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He actually got a touch which was probably enough to put Godfrey off.

Oh Diallo. What a waste of a good position.

Tater on my stream just made an interesting point... Last time we won at Goodison we had a manager called Jones. An omen perhaps?

I'm not going to single out Ely, but our entire front line has been completely ineffective so far. They haven't created anything yet, and they make it far too easy for the Everton defenders to play out and set up an attack. I don't get Jones' thinking. He finally dropped the players that have been underperforming all season on Wednesday and it worked. So why on Earth would he bring them back in again for an even more important game? We've even got two new lads on the bench but he still sticks with the players that should be nowhere near the pitch. Baffling. If we lose this (which we're obviously going to - it's Everton away) it's all on the manager.

He didn't even get a great contact on the header but of course it was still going to beat Bazunu. And now they're all over us FFS. Gonna end up 3 or 4 nil at this rate.

Wouldn't have dropped Mara myself, but I'm not the manager and I haven't seen them in training this week. I'm sure he will get some minutes though. Happy with the Lavia, JWP and Diallo midfield 3 again. Makes us much stronger as a unit and much less easy to play through.

I have a close family connection to someone in their squad, but admittedly I haven't watched much of them this season because he's out on loan at the moment. Iwobi was awful last season and rightly criticised by a lot of fans, so if he's been their best player this season then he's either had a miraculous turnaround in personal form, or it speaks volumes about the quality of the rest of their team.

He's crap anyway. He epitomises the overpaid dross they have filled their squad with in recent years. Much like Redmond with us, he's had one purple patch with them a few years ago and has been extremely poor the rest of the time. Watch him come on as a sub and score the winner now I've said that.

So back on to the topic of 'rain'... Lorraine Kelly is 63.

Yep, agree with that. Che would never have had the foresight to make the run in front of Walker. And even if he had, he would most likely have just hit a tame shot straight at the keeper. I remember watching Mara's highlights reel when he signed and the composure in his finishing really stood out for me. Until Wednesday he hadn't had much chance to show it because he had mostly been played out of position. If we play him as a proper striker I genuinely think we'll get more goals from him than we would from Adams.

Indeed. He's made an impression on Football365 anyway... https://www.football365.com/news/opinion-nathan-jones-southampton-part-brendan-part-sherwoo

Chelsea are currently 10 points away from the CL places, and with the form they've been in they will be lucky to make the Europa League. Will the new owner be as ruthless as Abramovich was, I wonder.

Am I right in thinking we won the last ever league game there?

So the rumour about Tino damaging his other knee is true then 😟

Very low. Despite the recent rainfall, half the country is still in drought mode because the groundwater levels still haven't recovered from the exceptionally dry summer.

That graph shows a big jump of 0.5 for City around 77 mins. What was that then? Would it have been the cross that Haaland couldn't quite connect with but would have been an almost certain goal if he had made any kind of contact?

We've been missing that for so long. Ever since Fonte left we've been lacking any sort of confident leadership on the pitch.

It always is anyway. I liked this one though...

Lyanco seems to love this cup competition. I have a recollection of him putting in a similar 'beast mode' MOTM performance against Chelsea last season as well.

This is brilliant game management in injury time as well. Calmly keeping it in the corner.

The 2 goals were in the first half.

edit: Wrong thread.

Everyone has. Nobody has disgraced themselves out there tonight. A superb team effort.