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Confidence

As most Evertonians have heard, the Birmingham side coming in to this week's game have won 5 in a row. Here's a list of the teams they beat: Blackburn (H) 2-1, West Ham (H) 1-0, Wigan (A) 3-2, Wolves (A) 1-0, Fulham(H) 1-0. All but Fulham are in the bottom half of the table. All of these games were won by exactly one goal. Our form over the past 2 weeks: Tottenham (H) 2-2, Chelsea (A) 3-3.

I realize that if you compare our past 5 weeks to theirs, they have the edge. There's no denying that. But based on our last 2 games, I'm not intimidated at all by this fixure and I hope Moyes and the players aren't either.

Which brings me to the one thing that concerns me; will we come out on to the pitch afraid? This is what I saw in the Liverpool game, the second Benfica game, the Man Utd game. We were an absolute gong show in all of those games, being held scoreless. We looked confident after our first goal in the Tottenham game and we looked confident throughout the Chelsea game. Those ended a little bit better.

I think this week's game is dependent on whether we see the scared gong-show EFC or the confident and thus competitive EFC. COYB!
Pat Finegan, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States Posted 19/12/2009 at 03:54:02

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Lyndon Lloyd
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1 Posted 19/12/2009 at 15:56:44

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I can’t agree that we were scared in the derby, Pat. The team was up for it for the whole game but just couldn’t make the breakthrough.

Dave Wilson
2 Posted 19/12/2009 at 16:39:40

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Scared? Intimidated?

Don't be ridiculous.

Gavin Ramejkis
3 Posted 19/12/2009 at 18:49:34

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My own worry isn’t scoring it’s conceding and having to come back into the game. Our defence has been shocking compared to last season and despite scoring decent equalisers thats what they just are, an equaliser. Please Everton take the lead and bloody keep it, and for god’s sake dont:

Concede in the first five minutes of the second half after playing a decent first half;
concede a goal whilst a sub is stood on the touchline and every bleeding player is more interested in looking to see who is coming on/going off instead of playing the bloody game

Three points tomorrow would be a nice start to recovery.

Andy Crooks
4 Posted 19/12/2009 at 20:12:47

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I am confident that we will beat Birmingham tomorrow. If we cannot, whatever the team, then we will deservedly be in a relegation fight.

Ian McDowell
5 Posted 19/12/2009 at 21:22:54

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It will be interesting to see Birmingham’s centre halves tomorrow — both were playing in the Championship until Birmingham took a chance... players Moyes may have looked at in the past.

Nick Entwistle
6 Posted 19/12/2009 at 21:31:00

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Scared in Liverpool match?

Pat Finegan
7 Posted 19/12/2009 at 21:58:55

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My fault guys. I wrote this at 3 in the morning and I said we were scared in the Liverpool game. That’s not true, I actually thought we looked good in the Liverpool game now that I think about it. Half-time at the Hull game was when we stopped looking scared. Liverpool came after that. Sorry about that, guys.

Michael Kenrick
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8 Posted 20/12/2009 at 15:20:24

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Let’s switch to the latest thread for the match, thanks!

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