Everton vs Bournemouth

But we really have to get it right next manager if as I feel, he will be gone soon enough. Not sure about Potter and I wanted Emery in, look what he's done at Villa with as bad a set up as we have.

If we don't beat Bournemouth and get thrashed by the Red Shite, he'll be gone. Next!!

Iwobi, Gordon and Gray were sold under Dyche's feet because of the incompetence in the boardroom.

We have been shorn of creativity and goalscoring MF players for years but with Mcneill and Harrison making their way back to full fitness I would hope to see improvements soon.

We've been shopping at Poundland in the last few years and as Ancelotti reminded us we need a magician.

It would do more good to get behind the players and Sd at least until January. Now is not the time to panic.

I think mhe might have a good chance, Lyndon! Hahaha

Some of Sean's decisions do make some of us question "why" but I reckon this would happen with any coach. Why should Potter be any different. It is the mental capacity of the players that is now most important. How many managers in the past 7 years and still no real consistency?

i expect a better performance from the players after they have rested and recovered. Dyche has to get the tactics and selection right. Beto should start, and hopefully, some work was put into defending set pieces during the week. Good luck, Everton.

We should pull any available levers as necessary to avoid relegation.

Having said all that, I like Dyche and would be prepared to give him as much time as possible. We did this for Lampard which was a mistake, but I think Dyches pedigree warrants it.

"Also despair when the Goodison Park negative squad are out in force when a few things go wrong on the pitch."

So, losing 7 out of the last 8 at home, are just a few things going wrong? In your opinion, what is it when lots of things go wrong?

Is it possible to be pessimistically positive? Because that's how I'm feeling. Positive because we do have the semblance of a decent, but misfiring, squad - pessimistic that SD will get it in tune and firing on all cylinders.

As to is this a game that Dyche will set the team up not to lose or to try and win is anybody's guess. I fear the former and we will see a reversal of the May result or perhaps a draw.

We should be going all out for the win and I'd like to see Calvert-Lewin and one of Beto or Chermiti sharing the duties with him for a fair portion of the game. Beto has been a bit wasteful in what we have seen so far so maybe I'd favour Chermiti. However, I'm not watching these guys in training and I'm sure we will probably see more of the same.

Let's just start and continue on the front foot, get a confidence boosting result and prepare for the trip across the park ready to return with some spoils.

The run of fixtures before Christmas now is absolutely horrendous, we could be cut well adrift by New Year again.

Midfield has to include Harrison, Garner and Danjuma for me and get straight at them from the word go.

Also not sure that the "threat from set-pieces" really is "a new Achilles heel of Everton's" - hasn't it been an Achilles heel for about 10 years or more?

He's more careful in possession than Doucoure and also is a more creative player around the box. He is also not shy in attacking the box and grabbing a goal. I think the key to the match is using Garner as an advanced central midfielder/no10. This will allow us to play with more natural width with Danjuma or McNeil on the left and Harrison on the right. It creates a strong team but with essential attacking threat. Above all players playing in more natural positions.

A 4-2-3-1 formation:

Pickford
Patterson Tarkowski Branthwaite Mykolenko
Gana Onana
Harrison Garner Danjuma
Calvert-Lewin

COYBLUES!

The good news is we now have a fuller squad, and especially better options in attacking areas. We have been creating far more chances than last season but just struggling to convert them.

I think broadly speaking Dyche needs to be braver in games where we would expect to have more of the ball. In such games we need the energy of Doucoure and Gueye a bit less. I don't think Garner is quite as good in the middle as everyone here seems to think (watch the Doncaster match again perhaps) buthe does offer a bit more precision and creativity than Doucoure.

So at home to the weaker teams I'd be looking to play:

Pickford
Patterson Tarkowski Branthwaite Mykolenko
Onana Garner
Harrison Danjuma McNeil
Calvert-Lewin

Whilst away or against tougher opposition I'd probably bring Gueye and Doucoure and Young or Coleman in. Possibly even Beto who is really able to hold the ball up well when starting. Basically there has to be a slightly different team and setup in the maches where we expect to have more ball and territory and matches where we don't. Dyche has looked more comfortable in matches where we can sit back and counter (Brighton away last season) and less so when our opponents do that and we are expected to make the play.

Last season Dyche got 3 points at home to Bournemouth when it mattered the most. Let's hope he can repeat the trick tomorrow.

His loyalty to Young is costing us and his reluctance to break up his midfield.
The Bournemouth game will show whether he rates Garner highly enough to drop Gana or Onana.I fear he will keep all of his favourites in place, put Harrison on the right with McNeil on the left.

I think the Cherries are better than Luton and we will have to find a clinical edge to win it. Defeat would be unthinkable and with the fixtures ahead looking intimidating, Dyche will be under huge pressure.

