Pre Match Everton vs. Leicester (League Cup QF)

[Brown Nose]

When was the last time we made the semi final of a cup competition?

I'll tell you when, it was in this competition twenty years ago.

Since then. we've bombed out of the QF stage in the League Cup three times (all to Man City), four times in the FA Cup, and once in the Champions League.

So, that is eight out of eight times we've failed to win a quarter final starting with Taylor and Wycombe and going through to last year and another penalty shoot out failure against Man City. That's a pretty sorry sequence.

BR has already said that he'll be making changes for this game but not wholesale ones. It will be interesting to see how he picks with the Man City game looming on Saturday. Surely Vardy and the two full backs won't play.

 

[Skitzo]

Ward

Justin Evans Soyuncu Chilwell

Praet Ndidi Maddison

Perez Vardy Gray
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[Skitzo]

I'd like to see either Hirst or Muskwe on the bench too, Nacho needs to be sold, so see if these lads can make the step up

 

[City Fan]

Full strength for this one please. 2nd place and a cup would be an awesome season.

 

[glyn]

We need to start with a strong XI. changes only due to normal rotation for me, not a wholesale cup side. One of the reasons Puel went was his indifference to these QFs. The next two league games are important but won’t define our top four chase, and we should be chasing cups.

 

[big_mac4824]

Ward

Justin Evans Soyuncu Chilwell

Praet Ndidi Maddison

Perez Vardy Gray
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Rest Ndidi and play Choudry

 

[homer]

**** the world

Play the strongest possible team we have, depending on fitness

 

[Miles Away]

Reckon we will lose this, me.

 

[Jeff]

The match isn't televised in the UK, but it is in these countries:


Angola SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Anguilla ESPNPlay Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda ESPNPlay Caribbean
Argentina ESPN Play Sur
Armenia Setanta Sports 2
Aruba ESPNPlay Caribbean
Australia beIN Sports Connect, beIN SPORTS 2, Kayo Sports
Austria DAZN
Azerbaijan Setanta Sports 2
Barbados ESPNPlay Caribbean
Belarus Setanta Sports 2
Belize ESPNPlay Caribbean
Benin SuperSport 5 Africa
Bolivia ESPN Play Sur
Botswana SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Brazil Watch ESPN Brasil, ESPN Extra
British Virgin Islands ESPNPlay Caribbean
Bulgaria Nova Sport Bulgaria
Burkina Faso DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Burundi SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Cameroon SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Canada DAZN
Cape Verde DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Cayman Islands ESPNPlay Caribbean
Central African Republic SuperSport 5 Africa
Chad DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Chile ESPN Play Sur
China PPTV Sport China
Colombia ESPN Play Sur
Comoros SuperSport 5 Africa
Congo SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Congo DR DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Costa Rica Sky HD
Cote D'Ivoire DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Croatia Arena Sport 3
Cuba ESPNPlay Caribbean
Cyprus Cytavision Sports 3, Cytavision on the Go
Denmark Eurosport 2 Denmark, Eurosport Player Denmark, Viaplay Denmark
Djibouti DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Dominica ESPNPlay Caribbean
Dominican Republic ESPNPlay Caribbean, Sky HD
Ecuador ESPN Play Sur
El Salvador Sky HD
Equatorial Guinea SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Eritrea SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Ethiopia DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Gabon DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Gambia DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Germany DAZN
Ghana DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Grenada ESPNPlay Caribbean
Guadeloupe ESPNPlay Caribbean
Guatemala Sky HD
Guinea DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Guinea-Bissau DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Haiti ESPNPlay Caribbean
Honduras ESPNPlay Caribbean, Sky HD
Hungary Digi Sport 3 Hungary
Iceland Stöð 2 Sport 3
Indonesia Mola TV
Israel Sport 4
Italy DAZN
Jamaica ESPNPlay Caribbean
Kazakhstan Setanta Sports 2
Kenya DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Kyrgyzstan Setanta Sports 2
Lesotho DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Liberia SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Madagascar DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Malawi DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Mali SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Martinique ESPNPlay Caribbean
Mauritania DStv Now
Mauritius SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Mexico Sky HD, Blue To Go Video Everywhere
Moldova Setanta Sports 2
Montserrat ESPNPlay Caribbean
Mozambique DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Namibia SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
New Zealand beIN Sports Connect New Zealand
Nicaragua Sky HD
Niger SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Nigeria SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Norway Viaplay Norway, Viasport 3
Panama Sky HD
Paraguay ESPN Play Sur
Peru ESPN Play Sur
Portugal Sport TV LIVE, Sport TV4
Puerto Rico ESPNPlay Caribbean
Rwanda SuperSport 5 Africa
Saint Bartelemey ESPNPlay Caribbean
Saint Kitts and Nevis ESPNPlay Caribbean
Saint Lucia ESPNPlay Caribbean
Saint Martin ESPNPlay Caribbean
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ESPNPlay Caribbean
Sao Tome And Principe SuperSport 5 Africa
Senegal DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Seychelles SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Sierra Leone DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
South Africa SuperSport 5, DStv Now
South Sudan DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Sudan DStv Now
Swaziland DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Switzerland DAZN
Tajikistan Setanta Sports 2
Tanzania SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
Timor-Leste Mola TV
Togo DStv Now, SuperSport 5 Africa
Trinidad and Tobago ESPNPlay Caribbean
Turkmenistan Setanta Sports 2
U.S. Virgin Islands ESPNPlay Caribbean
Uganda SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now
United States ESPN+
Uruguay ESPN Play Sur
Uzbekistan Setanta Sports 2
Venezuela ESPN Play Sur
Zambia SuperSport 5 Africa
Zimbabwe SuperSport 5 Africa, DStv Now

