Match Thread Everton v Chelsea. 12th Sep at 12.45.

[tim cahill]

Superb performance that. Everyone played their part. Stones was virtually flawless. Midfield bossed it. Naismith just clinical!

 

[Ring master]

Gotta love BT sport (LFC TV) saying Should Naismith have been sent off. Must be a kopite in the gallery fuming

yeah,seen that,when they 1st said it,i thought when was the foul/red they thought off lol,couldnt remember,they mention hardly a thing about costa though

 

[zippy00]

Seriously my errr str... went down straight after the game, what the hell for?

Saying he kicked out at Ivanovic just after he came on

 

[Aar_the_Toffees]

Coleman I think was just a precaution.

 

[Togger Blue]

Typical ungracious response from Mourinho ... he's rattled & losing it big style!!

 

[bitter-no-better]

Because it's all about the Nais bout the Nais bout the Nais no messi.

 

[svenboss]

Even the dreaded curse of the hamstring could not stop us today. Hope Seamus and Besic are not crocked too bad.

 

[flibbyflob]

To be honest Mourinho has just come out and not slagged off his own players and tried to take the heat off them. I bet he has ripped into them in the dressing room though.

 

[Ring master]

now moaning cos he is getting asked more question after the game,and not before it, is the chelsea boss lol

 

[Togger Blue]

Saying he kicked out at Ivanovic just after he came on

But he kicked the ball, albeit it was 3 feet past the line!!! Soft sods clinging to a load of nonsense.

 

[ijjysmith]

So were going for no wingers today!!

Great plan!!

Bizarre line up.

Where's the wingers!

Three defensive mids - Oh my

If Moyes had done that there'd be uproar in here

Bizarre team.

Happy with Besic starting but Jesus Christ... Mirallas, Deulofeu AND Lennon all on the bench! You couldn't write it!

Jesus, so ivanovic whose been terrorised by wingers this year gets a free pass, shockingly negative/fearful team selection...

Barry has done such a great of doing that hasn't he.

WTF is that?!

WINGERS ffs use them.

We're giving Ivanovic the day off.

In all honesty looks a very negative set up. We should be exploiting ivanovic with pace. Let's see what happens though...

Buying 20 wingers to put them on the bench! What kind of idiot manages Everton?

I thought he would play that team. He loves the diamond against the top teams.

I can't see us creating many chances today and I don't fancy Barkley being able to get much joy with both Matic and Mikel playing so if he has a poor one don't blame him.

My prediction is a 2-0 win for Chelsea and a pretty boring game. 1 before around the half time mark and probably another one late on.

I hope I'm wrong.

Counter attack? There's absolute zero pace in our team

What a negative team that is! Ivanovic has been awful so far this season against pace and we let him off!

Disappointed with that lineup. It does look negative but Galloway struggled badly against City so it might be to protect that flank.

Might have been a different lineup if baines was fit.

Haha, Palace go to their place a fortnight ago and win starting with three wingers, so Martinez thinks to himself - I know... No Wingers!!!

Very Republic of Ireland approach this. Set up to lose every meaningful game 1-0.

not happy with that team at all. such a negative game plan.
3 defensive midfielders , no widemen on the pitch as 3 quality ones sit on the bench !
I also bet Naismith comes on before any of the 3.

Galloway and kone couldn't cut it against man city , so why will today be any different ?

well done Roberto , clearly send a team out to try and not get beat rather than win , play for 1 point and we will end up not getting anything.

Looks like the guns are back in the cabinet - Back to the butter knife

Can't see us creating many chances today. Need to take what do we get.

Was really optimistic this morning, now not so much. For the love of God everton prove me wrong

Very predictable. Fully expecting Naismith first sub.

That line up is completely ridiculous, no width whatsoever. This is going to be grim.

Some side that, no wingers, but I'm almost thinking it might work. Obviously Barry is a worry but he can't be dropped so no point worrying.

Roberto says he has prepared for this with lessons learned from the Man City game.

With that in mind, I'm baffled by an even more cowardly lineup

this is going to be an almost exact carbon copy of the city game.
we play ok for 10 minutes , get the odd sniff , but just get run at for the other 80 minutes.

Bit negative to me. Hope it works but we're basically relying on lukaku having a stormer if we're to win this

Another game where we are set up to contain.....only more so than normal with three DM.

The only way we will this today is to go behind realitively early, like against Watford and Barnsley, so's the cavalry charge can begin from the start of the second half and let the momentum have time to build.

As it stands it will probably be a stalemate before Chelsea take the lead after about 70 minutes and we won't have time to get back at them.

Very disappointing considering how gash these have been since the very first game of the season and how raucous the crowd will be.

Watch the hostile atmosphere dissipate as the play gets bogged down in midfield. That will only benefit the visitors.

If ever there was a game to charge to the sound of the bugles this was it.

WE'RE GOING TO LOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEE

no winger thing is doing my head in a bit like, kone pure living off one good game.

It's like bringing a Kone to a gunfight

Lads?

 

[Tubey]

Is Mourinho drunk or something?

 

[Rook]

We are like 17 more aerial banners from finishing top 4 aren't we?

 

[tommye]

Not Naisùmith, not Naismith, not Naismith.
Please send in Mirallas of Delo.

Naismith!!!

Naismith lol

He's bringing Naismith on instead, this is insanity.

As i said Naimisth on, how this plays into the strategy i dont know like

Ohhh bleep. Naismith

NOOOOOO.

Wow if we have 100 wingers and lets bring naismith on

Hey look, a hamstring injury! What a surprise!


And instead of bringing on width, let's being on Naismith and pay someone who should be central in a wide position!

Naismith a player dropped by Scotland!

3 wingers on the bench and Naismith comes on.

Naismith , Martinez turned into Moyes.

Can't believe that sub. Absolutely dumb founded by that decision

Naismith

Naismith

Naismith

Oh [Poor language removed] hell...

Honestly Im not a martinez hater or anything but like seriously whats he playing at playing naismith and galloway down the left against ivanovic and pedro. they'll rip us a new a%!hole soon.....

Awful decision that

Why did we buy Lennon when we don't use wingers at all.
And Naisy on instead of the three wingers we have on the bench.
Just stupid

Well done, captain hindsight. I'm glad you only spoke up once he scored... BUT HE'S STILL [Poor language removed]! lol

He's still crap.

Well in though.

 

[anton66]

So f'kin humble in defeat jose