Match Thread Southampton v Everton (Sunday 25 October 14:00)

[marnie]

Exactly a year ago today they got snotted 9 nil by Leicester. Scoreless draw it is then.

 

[UltraVires]

Cannot wait for this, i have been working up to it all week and I have come to the conclusion that it will tell me a lot about how high to get my hopes in this squad of players

 

[the golden visionary]

Iwobi deserves a chance tbh.

Play them both with james in for gomes

 

[Jim Hopper]

Rodríguez time

 

[Blueway]

Good news Lawro's prediction is 2- 0 Southampton win!

 

[ForeverBlue92]

As others have said if James plays and is fully fit we'll win.

If he's missing alongside Richarlison and Coleman I cant see anything but a draw at best.

Praying we win today and send out a message that this Everton side is the real deal.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

It’s a shame that Armstrong is back for them, very tidy player who gets in good positions in the box a lot.

Anticipating the following:

Pickford
Godfrey Keane Mina Digne
Doucoure Allan Sigurdsson
James DCL Iwobi

Gordon to come on and destroy them with 20 to play.

 

[Jim Hopper]

Time for Iwobi to give us a full 90mins performance now. We’ll see how much he wants to be playing for us today. Won’t be gifted many starts in the league for us this season, time to raise you level fella.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

It’s a shame that Armstrong is back for them, very tidy player who gets in good positions in the box a lot.

Anticipating the following:

Pickford
Godfrey Keane Mina Digne
Doucoure Allan Sigurdsson
James DCL Iwobi

Gordon to come on and destroy them with 20 to play.

They have become the new Bournemouth- good up top but weak at the back albeit a bit more physical.

Ward Prowse and Armstrong tidy on the ball

Ings and Adams both capable forwards with good movement.

We need James back but we need to be strong at the back. A well organised defence can shut them out and let the forwards do the business.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Time for Iwobi to give us a full 90mins performance now. We’ll see how much he wants to be playing for us today. Won’t be gifted many starts in the league for us this season, time to raise you level fella.

If he lets us down today Gordon or Bernard have to be playing against Newcastle.

Him, Pickford and Gomes seem to be consistently chosen to be given minutes no matter how poor they perform which is frustrating.

 

[Jim Hopper]

If he lets us down today Gordon or Bernard have to be playing against Newcastle.

Him, Pickford and Gomes seem to be consistently chosen to be given minutes no matter how poor they perform which is frustrating.

Definitely.

Gomes definitely needs to make amends for his performance last weekend. Let’s hope he’s left his led boots at Finch Farm this morning!

 

[Debunkology]

Ings loves playing against us. Almost garanteed he will score.

We need to start well. I'm predicting 2-1 for us. Would not be surprised with 2-2.

 

[Nymzee]

This is what we need to keep in mind, even without Richarlison we wouldn’t swap any of player of theirs for ours. Ings doesn’t even get into our first team. We can’t fall apart because we have a player or two missing, we have to show that we have good squad options now. Iwobi has been showing some good moments in cameos, he needs to go out there and put in a match winning display and show Ancelotti that he deserves to start the next two games and make himself unstoppable. This is a different scenario to let’s reason where Sigurdsson Davies Gomes ones they could play as bad as they wanted because there was no alternative.

Their high pressing might be an issue if Gomes plays and has one of his off days. Ings' movement is the problem with him so our defence needs to concentrate.

 

[Death]

You just know the number 2 team in Liverpool are going to be watching, hoping, praying, .. crying.

 

[Donegal blue]

Come on the blues, Kick Ass, just feed of the negativity that is aimed at us.