Match Thread Everton 2-0 Mansfield Town. Wed, 27 Aug 19:45

[If You Know Your History]

Game is sold out

And the RS fans say we're small time.

 

[Khalekan]

Cheap tickets, school holidays, first look at the new ground for a lot of blues and lots taking their kids. On that basis I hope he gives minutes to the big names (Grealish, N'daiye, Keane, Pickford) and fills the rest of the team with players who haven't played much in the first couple of games.

I see what you did there.

 

[jonnyg]

Strong 11, shoot on sight and smash them early. Give the kids a chance to play actual football when they come on 2nd half.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Pickford
Coleman-O'Brien-Keane-Aznou
Garner-Armstrong
Alcaraz-Dews-McNeil
Beto
​

The thought of us picking up needless injuries to key players and it affecting our league games is enough to tone down the strength of the starting XI for me. Obviously keep Pickford in because we need as strong a final line of defence as possible.

 

[Ged G]

Doe!!!!

Red Deer female HIND
Roe Deer female DOE
I'm GAME for more ungulate fun...

 

[bilyaletdinov_]

Travers
Coleman Keane O’Brien Aznou
Armstrong Iroegbauman
Dibling Alcaraz McNeil
Beto
​

6-0

 

[ToffeeScot]

Travers
Coleman Keane O’Brien Aznou
Armstrong Iroegbauman
Dibling Alcaraz McNeil
Beto
​

6-0

Would be happy with something like this too.

 

[kev]

Red Deer female HIND
Roe Deer female DOE
I'm GAME for more ungulate fun...

Early morning Cervidae pedantry on a football forum, it warms the hart.

 

[alel]

I don’t know how anyone can go into our cup campaigns full of confidence or even hope

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Have you been following Everton long?

Yes mate. We’ve gone out once in each cup to lower league opposition in the last 15 or so years.

 

[when i score we riot]

Curious about a few things with tonight's lineup:

- Will Pickford get a rest and maybe Travers a bow as a way to welcome him to the club? Moyes has not really had a consistent strategy on the "cup keeper" thing but it would seem decent man management to show our backup GK some faith

- Surely Dibling is not ready to start just yet and Moyes usually doesn't let new signing start before having a few runs off the bench. Likely that he will get a half hour though

- Considering how thin we are at the back i wager Garner would get a rest and we might see Aznou and/or Coleman starting - or maybe even McNeil

- At least two out of KDH, Ndiaye and Grealish are likely be rested, providing and opportunity for the likes of Harrison Armstrong

We should be confident for this game. Moyes used to be good at giving youngsters experience, kinda hope he has the guts to do so today.

 

[Marc bolan]

The draw for the next round is tonight 10-15 ish I see the teams in European competitions
All are seeded and can't play each other no var & no extra time

 

[RomanReigns]

reckon moyes might let O'Brien have this game off to let him spend more time with his newborn

 

[Timbucktoo]

Curious about a few things with tonight's lineup:

- Will Pickford get a rest and maybe Travers a bow as a way to welcome him to the club? Moyes has not really had a consistent strategy on the "cup keeper" thing but it would seem decent man management to show our backup GK some faith

- Surely Dibling is not ready to start just yet and Moyes usually doesn't let new signing start before having a few runs off the bench. Likely that he will get a half hour though

- Considering how thin we are at the back i wager Garner would get a rest and we might see Aznou and/or Coleman starting - or maybe even McNeil

- At least two out of KDH, Ndiaye and Grealish are likely be rested, providing and opportunity for the likes of Harrison Armstrong

We should be confident for this game. Moyes used to be good at giving youngsters experience, kinda hope he has the guts to do so today.

Not sure about the need to rest players this early in the season. We`ve only played twice and after Saturday there is already a week off for internationals. Garner won`t be away on international duty so maybe try him at RB and if fit give Aznou a run at LB.

 

[Timbucktoo]

The draw for the next round is tonight 10-15 ish I see the teams in European competitions
All are seeded and can't play each other no var & no extra time

Not sure what the logic is with this seeding lark. They already get to skip one round of the competition and then get a better chance of avoiding what could be seen as a more difficult draw when they do turn up. To me when I see that a draw for a competition is seeded it means that there is an effort being made to fix it so that the good old favored teams get the easy route through to the later stages.