League cup QF - Everton v Leicester

[Jeff]

Due to be played week commencing 16th December.

 

[Lako42]

Shit draw

 

[Jimmy Lad]

Terrible draw.

 

[Brown Nose]

Awful. Against the most difficult opponent likely to go full strength.

Away again. The two Manchester sides given byes. Even if we get through the semi automatically becomes very difficult.

 

[Lako42]

Would have preferred Man City at home

 

[Jimmy Lad]

Would have preferred Man City at home

Would have preferred any of the other 6 teams (at home)

 

[Brown Nose]

 

[tedfoxxx]

They’ve obviously decided that they want Manchester and Merseyside derbies in the semi finals.

Its up to us to spoil their plans!

 

[tedfoxxx]

Doesn’t matter who you get drawn against when your squad is obliterated by injuries and you can’t afford replacements.

 

[Jeff]

We don't have much of a history with Everton in cup games.

We've never played them in the League Cup before.

We've played them twice in the FA cup. Musa coming off the bench to score two in a 2-1 win at Goodison in 2017, and a 3-1 home defeat in 1968.

We've also played them in the Full Members Cup (known as Zenith Data Systems Cup at the time), a 2-1 win in 1991. I remember a long range Steve Thompson goal in that game.

 

[Miles Away]

Crappest of draws both in our game and the other fixtures.

 

[H T B]

Some over reaction going on.

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

We don't have much of a history with Everton in cup games.

We've never played them in the League Cup before.

We've played them twice in the FA cup. Musa coming off the bench to score two in a 2-1 win at Goodison in 2017, and a 3-1 home defeat in 1968.

We've also played them in the Full Members Cup (known as Zenith Data Systems Cup at the time), a 2-1 win in 1991. I remember a long range Steve Thompson goal in that game.

The only memory of the 1968 match for me was Everton’s yellow shirts, until I watched the Pathé News clips on you tube. Despite a cracking goal from David Nish, we certainly went out with a whimper, especially as we assumed our name was on the cup that year after the luck of the draw gave us easy ties against plucky underdogs like Barrow, Man City and Rotherham.

 

[M17TT C]

Home tie would have been great but surely a better draw for us than the likes of City or United away??

 

[Jeff]

Home tie would have been great but surely a better draw for us than the likes of City or United away??

An away game against Oxford United or Colchester United would have been better.

 

[homer]

Home tie would have been great but surely a better draw for us than the likes of City or United away??

We can't play ourselves

 

[homer]

It's a shit draw, and that's that

But a winnable one

 

[Miles Away]

Evertons fixtures around that time are brutal.

Leicester, Liverpool, Chelsea, United, this game, Arsenal

 

[Lako42]

Evertons fixtures around that time are brutal.

They are now

 

[Miles Away]

They are now

The mighty super sexy foxes of Leicester twice in a month. Unfair to them.