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[joop]

11 Pickfords.

s**t my bad I thought you were anti all gks.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Surely given your namesakes sport of choice, there's a spot for Bazball to debut at Goodison.

McCullum as coach, Ben Stokes captain and would play a perfect target man up front, Jofra Archer as a van Dijk clone, Bairstow even has the gloves.

Namesake? My name does not have very many famous people and McCullum is not one of them

 

[Bradesmaen]

s**t my bad I thought you were anti all gks.

Nah just don't like the overrated ones

 

[Frank Bunn]

11 Pickfords.

The ball would barely spend any time on the field. On the plus side van Dijk would probably refuse to play them.

 

[moomba]

11 Pickfords.

They could all link arms together and reach the crossbar.

 

[And_ROOS]

Dyche officially named manager, first game in charge will be against Arsenal.

 

[Memphis]

Dyche officially named manager, first game in charge will be against Arsenal.

What a start.

 

[moomba]

Go on Dychey. Top appointment, start with a win.

 

[dirty2]

Go on Dychey. Top appointment, start with a win.

Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.. poor guy... Should of waited until after the Arsenal game to say yes.

 

[Cruyff14]

Go on Dychey. Top appointment, start with a win.

Hope your entire squad gets food poisoning for the rest of the season!

 

[Frank Bunn]

Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.. poor guy... Should of waited until after the Arsenal game to say yes.

Arsenal will start as strong favourites but Everton's recent home form against them is pretty good.

07 Apr 2019 Everton v Arsenal W 1-0
21 Dec 2019 Everton v Arsenal D 0-0
19 Dec 2020 Everton v Arsenal W 2-1
06 Dec 2021 Everton v Arsenal W 2-1

 

[Cruyff14]

Arsenal will start as strong favourites but Everton's recent home form against them is pretty good.

07 Apr 2019 Everton v Arsenal W 1-0
21 Dec 2019 Everton v Arsenal D 0-0
19 Dec 2020 Everton v Arsenal W 2-1
06 Dec 2021 Everton v Arsenal W 2-1

Means nothing.

The squad is incredibly different now.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Means nothing.

The squad is incredibly different now.

This was the Arsenal team when they lost at Goodison last season.
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[Bradesmaen]

This was the Arsenal team when they lost at Goodison last season.
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So 2 players different to a regular Arsenal side.

 

[Cruyff14]

This was the Arsenal team when they lost at Goodison last season.
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Yep, so no Saliba, White is now at RB, Zinchenko has come in and is vital to the way we play, Xhaka has been transformed, Saka, Odegaard and Partey have gone to the next level, Laca is gone.

And let's also not forget the fact Everton are much worse now than they were then, and we are also substantially better.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Yep, so no Saliba, White is now at RB, Zinchenko has come in and is vital to the way we play, Xhaka has been transformed, Saka, Odegaard and Partey have gone to the next level, Laca is gone.

And let's also not forget the fact Everton are much worse now than they were then, and we are also substantially better.

Ok Jod.

 

[SM]

This was the Arsenal team when they lost at Goodison last season.
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What was the Everton line up?

 

[Cruyff14]

Ok Jod.

So what I've said is wrong?

We are a completely different team then to now.

 

[Bradesmaen]

So what I've said is wrong?

We are a completely different team then to now.

I mean, you're the same team just playing better. But the way you went on about it was very Jodlike.

 

[Frank Bunn]

So 2 players different to a regular Arsenal side.

Incredibly different.

 

[And_ROOS]

Yep, so no Saliba, White is now at RB, Zinchenko has come in and is vital to the way we play, Xhaka has been transformed, Saka, Odegaard and Partey have gone to the next level, Laca is gone.

And let's also not forget the fact Everton are much worse now than they were then, and we are also substantially better.

The main difference for me between last season and this season is we started with Lacazette aka Laca-pace, who couldn't score goals, and brought on Auba, who didn't want to be there and crucially also couldn't score goals.

 

[SM]

Incredibly different.

So no inkling on what the Everton team was then?

 

[And_ROOS]

What was the Everton line up?

Pickford
Coleman/Mina/Keane/Godfrey
Gordon/Doucoure/Allan/Gray
Townsend/Richarlison
Subs: Holgate/Gomes/Iwobi

 

[SM]

Pickford
Coleman/Mina/Keane/Godfrey
Gordon/Doucoure/Allan/Gray
Townsend/Richarlison
Subs: Holgate/Gomes/Iwobi

So looks reasonably different to the team playing this weekend, cheers.

 

[And_ROOS]

So looks reasonably different to the team playing this weekend, cheers.

Starting 11 against WHU on the 22nd Jan (highlighted are the players who played V Arsenal last season and WHU last week)

Pickford
Mina/Coady/Tarkowski
Coleman/Onana/Gueye/Mykolenko
Gray/Iwobi
Calvert-Lewin
Subs: McNeil/Davies

Holgate was an unused sub V WHU who came on in last years game.

Thats a solid drop off. Richarlison was MOTM v Arsenal, 10 goals 5 assists for the season.