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Best start since 1930. Get in there. This is quite the start.
Only 28 points from safety now.

^Doing a Leicester maybe (having fucked Leicester in the dying minutes yesterday!).

Emi Martinez doing a sterling job between the sticks. Rate the guy highly over the overhype of Pope/Schmeichel et al.

Nice to see Werner getting two goals and the linkup play with Havertz. Defence and pressing game is still to be improved upon.
Right now we’re just lucky that the teams supposedly challenging for a CL spot also keep dropping points.

Emi Martinez doing a sterling job between the sticks. Rate the guy highly over the overhype of Pope/Schmeichel et al.

Yes - looks like being a cracking buy. Barkley making a big difference too in stopping Grealish being the only focus. And McGinn back in form.
Exciting times.

no virgil for the next 4-6 months, our ever present, pretty much, for the last two seasons has ruptured knee ligaments, pisser especially as we sold lovren, leaving us with only three centre backs

pickford might have won everton the title with that tackle, COME ON VILLA

pickford might have won everton the title with that tackle

The season is 4/5 games old, if we're still there after 25 then maybe worth considering the possibility but a long old way to go. Very sad to see Van Dijk badly injured, I've long been a fan of Joel Matip, he's a better replacement than Lovren. Pickford rash and stupid but not malicious, hopefully Carlo will give him the push fairly shortly, though not sure if our alternatives are up to snuff. Pickford is not really up to it and never has been.

pickford might have won everton the title with that tackle

Let me guess, Pickford will pick up a minor training niggle in the run up to the game on the 20th Feb 2021...

Thought the guy was doing a great job to bounce back from that 9-0 and to bring Southampton back up the table with good football. After the mauling Spurs gave them and the almost Liverpool-esque refusal to adjust their defending I'm starting to doubt him. Once was awful, twice is shameful. It seems the comedy defending of Chelsea let them off the hook and maybe defending is dead.

maybe defending is dead.

Well, out for 6-8 months.

Emi Martinez doing a sterling job between the sticks.

Outstanding GK, deserves first team choice with Villa. Sadly our loss.

Not sure that West Brom v Burnley will be raising huge amounts in PPV.

Albion restore some normality to football proceedings with a beautiful 0-0

shocked to see how many people still pay for football full stop. its almost as if live streaming is unheard of

Libpool still going on about that Pickford tackle... Fucking hell, get the fuck over it, FFS!

yup damn those journalists for asking the question
but they've got to get their clickbait question in to get the likes and stir the anger ^

don't let them divide us ts

Apparently VVD's injury is worse than feared, more than 'just' an ACL.

he walked off the pitch, you don't usually see that with serious knee injuries

he walked off the pitch, you don't usually see that with serious knee injuries

Which year of medical school do they teach that?

well hopefully he'll appear lazarus-like on the pitch tonight

I saw Ibrahima Sonko try to play on for 5 minutes with a busted ACL

Well not tonight obvs but hope he recovers well and soon. Shit keeping from Pickford. Nothing Malicious but just another example of his shit decision making. He should not wear an England shirt again and if Everton really have ambition they should get rid too

FYI - at 20:01 on Friday I will be screenshotting the table.

tidy 1-0 win, we seemed to be a bit tighter at the back tonight, less high line defending, fewer chances given away, the next generation front three, minamino jota and shaq, looked good for the last 30 mins when the current generation went off
fabihno is looking pretty good at centre back too, great clearance off the line from him tonight

coyr

i stand corrected, always thought a cruciate had you rolling round on the floor like neymar and an instant leg brace

Rodriguez now out due to a Van Dijk tackle apparently.