Everton (A) - Sat 19th April, 15:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction?

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Buckshaw Blue said:
I’d definitely prefer to see Khus at RB over Nunes or Lewis.

If Gvardiol can play LB I don’t see any reason not to play Khus at RB. Although I’d stick with Gvardiol at CB with O’Reilly at LB for now. Longer term I’d love to see Frimpong to come in the summer as our permanent RB.
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Khusanov is a right sided defender but is his offensive game good enough for him to play at right back?
 
the blue panther said:
Spurs and the Dippers are very obvious. As are the Scum, nowadays - again!
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How are Spurs a bogy team? I can recall a 6-0 win at the Etihad, a couple of 5-1 away wins. I also went to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for a 1-0 FA Cup win the season before last and saw a PL win there this season on TV.
 
Personally I prefer Nunes to Rico, apart from that and enforced GK change, same line up as Palace. Even if he's 100% fit, Phil needs some sort of reset to recover his best form. Probably not one thing causing his slump, let's hope his back to his best as soon as. Maybe go with Bobb instead of Gundo, but it's going to be a slog, Everton are on a massive high atm.

Ortega
Nunes
Dias
Gvardiol
Nico OReilly

Kovacic
Nico G

Bobb
KDB
McAtee

Marmoush
 
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We can't afford to lose any game now. Losing will throw us to the 8 place. Any shambolic performance especially from goalkeeper or defense line will be catastrophic and it will be difficult to overcome.
 
Everton were defo the best team vs Forest, this is gonna be tough. Be interesting to see if he brings Doku or Savinho back in. Everton are quite physical so i'd prefer Khusa at RB but Palace are also physical and he went for Rico anyway.
 
Axel Freed said:
Neither of the above, teams in the mix will drop points left right and centre over the next few weeks
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Bit it would be nice to nudge ahead before final day, no?

So, must win then :)

I want us comfortably 3rd on final day. Which means 5 wind an a draw the least. And this is not the draw.
 
shevtheblue said:
Everton were defo the best team vs Forest, this is gonna be tough. Be interesting to see if he brings Doku or Savinho back in. Everton are quite physical so i'd prefer Khusa at RB but Palace are also physical and he went for Rico anyway.
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Khusanov cant play RB. I know his defensive skills are amazing. But our full backs play a significant role in possession and interchange play. These are the areas where Khusanov is at his weakest. It has to be Rico or Nunes.

Perhaps we go to a back 3 if we need Khusa's speed or move Gvardiol back out to left back. In shortt, Whenever Khuss plays, it will be at CB.
 
JGL07 said:
How are Spurs a bogy team? I can recall a 6-0 win at the Etihad, a couple of 5-1 away wins. I also went to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for a 1-0 FA Cup win the season before last and saw a PL win there this season on TV.
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Mmmmmm. I don't have blue tinted specs. I seem to remember that it took us several trips to score a goal at their new stadium; Kun missing a pen there; they hammered us 4-0 at home this season; pipped us to CL football; knocked us out of the Champs League in 2019. Anyway, each to their own bogey-teams-wise.
 
Just checked my watch and it's time for Arsenal to start dropping points unexpectedly.
'I'd luv it' if we could catch them, bearing in mind they've still got to play Liverpool.
 
the blue panther said:
Mmmmmm. I don't have blue tinted specs. I seem to remember that it took us several trips to score a goal at their new stadium; Kun missing a pen there; they hammered us 4-0 at home this season; pipped us to CL football; knocked us out of the Champs League in 2019. Anyway, each to their own bogey-teams-wise.
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An irritating bogey team for us, same as a Wigan and Boro
 
Ortega
Nunes Dias Gvardiol O‘reilly
kovacic - Nico - Gundogan
McAtee - KDB - Marmoush

I mean some of them scored so I don’t see him putting them back to the bench. They should get at least an half. If it doesn’t work out there’s certain players on the bench who might do better against a tired opposition
 
shevtheblue said:
Everton were defo the best team vs Forest, this is gonna be tough. Be interesting to see if he brings Doku or Savinho back in. Everton are quite physical so i'd prefer Khusa at RB but Palace are also physical and he went for Rico anyway.
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Rico is a tad weak at the mo. Khusanov is physical and very quick. That’s exactly what we need right now in my humble opinion.
 
we should be fine playing KDB , Kovacic and Gundogan as they will get plenty of rest when Pickford wastes his usual 10 minutes
 
SWPISHOME said:
Not having a clue Eze was behind him for the opening goal, Eze got the run on him for a tap in.

Eze (thankfully) offside goal, Rico nowhere to be seen.

Numerous times caught out of position some of which in the second half which Crystal Palace didn't capitalise.

He was decent on the ball yesterday but his awareness of what's going on around him has been pretty poor this season.

I'm not a fan if Nunes but to be fair he's done OK in the right back position, He has recovery pace something which we are lacking in the back four in general.
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I think it was more to do with our set up early on, both full back positions appeared completely exposed but a lot early doors went down our left.

A bit harsh blaming him for those 2 chances when the ball has come in unchallenged and with ease from the other side.

I believe it was the players getting used to the set up and ordinarily, we could have scored first and, we wouldn't be up against oppo' with lightning quick forwards with wide open flanks to attack.

Overall it was a bizarre game because once we started scoring we never looked back.

Reckon it was our most enjoyable game this season, I'd rather look at the positives.
 
King Jay said:
Ortega
Nunes Dias Gvardiol O‘reilly
kovacic - Nico - Gundogan
McAtee - KDB - Marmoush

I mean some of them scored so I don’t see him putting them back to the bench. They should get at least an half. If it doesn’t work out there’s certain players on the bench who might do better against a tired opposition
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I'll go with the Palace 11 again
 
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