Everton v Stoke. 30th Mar @ 17.30.

[ToffeeMike]

Heitinga in midfield got to be.

3 CB'S with Jags, Heitinga and Distin. Baines and Coleman as sweepers.

 

[Allezfan]

Mucha getting dropped is a disgrace, he's done well over the last few games, doesn't deserve to get dropped like that. Howard can't just walk back into the team.

Let in four goals in three games.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

dissapointed howard starting, Mucha deserved to keep his place, And i think if he had carried on with how he had been improving he could have been a better option than Howard.

Same. That's horrible from Moyes after Mucha won the game for us against City saving at least two almost certain goals.

He'll 100% be off in the summer now, so that's money from our transfer budget gone on finding a decent backup keeper.

Howard needs a spell out of the team as he hasn't been good this season, Mucha came in and played fantastically. Howard is fit again, and gets thrown straight back in. Brilliant management

 

[Allezfan]

3 CB'S with Jags, Heitinga and Distin. Baines and Coleman as sweepers.

Believe it when I see it.

4-4-2 with kev and osman out wide and a midfield pairing of gibson and heitinga seems more likely to me.

 

[Stend]

Be surprising to see how we line up today. If that really is the team

 

[riddick]

and had a clean sheet against the defending league champs.

 

[bluejock]

Believe it when I see it.

4-4-2 with kev and osman out wide and a midfield pairing of gibson and heitinga seems more likely to me.

Or Jagielka right back and Coleman on the right wing.

No way will we play 3-5-2 or 3-4-3

 

[Tubey]

Never a doubt, lads.

To be honest, it wasn't. When Neville came out in the media and talked about dropping down a division, it was pretty clear he'd been told his days at Everton were over.

Two or three seasons too late for me though.

If that is the side, don't know what to make of it at all. My first impression is that there's not enough movement in midfield to upset Stoke too much and we could see Jelavic, Anichebe and Mirallas isolated up top.

 

[ToffeeMike]

Believe it when I see it.

4-4-2 with kev and osman out wide and a midfield pairing of gibson and heitinga seems more likely to me.

Heitinga isn't a midfielder and never has been, 3-4-3 seems more likely to me.

 

[ToffeeMike]

Let in four goals in three games.

Our clean sheet record with Howard isn't great either.

 

[Azza]

Play wing-backs... play a goalkeeper who doesn't give them the ball. :/

 

[EFC Si]

Heitinga in midfield got to be.

It's Jagielka right back

 

[Tubey]

I'd assume it's that.

 

[Brennan]

Yeah we're defo going to play 3 at the back. Jesus wept.

For those saying Heitinga isn't a midfielder, he's played there plenty under Moyes, as recently as Bolton.

 

[Royal Blue Jersey]

**** is he playing at dropping Mucha to bring in Howard who has far worse distribution, far less command of his box, and is far slower to close to down players in and around the six yard area. It's a step backwards, and a kick in the teeth to Mucha. Well done Moyes you blert.

I assume it will be Jagielka at RB and Coleman RM. Against f**king Stoke. I knew he would do this, I knew he would try and match them with as much physical presence as possible with little regard to the need to play football. So we move a player who only last time out played an absolute blinder at RB into midfield and replace him with the footballing might of Philip Nikodem Jagielka, a player for whom a shank is considered an acceptable first touch.