Everton v Arsenal.

Slowest substitution in the world as DCL comes off, Tosun on

Armchair wrote:Slowest substitution in the world as DCL comes off, Tosun on

Richie even sl;ower

great save .. fucks sake my heart

FT

great result ...get in




could well be the end of Tater


COYB

Results against the 'Big Seven' this season:

Spuds W
Shite D
United L
Chelsea W
Leicester W
Arsenal W

I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we said that we dominated the games against Leicester, Chavs and Arse, but we look solid at the back now and still a threat going forward. These are the sort of games we'd have lost in previous seasons.

...and Beglin can shut the feck up.

Keane motm again. If that thumper had gone in, in the first half.

What a whirl wind that was, especially the end where I don't think I took a breath for about 2 minutes...

Anyway, a massive three points! And against Arsenal, who have seemed to be a boogey team for us over the years.

Pickford - he mixes it up between the "what the fook are you doing mate?" to "holy crap, what a save!".

Defence - very very solid, Mina and Keane are rocks and the fullbacks did very well as well.

Midfield - mixed performance for me. I hate to point out Davies, but... He did give away the penalty and was totally invisible in the second half. He loves to run in the shadow of the opposing player which means he is never really available to receive the ball from a team mate. Is he scared of getting the ball and fooking things up?

Attackers - not that much happening to be fair, but DCL's hold up play has really developed this season. And Richie continue to hustle around the pitch.

In the end I do think we just shaded it in the end, so probably a fair result.

Very pleased to take up the thread and get 9 points from three top Sky clubs.
But it’s not about me,we are second with many of are first choice players injured,
Carlo Anchelotti taking us forward,people will say it’s far too early to judge us (Agreed)
But you can only beat who ever is in front you and the table will incourage decent players to join
In the January window,if Carlo thinking bringing in players.

UTFT’s.

SEFTON wrote:Very pleased to take up the thread and get 9 points from three top Sky clubs.
But it’s not about me, we are second with many of are first choice players injured,
Carlo Anchelotti taking us forward,people will say it’s far too early to judge us (Agreed)
But you can only beat who ever is in front you and the table will incourage decent players to join
In the January window,if Carlo thinking bringing in players.

UTFT’s.

Yep, and you don't hear Carlo bleating about injuries, fixture congestion and the need for 17 substitutes per game!

Great win. Not as comfortable as the Leicester game but some of the players look a bit leggy now. We let Arsenal have the middle of the park second half, deliberately I reckon. Almost disrespectful, to say to them they can have all the possession they want but they won't score.

Can see several changes for the cup game in midweek.

Regardless of how well others play, I'm going to carry on nominating Mick Keane as MoM until he actually puts a foot wrong. Although DCL today was outstanding.

Happy days and merry Christmas.

Will the best little Spaniard we know, get his marching orders?
We seem to have a history of killing off old managers.

The result makes it all the more annoying that those suspension/injury plagued series of loses, have conspired to keep us off top spot.

(File under did you know that...)  Each of Yerry Mina's last four Premier League goals for Everton have come in the 45th minute of matches.

Yankthattoffee wrote:Will the best little Spaniard we know, get his marching orders?
We seem to have a history of killing off old managers.

(File under did you know that...)  Each of Yerry Mina's last four Premier League goals for Everton have come in the 45th minute of matches.

What are the odds of that!?

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:

Yankthattoffee wrote:Will the best little Spaniard we know, get his marching orders?
We seem to have a history of killing off old managers.

(File under did you know that...)  Each of Yerry Mina's last four Premier League goals for Everton have come in the 45th minute of matches.

What are the odds of that!?

My wife was amazed at my crystal ball gazing.
As the ball left Siggy's foot, I yelled Yerry!  The ball hadn't even got to him. Then he buried it.
(Mind you I do yell out stuff like that quite often from corners and free kicks. A Keane header was predicted in similar fashion a month ago or so. My wife has started doing something similar from penalties against us -Yelling "Over the bar!" Didn't work today.

Love Carlo's pronuciation of Coleman and Ben Godfrey. "We have back Coleyman, I think Van Gogh is not used to playing LB...."

Yankthattoffee wrote:

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:

Yankthattoffee wrote:Will the best little Spaniard we know, get his marching orders?
We seem to have a history of killing off old managers.

(File under did you know that...)  Each of Yerry Mina's last four Premier League goals for Everton have come in the 45th minute of matches.

What are the odds of that!?

