The Prophet

Don't see any reason why we can't take this lot next week.

Also apparently the defending for the last goal wasn't good enough completely ignoring the fact we got boned on the counter.

Apparently our next league game away from home is Chelsea.

..and they say I'm bad, all these fuckers are on strike.

Annoying when one of the 'big four' play on a Sunday they get covered but no fucker else does. I'm sat with a hangover and frankly the chat on Soccer Saturday is making my ears bleed, when did it go so far down hill?

It really isn't.

Concerns will grow if Smith in particular starts tomorrow.

Thatwould be really nice formation Yeah it would be great if Taylor wasn' wank, Jonas could play in the centre and the player kew how to play in said formation.

Baines doesn't seem the best defensively either. I'd say going forward is the stronger part of his game.

I can probably count the number of times I've seen him play on both hands and he's comfortably better than Smith.

I love it when people make a tit of themselves then try to salvage the situation by making out they were trying to wind people up.

It's a penalty not a fucking pen.

Gah just had to turn down a ticket in the away end, gutted.

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Fucking hell.

Ryan Taylor is decent from the dead ball but bar that he has nothing to his game.

Gah, this will teach me to impulse bet.

To answer the initial question no. Jonas game is all about taking on players and linking up with the full back, he doesn't have te passing range nor the know how in and around the box to command a central role. Secondly that formation wouldn't work on so many levels: The back four lacks pace and would be vulnarable to any form of ball of the top. Jonas proved in the world cup he is a hopeless full back. The initiative to create things through the centre would rely on Barton who has had a mixed bag to say the least this season. Carroll would be isolated.

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Arteta doesn't play on the right. And although Hibbert is an easy target, defensively he's relatively solid actually. It's just getting forward he shows he has such little talent. Just depends if it's one of those days. If so we'll dominate yet again and then draw 1-1. If we however attain a two-goal lead with more than half an hour to go, I can see it being 3 or 4* *now that Geremi won't be given the freedom of Liverpool. Did Arteta not start on the right? Pretty sure he started there and just floated around as he usually does with Osman filling his position when needs be. Arteta hasn't played on the right for a long time. Best part of two years. On Saturday he was playing in a fairly deep central position with Fellaini advanced and Cahill up front. In the second half Fellaini & Arteta swapped roles. Osman was on the right all game (but often went missing by drifting inside). Arteta usually plays as a central play maker now rather than his early years with us when he was on the wing all the time. Fair enough, it's why I asked. I just assumed that was the case because Heitinga and Osman appeared to the central pairing early on. Either way he's definelty your much dangerous player along with Pinaar. Whether it's Osman or Arteta on the right Hibbert seemed to be exposed by them cutting inside and I think the left is our best chance of posing a threat.

Arteta doesn't play on the right. And although Hibbert is an easy target, defensively he's relatively solid actually. It's just getting forward he shows he has such little talent. Just depends if it's one of those days. If so we'll dominate yet again and then draw 1-1. If we however attain a two-goal lead with more than half an hour to go, I can see it being 3 or 4* *now that Geremi won't be given the freedom of Liverpool. Did Arteta not start on the right? Pretty sure he started there and just floated around as he usually does with Osman filling his position when needs be.

He's scored a couple of penalties but bar that and the mackems seem quite disappointed with him thus far.

Granted he probably deserves it for keeping them out of bother last season.

It's difficult to tell how Everton will line up as they'll obviously see us an entirely different beast to Man United. By far their most dangerous players are Arteta and Pinaar. It's not as simple as marking them out the game because they tend to float all over the place, particularly Arteta. Having said that Cahill has got into a rather annoying habit of notching against us however his movement and role in the team is far more predictable than the latter two. I wouldn't surprised to see Fellani dropped back into midfield and Heitinga dropped back into defence to replace the suspect Distin, that would most likely see Yakubu up front with Cahill, who caused the Mancs all kinds of problems. If he's up for it we really need to stick Big Mike on him because there's no way Colo will be able to handle is physical presence. However Moyes does seem somewhat reluctant to play him due to his lack of effort which will see us breath a little easier. For me there's no way we can compete in that midfield, not many can. Everton have dominated most this season and they are where they are due to a failure to convert dominance into goals, we need to hope for the same. However we need to think about weaknesses on the counter. The first is Hibbert. Arteta who seems to play on the right tends to drift inside a lot exposing Hibbert who although competent isn't great. If we can get Jonas and Jose to have a go down the flank I think we can get a bit of joy down that left hand side. Similarly Distin does not look confident at all. He's usually better than his Manc performance suggests but he's still more vulnerable than Jagielka. I have a feeling Moyes will drop Heitinga back into defence to replace him but that remains to be seen. If this isn't the case we need Carroll to be as aggressive as possible, he didn't look up for it at all against Man United. The biggest worry for me is our right hand side, frankly I can see Baines and Pinaar having a field day against Perch and I can see them targeting it as a particular weakness. Overall I think they will have far too much quality in the middle, we need to work our socks off and hope their recent trend of failing to capitalise on their possession continues.

Do we? Really? Get ready for disappointment.