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Match Thread Everton v Sunderland. 1st Nov at 1330.

Who's in your goal?

  • Tim Howard

    Votes: 23 8.3%

  • Joel Robles

    Votes: 132 47.5%

  • Neville Southall

    Votes: 123 44.2%
  • Total voters
    278
  • Poll closed .
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irishblue11 said:
hope sunderland stay up as well, their fans were quality during minutes applause.
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Maybe so yet I still hope they're relegated. That's not a slant on Sunderland fans (as I have a fair few friends), but rather their overall pattern.

Each season they play atrociously for large parts of the season with an absolute woeful defence, before somehow miraculously coming into form.

They then survive by the skin of their teeth; normally due to their new manager who is then abandoned when the cycle starts all over again.

It infuriates me when teams like Burnley are relegated. I'd like the cycle to end and for a team who actually attempts good football stays up.

The same can go for Newcastle... Villa I'm more ambivalent about as I can see them becoming a Leeds if they're relegated.
 
A quick player review as I saw things...
Howard - don't think he could be blamed for their two goals and actually kept his concentration well to make two or three saves late on.
Oviedo - didn't really do enough to make an impression.
Galloway - I like this kid and his second half trying to get forward was nice to see.
Funes Mori - this lad is really growing on me, can play football, but seems to know when Row Z is the right option.
Stones - elegant on the ball and self-confident, but he was far too lax for the first goal and got done for the second... needs to be told that Row Z is acceptable when needs must.
Coleman - getting back to the Seamus we all love, much better going forward today.
Barry - anyone who says or thinks this guy cannot do a job for us needs their bumps feeling. Constantly looking to move the ball forwards and looking to hurt the opposition.
McCarthy - possibly his best game of the season so far, chased and harried tirelessly.
Barkley - we know, he knows and everyone knows this kid has all the tools. Slightly over indulgent on the ball but we have to remember both he and Stones are still basically kids.
Deulofeu - mercurial talent, pace to burn and pace more than anything scares the crap outta defenders, but he has to a. cut out the diving, b. cut out the whinging and c. attack fullbacks hard. Played well though, love him.
Lukaku - excellent game, worked hard, ran the channels to marvellous effect and his cross for the 6th was sublime.
Kone - outstanding today, worked his socks off, rarely gave the ball away, and took his three goals superbly.
Mirallas - an ideal sub in today's game situation, unlucky not to score too.
Ossie - needed some game time to improve his match fitness and perhaps to show if he still has what it takes to contribute.

We can't really moan having won 6-2 can we ??
Yes, it could and should have been at least 8. :)
 

my one thought on today's game.

After the run of fixtures we started with, we played a bottom half of the league team and outplayed them and finally put a team to the sword.

mis takes were made but overall we did the job and it's three points on the board.
 
Titus Bramble said:
Defoe and that young ginge who came on caused us problems. I think the inexperience of our central defence showed at times. Their first goal for example, Mori was watching and could see Defoe was closing down Stones at pace, did he give him a call to just clear his lines? On the other hand they are both very comfortable with the ball at their feet.
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davek said:
We're better off starting Galloway and Browning. We look much more solid.
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I want to see Baines slowly phased out over the next 2 seasons for Galloway/Garbutt. Baines on his day is still utterly exceptional but injuries are starting to take their toll. We are more compact with Galloway on the left side and his timing is inpeccable.

Browning has some development to do and I would like ideally when we don't have as many injuries to loan him to a side like Bournemouth or Norwich. However he has not shamed himself at all - far from it. Coleman has a case of Ivanovic-itis where he starts going forward a bit too much.
 

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