themanupstairs

Fergie and Campbell on for Amalfitano and Obertan. Sammi to the right.

This game is made for Adam Campbell. Needs to come on for Obertan.

Depends how good the security is around it.

Fuck me someone shut that cunt up

For me Vuckic needs to up his game tenfold if he wants to stay on. He's been really bad imo.

According to the pundits on Al Jazeera sport at HT (Dalglish, Curbishly and some other knacker), Liverpool are the clear favorites to lift this trophy

I must be watching a totally different game to you

Too deep surely you mean?

Yay for you

Kenny Fucking Dalglish as pundit :gm's patter:

Expert dive by Lampard there.

Some overreactions to the squad strength in here, but not all of it unjustified. The main worry for me is in central midfield. I can only hope that we play a midfield 3 of Perch, Bigirimana and Abeid. I also wouldn't like to see Taylor risked at all, but I suppose we have no one else. Rather Anita didn't play either. Like to see the following line up: Harper Tavernier Williamson Taylor Santon Bigirimana Perch Abeid Obertan Marveaux Ameobi

It's our first game in the group, it's away from home, we have a thin squad and a few key injuries. Would be absolutely stupid to risk other key players in this particular game. Steven Taylor for example shouldn't play.

Proper footballer this guy. You can see he's still new to the league. Got no problems with his progress whatsoever.

Luck = Opportunity plus preparation. I don't think Everton were unlucky. I reckon we were lucky though, if that makes any sense. We made our luck when we decided to turn up and took advantage of our chances pretty well.

My love for this lad has grown 100 fold in the past year. He's been outstanding in nearly every game he's played for us in that time. The only time I remember him below par was at Carrow Road. He's an absolute beast in midfield, and he tries to do a bit of everything. He tackles, passes and drives forward. Love for him to score a long range missile soon.

Yup, agree with this. Anita's pass back to him was stupid. Hhhmmm, it was back to Perch's feet, he got himself a little tangled with the ball, bit harsh to blame Anita for that pass. Pretty sure you could see in the replays that he had an eye on Jelavic who was on the ground injured, and was wondering if he should put the ball out.

We were excellent 2nd half, even if they arguably deserved 2 extra goals due to bad decisions. Played a mix of hoofball and decent stuff. Worth watching properly. Where did you go after the first half like? To bed, it was 4am here and I needed to be up at 8. I understand there are priorities in life, but fuck me, I'd never be able to do that. Not because I'm some sort of special snowflake supafan...i just wouldn't be able to fall asleep not knowing the score.

Seconded. Looked so clumsy first half, but totally turned it around in the 2nd. He's blood and bastard thunder and endures so much physically for the cause. Worthy captain in Colo's absence.

IMO there are no issues with Ba and Cisse playing up front together. The problem is in creating chances for them. Once Pardew has figured that out, we'll be an even bigger force. It boils down to where Ben Arfa and Cabaye play, as they are clearly our most creative players. In order for Ben Arfa to play in the number 10 position, we needed an attacking RB to go with Santon on the left. That is why signing a player like Debuchy was so important to us. Mind you with Anita now at RB things look 10X better. Krul Anita Taylor Coloccini Santon Jonas Tiote Cabaye Ben Arfa Ba Cisse The forwards can make runs into the channels, the attacking midfielders can also roam, alternating in going wide, central or arriving late in the box. We can counter using our fullbacks. Jonas and Tiote will press and harry and protect. It's worth giving it a go, as if we can get both our number 9 and 19 scoring freely, we'd seriously challenge the top 4.

Aye, that was brilliant. Ben Arfa should've buried it. would have put me so close to trousering £475 in profit if he had FCB

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Instinctive

Absolutely unbelievable 2nd half. Gave myself a heart attack almost when Ba scored. Fuck Goodison and fuck Everton. Except Neil. Feel for him tbh.