Match Thread Everton v West Ham. 5th March at 1500.

What do you think should be Saturday's objective?

  • Three points for the royal blues

    Votes: 186 49.9%

  • Lay down a performance that shows we are progressing

    Votes: 39 10.5%

  • Sign Willy Caballero

    Votes: 8 2.1%

  • HURT PAYET

    Votes: 140 37.5%
  • Total voters
    373
  • Poll closed .
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Why has he shoehorned Stones back into the side ? I hope we batter these but not as confident as I was. I'm sure that Bobby knows what he is doing though..........
 
nsno-chris said:
I think he had to mate, West ham are dangerous and our defending at home is questionable to say the least. May be a great move, could totally back fire.

At least something different
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They tried it at villa for 15 minutes or so and we looked lost.
This could now get scary today
 
DualityNSNO said:
Or, and this is a guess really, he can't not have Stones in the team, and we already have 2 good CB's in good form.

I'm actually fuming 'ere. Hope this works, but this is pretty silly.
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He can bench stones, he owes him nothing.

Worked at Wigan, he loves the 3-4-3 and bigger it up a couple of years ago. Think its a clever move

(May regret that come 5pm tiday)
 
peteblue said:
Why has he shoehorned Stones back into the side ? I hope we batter these but not as confident as I was. I'm sure that Bobby knows what he is doing though..........
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Because Barry isn't fully fit and neither is Besic.

But if that's the case, don't put them on the bench is my view. They're either fit enough to play or they're not.
 

If Barkley is sitting deeper, I've got no issue with the formation. He could be really effective driving from centre mid.

If he gets lost in the final third, McCarthy doesn't stand a chance.
 
Tubey said:
Barry and Besic are both on the bench - if they're fit enough for the bench, they should be fit enough to play a sizeable portion of the game.

I don't see the need for the system change personally when you could have started Barry and replaced with Besic after 60.

Ah well, we'll see, might work out well. Big game for Mirallas - he simply has to turn up and impact the game from the start. The odds of him doing so are about 1 in 5.
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It's tough for Mirallas to get up and running when he's left warming the bench most weeks and has to watch Kone and cleverly plodding around out there
 
bluewally said:
It's tough for Mirallas to get up and running when he's left warming the bench most weeks and has to watch Kone and cleverly plodding around out there
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He played the last game, he's as fit as anyone else, no excuses.

He needs to take his chance and impress for a change. Consistently.
 
LinekersLegs said:
Tbh think The change is because Barry is too ill to last 90 mins and all of Besic/Cleverley/Gibson lack enough fitness to survive against a West Ham that press at lot.

Doubt we'd see the same lineup if Barry wasn't sick.
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I see where you are coming from mate but changing to 3 at the back is too much of a risk.
He should have kept the same system and just replaced barry
 


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