Season 2019-20 Opinion Talking Points

Spot the Player!

With no live Everton games to watch for 3 months, the 5-minute highlights of our inter-squad game at Goodison Park on Saturday was gold dust!

Having watched it 18 times now, trying to get back into the swing of watching a full game, I started playing “Spot the Player” and hoped I could glean some much-desired insight into Carlo's restart philosophy.

My initial thoughts were that the game was played at a very fast pace or I had set my iPad to fast forward! Apart from that, I struggled to work out if we were playing 3-4-3, 4-1-4-1, 1-2-3-4 or 3-3-3-1. Where are our tactical experts when you need them?

So, going back to the title of this epistle, who did you spot? I guess I have been spending too much time doing online quizzes! But naming the players without stopping the play is a good challenge.

These are who I spotted in both blue and yellow. I started naming the players in each team but got the impression that some may have swapped shirts. The more eagled eyed of you will correct me!

Pickford
Virginia
Coleman
Schneiderlin (in track bottoms!)
Davies
Gordon
Sigurdsson (I think cos I heard his name called out but didn't actually see him do much. Nothing changes!)
Sidibé
Baines
Bernard
Calvert-Lewin
Keane (great headed goal to finish but why wasn't he marking himself?)
Baningime
Feeney?
Niasse (looked the sharpest, fastest, keenest but still could not hit the target)
Iwobi
Holgate
Richarison for some of the game

I think that leaves me a few short. Digne and Kean must have been there? Obviously the following are already injured and did not appear:

Gomes
Delph
Walcott
Mina

Reminds me of taking attendance for my PE classes many years ago “Where are those 4?” “They are all absent sir!”

Well, that's my attempt at playing Spot the Player! Can anyone beat 20 and fill in the missing 2. Answers on a postcard please!

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