Coleman header wins friendly against Monaco

For none members it is showing live on YouTube.

Type Monaco first v Everton and should come up in the box below on YouTube.

Cheers Brian.

The best YT link I've found so far is this:

Link

You can (barely) here the official Everton TV commentary in the background, but be prepared to improve your Spanish!

They seem to be playing in the local park. I'm actually surprised they're not using jumpers for goalposts.

Michael 4

Haha it does have that school holidays kickabout feel

Lewis Gibson looks good.

Danny, we must be watching different games - I thought he looked massively out of his depth first half!

I clearly remember Silva giving Mirallas plenty of opportunity last pre-season too.

It surprised just about everyone as most of us thought he was done here, but Silva clearly thought he had something. Sadly "Super Kev" fell away again before the season even got going. Now its happening again !

How is Mirallas still here ? He seems to have been on a two year pub crawl without ever leaving the last chance saloon

I thought he looked OK Michael and Broadhead is linking up well with Seamus.

Stekelenburg pulled off some great saves including the pen.

Michael,

I only saw from 25 mins onwards, so I didn't see the full half. But he seems to be a big lad, and composed on the ball. Left footed centre half is a bonus also! Let's see how he gets on in the 2nd half...

Well I didn't think that was a bad half of football. You can see the benefit of having more players in the team who know each other's game from last season.

And like a couple of others I thought Gibson did OK. He was tidier on the ball and with his passing than Keane, who sold him short on the half way line from which the penalty resulted. That was a poor challenge, but Lewis had been very clean in his tackling until then. It's interesting that Silva has him with the first team AND giving him game time over other candidaes you might expect to be preferred to him.

Broadhead has also had a good half, taking up some nice positions and making some good runs.

I thought Broadhead and Coleman linked up quite well. It's hard to take much from watching these games, they're miles away from the real thing.

I have to say I would keep Niasse. He has just had a chance where he went from the ridiculous to the sublime. Great run and through ball, his first touch was absolutely shocking, then he nearly scored with a sublime 2nd touch which hit the post and bar! He had a good header from the next attack which just flashed wide also.

I'm not saying he should be our first choice striker. But he creates far more danger up front than Tosun and DCL combined!

Digne just nearly scored one of the best goals I have ever seen also. What a player he is. Corner from Sigurdsson to Digne 25 yards out. First time volley, inches wide of the top corner!

I clicked on the YT link (TY Jay!) and laughed.

It's like an adult league pick up game in a park.

Just weird.

Whats the piss head doing running on ?

1-0 Coleman. Deflected shot from Niasse set him up. We have played well second half, the defence and Stekelenburg have had nothing to do...

Good second half hit post cleared off line I enjoyed that

Davies hit the bar after being teed up in the last minute by Niasse. A good second half all in all.

Michael, I thought the young lad Gibson had a good game at centre half. Very assured 2nd half performance...

Davies hit the bar after being teed up in the last minute by Niasse. A good second half all in all.

Michael, I thought the young lad Gibson had a good game at centre half. Very assured 2nd half performance...

Danny I wouldn't go as far as that but a decent effort

All in all a much better showing than Sion. I know its only preseason but I thought we looked quite composed as a team today.

All the fringe players did quite well especially Broadhead and Davies. Oumar showed enough that he is worth considering as a squad player.

The only negative for me was Gomes and Keane continuing to make errors in possession.

The goal was all about Bernard... great run with the ball and then a lovely cross back to the left. Brave finish from Coleman made me wince when I saw him on the turf afterwards.

Two other nice setups, one with Walcott's shot beating the keeper and being cleared off the line, and then Davies' crossbar-rattler.

Fun to see the guys playing on a Sunday league pitch and enjoying it... and even a pitch invader!

I thought that was a decent run out, bearing in mind it, s all about being ready for the new season. I agree with Danny@19 too, i thought Gibson looked a good player.
Still can, t understand why players like Mirallas are getting game time though, unless it, s to put them in the shop window

Annika, there's no shop window in the world that could get Mirallas sold.

Maybe a garage sale.

Mike (24), more like a fire sale and claim on the insurance.

Mike @24 and Dave@25, well that made me smile anyway!!Unfortunately you may both well be right

News that Zouma is unlikely to be joining us means we have two priority signing to complete before the new season starts.
A center half and a striker of some description is a must if we are to maintain a position in the top 10 of the table.

After watching the latest warm up up game it's obvious we need to strengthen the team, there are no youngsters coming through who look good enough to command a first team place.

Seamus is looking fit and strong and determined. I hope he proves people like me, who have written him off as the player he used to be, completely wrong.

There are still players to come back and these are still fitness run outs. Get the Wigan game out of the way and Silva has 3 games to get it right for Palace.

There must be car boot sale or even a jumble sale to get rid of the odious Mirallas! Could we not put him on E-Bay?