My wife was amazed at my crystal ball gazing.
As the ball left Siggy's foot, I yelled Yerry!  The ball hadn't even got to him. Then he buried it.
(Mind you I do yell out stuff like that quite often from corners and free kicks. A Keane header was predicted in similar fashion a month ago or so. My wife has started doing something similar from penalties against us -Yelling "Over the bar!" Didn't work today.

Love Carlo's pronuciation of Coleman and Ben Godfrey. "We have back Coleyman, I think Van Gogh is not used to playing LB...."

Speaking of Godfrey, as soon as his pass to Richie was intercepted and Arsenal could get the back in to the box I said "Uh oh..." and a few seconds later Davies had given Arsenal a penalty.

Seems like Godfrey has really grown the last few games, he might even have benefitted from playing on the left instead of on the right.

Do we play the same team mid-week in the cup or rest some players? Richie's wrist looks pretty bad.

Armchair wrote:Do we play the same team mid-week in the cup or rest some players? Richie's wrist looks pretty bad.

Tricky one. Like, we're desperate for a trophy right? And arl arses like me are more keen to win a trophy than people like my lad, who has grown up in the Prem/CL era and wants top 4 and thinks the League Cup is proper mickey mouse.

If we were 13th and going nowhere, then I'd be all in for prioritising the cup game and try to win it. But we ain't 13th and (whisper it quietly) we might be going somewhere here. We'll probably be top 3 at Christmas for fuck's sake, five points off the top and with a track record of beating good teams this season.

I've been asking myself, would I be happy to win the cup QF but with, say, Doucoure and DCL both injured and ruled out for 8 weeks each? No guarantee anyone would get crocked but I don't think I'd want to take that risk. No guarantee we'd win the semi either.

So I say we rest several players for the cup game and I'm sure Carlo is reading this and will take my comments on board. We can't rest everyone but some of those lads have played a lot of football this season, and they've had to put in a proper shift these last three games.

There's every chance United will do the same thing, incidentally.

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Armchair wrote:Do we play the same team mid-week in the cup or rest some players? Richie's wrist looks pretty bad.

Tricky one. Like, we're desperate for a trophy right? And arl arses like me are more keen to win a trophy than people like my lad, who has grown up in the Prem/CL era and wants top 4 and thinks the League Cup is proper mickey mouse.

If we were 13th and going nowhere, then I'd be all in for prioritising the cup game and try to win it. But we ain't 13th and (whisper it quietly) we might be going somewhere here. We'll probably be top 3 at Christmas for fuck's sake, five points off the top and with a track record of beating good teams this season.

I've been asking myself, would I be happy to win the cup QF but with, say, Doucoure and DCL both injured and ruled out for 8 weeks each? No guarantee anyone would get crocked but I don't think I'd want to take that risk. No guarantee we'd win the semi either.

So I say we rest several players for the cup game and I'm sure Carlo is reading this and will take my comments on board. We can't rest everyone but some of those lads have played a lot of football this season, and they've had to put in a proper shift these last three games.

There's every chance United will do the same thing, incidentally.

Is there still an opportunity to get into Europa via winning the Carabou/League Cup?

SEFTON wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Armchair wrote:Do we play the same team mid-week in the cup or rest some players? Richie's wrist looks pretty bad.

Tricky one. Like, we're desperate for a trophy right? And arl arses like me are more keen to win a trophy than people like my lad, who has grown up in the Prem/CL era and wants top 4 and thinks the League Cup is proper mickey mouse.

If we were 13th and going nowhere, then I'd be all in for prioritising the cup game and try to win it. But we ain't 13th and (whisper it quietly) we might be going somewhere here. We'll probably be top 3 at Christmas for fuck's sake, five points off the top and with a track record of beating good teams this season.

I've been asking myself, would I be happy to win the cup QF but with, say, Doucoure and DCL both injured and ruled out for 8 weeks each? No guarantee anyone would get crocked but I don't think I'd want to take that risk. No guarantee we'd win the semi either.

So I say we rest several players for the cup game and I'm sure Carlo is reading this and will take my comments on board. We can't rest everyone but some of those lads have played a lot of football this season, and they've had to put in a proper shift these last three games.

There's every chance United will do the same thing, incidentally.

Is there still an opportunity to get into Europa via winning the Carabou/League Cup?

I think the winner goes into the Europa League. At least, they used to

Armchair wrote:

SEFTON wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Armchair wrote:Do we play the same team mid-week in the cup or rest some players? Richie's wrist looks pretty bad.

