Everton V Stoke City

Premier League fixture Saturday 12th August 3pm Kick off

Everton kept a clean sheet for this fixture last August and are odds on to shut Stoke out on Saturday.
Wayne Rooney became Man Utd's all time highest scorer by scoring against Stoke last season and is hoping to score against them again but in the blue of Everton.

The man officiating on Saturday will be Neil Swarbrick, who dismissed Ashley Williams at the draw at Old Trafford in April.

Coleman, Besic, Funes Mori, Barkley, Stekelenburg, Lennon, Bolasie and McCarthy are all missing through injury.

I think keeping a clean sheet this season will be all the more important, without the goals of Lukaku to bale us out.

Who the fcuk are Stoke anyway!

I'd start:

Pickford cos he's the new Neville Southall without the beer gut and bin van
Kenny cos he's similar to Seamus
Keane cos we're only going to have him for a season before Citteh buy him off us for £100m
Besic for the laughs
Cucu cos Baines needs to get a new haircut
Davies cos he's old skool
Gana cos he runs around a lot
Lookman cos he's the only player we've got who can run faster than my granny walks
Mirallas cos he's nearly as fast as Lookman
Rooney cos even though he's a fat has-been he's still a better footballer than the rest of our squad combined
Sandro cos I like his tats and he's Spanish

subs: everyone else except Klaassen cos I think our returns period runs out soon and we can't afford to get him damaged before we send the useless fucking clog head back to Ajax

Need to win or we'll be bottom of the table until October

hairy cataract wrote:I'd start:

Pickford cos he's the new Neville Southall without the beer gut and bin van
Kenny cos he's similar to Seamus
Keane cos we're only going to have him for a season before Citteh buy him off us for £100m
Besic for the laughs
Cucu cos Baines needs to get a new haircut
Davies cos he's old skool
Gana cos he runs around a lot
Lookman cos he's the only player we've got who can run faster than my granny walks
Mirallas cos he's nearly as fast as Lookman
Rooney cos even though he's a fat has-been he's still a better footballer than the rest of our squad combined
Sandro cos I like his tats and he's Spanish

subs: everyone else except Klaassen cos I think our returns period runs out soon and we can't afford to get him damaged before we send the useless fucking clog head back to Ajax

I like Besic Looked very comfortable on the ball In preseason,I think Guaye and Schniderlin can't play together? always In each others way,Jonjoe Kenny for me at right-back ,
Cucu ok on left back would prefer three prong attack In Ramirez-Lookman-Rooney.Davies Instead of Schniderlin.

2-0 the mighty Blues.

Must win game with fixtures we have at start of season
Still in Cyprus but will be back in tome for KO

I have no confidence in this team yet.

2-0 defeat or 0-0 bore draw.

Koeman is trying to buy a winning side, not build one so we're fucked for a little while

I would just play Pickford in goal and Tom Davies outfield, in a 1-1 attacking formation. Go with that and will win 5-0, Davies with 5.

I must say that it feels rather strange that the league starts again tomorrow. Seems like this summer break was shorter than ever before.

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:I must say that it feels rather strange that the league starts again tomorrow. Seems like this summer break was shorter than ever before.

That's because of Europa early qualification Thor.

sefton wrote:

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:I must say that it feels rather strange that the league starts again tomorrow. Seems like this summer break was shorter than ever before.

That's because of Europa early qualification Thor.

Plus FA has committed to England to squeeze the calendar to ensure that we finish early because of WC2018

a typically scrappy game whilst we continue to up our fitness levels, we will no doubt fall behind and then kick on to win 2-1
rooney and sandro

◾Everton's last four Premier League campaigns have all begun with a draw, with three of them ending 2-2. Their only opening-match victory in the last nine seasons came in 2012-13, when they beat Manchester United 1-0 at Goodison Park.

Time for a change

3-0

COYB

1Pickford
6Jagielka
4Keane
5Williams
29Calvert-Lewin
2Schneiderlin
17Gueye
3Baines
10Rooney
9Ramírez

The President wrote:1Pickford
6Jagielka
4Keane
5Williams
29Calvert-Lewin
2Schneiderlin
17Gueye
3Baines
10Rooney
9Ramírez

According to BBC we start with 10 players and no Subs

Now Showing

Everton XI: Pickford, Keane, Jagielka, Williams, Baines, Schneiderlin, Gueye, Klaassen, Calvert-Lewin, Rooney, Sandro.

5 making their first start for us (if you count rooney) hopefully they have had enough time to gel

Presumably a back three. Which is fine, but I don't see the need for two holding midfielders as well.

First dodgy link of the season

http://cricfree.sc/watch/live/everton-vs-stoke-city-live-streaming

And we are underway. The game is on the TV here in the States.

And the buffering starts

Armchair wrote:And the buffering starts

No buffering for me.

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:

Armchair wrote:And the buffering starts

No buffering for me.

Got a good link now: http://www.atdhe.cc/soccer/stream-53ba96-everton-x-stoke-city?l=1453861246

Thanks for your concern though

A bit of a hesitant start to the game from both sides. Stoke with some long balls, we are passing the ball around the back. Stoke are very condensed in the middle.