Fixture List 2019/20

[TimHowardsBeardJuice]

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Merry Christmas, Everton.

Silva looks like he should be handing out candy from a white van near the playground in this rendering

 

[Alan Whittle]

Brighton will be decent next year - vault me.

VAULT!!!

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

Sky Sports
1h
Merry Christmas, Everton.

I thought winter was three months' long.

 

[Berenger]

Ok I’ll judge it now. I don’t understand why people are scared of Arsenal and Manchester United.

It's not about being scared of Arsenal or United. It's about preferring not to have to play the best teams in the league over a period of six weeks when everyone else seems to get more balance to their fixtures.

 

[Berenger]

Tbf, the top 6 and us take up over a third of the league, so that does make the probability fairly high. I'm sure a few teams go through it.

I'm not sure I'd use 'high' but agreed it's clearly not one in a million. That said, I don't remember experiencing it often if at all over the previous say 20 years. And given how they do the fixtures, one season has a lot of similarity to the previous one. So I don't think it's purely random that we've ended up with a curious distribution of top 6 matches.

 

[TimHowardsBeardJuice]

On the Arsenal thing you are correct,
As bad as Arsenal are with Lacazette and PEA up front there is goals there and strikers win you games .
Either one of those 2 would instantly make us a much better team

yes, either of them would put us in the top 4 conversation without a doubt.

But as for the rest of the side: let's look at the XI they ran out for the Europa League final, presumably both their best XI and the one most representative of their form at the end of the season.

Cech does not get into Everton's side ahead of Pickford
Their back 3 is Koscielny, Nacho, and Sokratis. Only Koscielny gets into Everton's back 4.
Their midfield 5: Kolasinac, Xhaka, Torriera, Maitland-Niles, Ozil. The only one I'd want is Xhaka.

More than matching up player-for-player, which is hard because the formations are different, they looked awful for the last couple of months. They looked like a keeper, two good strikers, and a bunch of guys running around aimlessly.

 

[Nymzee]

VAULT!!!

Sorry, Al haha I just think they will!

 

[TimHowardsBeardJuice]

It would be Leno ahead of Cech for Arsenal's best XI but the point stands

 

[johnblue23]

December, January, February and March we have 17 fixtures and we play teams from the current top six, 9 times that's a very tough set of fixtures. 'We're gonna win the league'

 

[Alan Whittle]

Sorry, Al haha I just think they will!

I think I'll be President of Ecuador one day. I just think I will. Vault me!

 

[maccavennie]

I've seen the list and apart from the first game away ( @Alan Whittle) which will be tough, I simply can't see how we won't win the league.

 

[4737carlin]

Sky Sports
1h
Merry Christmas, Everton.

No Zouma or Gomes in the picture, looks like were not signing them!!

 

[MikeH72]

It's not about being scared of Arsenal or United. It's about preferring not to have to play the best teams in the league over a period of six weeks when everyone else seems to get more balance to their fixtures.

They’re not the best teams in the league though.

 

[Berenger]

They’re not the best teams in the league though.

They are distinctly better than 14 others, and in a league of 20 it's not hard to work out what that means.

 

[Lelouch]

The problem is with the December fixtures is where our awful relegation form began and there was no explanation for that unless the Pickford thing really did knock them all out.
I think we matched all of the top 6 apart from City and Spurs at Goodison in every game regardless of results so I am a little optimistic.