MATCH THREAD: Stoke City vs Everton - Sat 29th July - KO 3pm BST

[matty1878]

COYB

 

[nsno-chris]

I can’t wait to boo them next week

 

[blueblood]

These two comms : “not bad first half, just lacking in something…”

Yes, any footballing ability

To be fair to them, being the official club channel and having to put a positive spin on this is hard going.

 

[Zatara]

Branthwaite, Onana and Maupay on

Branthwaite for Keane ?
Onana for Gana ?

 

[matty1878]

The only positive, for me, from the first half is that we never conceded. It's been a weary-looking performance by Everton with our build-up play being very predictable and easy to counter. Hope Sean Dyche makes a few changes for the second half, we need to do something different.

we’re playing stoke and still look abysmal

 

[nsno-chris]

So far the commentators have talked about soup and the attendance in this second half

The game is that enjoyable

 

[raiseyoureyebrow4thewin!]

Patterson has been dreadful

his positioning is awful. needs a brain to go with those legs. Mitoma would love to play him every week.

 

[kenada_blue]

The tactics look like a continuation of last year's "work hard and get a foot in".

The three midfielders can't play an incisive pass between them and we've got nothing happening through the middle of the pitch beyond getting it wide and praying.

When you just have Wobes as your "creative" player...you're not going to trouble many

 

[matty1878]

I can’t wait to boo them next week

lol do it now

 

[Tony’s Carp]

So far the commentators have talked about soup and the attendance in this second half

The game is that enjoyable

To be fair it could be an absolute humdinger and those two would still spend most of their time talking about soup.

 

[JLW]

I can’t wait to boo them next week

What minute you going for?

Il go with 45th minute when the HT whistle goes.

 

[ForeverEverton]

Branthwaite for Keane ?
Onana for Gana ?

Branthwaite for Keane
Onana for Garner
Maupay for Danjuma

 

[johnjoeefc]

Good to see onana has learned when to take high percentage shots.... not
He needs to stop that. I bet he's never scored from there with a finessed left foot shot in his life

 

[Tommy Chong]

Iwobi simple ball inside but holds onto it. Overhits it. Doucoure tries to pull it back with im not sure what pass that was and Maupay just tgrows his head at it to try and flick it on to nobody.

Its just nothing football.

It's one of these moments:

 

[chippy1722]

We put a bid in for that Stoke striker after his first attempt, as soon as he hit the second on target we pulled out.