Match Thread Everton 2-4 Brentford. Sun Jan 4th. 3pm

[Miked1e]

Rohl and RB this time,... JOB must not move out there.

 

[AdamMcG2000]

Hoping for some good news regarding Keane. Need plenty of aerial presence against this lot.

 

[blue to the bone]

No Charly or Kdh for Brentford.
Keane a possibility.
Armstrong could go back to Preston end of the month if injuries in the squad improve

 

[everton1953]

The hateful trashy red Echo has as its headline Everton could be without 7 players for the Brentford game. Foolishly I hastened to read the article to find the 7 include the players in Africa, Branthwaite, Dewsbury Hall since mid December, the usual Coleman etc. No surprises at all in other words.

 

[Timhowardsswearbox]

Excuses already.

It's not excuses, it's reality.

Yes, in normal circumstances this is exactly the type of game we should expect to win. However, we in a busy period of games, with a threadbare squad. Anything can happen in a game, other players can get injured or sent of or a key decision goes the wrong way. Sunderland aren't a L2 team that we should dispatch regardless of the circumstances, they have a decent team and will give us a tough challenge.

All you are doing is setting Moyes up for a no win situation. If we get the win then you'll say it was expected and he should get no credit for it, and if we don't win you'll be blaming him for being negative. It's remarkably transparent.

Do you think Sunderland getting a draw at City yesterday was due to Pep's negativity, or managing the fans' expectations?

 

[davek]

"We've not got enough players at the moment".

Lol.

Vinny O'Connor's craven questions. FFS.

Sounds like Keane back to CB for Brentford, which will mean O'Brien back to RB no doubt.

And that sounds VERY unlikely about incoming players.

 

[davek]

It's not excuses, it's reality.

Yes, in normal circumstances this is exactly the type of game we should expect to win. However, we in a busy period of games, with a threadbare squad. Anything can happen in a game, other players can get injured or sent of or a key decision goes the wrong way. Sunderland aren't a L2 team that we should dispatch regardless of the circumstances, they have a decent team and will give us a tough challenge.

All you are doing is setting Moyes up for a no win situation. If we get the win then you'll say it was expected and he should get no credit for it, and if we don't win you'll be blaming him for being negative. It's remarkably transparent.

Do you think Sunderland getting a draw at City yesterday was due to Pep's negativity, or managing the fans' expectations?

Sunderland are threadbare if any club are.

They were blowing for tugs all second half last night and all behind the ball. City were awful at trying to break them down.

The cup game is I would say about 70% in our favour in terms of winning it.

 

[Noble Savage]

And that sounds VERY unlikely about incoming players.

I thought he sounded quite sure we would . He said the owners know we need more players. The right players .
He made sure that message came across . He mentioned being short of players a couple of times .
He also said Patterson will play like Maldini for the rest of the season . That was a different press conference though .

 

[Eggs]

 

[SunKing]

Will need to be Keane back in and Jake in to right back again, Brentford play for set pieces so will need the height. Patterson just nowhere near good enough to get another start,

Supect Grealish will come in for Rohl as well moving Mcneil in to the middle.

Like most games now it will be tough. I fancy we've enough about us to win coupled with confidence from midweek but no certs

 

[Eggs]

Sunderland are threadbare if any club are.

They were blowing for tugs all second half last night and all behind the ball. City were awful at trying to break them down.

The cup game is I would say about 70% in our favour in terms of winning it.

….i thought Sunderland were terrific in that 2nd half, players with real attitude and playing like it mattered. Surprised me, it was throughout the whole team.

 

[Eggs]

Will need to be Keane back in and Jake in to right back again, Brentford play for set pieces so will need the height. Patterson just nowhere near good enough to get another start,

Supect Grealish will come in for Rohl as well moving Mcneil in to the middle.

Like most games now it will be tough. I fancy we've enough about us to win coupled with confidence from midweek but no certs

….yep, agree with all that. Also note that Brentford are decent on their left flank and it should help Dibling if O’Brien is there.

 

[Timhowardsswearbox]

Sunderland are threadbare if any club are.

They were blowing for tugs all second half last night and all behind the ball. City were awful at trying to break them down.

The cup game is I would say about 70% in our favour in terms of winning it.

I'd hope you are right.

But you also said that Sunderland would get battered by City last night, so I'll take what you say with a massive pinch of salt.

 

[davek]

I'd hope you are right.

But you also said that Sunderland would get battered by City last night, so I'll take what you say with a massive pinch of salt.

I was surprised at just how bad City were, tbh.

I think Sunderland's rough house tactics upset City - challenges from behind that Everton need to make the ref on the day we're playing them aware of.

But City had enough chances to win that in both halves last night comfortably.

I cant think of too many clear cut opportunities Sunderland created and they were huff and puff mostly.

If they play like that against Everton at our ground then we'll beat them handily enough, IMO.

 

[davek]

….i thought Sunderland were terrific in that 2nd half, players with real attitude and playing like it mattered. Surprised me, it was throughout the whole team.

It was all hands to the pumps. If you like that sort of stuff it was ok. But they were on their own ground and pretty much surrendered all the attacking play to City. I dont ever want to see Everton play that way at home against any team, no matter who they are.