jayfox26

At home to Palace and he starts with 8 defensive players and then Mcneil, Doucoure and DCL. I'd be raging as an Everton fan. Looking at the bench though and they don't have a great deal in the way of attacking talent. Such a poor side and it really is about time they got relegated.

Whatever amortisation payments are left on him, just accept that amount and get rid.

60% of games means he'd need to play 28 games this season out of rhe 46 games season. He's currently played 27. Would just be our luck he gets injured in training and is out for the rest of the season meaning he's only played 58% of games and Sporting turn round and say €60m please

Their attack concerns me. We've been let off the hook many times this season because 95% of the teams in this league have terrible attackers. We can't leave ourselves as open and exposed as we did against Boro. Of course it will be a different game as Boro parked the bus like most teams do, Leeds won't do this and will want to attack us. We are not used to teams attacking us as its happened rarely this season. Whilst them attacking will open up gaps for us to exploit, I fear our defence could weak if put under serious scrutiny, again this hasn't happened all too often this season.

They are in great form and have been hammering teams. Just hope we defend better than yesterday or it could get ugly. Many on here seem very confident we'll beat them. They haven't lost a game at home this season and have just won 8 in a row. I'd take a draw, which would definitely suit us more than them. They have to win. A draw is fine for us.

Point is better for us than them. We simply cannot lose!

Sounds about right. We were poor in both games but it's galling that they've taken 6 points off us and parked the bus for 180 mins. They really are shite and yes I am bitter and pissed off 🤣

Mad we've lost twice to these and I thought they were piss poor in both games, but so were we to be fair. Parked the bus for 180 minutes over 2 games against us and managed to beat us cos of a worldie free kick and 2 breakaway goals against the run of play. Football is shite at times!

No but with Leeds and Southampton both winning it adds pressure, especially when our next game is Leeds away. Keep hearing people say "we can't win every game" etc and I agree, but it's the disgusting performance that is most concerning. We can afford to lose the odd game. We can't afford to play anywhere near that first half level again or we will struggle against literally every team we play for the remainder of the season. I dread playing leeds if we turn up anything like this today.

Title race back open. Losing away to these was bad. If we lose twice to then it's a complete fcking shambles. They are absolutely garbage!

Dm a stream please

True, but then why did he have his little outburst a few weeks ago? I really like Enzo and what he's done to turn our club around but I did not like the way he threatened the fans that he'd walk out. I do still think though, that his outburst could have been aimed at the people above him rather than the fans, if he feels he's not going to be backed in the transfer market to make us successful long term.

I'm not convinced we signed Winks last summer and put him on £90k a week. Whilst I'm sure he was our top target, not a chance would we be paying them wages. Same for Coady on £75k a week. Absolute bull shit.

Great read. The more we hear from him the more we see the passion, dedication and hard work he puts in to make himself and the players, the best they possibly can be. Its refreshing to have a manager with such a clear idea of how they want their team to play and not deviate away from it. As frustrating as it can be at times, it's to be expected as the players are still learning and Enzo himself admits they still need to improve. I think he was the best appointment we could have made last summer and is miles apart from the likes of Parker and Marsch that we'd been linked to previously.

Title sounds like a Thomas the tank episode.

For the rest of the season we should just let Jannik try some thunder bastards. One may go in and failing that it could be as comical as it was watching Huth take them.

Be interesting what team he goes with here as we play Leeds away on the following Friday. There is enough recovery time in between the two games though and I wouldn't want us to change too much against Boro as they can be tough to beat on their day, even though they are having a very inconsistent season. We owe them for the defeat at their place so another 2-0 Will do nicely

Would he need to leave after 80 minutes though to beat the traffic?

What formation would we play then to accommodate 2 strikers? Dropping one of the 8's and just playing 2 in midfield? Scoring goals hasn't been an issue for us in too many games so people suggesting we should play 2 strikers are trying to find an answer to a problem that isn't a problem to start with.

Why would Enzo completely change his tactics and system? He won't. No decent teams play 2 strikers anymore, the goals and attack threat tends to come from wingers at the best teams.

I think it's more likely Iheanacho doesn't make the squad. It's more than likely he won't be here next season, so would seem pointless picking him in the squad over Cannon who will be here next season. He won't drop Vardy if he's fit and Daka has been our best striker of late. Add in the fact that Iheanacho has been honking for most of this season and I just don't see him making the squad unless we get an injury to one of the other 3. Edit: apologies, I've become one of those people who is talking about a subject totally irrelevant to the thread. Think I'll head over to the Iheanacho thread now and talk about Will Alves.

I honestly think that if we lost every game between now and the end of the season, we'd still finish in the play offs.

We need to punish these after they got that late equaliser at Hillsborough. 3-0

No shit sherlock, but this thread is just a bit of fun.