Match Thread Everton v Brighton. Match Preview, Report and MotM Poll

[Tel001]

Pickford

Coleman - Zouma - Keane - Digne

Gana - Gomes

Lookman - Siggy - Richy

Tosun

Mina for zouma, purely to give him mins before Chelsea

 

[EnglishRoundabout]

Can’t see any changes to the back four.

 

[marsh]

He might stick with Walcott again, one last chance before hes dropped

 

[Nymzee]

Any match where we need to break deep teams down we’ve always struggled.

 

[john_r]

I'm a big fan of Matty Ryan, best keeper other than Pickford outside the top 6, I think he's gonna have a stormer for them on Saturday.

Surely De Gea, no?

We need to stop being so sloppy with this ‘top 6’ terminology.

 

[PhilM]

He might stick with Walcott again, one last chance before hes dropped

After his praise of Lookman, I think that we may actually see him start today.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Not necessarily the case that Lookman deserves to start, but Walcott deserves to be dropped, so get Ademola in the side.

 

[liamefc91]

This is the difference from last season, im looking foward to team news, to the game. Yeah we might not be winning the league or even win today; but i have faith in what silva and brands are trying to build. You can see progression and that we have an idea about what we are trying to do something that resembles a good footballing team. Has the @Iceman11 said anything about team news? COYB! 2-1 blues

 

[BernieH]

Just had to double check the day, it's a saturday and it seems to be nodding in the direction of a 3 o'clock game, can anyone confirm or deny this abhorrence in the fixtures? Anyway 2-0 Blues Murray missing a hat trick

 

[Chewbacca]

1-1 or 2-0

Depends who scores first. If we do and they have to abandon their 10 man defence we’ll win comfortably. If they score first we’ll struggle.

 

[paulbefc]

With Gross and Propper out, this should certainly be a win.

Just as long as we don't concede a daft opener from a set piece as against Huddersfield.

 

[Cels]

Going for Brighton, but only because I believe we are still trying to sort ourselves out.

Everton 1 Brighton 2

 

[Eggs]

Mina for zouma, purely to give him mins before Chelsea

..you might be right, but I can’t see the sense in leaving out arguably your best CB when he’s fit and available. Brighton will be a real threat from set pieces.

 

[BlueToff]

Yes of course its a hypothetical.
Unfortunately you've failed to grasp or critic the reasoning in it.
The FIFA slight is tiresome and its a bit of a fall back for not being able to take your analysis to the next level.
Your take on Bernard and Gylfi filling the same space clearly shows this.
As is calling Gomes and Gylfi 'screeners' in this system.
And while Davies would probably suit this system better, are you suggesting he would do better than Digne-Gylfi-Gomes or Gomes-Bernard-Kenny.

I was being quick as I was heading out, but by the FIFA comparison I just meant it seemed like a team that would only work on a computer game!

I watch enough footy to know that a midfield like that wouldn't work in the Premier League. Defensively, there would be too many gaps. Even if we kept the ball more, you always lose it at some point, and that's when the gaps would show.

City have Fernandinho. Arsenal have Xhaka/Torreira, Liverpool have Milner/Henderson, Chelsea have Kante/Jorginho. Spurs have Dier/Dembele/Wanyama. Utd have Matic.

In a 4-3-3, you usually have a player in the middle of that three who sits deepest. That player can either be a pivot (for lack of a better term) - i.e. Busquets, Jorginho (which requires a team to be adept at keeping possession and winning it back quickly) or a screener - i.e. Gueye, Kante (for France). That player tends to have to be athletic and someone with plenty of pace and energy to get around the pitch.

A player who is the ideal blend of the two is Fernandinho, which is why he's so crucial to how City play.

I can say with some confidence that I don't think that team you suggested would work at all against Brighton from the start. Would it be a team I'd like to see if we were chasing a win in the last half-an-hour? Yeh, it'd be all-out attacking. But you don't start a game like that, at least not a game like this anyway.

I meant that Davies as a player suits a 4-3-3 better than a 4-2-3-1. He's pretty much a box-to-box CM and he's a jack of all trades to an extent. So as one of the more advanced players in a 4-3-3 would probably suit his playing style more than being a deeper midfielder in a 4-2-3-1.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Sticking 100 on Murray to score. Nailed on, he's that bad.