 

[tedfoxxx]

Reckon we will lose this, me.

Call yourself a fan you ungrateful bedwetter???

 

[Miles Away]

Call yourself a fan you ungrateful bedwetter???

An absolute coward.

 

[Skitzo]

Rest Ndidi and play Choudry

Wilf can rest in the FA Cup game

 

[tedfoxxx]

An absolute coward.

I reckon we’re going to shit all over them.

 

[Graz]

Schmeichel

Justin
Morgan
Soyuncu
Fuchs

Hamza
Praet
Maddison

Perez
Nacho
Gray


Rotation ahead of the Man City game but its still a strong side. Would rest Maddison but one of the starting midfielders needs to stay in and Tielemans needs the rest more I think.

 

[pork pie fox]

Schmeichel

Justin
Morgan
Soyuncu
Fuchs

Hamza
Praet
Maddison

Perez
Nacho
Gray


Rotation ahead of the Man City game but its still a strong side. Would rest Maddison but one of the starting midfielders needs to stay in and Tielemans needs the rest more I think.

I agree, that’s the sort of lineup I can see happening.

 

[Brown Nose]

The team I'd pick:

Ward, Justin, Morgan, Benkovic, Fuchs, Mendy, Choudhury, Albrighton, Perez, Iheanacho, Barnes

The team I think BR will pick:

Schmeichel, Ricardo, Morgan, Soyuncu, Fuchs, Ndidi, Praet, Tielemans, Perez, Iheanacho, Barnes

 

[homer]

Nah, we is going shit or bust

Schmeichel
Ricardo
Evans
Soyuncu
Chilwell
Ndidi
Tielemans
Maddison
Perez
Barnes
Vardy

’tis the only way

 

[David Gwilliam]

Is the game on TV?

 

[Jeff]

Is the game on TV?

Are you ignoring me? https://talkingballs.uk/threads/everton-vs-leicester-league-cup-qf.40027/#post-1369323

 

[Orifice]

At least it is on in Kyrgyzstan. Great stuff.