Tricky one. Like, we're desperate for a trophy right? And arl arses like me are more keen to win a trophy than people like my lad, who has grown up in the Prem/CL era and wants top 4 and thinks the League Cup is proper mickey mouse.

If we were 13th and going nowhere, then I'd be all in for prioritising the cup game and try to win it. But we ain't 13th and (whisper it quietly) we might be going somewhere here. We'll probably be top 3 at Christmas for fuck's sake, five points off the top and with a track record of beating good teams this season.

I've been asking myself, would I be happy to win the cup QF but with, say, Doucoure and DCL both injured and ruled out for 8 weeks each? No guarantee anyone would get crocked but I don't think I'd want to take that risk. No guarantee we'd win the semi either.

So I say we rest several players for the cup game and I'm sure Carlo is reading this and will take my comments on board. We can't rest everyone but some of those lads have played a lot of football this season, and they've had to put in a proper shift these last three games.

There's every chance United will do the same thing, incidentally.

Is there still an opportunity to get into Europa via winning the Carabou/League Cup?

I think the winner goes into the Europa League. At least, they used to

The Carabao Cup winners now enter the UEFA Europa Conference League....

...no, me neither.

Here's the wiki page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Europa_Conference_League

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Armchair wrote:

SEFTON wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Armchair wrote:Do we play the same team mid-week in the cup or rest some players? Richie's wrist looks pretty bad.

Tricky one. Like, we're desperate for a trophy right? And arl arses like me are more keen to win a trophy than people like my lad, who has grown up in the Prem/CL era and wants top 4 and thinks the League Cup is proper mickey mouse.

If we were 13th and going nowhere, then I'd be all in for prioritising the cup game and try to win it. But we ain't 13th and (whisper it quietly) we might be going somewhere here. We'll probably be top 3 at Christmas for fuck's sake, five points off the top and with a track record of beating good teams this season.

I've been asking myself, would I be happy to win the cup QF but with, say, Doucoure and DCL both injured and ruled out for 8 weeks each? No guarantee anyone would get crocked but I don't think I'd want to take that risk. No guarantee we'd win the semi either.

So I say we rest several players for the cup game and I'm sure Carlo is reading this and will take my comments on board. We can't rest everyone but some of those lads have played a lot of football this season, and they've had to put in a proper shift these last three games.

There's every chance United will do the same thing, incidentally.

Is there still an opportunity to get into Europa via winning the Carabou/League Cup?

I think the winner goes into the Europa League. At least, they used to

The Carabao Cup winners now enter the UEFA Europa Conference League....

...no, me neither.

Here's the wiki page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Europa_Conference_League

Wow, that is properly Mickey Mouse. I think I'd rather not qualify, or play a load of kids if we do.

Armchair wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Armchair wrote:

SEFTON wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Armchair wrote:Do we play the same team mid-week in the cup or rest some players? Richie's wrist looks pretty bad.

Tricky one. Like, we're desperate for a trophy right? And arl arses like me are more keen to win a trophy than people like my lad, who has grown up in the Prem/CL era and wants top 4 and thinks the League Cup is proper mickey mouse.

If we were 13th and going nowhere, then I'd be all in for prioritising the cup game and try to win it. But we ain't 13th and (whisper it quietly) we might be going somewhere here. We'll probably be top 3 at Christmas for fuck's sake, five points off the top and with a track record of beating good teams this season.

I've been asking myself, would I be happy to win the cup QF but with, say, Doucoure and DCL both injured and ruled out for 8 weeks each? No guarantee anyone would get crocked but I don't think I'd want to take that risk. No guarantee we'd win the semi either.

So I say we rest several players for the cup game and I'm sure Carlo is reading this and will take my comments on board. We can't rest everyone but some of those lads have played a lot of football this season, and they've had to put in a proper shift these last three games.

There's every chance United will do the same thing, incidentally.

Is there still an opportunity to get into Europa via winning the Carabou/League Cup?

I think the winner goes into the Europa League. At least, they used to

The Carabao Cup winners now enter the UEFA Europa Conference League....

...no, me neither.

Here's the wiki page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Europa_Conference_League

Wow, that is properly Mickey Mouse. I think I'd rather not qualify, or play a load of kids if we do.

Can imagine the Kopites having a field day with that, them playing Real Madrid as we set sail from Seaforth Dock by fishing trawler for a crunch last-16 Thursday game in the Faroe Islands.

Just have to finish top 4, to avoid that possibility. No problem.