It’s going to be a toughie and Newcastle will have to play at a level we haven’t reached thus far this season if we are to return to Tyneside with any points to show for our effort. I don’t hold out much hope anyway…
It also seems that Everton are riled up by Alan Pardew for some reason. They seem to believe he has disrespected them and several of their players, headed by Phil Jagielka, have come out and said that they are eager to set the record straight this evening. Just as long as Marouane Fellaini’s elbow hasn’t heard about it we should be able to deal with it.
The issue is over these words said by Alan Pardew last season: “Forget about Everton and Aston Villa, we have put ourselves in a similar position to Arsenal. The one security I have is that Mike Ashley is a difficult seller. He is not going to let someone go for £7m, he is going to want top, top money.”
Now maybe I’m just being flippant but I don’t really see anything wrong with that. Or maybe Everton see themselves as being in a similar position to Arsenal themselves? I don;t know, either way it’s just, well, silly…
Anyway, back to the match. If you haven;t already done so you can read my perfectly crafted match preview which details injury news, previous history between the two team, some stats and a stab at team selection from yours truly.
Which just about wraps this up really. Newcastle will need to up their game considerably if they are to stand any hope of repeating last season and it needs to start as soon as possible. Will it be tonight though is the question?
As ever, team news will be added below as and when it becomes available.
Howay the lads!
Everton: Howard; Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, Baines; Osman, Neville, Pienaar, Miralles; Fellaini; Jelavic
Subs: Mucha, Heitinga, Naismith, Gueye, Coleman, Anichebe, Duffy
Newcastle: Harper, Perch, S.Taylor, Williamson, Santon, Anita, Gutierrez(c), Ben Arfa, Cabaye, Marveaux, Cisse.
Subs: Elliot, Tavernier, Bigirimana, Gosling, Obertan, Shola Ameobi, Ba
Santon is coming on well
Big Dave(Quote)
😆 nice pass by Harper 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
COME ON LADS
Big Dave(Quote)
Baines not anywhere on the ball so much now
KIMTOON(Quote)
I’m desperate for Cisse to get a goal 🙄
KIMTOON(Quote)
Nice to see us with some desire
Shamrock(Quote)
Old whiskey nose there checking us out 😉
KIMTOON(Quote)
Eff me, should be 3-1.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
That was a massive let off 😳
KIMTOON(Quote)
thank fuk for that
Big Dave(Quote)
Come on Shola lets have a few good knock ons for Ba now 😉
KIMTOON(Quote)
Man the referee really excelled there for 2 minutes. Absolute shoyt. Clear goal for Everton, it was miles over the line, and a clear run on goal for HBA pulled back… 🙄
Munich Mag(Quote)
At the end of the day, Everton are pretty poor in the final third… they have had some unbelievable chances..
Munich Mag(Quote)
The Lino must be a Geordie.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
oh Benny that was your chance
Big Dave(Quote)
Jesus ,mary and joseph what a chance
KIMTOON(Quote)
if we draw great but even if we lose i have no complain. everton do not deserve to lose this game
ron(Quote)
HBA what a chance, oh man… !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thta was a great chance 😥
Munich Mag(Quote)
If we lose we cannot complain, but we have had some great chances ourselves.. 😯
Munich Mag(Quote)
4-1, by rights.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
**** 👿
KIMTOON(Quote)
😈 😈 😈 fuk 👿 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
I guess that’s justice. We didn’t deserve a point.
JJ(Quote)
Nice turn and finish.
Shamrock(Quote)
Probably about right in fairness. But Ben Arfa should hVe done better!
Stuart79(Quote)
Saylor why did you let him turn you *** ? 2-1 fooking brilliant…
Fook man Harper looked old there….
I’m so pissed off with our lot….
Munich Mag(Quote)
get in
Big Dave(Quote)
Get in!!!
Shamrock(Quote)
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
KIMTOON(Quote)
wooohooo 2-2 !!!!!!!!! Demba !!!!!!!!!!!!
Munich Mag(Quote)
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
WE SO DO NOT DESERVE THIS, BUT IT WILL DO A WORLD OF GOOD FOR THE TEAM SPIRIT!
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Unbelievable!
Stuart79(Quote)
fuk Ba saves the day ??????
Big Dave(Quote)
Ok, I give up… Hahaha.
JJ(Quote)
come on get at them
Big Dave(Quote)
Hat trick for Ba would round the night off nicely.
KIMTOON(Quote)
This guy was available for £7m and no-one bid 😆
cornish-magpie(Quote)
Well done lads. Great result. Bit of luck involved from decisions, but we had clear chances we fluffed ourselves and Benny was clean through – so all in all a draw is a good result against a tough side away from home.
Shamrock(Quote)
lived up to our nickname and nicked a point tonight . 😀
KIMTOON(Quote)
i’m sure the toffee’s will be gutted as they deserved more but they only got 1 pt the same as us
Big Dave(Quote)
I’ll take that. Hopefully get to see some highlights.
Premandup(Quote)
**** me.
Well if, as they say, it all evens out over a season, the gods are saving two goals for us when we least deserve it.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Pardedw needs to play our second half team more…
DanishToon(Quote)
I only saw the second half, so don’t know what we were like in the first but I thought we looked sloppy with so many changes. Have to be happy with a point the way it ended, not an easy place to go even for the likes of Man U and Everton will be right up there this season. So I don’t think we should be too down, the green shoots of recovery were there for all to see and we must kick on now and get the points on the board from the weaker teams.
