Well well still buzzing from last night and what a difference (even a point) makes to the table.
HISTROY
This will be the 120th time we will have faced the blue side of Liverpool
Everton Won 34
Leeds Won 52
with 33 Draws
In the PL the stats are
Played 27
Everton Won 8
Leeds Won 8
with 11 Draws
In the PL Everton have scored 33 goals and conceded 28
Everton's biggest win, at home, against us was 7-1 in March 1937, and our biggest win at Goodison Park was 4-1 in 1991 4th round of the league cup. Our biggest victory against the toffees was a 5-2 victory in 1975 in the old League One
After last night’s high scoring 3-3 draw we have played out three 4-4 draws against the toffee's down through the years most recently the 4-4 at GP on the 24th Oct. 1999 when Michael Bridges (twice), Harry the Jew and Woodgate were all on the scoresheet and Kevin Cambell (2) Hutchison and David Wier scored their 4th in the 90th min to share the spoils. So can we expect another goal-feast on Saturday, the way this Leeds play I’m expecting more than 2.5 goals before the final whistle sounds.
Everton Football Club, based in Liverpool, holds the record for the most seasons spent in the English top flight. Since being founded in 1878, the club has won the top division title nine times.
The Toffees also have five FA Cups as well as a European Cup Winners' Cup triumph to their name.
During the 1927-1928 campaign, Dixie Dean scored a record 60 league goals for Everton as they went on to win the First Division. Everton enjoyed much success in the 60s and 80s.
In 1985, they nearly secured an incredible treble. After winning the League and the Cup Winners' Cup, they lost out in the FA Cup Final to SCUMCHESTER. In more recent years, long term manager David Moyes secured consistently high Premier League finishes without ever really challenging for the title. The Scottish man left in 2013 to take over at Old Toilet.
Home ground history:
Stanley Park - 1878
Priory Road - 1882
Anfield - 1884
Goodison Park - 1892
CURRENTLY
We are 15th in the PL table with 23 pts from 22 games, Everton are 16th in the table on 19 pts however have a game in hand on us. So regardless of results this weekend we can’t drop down any place which gives us a bit of breathing space, but with Brentford playing Palace on Saturday that result could determine if we move up a place or two.
Current Form (last 5 games)
Leeds 7 points D, L, W, W, L Scoring 10 Conceding 11 - No Cleansheet
Everton 1 point L, L, L, L, D Scoring 5 Conceding 10 - No Cleansheet
Despite these figures the probability stats for this game are
Everton Win 44%
Leeds Win 30%
Draw 26%
Famous Celeb Toffee's
Jodie Comer
Amanda Holden Sir Paul McCartney
Dame Judy Dench Sylvester Stallone Michael B. Jordan
Ian Astbury - Lead singer of The Cult
Tommy Fleetwood - golfer
George Costigan - actor
Tony Blackburn - BBC Radio stalwart
Ian Hart - Liverpool-born actor
Mary Berry - Celebrity chef
Bill Bryson - Author
Kenny Everett - comedian
Leonard Rossiter - Actor (Rising Damp and The Rise & Fall of Reginald Perrin)
Tony Bellew - Boxer
John Parrott - Snooker Player
To the Game Itself
Let’s start with our possible starting xi, I can’t see many changes from last night's side (depending on any possible knocks that may have been picked up), a good few went down with cramp, Llorentte, Jack, Pascal all needed attention too so hopefully they will be ok, and that Rapha who had a poor game (let’s call a spade a spade) that he will have the jet lag behind him. I thought Klich was out on his feet, and fair play to the guy he must have covered every blade of grass, so maybe Forshaw will start in midfield instead of Klich.
THE BOOKIES CALL
Paddy Power sees it as
Everton 6/5
Draw 5/2
Leeds 21/10
Despite Paddy Powers obvious hatred to us Leeds Fans Bull going for 1-3
James, Jack & Joffy in the 86min to wrap things up
Sidenotes
Eventough it’s been awhile since we kept a cleansheet (Palace at ER last November) and i would love it to see our backline & keeper keep a cleansheet we are just way too open and as i said earlier this could have 4-5 goals in it. A nil - nil is only 11/1 but the 4-4 is 200/1, Paddy obviously needs his head shaking
Observations
Ye will all have noticed in my Villa MDT i left the weather forecast information out, so im loathed to change and include one now so if you could M'Lud will you check on your weather prediction stone and inform the lads heading to game if they will need a brolly and their cashmere jacket or will a high quality pullover suffice??
Something that can be banked on
We won’t be last on MOTD either;)
MOT
An irrelevant sidenote
The reason why I didn’t mention their manager is because I don’t care about him, he means nothing to me so why should I waste time in my MDT on him.
Great MDT Bull. Good Luck!
If I were MB:
Meslier
Ayling Llorente Pascal Dallas
Koch Forshaw
Rodrigo
Rafa James Harrison
Just hoping for another good LUFC performance.
Quality MDT Bull and that's sorted my reading material by the pool today to kill a few hours! 🤣👍😜
I'm going for another high scoring game as we'll be knackered but still be able to break.... 4-3 to us with Raphinha back on form after being rested against Villa.
Rodrigo to grab a hat trick and a curler from Rapha....
Let's hope for at least a point to keep Everton 4pts behind us ....
Fat Frank will be right up for this game.
IMO, He out thought MB in the second leg of the playoffsbut that was with a team he had spent months at who were used to his style.
Not sure this Everton will match Derby's drive and looking at his face during the Newcastle game and the fans reaction to him, I am not sure he actually wants to be there either.
I can only clutch straws in the hope for a win on Saturday. 3 more points and we move closer to safety.
Lumpturd might not want to be at Goodison and ya it does look like the toffees haven't taken him in, but he wont want to keep losing or not care that the team is not picking up points because we all know and he knows its the manager that sees the door first not the players.
If FL has a poor run (fingers crossed they get nothing on tomorrow) and he is sacked by Everton that will be 2 fairly high profile managerial positions he will have taken and failed and his future as an English top flight manager could be gone or at best his next appointment could be his last.
Maybe he needs to be realistic and ok he may have been a fabulous player that dosen't automatically mean you make a fabulous manager. Perhaps, if sacked at everton, he will take sometime out put a backroom team that he can trust in place and maybe in 2024/25 take on a L1 side or a mid-table championship team at best and try to re-ignite his managerial career.
Another great MDT Bull and again, lots of time and effort spent on research👍
Everton are unsettled at the moment and there’s nothing I would like better than to give whining ‘Fat Frank’ a good hiding...And in football too!...🤣
🎵Stop crying Frank Lampard🎵
On Saturday we will witness the annihilation of ‘The Toffees’ at the hands (feet) of The Mighty Leeds United.
4-1 to us with Raph, (about time!) Jack, DJ and Rodrigo on the scoresheet.
Cummmmmmmmonnnnn U Mighty Fookin Whites💛💙⚽️🔥🥊