Match Thread Everton v Tottenham Hotspur, Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[ToffeeTim]

No number 10 is the way we need to always play. Very few good teams play with one.

 

[ADT]

That spurs team isn’t even good; Aurier dreadful, eriksen doesn’t want to be there, alli is more of a ghost than sigurdsson and they’ve got a dodgy keeper between the sticks

 

[evertonarntwe]

Sound that. That mess Keane been dropped again

Hope its a 4 3 3 , liking that

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Should win this , no Kane , Dele has been crap, Aurier is crap ...

0-2 (Dele, Aurier).

You know how this works

 

[Milkman]

Only thing I'm not a fan of is Iwobi on the left, he's better as a 10. But with no Bernard it's probably our best option.

 

[Davidoff]

Hopefully the front three will interchange

 

[DanB90]

4-2-3-1 IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE SILVA

 

[Nymzee]

Iwobi out wide meh

 

[coollino]

Seeing this as a 3-2-4-1

 

[blueblue]

Credit where it's due, I think that is a well picked , well balanced team.

Let's see what they can do. Must be better than last year but that sets the bar low.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Classic Everton getting the hopes up with a good line up/formation and even Spurs looking the least scary they have in years...

 

[Walken]

Iwobi isn't a wide player and Richarlison isnt a no 9.

As usual its playing players out of position - if you truly want balance it should be:

Richarlison DCL/Kean Walcott

With Iwobi as the tip of a midfield 3 making incisive passes / making runs into the box when the ball is out wide.

All for a change of formation but it stinks that Kean is literally being frozen out when DCL got about 30 matches to show he wasn't good enough to start for us.

chill out and watch the game lad

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

looks like a decent team on paper.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

The formation is fine and decision of dropping Siggy+Morgan+Keane is a fantastic one. No complains as such.

But this is not the correct group of players who can thrive on 4-3-3. This will turn into 4-6-0 quickly throughout the match.

I would love to be proven wrong.

 

[dannyboy]

So basically the same formation we've had all season but we've swapped an attacking midfielder for a more defensive minded one. I can see the thinking to flood the midfield, might work.