Michael Kenrick 02/12/2025 9comments  |  Jump to last
Team News: No Michael Keane

Barely 3 days have gone by and Everton are back in action, this time on the South Coast, at a stadium where we have never won a Premier League game.

Jarrad Branthwaite, and Merlin Rohl, make up the injury list, while Idrissa Gana Gueye serves an entirely unjust second match suspended for a daft slap on Mochel Keane, the cost of which was made abundantly clear against Newcastle on Saturday.

Nathan Patterson returns to the squad but the big shock for tonight is no Michael Keane, with Alcaraz and Iroegbunam starting for the cream and grey Blues. Reece Welch, Eli Campbell and two goalkeepers making up the numbers on the bench. 

The Cherries are without the suspended David Brooks, Marcos Senesi and Lewis Cook against the Blues while Ryan Christie and Ben Gannon-Doak remain sidelined through injury but they sit a point ahead of Everton, in 11th place going into this one.

 

Bournemouth: Petrovic; Jimenez, Diakite, Milosavljevic, Truffert; Adams, Scott; Semenyo, Kluivert, Adli; Kroupi.

Subs: Dennis, Evanilson, Hill, Araujo, Smith, Enes Unal, Soler, Tavernier, Gonzalez

Everton: Pickford, Mykolenko, O'Brien, Tarkowski, Garner, Iroegbunam, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish, Alcaraz, Ndiaye, Barry.

Subs: Travers, King, Aznou, Campbell, Patterson, Welch, McNeil, Dibling, Beto.

 

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Jason Brook
1 Posted 02/12/2025 at 18:28:48
Shame that Keane has picked up what looks like an injury. This highlights some of our squad size issues, with Tim stopping in the team and presumably Garner going to right-back.

Hoping for a good reaction to Saturday's result. coyb

Jason Hewly
2 Posted 02/12/2025 at 18:36:39
Thank God Keane isn't in the squad. I'm sick of watching him. Always out of position, always jogging back when he should be sprinting. He confuses the entire defence with his brainfarts. The odd clearance might look good on a highlights package, but the rest of the game he's absolute gash.
Ashley Krotosky
3 Posted 02/12/2025 at 18:38:51
That is one very threadbare bench
Dave Abrahams
4 Posted 02/12/2025 at 18:43:22
I think we’ve only got four subs to put on the field, McNeil., Dibling, Patterson and Beto who all have their critics big time on here, if he uses one of the other outfield subs I think they will be making their debuts. It looks like a very worrying time for the defence tonight, the midfield looks it will be weaker without Garner and we can’t score many goals, it looks like a miracle is needed just to keep the score down but miracles happen sometimes—— 3-1 for the Blues!
Conor McCourt
5 Posted 02/12/2025 at 18:44:14
Seems like bad news but I think it could be a blessing. Moyes isn't the sharpest tactician and usually stumbles upon things.

Jake will bring pace to the defence and allow us to push up while Garner will give us a bit of attacking threat and delivery.

This makes this game more interesting

Simon Dalzell
6 Posted 02/12/2025 at 18:47:14
I would prefer it if Iroegbunam was Left back.
Paul Kossoff
7 Posted 02/12/2025 at 18:51:59
Fifa set to use VAR for corners at World Cup.

Fifa is set to press ahead with plans to have VAR checks on the awarding of corner kicks at the 2026 World Cup despite domestic leagues rejecting the idea for the wider game.

At an October meeting of the International Football Association Board (Ifab) - which determines the laws of the game - there was agreement that VAR could be expanded to cover incorrectly shown second yellow cards that lead to a red.

But Fifa's proposal to review corners was rejected, meaning world football's governing body will need to effectively create a trial to use it in the United States, Mexico and Canada next summer.

The measures will be discussed further at the next Ifab meeting in January, but Fifa

has regularly applied trials to its competitions.

Semi-automated offside technology and referees announcing VAR decisions to the crowd are two examples, and it could use the same mechanism to start reviewing corners.

Pierluigi Collina, Fifa's head of referees, has been a supporter of the change as part of a wider review of VAR protocol.

Collina is open to going further, too, believing that any error that can quickly be identified by the VAR could potentially be communicated.

Mike Gaynes
8 Posted 02/12/2025 at 18:54:07
I'm with you, Conor. I'm also really pleased that Charly is getting his chance at #10.

But like Dave I'm worried about the subs. One more injury in this team and we won't have a choice about bringing Armstrong back -- we'll have to.

Kate Elston
9 Posted 02/12/2025 at 19:01:17
So, we pay almost £40m for Dibling and he’s a complete sicknote. But, having said that, maybe we can replicate our away game at Old Trafford. COYB!!

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