I get why you lot are negative after the injuries, suspensions and last night. But you're hardly playing a team that's in good form in ourselves.
We have 6 players who are/ have been away at AFCON - the heart of the team. Without them, we most recently limped through two bruising London aways games with a depleted squad - and looked totally out of sorts in both games, one of them proved to be far too much and we were roundly beaten by Brentford - it's a miracle it was only three goals we lost by. Now we've got to go away again this weekend!
I know our media team, and even before those two aways this week we were completely running on fumes apparently. Before those London aways we had already gave it all against City for a draw, and look totally broken physically as a result. Before that we struggled against Leeds and Burnley, lucky to get a draw in both. We have plenty of injuries/ players who are just not there at the moment.
The upshot of all of that, is that we are certainly going to be making wholesale changes. I'd expect the team to basically resemble our Championship side. With Dan Neil, Luke O'nien, Chris Rigg, Anthony Patterson, Dennis Cirkin, Romain Mundle etc. coming in. If you haven't heard of them, there's a reason for that! These are players who have proven they're jsut not upto the PL standard at all unfortunately - and we will be offloading all of them in the near future.
Also just generally, we haven't won in 6 games (scoring 2 goals in that time) and we have only scored only 5 goals all season away from home...
I'm really looking forward to the game for a number of reasons, and I'll cheer the lads on always, but you need to get out of that 'Everton psyche' if you think we're gonna turn up and batter you!
