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

[DayL08]

Barry
Grealish Ndiaye Dibling
KDH Iroegbunam
Aznou Keane O'Brien Coleman
Travers

Cup game under the lights !

Why would you not play Pickford. Always bemused by shouts like that. Keepers don’t need resting. Win the game - no messing.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Mansfield on pens

 

[Lanolin]

The squad should be strong enough to win this one with numerous changes. Happy to see the likes of travers, aznou, mcneil, Armstrong, and Alcaraz come in from the weekend. I’d keep Barry in as it’s a chance for him to get off the mark.

 

[DayL08]

It’s Mansfield mate. We can show ambition to win a cup and not obliterate our already tiny squad as a display of strength.

We’ve been beat plenty of times by teams like Mansfield. Don’t mess around. You rest in the second half once you’ve got a lead. We’re 2 games into a season! Hardly been flogged to death

 

[W84 Dum Freeze]

Why would you not play Pickford. Always bemused by shouts like that. Keepers don’t need resting. Win the game - no messing.

Travers needs game time to help him bed in, we need the whole squad match fit and ready.

Five subs make a difference in most games now.

 

[mrsnugfit]

We are only in two competitions up to Christmas, no excuses, no need to rest players, we need to build momentum, go full strength and we can always bring people off in the second half once our victory is certain.

Winning this competition would be huge for this club but I also want to see goals goals goals in games like this.

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Barry
Grealish Ndiaye Dibling
KDH Iroegbunam
Aznou Keane O'Brien Coleman
Travers

Cup game under the lights !

Oooh. Dibling

 

[formerly manx toffee]

This is a cup we should be looking to go a long way in. We ain’t winning the league and aren’t in Europe so only have FA Cup and this as opportunities of a pot

 

[W84 Dum Freeze]

Oooh. Dibling

 

[Yarrgh]

Win this blues.

Minimum of fuss, no worries, zero problems. Just get it over the line.

 

[blue in oxford]

Such a small squad makes really hard to rest/protect better players
Travers
coleman welch Keane aznou
heath armstrong garner mcneil
alcarez
chermiti
strong bench if needed

 

[CrustySack]

Looks like no soccer buses for this one. I usually park in The Strand car park and get the soccerbus.

Does anyone have any recommendations in terms of parking as close to the ground as possible?

 

[PeregrineT]

With a better bench we can now do:

Travers
Coleman Keane JOB Aznou
Tim Garner
Alcaraz Armstrong McNeil
Beto

Ndiaye and Grealish waiting as super subs. Late last season that would have almost been our starting lineup outside of Aznou and Armstrong.

 

[DayL08]

Travers needs game time to help him bed in, we need the whole squad match fit and ready.

Five subs make a difference in most games now.

Why would you need him to bed him. He should never play

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Don't think Dibling gets done in time for this. Anyway the comms people will want to drag announcing out until Friday in case we dont get anyone else in.
I'd go all out rotation for this in as much as we can with our paper thin squad. The priority is Wolves away!

Travers

Coleman - Tarkowski - Keane - Campbell/Aznou
Iroegbunam - Garner
Armstrong - Alcaraz - McNeil
Beto

Garner is the one I would love to see rotated - we might need him for LB again at the weekend, but Gana shoudl not be asked to play 3 games a week.