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5 hours ago, Cornish Steve said:

Given whom we play in our remaining games, there's a realistic chance that, without the points deduction, we finish in the top half of the Premier League table. When did that last happen?

2020-21 we finished 10th. I remember that season because we still had Ancelotti as manager and we still had an outside shot at a Europa League Conference Playoff round spot heading into the final day. Ended up getting thrashed 5:0 at the Etihad. 

2018-19 we finished 8th. 

My initial thoughts on today's result:

-Going into this one, I would have been satisfied with a draw. If we won, great. But I've gotten used to, in my nearly decade of watching this club, that a draw is probably the best we'd get against the Shite. Was more concerned about us getting the 3 points against Brentford this weekend. Now that we've gotten the win, I've been nothing but overjoyed. 

-Pickford was absolutely huge for us. I know we get frustrated at his play sometimes but matches like today's shows how he can be one of the best keepers in the league. 

-I have no idea where the overall performance from this club came today. Especially a mere 9 days after the performance at Stamford Bridge. If we had played at this level for most of the season, we wouldn't have been fighting off relegation like we had been. I hope we can keep it up and that Dyche can keep the team's focus in check as I could see an emotional letdown on Saturday after what we saw today. 

In a sign of how long it had been since we had the Merseyside derby at Goodison (some of you probably know this already), the Everton manager that day was David Moyes. Tim Howard was the starting goalkeeper. The Everton goals were scored by Tim Cahill and Mikel Arteta.

The starting XI that day (and who they were later subbed off for):

Tim Howard

Sylvain Distin

Phil Jagielka

Leighton Baines

Phil Neville

Mikel Arteta (subbed off in the 74th minute for Jermaine Beckford)

Johnny Heitinga (subbed off in the 72nd minute for Tony Hibbert)

Tim Cahill

Leon Osman (subbed off at half for Diniyar Bilyaletdinov)

Seamus Coleman

Yakubu Ayegbeni

Among players that remained on the bench included: Jose Baxter, Jan Mucha, Shkodran Mustafi, and Magaye Gueye

5 hours ago, Matt said:

Is that real? Are we pretty much safe, 8 points clear, with 4 games to go? Did we just send Klopp off with the best goodbye? Did we keep a clean sheet against them and not get fucked by VAR?

I really don't know what to make of all that, I need to go lie down...

We're effectively safe though, according to commentary in the states, we only had a .96% chance of being relegated before the match today. So the only way we get relegated now is if we lose our last 4 matches and Luton win at least 3 of their last 4. Luton are at Wolves in a mid-afternoon kickoff UK time Saturday so we'll know what we need to be secure by then. 

6 hours ago, badaids said:

Look at that wanker Klopp in the 4th officials ear.

Jon Champion and Lee Dixon called the match today here in the states, which was only on Peacock streaming rather than USA Network, and which showed Palace-Newcastle instead for some reason. Champion at one did mention that Simon Hooper (who was today's 4th official) would probably enjoy not having to hear Klopp yell at him in his left ear anymore since Klopp had done it so much over the years.  

17 hours ago, patto said:

Is Peacock any good ?

I really enjoy it. I have it for two reasons. One is Premier League (obviously). I do enjoy when they show Goal Rush on Saturday mornings here in the states (these would be for the mid-afternoon kickoffs in the UK) where they focus on one match and then bounce around to the other matches if a goal or a key moment happens. The other is WWE but that's only because I had the WWE Network previously and anyone who had that got grandfathered in when it moved to Peacock in March 2021. 

14 hours ago, Palfy said:

I’m going to miss this one I’ll be sat on a plane heading to Malaga with 6 Arsenal fans and 1 Chelsea fan for a weeks golf ️ in Marbella.

Of all the games to have to miss gutted but I’m sure I’ll get over it by Thursday morning when I’m teeing off at The Marbella Club at 8:30am.

This one is going on during the afternoon of my workday in the states tomorrow. Luckily, I have the Peacock app on my devices so I'll have a way to watch it. 

This one does work here in the U.S.: 

Gonna make this as a couple separate posts since I know this first one can't be viewed here in the states:

2 hours ago, Btay said:

It would be quite funny if we were to say to the PL “in light of recent complaints, we are concerned about having an official who is from the area of a relegation rival in critical position”

Perhaps he's a Notts County supporter. 

34 minutes ago, Hafnia said:

Take the 3 points. We are miles away from where we should be as a team but let's get over the line.

currently watching Liverpool. 1-1 if they draw or lose then surely they will be done and rest players vs us. 

I was surprised they had 3 or 4 of their bigger players on the bench to start today though I guess the argument that Klopp would make would be about the rest coming off the Europa League match at Atalanta. And I guess those players would need a little bit of rest though with how slim the margin is for the title, I guess he'd get critiqued now about sitting them much as he would if he sat them early in the season. 

Sour grapes from Forest or are they just grasping for straws at this point?:

Great result for us to get, especially coming off the match at Stamford Bridge. 

Would love to see us get the win against the Shite but even if we don't, I'll be satisfied so long as we get a positive result next weekend against Brentford. 

Not gonna lie, with how close those advertising boards are to the pitch, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. 

MCNEIL!!!!!

DCL and Gomes off. 

Beto and Garner in. 

1 minute ago, badaids said:

We'rent we in for Gibbs White once, when we had dough to piss up a wall like?

It was just a couple years ago and yeah we were. He was later interviewed and said he felt like he was more wanted by Forest. Having Cooper be his manager for the England U17s probably helped Forest get him too. 

1 minute ago, Sev said:

I think the wife wants to go camping after the game...

Do they have camp sites in Portugal they could use for a day? I mean, with the Merseyside derby ahead on Wednesday can't have him away for too long. 

2 minutes ago, Palfy said:

I’d rather see him change his job to be honest

19 minutes ago, badaids said:

The main difference today is that Dyche has got he training top on 2 sizes too small and has put the gut on display.  Maybe he's threatened them that he'll go topless, hence the slight improvement.

Didn't notice this until they just showed a clip of him at halftime on NBC. Quite the change for him since he's normally a suit and tie guy. Don't mind the change to a track suit to be honest. 

1 minute ago, Hafnia said:

Under cooper this lot were chronic divers.... even worse now 

Were Nuno's sides at Wolves like this too?

Just now, milesey05 said:

Best mis hit I’ve seen

Even Beglin was saying on commentary, that he shot it at a shit angle and it still went in. 

GUEYE!!!

Just now, milesey05 said:

I’m not seeing much reaction to our last game!!

Maybe saving it for 2nd half!!

If we don't score til then, less time for our guys to employ Dyche's park the bus strategy on defense.