

It’s heartbreaking really.

 

[carolinablue232]

I wish you was the Everton manager, sounds like you know best!

Certainly don’t. But doesn’t take a genius to know our front four is ponderous.

Also my apologies. I’ll no longer question the manager on a forum. We’ll all just agree with everything he does from now on.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

More pragmatic. It's pretty much the same line up as last season, so there's a familiarity in showing the new players the set up and what's expected.

It's a very good bench to make an impact.

What’s preseason for, then?? Michael Keane has shown incompetence at best, and outright liability for goals at worst time and again. JOB might be unknown but so was Branthwaite a couple of years ago (at this level). It’s simply not a good enough reason to leave him out.

Very obviously I hope I’m proven wrong, but it screams of pure cowardice from Dyche and sends a terrible message to all.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

He needs to go into today with an attacking gameplan at the very least. Anything else is going to really test the patience of the fans right at the start of the season.

Meek play alongside a meek selection would not bode well.

He can go in with whatever game plan he wants. Inferior players are inferior regardless.

 

[Jeff Jones]

We’ll batter these 3-0……

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Since 2010, we've won just three of our opening games. Hope springs eternal !

But we weren't relegated, and that's all I'm bothered about. It's gone 11.00 pm here and I'm going to bed. I'm hoping for the best v Brighton, that's all. Dr

 

[matty1878]

ITS ONE GAME

so when is he playing the new players?

let’s buy them and not play them

MK is crap

we struggle to score

but let’s not play the new lads

 

[BluePeadar]

Honestly not sure if I can take another season of watching Young give goals away. How we havent bought a right back baffles me.