I have a bad feeling about this and, like Luton, Bournemouth have targeted this as their most winnable match this season.

We simply have to go all out for the win. I hope Dyche drops Gana (or Onana) and Young and gives Garner and Patterson a start, with Harrison operating on the right. DCL has to start with three goals in as many games. We depend on crosses and Beto looked like he's never headed a ball in his life last week.

The thought of getting beat at home and then having to go to that awful place with VAR, PGMOL and the FA desperate to compensate Klopp for their gross mismanagement is too awful to contemplate.

Also - moderators please pleae revoke the privilege for that “Farkhov Redz” dickhead on the Live Forum, its either a disgruntled former TWer living in their moms basement or RS espionage but either way we don't need it. Thanks!

Pickford
Keane, Tarkowski, Branthwaite
Patterson, Garner, Gueye, Onana, Mykolenko
Harrison, Calvert-Lewin, McNeil.

Not a fan of Keane but Bournemouth have a tall team and given how crap we were at defending corners, another centre-back would be handy. Also, this is the formation that did for Villa in the League Cup.

We must win this and get the monkey off our back – for not taking our chances and letting teams on dreadful runs get a win.

Both managers face awkward questions if they lose.

I always thought I was a realist. How could I not be from the time seeing our 1963 team until today and the ups and downs, more downs?

Last week, my realism was out and optimism at full blast. This week… well, this week we're not going to the Bramley Moore. Realism, well that's long gone. I now join the ranks of our supporters who are out-and-out pessimists!

If we get beat tomorrow then he needs sacking... and I don't give 2 toots on a ragman's trumpet who replaces him either.

For some reason, I'm still angry about last week.

Well, I think you have every right to be angry about last week's performance Dave and even three points tomorrow won't obliterate it.

Liked your “I don't give 2 hoots on a rag man's trumpet” showing your age there Dave, haven't heard that for a long time. One of my favourites was “There's more life on a nit nurse's comb” — that could apply to one or two Everton players at the moment.

Coming into Liverpool tomorrow, Andy Crooks is staying over at my place from Belfast. We are all hoping to meet pre-match at the Harlech Castle, and hoping to see Mike Gaynes again. After, it is hoped that a few will go to the Bramley Moore (opposite our new home next year). I'm sure there will be a few to give a lift down there if needed.

Hoping as always for a win, but I also thought, that was a 'nailed on' against Luton last week, so not getting over enthusiastic, about the mighty Bournemouth. Hope James Garner plays from the start, and everyone reads from the same hymn sheet. Hopefully see some old and some new faces tomorrow.

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What's bothering me is I usually get over a defeat by Sunday evening but, for some reason, I can't shake this one off.

I've tried talking myself out of it and the usual alcohol-induced apathy trick but it won't go away for some reason.

The performance certainly didn't help and lots of us thought we had turned a corner after two good away wins and after starting so well we just folded in that second half and never really like getting a grip on the game.

A mixture of poor play by the players and wrong substitutions by the manager. I hope they all get it right tomorrow because Everton's results do have a bearing on your moods, they do with mine.

Still, good luck to all you die-hards going to the game. Hopefully I'll be able to watch Match of the Day this time.

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I think the problem is they are all a bag of nerves when they play at Goodison due to the sequence of bad results that has occured before. Thats my take on the reason for the terrible home form, we play much better away from home.

We need to take this game by the scruff of the neck and go all out for the win.

Last season the away fixture was when many felt Lampard should have been sacked prior to the World Cup break. The reverse fixture we win to keep us in the league.

I wonder if tomorrow is another defining afternoon.

1-0 either way. Hopefully it's Danjuma's winner against his former club.

Is there a more charitable team than us for teams who haven't won or players who cannot score?

Pickford
Patterson Tarkowski Branthwaite MykMykolenko
Gana
McNeil Garner Harrison (or Danjuma)
Doucouré
Calvert-Lewin

Is this stuff about an out of contract alter-Jota from Al-Shittihad believable?

A draw... maybe, unless Dyche has a new master plan!?

Love that me.

Many thanks

I would never call you a fool mate, I'm a "glass half-full" man myself and have a positive attitude on everything in life except our football team.

Somebody once said "It's the hope that kills you"... I can't for the life of me find any hope at the minute, I am truly drained by this team.

I've never felt as angry for as long as I have after that Luton defeat, it honestly flicked a switch that I didn't know existed in my brain.

But Everton did show glimpses in the last 2 weeks that they can play without fear. Tomorrow, they must turn up and get 3 points, by hook or crook.

UTFTs!

Pickford, Patterson, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Gueye, Garner, Harrison, Danjuma, McNeil (in the 10), Calvert-Lewin

But I'am hoping the team turn up this time. We're at home let's just go for it.

COYB.

If there are no strikes!!