DJG(Quote)
Woo hoo happy with that ….they reckon oba refused to come on as sub tho at the end, hope it’s bollox
richietoon(Quote)
Well it might not have been a great performance from us but we deserved a point after the way we played 2nd half .
Axel(Quote)
Richie @ 195 I hope it’s true 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave 😆
richietoon(Quote)
I heard it was all Everton first half which doesn’t suprise me given the way we start games. I think their **** went in the second half, 😆 we pressured them, got a goal and could have scored more even though we were ‘lucky’. Cisse has started this season really poorly IMO, an on form Cisse would have scored tonight as well as Ba.
DJG(Quote)
All day I felt bad about this game. It just had a 3-0 drubbing for us written all over it being an away game on a Monday night I was pessimistic When Everton scored early I was not surprised.
We showed such great character. Shola contributed more in his short time than Cisse did all game. If Ba can dropped perhaps we also need to drop Cisse. The Ba Cisse partnership requires someone to be unselfish but both are extremely selfish.
Michael12(Quote)
So Demba is our 1000th goal scorer
Big Dave(Quote)
Demba giving a bit of a hint of unhappiness in that interview???
Stuart79(Quote)
One thing that alarmed me was the non reaction of Cisse when Ba scored our/his first goal . Have a look at the highlights , hope i am not reading too much into it but he never even smiled let alone run over to his team mate .
Axel(Quote)
Demba doesn’t seem too happy 😕
Big Dave(Quote)
Second half was the best we have played all year. Still sloppy. But so much more passion!
Pains me to say Harps is past it. Just doesn’t seem to have any confidence.
Anita – Perch switch worked very well. Should continue that until Simpson back I think.
Why are we destined to only ever have one Demba scoring 👿
5 points is a decent return off those games.
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@Axel
I think some players can’t help but feel moody if they aren’t playing well. We all read quite a bit into Ba looking moody last year and it turned out there was noting in it.
SolanosTrumpet(Quote)
What did Demba say?
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Good second half from us.
I think Anita must play right back far better than when he plays as a midfield. Perch was really good.
If we play with 2 strikers, Shola must play.
But Benny was really poor today and what a missss, he doesn’t have the right to miss a chance like that.
But at the end, Everton must be very disappointed, 2 big mistakes from the referee
HBA39(Quote)
SOLANOSTRUMPET
Would you prefer Elliott then?
DJG(Quote)
FSOTC I can’t remember exactly but was asked about not starting and he said there was a few things ? but maybe it’s just his grasp of the lingo
Big Dave(Quote)
I thought Harper showed a cool head (like always) and good experience, slowed it down while not getting booked, had to deal with sloppy stuff from Taylor/Willo. He has a good rocket up the pitch and not much he could do about the goal. Apart from that he was ****. 😛
DJG(Quote)
SOLANOSTRUMPET well your right their m8 and also i did see Cabaye smile a few times after not looking happy in the first 3 games .
Axel(Quote)
Thanks Dave.
Why does Pardew’s 1st half selection always seem worse than his adjustments? Or is that just me?
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
DJG
Marveux who you was raving about last night got hooked at half time. Its centre midfield as part of a five or nothing
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
i actually thought Harper played well ,lets not forget one of his defenders was Willo and that would scare any keeper 😀
Axel(Quote)
Axel ,But watch Cabaye for Bas 2nd he was really happy , I feel much happier about his state ofr mind now having seen that reaction.
I knew Shola would provide for Ba ,very unselfish player .
KIMTOON(Quote)
Play the kid Woodman?
Done Krul no harm years ago
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
I agree that there doesn’t seem to be that togetherness. Is it because last season these players were effectively nobodies in the premier league and in the case of Cisse/Ba now they have had prolific spells of scoring. I just wonder has their heads expanded a bit. Ba and Cisse just look to me like their both trying to be number 1 scorer rather than play in a team game. Only when Ameobi comes on is there unselfish flick on’s in the box etc. 😕
DJG(Quote)
@DJG
Haha no. But it’s something that the scouts need to have in the back of their minds.
Right who’s pretending to be HBA39 ❗ 😆
Agree though. Shola is necessary in 4-4-2. You can’t play 4-4-2 if you aren’t capable of winning balls in the air.
SolanosTrumpet(Quote)
TOBY LE RHONE
Fair enough, I just said he deserves a shot.
DJG(Quote)
Re, Ba there seems to be something going on there, what was his comment all about when interviewed, Cisse looked non to happy when Ba scored.
Something to sort out.
ash1001(Quote)
FSOTC I don’t buy that mate I think it’s the players that are starting off looking as if they don’t give a ****, it seems that they have to be told to fuking wise up at half time before they come to life. Pards just said that the players looked as bad in the 1st half as he has seen them 😕 but the 2nd looked as if they wanted to win
Big Dave(Quote)
We were better on the attack as a 4-4-2, but we gave up three goals too.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Complacency setting in, then?
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Marv was ripped apart tonight and didn’t look as good as Jonas even though lots said he was better than Jonas, but maybe just a bad night for him
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