Everton (H) - Sat 18th Oct, 15:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[mcfc315]

At the moment he is.

so you're telling me that if you could, you'd swap bernardo for grealish then, our club captain ?

 

[Semper aggressus]

better than Bernardo?? not a chance

He is now.

 

[Semper aggressus]

so you're telling me that if you could, you'd swap bernardo for grealish then, our club captain ?

Absolutely. He’s a better and more effective player now. Bernardo has gone downhill unfortunately. No pace, no strength, no goal threat.

 

[Gray]

so you're telling me that if you could, you'd swap bernardo for grealish then, our club captain ?

Yes I would.

 

[OldhamBlue94]

so you're telling me that if you could, you'd swap bernardo for grealish then, our club captain ?

Yes

 

[uwerosler28]

so you're telling me that if you could, you'd swap bernardo for grealish then, our club captain ?

I would

 

[Paleblue2]

Gone for the win as we're at Home, be a tough old game though, glad no Jack playing for the assists

 

[eyalluvitt]

We need to watch out for Alcaraz. I watched Everton v Palace before our game and Palace were in control until Alcaraz came on. He is an attacking midfielder and his fast runs from midfield helped to change the game. I can see him starting in place of Grealish.

We need our midfield to escape from Alcaraz to win

 

[RayCTID]

We can make this as easy or the most difficult fixture possible.We should know by now how Moyes sets his side up and with Grealish ineligble that is one potential threat avoided for this season. Tempo is key in getting the 3 points

 

[big gaz]

Don't mind Jack scoring in extra time again just as long as it's to make it a 3-1 CITY win.
Hopefully Khusanov is back in the starting eleven along with Doku. CTID

Khus back is a need, we just need that extra pace.

 

[blue cigar]

so you're telling me that if you could, you'd swap bernardo for grealish then, our club captain ?

No,Bernie a far better player and jack will be injured soon

 

[CC1]

At the moment he is.

Nah. He just gets lots of good publicity now - which our players don’t get :-)

 

[alexmcity]

On paper, this is the easiest league game from the next 5, the other being Villa away, Bournemouth h, Liverpool h and Newcastle a.

2:0 City.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

On paper, this is the easiest league game from the next 5, the other being Villa away, Bournemouth h, Liverpool h and Newcastle a.

2:0 City.

I agree but it won’t be an easy game.

After these 5 the games are fairly kind them until Xmas with only Palace away looking tricky.

I’d be happy with 10/11 points out of the next 5 as long as some of them are from Liverpool.

 

[TurboDuo]

Your stats were distorted because 10 of the teams had played one game less, the stats must have been recorded before last Sundays 5 PL games. I have inserted the revised table after those fixtures, sorted again by shots on target. Everton move up the table equal with us.

It's remains true that Everton deny shots on target more than many other PL teams. ;-)

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Thanks pal

Aston Villa case is so strange.

 

[Father Paul]

No,Bernie a far better player and jack will be injured soon

The signs are that Bernie might have stayed a year too long. Not the player he was although I am not sure Jack would be much of an improvement given his recent history with Pep. He needed a change and so far it is working out for him. Bernie will leave in the summer probably along with Stones and it will be hard to replace the prime versions of them.

 

[Father Paul]

I agree - I'm not going into every game thinking "How many are we going to score?" but more "I hope we score!"

In the last few years a 1-0 win v Brentford would have made me think "Only 1-0?" - Sunday afternoon I was buzzing with a hard fought 1-0 win.

Fun as it was when we were running away with the league every year, it does make it more exciting when we aren't head and shoulders above absolutely everyone.

I still think we will win the league this year though.

The dippers poor run raises all the contenders hopes and we are one.However, I am sticking with my pre season prediction of a third place finish. I think we may well win it next season though. Agree we battled hard on Sunday but that was a very poor Brentford performance.

 

[Toffeedude]

What a good and fair poster you are. I think you typify an improved relationship between City and Everton, a key commonality being largely out of town red twats in our footballing cities, the rags and the shite. I’ve said on here before I was in the Taxi drivers social club near Goodison before the game last season with my teenage sons, as far as I could tell we were the only City fans in there. We got chatting with a group of 6 or 7 Everton fans in there (all in the 40 to 60 range) and they were great - and they all had the same view, said they begrudgingly liked City (a) because of the beautiful football we play and (b) because of the titles we’d stopped “the red shite” winning. Everton has been like that for a long time. Now 1981, that was a different matter, but that’s one for the football hooligan thread!

Cheers bud. Long may the teams in blue stay real.

 

[Toffeedude]

Do you spend half your time in Scandanavia?

I do lol.

 

[Tevez City]

_________________Donnarumma_______

Nunes______Dias____________Gvardiol_____O'Reilly

_____________Nico Gonzalez_________________

________Foden___________Bernardo________

Oscar__________Haaland__________Doku