Everton v Coventry

[brap2]

Should be a routine victory

[Evertonian418]

Should be a routine victory

Just jinxed it now.

[AjaxAndy]

Just jinxed it now.

TBF he didn't say which team for

[Escalator]

Don't get the Lampard love. Obviously an eloquent and seemingly nice bloke, but he was and is a fairly shit manager.

He most definitely wasn't the right bloke at the wrong time, he was just a poor manager that we hired because someone graffitied the stadium.

I just think he’s a very relatable decent human being and you can’t not like someone just because they were promoted above their level of competence.

[cassius]

Yeah but remember that brief moment of thinking maybe it was all going to work when we scored that goal playing out from a goalkick and passing all the way up the pitch, think it was maybe against Bournemouth or Brighton but not sure?

We came back down to earth pretty quickly tbf.

It was against Crystal Palace and I think said more about how shit they were that day.

[cassius]

I haven't seen a lot of Coventry this season, but what I have seen, I'm pretty sure they're outperforming their XG as some of the goals they've scored have been speculative at best.

I'd be tempted to keep it to the same 11 as Monday just swap out JOB for Garner and bring in Hackney for more control. Although I expect he won't make any changes.

Pickford
Garner
Tarks
Jarrad
Mick O'lenko
Armstrong
Hackney
KDH
Rohl
Barry Kane
George

[superpull]

We needed emotion and a connection with the fans more than we needed tactics to stay up that year.
He was only capable of 2 of those things and thankfully they were the two we needed

[Bluedylan1]

Will be a trickier game than it would've been a few weeks ago, now they've picked up a few wins and have the confidence to realise they can get results in the Prem.

Rudoni is a really good player, and looks like somebody who will be able to cut it at a higher level club in the future. Bobby Thomas has made a really strong start to the season as a sort of Tark-lite physical defender. Van Ewijk is a good RB and was someone we might have considered buying in the last couple of seasons to address our issues there.

Also, I don't think Lampard was a particularly good manager for us, but I do think he's improved since then with experience. He did a great job for them in the Championship, and he's already shown more flexibility in the first handful of games in the Prem to change the way they play in different games, and not just rigidly stick with the same style like he has in the past. He seems to have realised that you can't just come up to the Prem and expect to control the ball with lesser players, and that in some games you might have to suffer more and be more disciplined without the ball.

If we can reach similar levels to Monday night I'd expect us to win obviously, but if we're a bit off those levels or if subconsciously we're a bit complacent going into the game, Coventry do have the potential to cause us some problems.

[blueToffee]

I think with their poor start people maybe wrote them off too quickly, especially given the really tough fixtures, but equally I'd probably not over egg the pudding either now they've picked up some wins and moved up the table. They're decent and like any team of this level can play well enough on their day. I watched their opener against Arsenal and I admittedly myself wrote them off a bit as they were far too open but they've actually looked pretty decent in a few games now. The Man City away performance they should've deservedly got 3 pts from for instance, they were genuinely a bit unlucky in that one.

Still a massive chance for us to win, but that will require likely taking our chances a lot more than we have been.

[AjaxAndy]

We needed emotion and a connection with the fans more than we needed tactics to stay up that year.
He was only capable of 2 of those things and thankfully they were the two we needed

The players kept us up that season, but he has to take credit for some of that as he must have created an environment where they were all willing to fight for everything. I thought we were poor tactically during that time, but he obviously inspired players to leave nothing out there.

I think if he'd been in charge for either of the following manager's times, with the good players all sold off, we'd have sunk without a trace. He was lucky he had the likes of Richarlison to call on.

Also we'd have been relegated had we not sacked him, so overall I'd say he was lucky to have been manager when he was, and not one or two appointments later.

[kramer]

Should be a routine victory

No such thing for us.

[Evertonian418]

TBF he didn't say which team for

Very true.

[MPLS Toffee]

I can see Dibling and Hackney coming into the side and possibly JB on the bench.. just for extra caution heading into the break.

JLP
JOB Tarks Keane Myko
Hackney Garner
Dibling KDH George
Barry

[Silas]

Moyes will play his usuals if available. We should be winning this, be shite if we don't.

[Evertonfc15]

we need to watch rudoni their best player
more than capable
one of their other best players thomas - defender is a doubt - that would make a difference to coventrys overall performance
we are going into this with confidence and can smell another 3 poinys here
going for
toffees 2 Superfrank 1