Everton v West Ham. 22nd Nov at 15.00.

[Goat]

Good goal Leon you horrible kopite grass.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Great result that.

Never mind the fact that West Ham had some of their best players out. We have Baines, Barry and Stones out, and we certainly missed Baines and Barry. Baines' deputy Oveido isn't match fit so we played Hibbo at left back and we had Ossie in the middle of the park ffs.

Speaking of which,that's the best I've seen Osman play for quite some time. Was worried he'd get overrun and, though he didn't do much defensively, he was ace in their half of the pitch. McCarthy did a huge amount of donkey work, doing some of the work that Barry would normally do. MOTM for me, well in James.

Barkley was poor, Lukaku scored and had a half decent game, Eto'o plays for Everton. Nice to see Mirallas back, clearly not match fit, did a few nice things in the first half but had tired so taking him off when he did was probably about right.

Whatever issues Distin had in his head or anywhere else seem to have been sorted out. He battled hard all afternoon making some huge efforts to get on the end of the hoofed ball towards the grock known as Carroll.

Shame Hibbo's shot didn't go in though.

If we come away from Wolfsburg with a point then it'll have been a boss week. Think we might see a "keep it tight" performance like we saw at Lille.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

It won't be. I think Martinez would sooner put Jagielka at left back than trust a young lad

Barkley and Stones advanced rapidly under Martinez. He even threw Browning into the derby match as a sub.

 

[bizzaro]

Good goal Leon you horrible kopite grass.

 

[meagher94]

....erm, mediocre I'd say.

Not the Barkley type comeback that invigorates the whole team then? Ha. Glad to have Kev back anyway, we've missed him badly.

 

[Eggs]

Not the Barkley type comeback that invigorates the whole team then? Ha. Glad to have Kev back anyway, we've missed him badly.

....yep, great to have him back sure he'll soon get up to speed.

 

[deipnosophist]

He doesn't play Besic either. It isn't just the academy players.

Lets be honest we where rubbish again today but its 3 points and we're two points of 4th. A win against Spurs next week and we will have played all the bigger teams except City for the 1st half of the season.

Do not overlook Southampton

 

[roydo]

Do not overlook Southampton

Take a peek at who they have played though.

We are well placed. No, VERY well placed imo.

 

[MartSlinger]

Take a peek at who they have played though.

Correct. Only played 2 of last seasons Top 7 and lost both.

 

[Groucho]

Good result against Bolton that.

 

[red1]

Congrats today guys, seems like Osman, Lukaku and Eto'o played well today. Level on points with us...may the head-to-head battle for the CL commence once again! (The kopites won't make it)

 

[Deleted member 28206]

He doesn't play Besic either. It isn't just the academy players.

Lets be honest we where rubbish again today but its 3 points and we're two points of 4th. A win against Spurs next week and we will have played all the bigger teams except City for the 1st half of the season.

Er. We'll have to play them again in the 2nd half mate.

 

[roydo]

Correct. Only played 2 of last seasons Top 7 and lost both.

Exactly. West Ham have actually got a more impressive return against the "top" sides. Until today.

 

[roydo]

Er. We'll have to play them again in the 2nd half mate.

Yeah, but we have played them in the first 10 games or so. And even the Chelsea game was no where near the game the scoreline would suggest.

 

[TGW89]

On another note - we are once again level on points with 07/08 at the same stage. Can you believe that given how we started?!

Need to beat Spurs to maintain that though....