Evertons fixture congestion.

[Eggs]

.....no problem with that as far as I’m concerned.

 

[AsiaAsia82]

Rest players for the normal ‘roll over’ for city and have a full team out for the RS

 

[evertonandchelmsford]

the Man City game is going to be the hardest one to fit in as you'd expect them to go very far in Europe.

I don't know if UEFA have changed their knockout schedule this year to help with the pandemic or not. The last 16 of the champions league used to be played over 2 weeks but they changed it several years ago now to split the games over 4 weeks so they could give more games better TV coverage.

So maybe we will play man City in one of those two spare weeks otherwise it's unlikely we will be able to fit it in until close to the end of the season. UEFA did relax the rules over domestic leagues being able to play on the same night as UEFA games which will help. But if there are too many more postponements it will be a struggle to get it finished on May 23rd.

I can't see UEFA agreeing to move or delay the EURO 2020 tournament again so simply the domestic leagues will have to be played/squeezed in somehow.

Potentially we could play Man City twice as our last two games of the season which would put a certain team into a meltdown as we very rarely have anything to play for by then but this season could be different.

 

[Lob]

My heart bleeds for them. Must be a proper nightmare sometimes having to work really hard for 3 hours a week and be paid astonishing amounts of money for it. Most people work really hard for at least 40 hours a week and still struggle to make ends meet and have to take on more hours or more jobs.

Fixture congestion indeed, they have only got to fit 2 postponed games in and they have even got some of their fans feeling sorry for them about it. lol

I am certain they will manage just fine lads.

 

[APN_EFC]

Seen this on twitter it's a joke how it's worked out. Going have to wrangle in City and Villa after this mess too. Our fixture list since our last game busy schedule coming up.
January
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27v Leicester City
28
29
30 v Newcastle Utd
31
01
02v Leeds Utd
03
04
05
06v Man Utd
08
09
10 v Spurs/Wycombe
11
12
13 v Fulham

Aren't we lucky with DCL out, James, Digne, Coleman, Richy just back from injury? Time to work on the training ground - esp for Davies to learn how to play better in Allan's position, working out who's gonna replace Doucoure properly (maybe it's time for Holgate or Godfrey to play in midfield as a back up) ...I'm sure ANcelotti is using this time...from that list above, I'm looking to bo unbeaten for sure, and i'm more afraid of Leeds & Newcastle than the other 2 big ones, to see if we're still slipping up against the teams we should be beating

 

[BlueToff]

We play Leeds on Feb 2nd - they play Leicester away Jan 31st, if that makes you feel any better?

 

[BlueToff]

We do tend to perform better this season when the games come thick and fast.

However, shows even more that we really could do with one or two additions to bolster the squad.

 

[ToffeeTim]

We play Leeds on Feb 2nd - they play Leicester away Jan 31st, if that makes you feel any better?

Sheffield Wed on Sunday 24th
Leicester on Wednesday 27th
Newcastle on Saturday 30th (early ko)
Leeds on Tuesday 2nd Feb

4 in 10 days basically. Got to get on with it. Avoiding injuries the most important thing in these runs.

 

[BlueToff]

Sheffield Wed on Sunday 24th
Leicester on Wednesday 27th
Newcastle on Saturday 30th (early ko)
Leeds on Tuesday 2nd Feb

4 in 10 days basically. Got to get on with it. Avoiding injuries the most important thing in these runs.

we'll manage, but a signing or two would really help

 

[Thomasc]

So 6 games in a month? Oh the poor lambs, best give them all a pay rise.

 

[Raino85]

Villa will be easy to reschedule when the European football returns!
City may be abit more dificult

 

[ArtetaMoney]

I'll never understand this point of view.

If we were in Europe we'd be playing mid week almost every week?

It's a go to moan, like a flavour of the month only that it gets said every month by most teams; we've essentially been given a winter break at a time when the squad was threadbare.

 

[AsiaAsia82]

You do realise that they train for longer when they’re not playing.
A match day they work for less time,
if it’s ‘time on the job’ measure people want.

 

[everton1953]

There are two arguments, one is that the poor lambs are paid a fortune and do not deserve sympathy if asked to play 3 times per week. The other is that they are highly tuned athletes who cannot be expected to perform well so often without rest and put themselves at risk. The answer is probably somewhere between the two. The farce of this season's unavoidable fixture chaos hopefully will not be repeated in years to come.

 

[number4.]

the Man City game is going to be the hardest one to fit in as you'd expect them to go very far in Europe.

I don't know if UEFA have changed their knockout schedule this year to help with the pandemic or not. The last 16 of the champions league used to be played over 2 weeks but they changed it several years ago now to split the games over 4 weeks so they could give more games better TV coverage.

So maybe we will play man City in one of those two spare weeks otherwise it's unlikely we will be able to fit it in until close to the end of the season. UEFA did relax the rules over domestic leagues being able to play on the same night as UEFA games which will help. But if there are too many more postponements it will be a struggle to get it finished on May 23rd.

I can't see UEFA agreeing to move or delay the EURO 2020 tournament again so simply the domestic leagues will have to be played/squeezed in somehow.

Potentially we could play Man City twice as our last two games of the season which would put a certain team into a meltdown as we very rarely have anything to play for by then but this season could be different.

euro 2020 doesn’t have a venue at the moment. No way it happens as scheduled