I think the little cameos from Dennis adreien are good, big strong lad who looks very composed

I thought it was a reasonable display for early season. Some solid performances but Gomes & Walcott we're anonymous with Gomes making basis errors. As for Walcott, no impact. Having said that I thought McCarthy did well when he came on. Looked very assured.

That's not a bad idea Trevor @30

I find E-Bay excellent. Sold a homing pigeon on it this week. 15th time I have sold him this year!

I'll get my coat...

Is big Duncan still in the dugout?

Brian #33, Mirallas is a homing Finch.

No matter how many times we dispatch this bird to some far-off land, come summer he reappears at Finch Farm.

Brian #33 that is v funny. Even my Kopite missus loved that one! Still smiling.

My life has a lot of moments of pure Niasse. What can I do? I've got a feeling we might just need another goalscorer. Where was Tosun today?

Senegal losing 1-0 to Algeria, Gana has played the whole game. He's going to need a good couple of weeks off at least.

Possibly back for the Watford game ?

Sky said Palace have offered £8m for McCarthy, with the Gueye situation, he's the only cover we have as a defensive midfielder, because Delphis more attacking.

The Senegal-Algeria final was the one and only game I've watched of the AFCON tournament. If it reflects the standard of the whole competition, I haven't missed anything.

A truly awful game of football, decided by a freakish lucky goal after two minutes, after which Algeria fouled their way through the entire game and Senegal were absolutely woeful on pretty much every dead ball situation they won.

Particularly for those players who also appeared at last year's world cup and who were involved three weeks into July with AFCON, they are going to need careful managing to get through the coming club season.

Jay Wood @ 40. I've watched a lot of the AFCON. Its been a truly terrible tournament. Played in front of empty stadiums.

Everton have been given a further 3,600 tickets to the 5,000 already sold for the Wigan Ath friendly next Wednesday, plus a cash on the night turnstile for the Everton fans in the North stand.

So that's half the ground taken up already by Evertonians.

Jay & Paul @ 41, I too watched most of the games, and yes on the whole they were pretty dire, but I kept thinking it was maybe a one-off.

I was still saying at the final, the main reason I watched them was to see Gana performing and to be honest if I was a neutral he didn't stand out as being anything other than ordinary through most of the Tournament.

I know he scored a couple of goals... or was it one?

Nice one Mike @35. I think you are right!

Dermott @36 – Glad it brought a smile to you and your other half.

Paul @ 41.

I don't know whether to congratulate you on your perseverance and stamina, or sympathize with you for sitting through so much cack!

The BBC's final match stats says it all.
Senegal numbers 1st, Algeria's 2nd:
Possession: 62% v 38%
Shots: 12 v 1
Shots on target: 3 v 1 (qualifying Algeria's freakish winner as a 'shot on target' is parody at its best, or rather, worst)
Corners: 6 v 2
Fouls: 18 v 32

Algeria were just HORRIBLE!!! Total anti-football.

Trevor #30, I think we should offer free postage rather than buyer collects.

More rumours about us getting into serious negotiations for Kean. On the basis of my 2 minutes YouTube research, that fella looks interesting.

Generally, I am optimistic because there is a calmness about our management team which I can't remember us having for a long time. Indeed, I can't remember us ever having it, even when we were winning trophies.

These are serious men who are in it for the longer term. It's the ones higher up who still worry me.

Blimey, we've actually won a pre-season friendly...

Friendlies matter. Ask Kopites today!

It is beyond belief that we are still fielding teams with Kevin Mirallas and Oumar Niasse. Neither of them are worth the air fare to Switzerland. If either of these players have a snowball's chance in hell of starting any game this season, then there is a serious problem.

Offer to pay them 66% of whatever is on left on their contract and release them. Better for them. Better for us.

Mirallas is a talented but lazy bastard. In Niasse's case, it's not really his fault he was recruited to a level where he doesn't belong. He really should be in a football version of Cirque du Soleil.

Brian – 33. Haha. Very good – however... if you ever successfully sell a homing pigeon, what you've actually sold is a pigeon.

Tony,

Yeah Coleman is looking sharp. I think partly he's been shaking off rustiness and partly he knows he may have more competition... but regardless, it's good to see.

Be careful, Danny, you are not supposed to praise Niasse. You're right, he's not half as bad as is the popular view on here. We are not exactly awash with goal scorers.

Raymond #53.

He is though, Ray, let's be honest. Only Oumar could break through the defence on the edge of the box, lose control of the ball hopelessly and manage to hit the bar from a freak touch when he wind-milled his left leg and caught the ball with his boot. The lad tries hard but he's a bit of an embarrassment at times.

He's the footballing equivalent of the infinite monkey theorem in that give him enough chances (lots and lots and lots) and eventually he'll have to score.

Same thing with the infinite monkey theorem and a Schneiderlin forward pass!

So that means he is better than Calvert-Lewinor Tosun, then, Brian?

Give them time, Geoff, give them time. 🤣