Kim, Everton have left me with a feeling of emptiness and despondency over recent years. I no longer look at fixtures and think of probable/possible outcomes. We can overrun in-form teams like Brighton and Brentford away from home then, pathetically, struggle at home to teams like Luton.

Good luck to those going the game.

ps: Graham Potter? Get a grip.

Sean Dyche believes things have gone so badly for Everton in the last few years everyone within the club now accepts much lower standards.

After narrowly escaping relegation in the last two seasons the Toffees have begun this campaign with just four points from seven matches and defeat to newcomers Luton last weekend was their fourth successive home defeat.

The assumption is they will be in another battle against the drop but, based on recent history, will probably survive and that is the thinking Everton boss Dyche is trying to change.

'It is a fine line. You can call it low-level norms. The whole club has adapted to low-level norms and the team can get trapped into that,' he said.

'We have to break through these barriers of low-level norms where it just becomes 'alrightness'.

'Oh it will be alright because it is kind of what Everton do, we kind of fight, we do a bit, we have a hot bit, then we drop back down, and it just becomes a new norm.

'I must make clear I don't mean the fans. The club and the way it is and the team and the delivery has all been a bit 'We are a big club' without big delivery.

'I have been talking to the players about breaking through these barriers.

'I got promoted four times with teams not with the grandeur of this club and when you get that winning feeling it becomes a constant and becomes a high-level norm. It is amazing how much you will fight for that high-level norm.

'The model, the team, it has become a bit 'Oh it will work.' No, it only works when we make it work. I reaffirm that to the team all the time.'

We are the school of science and nobody is going to take that away from me, not now, not ever.

You have got people who can't stand you, but this is just the nature of being In professional football, and having to speak to the media on a regular basis, although others will disagree and say it's because your teams play dinosaur football.

You said it yourself the day you was appointed manager of “our once great club” that under any other circumstances you would never have been given the chance to manage Everton, but you did a great (incredible,imo) job, in keeping us up, because of the incredibly poor surroundings that you came into.

Yesterday has gone, but the problems that surround you and the players, are absolutely deafening, but in spite of this you have managed to find the nucleus of a decent team, (again imo) so results must begin to improve.

I haven't read this thread, but my experience of the pre match ToffeeWeb threads down the years, is that to much positivity brings about an awful performance, whilst loads of negativity often brings out a much better performance. Get out of our club Dyche, because you can't have been Kenwright's choice, you fucking dinosaur!

We have lost 7 of our last 8 home games and they have been mainly against teams who frequent the lower echelons of the league. So surely by the law of averages, we are due a win at home.

The good thing is the weather looks fair which means I won't get a soaking walking up City Road this week.

Come on Blue Boys, get out there and bag us the 3 points today (don't care how you do it).

I think the Blues will reward me today for missing that game, doubt it will be 6-0 though, I’m going for a George McCabe special 4-0. Hope you are improving George, the best of cosmic waves to you George.

The season is long, and teams have good and bad spells. Admittedly, we are waiting for our good spell, but I believe its coming.

He did okay with a great squad at Brighton and was nothing special at a dysfunctional Chelsea.

Dyche isn't necessarily the best coach but he isn't a bad one. The same clowns who want him gone whine about how football is a simple game: win your battles, find space, run hard, be brave and so on.

Our squad has improved under Dyche and Thelwell and we have very little room to maneuver in the market.

Give him to the new year before judging.

I'd play Mcneil in the Doucouré role pushed up supporting dcl.
Positive, with pace and some threat.

But I suspect dyche will go with onana for Danjuma or Harrison.

Amen to your post Grigoris I’m sticking with Sean Dyche as well.

I would go with similar choices.

Let's start confident and attacking for once.

Who knows. We could spook them!

You’ve gotta pay your dues if you wanna sing the Blues!!!

But anyway - we shall not be moved!!!

Martinez gave us attacking successful football which only came to an end because he lacked the funds to totally rinse the club of Moyes mediocrity with decent players rather than bargain basement chimps.

Sorry, I need to rephrase that - his success was built on Moyes mediocrity as per rewritten history vol 3a expunging all twattings from top teams and lower league jonnies. Never let facts get in the way of a good old history rewrite.

Personally, I don't really care what style we play. As long as we actually play a style of football. For me, that's what is missing right now. The Luton game was a team selection to sit in your own defensive third in a game where we weren't going to be doing that. I couldn't tell you what the plan was - and I don't believe there really was one.

Dyche needs to very quickly figure out what we're about and then pick a team to deliver it. I'm not seeing that kind of clarity at the moment.

I see a few posts saying that Dyche is on the right track, or is close to something, or is better than what we can get... with 4 home defeats out of 4 I can't agree.

If that becomes 5 today, well, I don't know what happens then. It would be catastrophic.

2-1 with DCL to score again

COYB