Match Thread Everton 3-0 Notts Forest. Sat 6th December

[Pootsy]

Thing is we have to do our best to get a strangle hold on the CM.

Garner - KDH - Alcaraz is the strongest match up we can give.

Yeah it will hinder the FB but the middle is the fight.

But with Patterson potentially injured it leaves no option but to leave the defence as it is. So who is the 3rd player in the Midfield if Garner is playing RB?

 

[NikNak8]

But with Patterson potentially injured it leaves no option but to leave the defence as it is. So who is the 3rd player in the Midfield if Garner is playing RB?

He was on the bench the last day

 

[Swartzy]

But with Patterson potentially injured it leaves no option but to leave the defence as it is. So who is the 3rd player in the Midfield if Garner is playing RB?

A scary thought mate.

McNeil is too one footed to stick him RB.

Dyche upped the anti saying about our players dwindling. He tried draining the life out of Garner, so i want Jimmy to get let off the leash in the centre and show him who's boss.

 

[hetion]

Thing is we have to do our best to get a strangle hold on the CM.

Garner - KDH - Alcaraz is the strongest match up we can give.

Yeah it will hinder the FB but the middle is the fight.

Agreed. If Keane is out still, I would honestly rather move Garner back to the middle and give Aznou or Patterson a hail-mary shot at RB than have a double pivot of KDH + Alcaraz. It would be a joke how easy it would be to play through us.

At least Aznou or Patterson at RB just makes us dodgy down one flank rather than the entire flippin pitch

 

[Nymzee]

...which is the only solution in the absence of another fit MF (or one loaned out).

Otherwise you have Tarkowski without O'Brien who goes to RB and that wrecks both of their games.

Well it's not the only solution, is it?

You can start Patterson, or Coleman if he isn't dead.

 

[Eggs]

 

[MikeH72]

If he’s as bad as some of you spend your entire online existence screaming that he is then this should be absolutely no problem for us.

We have no players available so yeah sadly it’s not that straightforward.

 

[Ged G]

Way I see it Dyche won't want to get beat on his return and with the midweek wins I think both managers would be fine with a draw. Will be really difficult to get a foothold in midfield unless KDH has a worldly game.

Can see this being an extreme low block 0-0. Sort of game you forget ever happened within 20 minutes of getting back home.

"Way I see it Dyche won't want to get beat on his return"...

I see this kind of statement all the time. I just don't get it. It is just trotted out by fans. No manager goes into a game with the attitide of "I don't mind getting beat in this one as I never managed these".

 

[Ged G]

We played good football against Newcastle punctuated by a couple of heinous individual errors to go down 2-0. Then we capitulated.

Ofc you don’t get to write off your howlers but it’s not like Newcastle ran us off the pitch at first.

Another sensible post. What is going on here?

 

[Ged G]

Need to win this. Full stop

Comma. Or some other form of punctuation. FFS.
So we do not have to win every game?

 

[Ged G]

Well it's not the only solution, is it?

You can start Patterson, or Coleman if he isn't dead.

What the hell is happening on this forum? Another sensible post! Seems common sense, and dare I say it, positivity, is taking over!

 

[davek]

Well it's not the only solution, is it?

You can start Patterson, or Coleman if he isn't dead.

If you think Patterson is the solution to anything then you either haven't been looking too closely at what he has to offer or you dont understand the word solution.

 

[Nymzee]

If you think Patterson is the solution to anything then you either haven't been looking too closely at what he has to offer or you dont understand the word solution.

Or you don't understand what "only one solution" means.

 

[davek]

Or you don't understand what "only one solution" means.

No you dont - because Patterson on the pitch is not a solution in anyone's definition of that word.

 

[Eggs]