Match Thread Everton Vs Dagenham & Redbridge - FA Cup - Third Round - Saturday 9th January - 15:00 KO

[Farkinbang]

I doubt Chico's ever got a picture of a builders arse into a preview !

So it's out with the old, and in with the new.
Stones at right back and Jags in the middle for this one maybe ?

Might start Galloway at the back, he was originally a CB wasn't he?

 

[ijjysmith]

Might start Galloway at the back, he was originally a CB wasn't he?

Yep - although for this weekend I reckon Baines will be rested on that dodgy ankle and Galloway at LB again.

 

[SteRobbo84]

Baardsen
Hottiger Tiler Kroldrup Burrows
Degn Nyarko Oster
Barlow Spencer Branch

*taps nose


**nose falls off

 

[BigBlueConk]

Quality review @Sapie88

 

[MartSlinger]

Confirmed Jagielka will be starting.

 

[LydiateLee]

Robles
Holgate Jagielka Galloway Oviedo

Lennon Besic Osman Pienaar

Mirallas
Kone

 

[neil999]

rodriguez might be involved as well @Moomin

 

[Moomin]

rodriguez might be involved as well @Moomin

I hope so, I want to see this fraud play.

 

[JoshBarkley7]

Joel

Pennington, Jags, Foulds, Galloway

Besic, Gibbo

Lennon, Dowell, Pienaar

Rodriguez

 

[By god I'm blue]

Think some of you are taking this too lightly with your line ups. He will still play a reasonably strong side IMO.

He has already confirmed that Jags will play, Pienaar too?

I would expect something like.....

..................................Robles
Pennington/Holgate.....Jagielka....Mori....Galloway
...........................Besic....Gibson
Lennon......................Mirallas............Pienaar
...................................Kone..........................

 

[chicoazul]

Well in @Sapie88. Enjoy them being nice to you as unfortunately familiarity breeds contempt and by your 200th preview they hound you like your Catalan trying to get a football club playing ace football with young talented players.

 

[Stanley Parker]

Why do people want Besic to play about 50 games in 2 weeks? I also love him, but do people not think he should get some rest, especially seeing as we have very tough games coming up all within 3-4 days of each other?

Christmas and the New Year are a tough time in the Premier League. There are extra matches over Christmas. The FA Cup comes in the New Year, with the possibility of replays too. The Premier League games are squeezed into midweek. On top of all this, we've got home and away legs in the League Cup semifinals - with the opportunity to appear in the final.

This load takes its toll - we finished the match with ten men on Wednesday. Barry, Barkley and Lukaku have had a much harder season than Besic. And without McCarthy, Coleman and Cleverley, things will be even more difficult.

So what should we do - play the first team players whenever they are fit, or spread our resources over the coming games? Do we focus on the semifinal, and rest players before the second leg? City, of course, have a much stronger squad than we do. But they also face stronger competition tomorrow than we do. We really would be struggling if we faced Premier League opposition in the FA Cup.

It's one thing to be beaten by a better team. It's quite another to be beaten by fatigue.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Christmas and the New Year are a tough time in the Premier League. There are extra matches over Christmas. The FA Cup comes in the New Year, with the possibility of replays too. The Premier League games are squeezed into midweek. On top of all this, we've got home and away legs in the League Cup semifinals - with the opportunity to appear in the final.

This load takes its toll - we finished the match with ten men on Wednesday. Barry, Barkley and Lukaku have had a much harder season than Besic. And without McCarthy, Coleman and Cleverley, things will be even more difficult.

So what should we do - play the first team players whenever they are fit, or spread our resources over the coming games? Do we focus on the semifinal, and rest players before the second leg? City, of course, have a much stronger squad than we do. But they also face stronger competition tomorrow than we do. We really would be struggling if we faced Premier League opposition in the FA Cup.

It's one thing to be beaten by a better team. It's quite another to be beaten by fatigue.

Rest some key players against fecking Dagenham & Redbridge was more my point. lol

Sure, play the first team whenever you can, but keep in my mind our fixture list and how small the game tomorrow is - give youth players some game time instead, don't take the unnecessary risk of playing every first team player, when we've got to play City, Chelsea, Swansea, then City again after this game, all in the space of 2 weeks.

 

[MACCA75]

Joel

Pennington, Jags, Foulds, Galloway

Besic, Gibbo

Lennon, Dowell, Pienaar

Rodriguez

We'd be out with that.

 

[Verbal Kint]

I would like to see as many young players involved as possible, Dowell hopefully, with the experienced players like Jags Mirallas Osman involved think tomorrow would be a fantastic time to play them without jeopardising the result.