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Spot on. I really want the most attacking side we have. Maybe a 4132 Howard Coleman jags Distin Baines/Garbutt Besic McGeady Barkley Mirallas Naismith/Eto'o Lukaku

Why do they charge the team and not the players? In American sports they just fine the players. If I were naisy I would tell bill k that I would pick up the bill, it was his fault.

Barry, Baines, naisy and pienaar all being assessed for this match. I want to beat spurs so bad, all my friends here in the states love them and I want to rub it in so bad if we win.

possibly (yes i'd love that matchup). the group winners and top 4 CL 3rd place teams get seeded. all 2nd place europa and other 4 CL teams are unseeded. So we'd play one of them, which could be some difficult teams depending on the results (sevilla, zenit)

MADE UP, won our group. Guaranteed a seed for the round of 32 with the other group winners and the top 4 teams from Champions League (the rest of the 3rd place CL guys are unseeded). Here are the other possible teams Group A - Borussia Monchengladbach, Villarreal, FC Zurich Group B - Brugge, Torino, Helsinki Group C - Spurs, Besiktas Group D - Salzburg, Celtic Group E - Dinamo Moscow, PSV Eindhoven Group F - Inter, Other 3 wide open (St. Etienne, FK Qarabag, Dnipro) Group G - Feyenoord, Sevilla, Rijeka Group H - Everton, Wolfsburg Group I - Napoli, Sparta Prague, Young Boys Group J - Dynamo Kiev, AAB, Steaua Bucuresti Group K - Fiorentina, Guingamp, PAOK Salonika Group L - Legia Warsaw, Trabzonspor CL 3rd place teams - Group A - Olympiakos 6 points Group B - Liverpool 4 pionts, Basel 6 points Group C - Zenit St. Petersburg 7 points, AS Monaco 8 points Group D - Anderlecht Group E - Roma, CSKA Moscow, Man City all 5 points Group F - Ajax 2 points, Apoel 1 point Group G - Sporting Lisbon 7 points, Schalke 04 5 points , NK Maribor 3 points Group H - Athletic Bilbao 4 points, Bate Borisov 3 points Of the possible 2nd place teams I really don't want to play Villarreal, Borrussia Monchengladbach, and Sevilla. Some of the 3rd Place CL guys could be trouble as well such as Roma, Zenit, Bilbao, and Olympiakos. Not really scared by any others.

exactly, we have a deep squad, and after some rough matches we are finally starting to see things click. winning terribly played games, grinding out results, and getting a fair amount of luck on our side (disallowed 1st goal). great time for Everton.

agreed. barkley needs to watch eto'o, samuel had some very nice distribution and passing today. that's how you play that ACM role.

Worried about McCarthy, and Lukaku pulled up at the end worried about him as well. Glad Mirallas is back though. What a big difference he makes.

i agree with this. have to wonder if other teams will be in for him as well, might be tough to lock him down with others seeing he's still got it when used in the right way. hope he falls in love with everton and mentoring romelu, we need him here.

won our europa league group didn't lose a match in europa 2 points of CL places in the premier league liverpool sucks this year life is good, COYB

Spurs 0 - 3 Everton Lukaku

i'll gladly eat crow pad, distin played a hell of a match. very proud of him and glad to be wrong. he and jags were ageless. i would like to see browning in the krasnodar match to get him time, distin looked a little injured or just a knock at the end. hope he's alright, he's not my favorite but we need him and he's playing well. MADE UP WE WON THE GROUP AND ARE GOING TO ROUND OF 32. WOO

Lukaku. I've backed him from the beginning, i love the lad. what a match, goal and an assist. he's on a roll!

please explain more. do you think he's better bench or start? i though he had a good match today but faded late. he was great defending and moving the ball forward, had a really nice back heel to lukaku. i like him both ways, think he's class, just can't play a full 90.

wow what a match, we were getting battered the whole first half, only for a quick strike counter and lukaku goal. second half we really bossed it and lukaku to mirallas for a beautiful 1 2. then they threw everything at us and we withstood the attack. jags and the back 4 (hibbert and garbutt included) really had a great match, tim howard with some great big saves, and besic looked great. Lukaku, Howard, Back 4 all MOTM for me. hard to pick but probably lukaku, what a match for him. purple patch, let's hope he keeps it up! sign de bruyne and perisic up, those guys were class.

lukaku what a play. amazing hold up and then assist pass to mirallas for the goal. MOTM

exactly and great pass from mcgeady, he's having a great game today. rom is getting into a purple patch now, come on and keep banging em in

great tackle and cross for the corner by mcgeady, he's up for it today

so excited for this. great squad, love eto'o lukaku and mirallas, we really need to attack hard and think we have the lineup. i hope mo besic does well. COYB

Dier was good for the firSt couple matches but has been torched many times since then and now is seen as their weak point in the back line. He's made quite a few bad mistakes, I don't think he's the future.

Exactly. And if we wait too long we could inhibit their growth or they could leave due to lack of playing time. One band I play with always auditions people on a gig, the leader says if they can't hack it on the job, they aren't good enough. Seems harsh but it works.

And why would we? With 3 great talents at CB why waste money to bring in a CB when we can simply blood the 3 we have. They will need to play sometime if they are to become starters. Is rather spend the money elsewhere in January, wingers most notably.

I really hope we get a win here. We will be tired from Europa but they have looked bad recently and Eriksen is the only one that has looked good. Their back 4 isn't great, dier and Fazio should be exploited. I'm Hoping Baines is back, well really need him. Howard Coleman Jags Distin Baines McCarthy Besic Mirallas Barkley Osman Lukaku

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Thanks, that proves my point even more.