Everton v Leeds United Match Thread

[Johnthewhite]

Wow - I think that's a bit premature, with West Ham and Forest now going well....

I do agree that a win tonight (which will be very difficult to obtain IMO) would be a real mental blow to all the teams around us.
Come on Leeds

[Cjay]

Everton have potentially 8 first team players out.

Grealish
Gueye
Dewsbury-Hall
Branthwaite
Iroegbunam
Keane
Alcaraz
Ndiaye

Atleast half of those probably start if fit.

So we are already at a significant advantage in theory

[DDB220]

I will be very happy with a point.

3 points would be an amazing result - tough place to go against a team who are solid this season. They have ground out some decent results at home and have also been soundly beaten on a few occasions by Brentford, Spurs and Newcastle so I am not without hope for 3 points. Fingers crossed they have an off day and we are at it.

[GreennWhite]

Getting a point at Everton will be no easy task. I think 3 is asking too much, hopefully im proved wrong. Can see this being in a similar vein to the Fulham games. They beat us when they didnt deserve to with a late fluky own goal, but we got our own back with a late winner at ER. We beat Everton when a draw was probably a fairer result, so its their turn to even things up.
Take a point and run

[The Subhuman]

[Barlow Boy]

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[1964white]

I almost came in with a third tonight's team

[1964white]

So Gudmundsson doesn't make it.

[The Subhuman]

Keeper
2 FB
3CB
2DMF
2 CMF
1 forward

[CUSSIE01]

No Okafor, very defensive line up.

[CUSSIE01]

So Gudmundsson doesn't make it.

Not even on the bench

[Irish Ian]

Evening all.

That bench picks itself these days.

Glad to see Stach retains his place.

[CHAPELALLMAN]

We concede an average of 2.18 goals away from home ( 1.18 at home ) and have kept 1 clean sheet in 11 away games - so clearly we need to try and defend better away from home.

[CHAPELALLMAN]

We've conceded 10 goals in the first half of our 11 away games, and 14 in the second half. So we need to be wary of late goals again - especially in injury time.

[White Riot]

No Okafor, very defensive line up.

9 defensive players, that's more than Big Sam fielded when we needed to win 3-0 to stay up

Good to see Stach back in the team, but where's the creativity coming from?

Could be pretty dour, cos Moyes is pretty risk averse as well.

[John in Louisiana]

So Gudmundsson doesn't make it.

That's going to hurt.

[CUSSIE01]

9 defensive players, that's more than Big Sam fielded when we needed to win 3-0 to stay up

Good to see Stach back in the team, but where's the creativity coming from?

Could be pretty dour, cos Moyes is pretty risk averse as well.

Could be a long evening

[White Riot]

We've conceded 10 goals in the first half of our 11 away games, and 14 in the second half. So we need to be wary of late goals again - especially in injury time.

Our away record is grim this season.

[White Riot]

Could be a long evening

Aye, if the eyelids get heavy I'll just let nature takeover

Kick off is 10 pm over here.

[White Riot]

So Gudmundsson doesn't make it.

We'll get to see if the recruitment team's "wisdom" in gambling on Gudmunsson being available for 38 matches is valid.

Over to you James Justin, I hope he does well, cos our left wing has been a rich source of goals for our opponents.