Match Thread Everton v West Ham United - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[Caolam]

Up to second place tonight, please, please let’s not Everton this up tonight.

 

[blue to the bone]

Up to second place tonight, please, please let’s not Everton this up tonight.

There is no way we will be second tonight.
No chance

 

[Ring master]

There is no way we will be second tonight.
No chance

Yep, should be tomorrow lol, gone very foggy here in last 30mins - hopefully that's not around tomorrow

 

[blue1948]

What we need is a clone of Digne for the RB slot and we'd be absolutely laughing.

I've got to be honest as well, I was appalled to read that Iwobi has only scored 1 league goal. That's bloody embarrassing that and I hope it's something Ancelotti really hits home to him whilst he's had this run of games. We need him and Richarlison to really start putting the ball away and creating chances for themselves as well as for others.

Don't normally call players out but I wouldn't give Iwobi a start h
e is either dreadful or good but the ratio is 6/7:1 and I think on the last showing given that he thinks he might be off ,I would give Bernard a chance especially if we don't see Richarlison .
Defence wise I cannot see any reason to change the back 4 ,even Seamus needs an incentive and what more than Holgate with the armband ? Especially when we broke the Richy duck with him as captain.

 

[everton1953]

Not an easy game, we need to be on top of our game and keep to the system Carlo is developing. Our squad needs a boost in midfield and a striker in the transfer window.

 

[steele]

Rodrigues is still out, but Richarlison is back. My fav starting XI:

Olsen
Holgate-Mina-Keane-Godfrey
Doucoure-Sigurdsson-Davies
Iowbi-DLC-Richarlison

Get Simms on the bench. Tough game as always, but should get a 1-0.

 

[Drico]

There's a strong whiff of hubris about this one... far too many on here suggesting we are now such an all-conquering force that we can casually dispose of the superfluously luxurious services of James Rodriguez.

 

[blue to the bone]

There's a strong whiff of hubris about this one... far too many on here suggesting we are now such an all-conquering force that we can casually dispose of the superfluously luxurious services of James Rodriguez.

We have won our last 4 without him
We can also beat West ham without him

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Up to second place tonight, please, please let’s not Everton this up tonight.

Me too... just been searching for streams!

 

[BigBlueConk]

still 0-0

 

[TheBigIguana]

We have won our last 4 without him
We can also beat West ham without him

I said it in his thread but people really need to wrap their heads around how winning one game or even four doesn't necessarily mean you'll always win playing that way.

 

[Goat]

I said it in his thread but people really need to wrap their heads around how winning one game or even four doesn't necessarily mean you'll always win playing that way.

As long as you admit that for the last 4 games you have been chatting utter wham.

 

[Drico]

We have won our last 4 without him
We can also beat West ham without him

We have and we can. I still wouldn't be throwing him under the bus just yet, though.

 

[blue to the bone]

We have and we can. I still wouldn't be throwing him under the bus just yet, though.

Not at all .
But he is not available so we have to do without

 

[TheBigIguana]

As long as you admit that for the last 4 games you have been chatting utter wham.

I would not have predicted us to win all four but you also have to ignore that the United game happened to make the point work.

I think we're basically playing like we did during the restart in the summer, maybe a little bit better but not too different, and we saw how up and down results were in that. I keep saying it but this win streak is a blessing, but we have to take advantage and play a lot better now.