Everton Players on the International scene this weekend

Well, seems they're doing okay without him. Whopped Niger 5-0 yesterday and he was not in the squad.

He should be fit again.

Watching the goal it looks an easy tap in, but watch him signal for the ball having to fight to get past a defender continually blocking his way before slotting it home, then he gives that defender a shoulder charge on his way back to restart the game, he took the captains armband when he came on at the start of the second half.

This was in the second game of their games; they play Holland in the third game next Tuesday 11:00 am BST.

With dynamic pricing I'm going to wait on buying tickets. They're already planning presales of minimum $200. But in the club World Cup they did the same but people who waited until the last minute got semi final tickets for $8!!

I'm just hoping in Kansas City we get some half interesting teams. My nightmare scenario is we get Switzerland, New Zealand, UAE and Honduras.

I know he has scored a good few goals for Wales (9 in 22 games) and has got a few for West Brom already this season but I can't say that I was that impressed. An off day perhaps? Has anybody seen enough of him to form a more rounded opinion?

I'm definitely gonna wait until the last minute and try to get resale tickets for myself and my nephew.

Here's your answer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Wales

It took 66 minutes for a England player to get on the score sheet. Madueke and Rashford for all their possession created nothing apart from that one poor cross that their defender headed in. Tuchel has no idea just like he proved at Chelski. He is just winging it and collecting a big paycheck. Notice how he picked a lot of London players.

When is Fifa going to put all teams like Andorra into a larger qualifying group and let them fight it out for the right to play the top ranked teams.

Pickford could have had a 90 minute snooze.

It’s amazing how charlatans land these roles. I read a German papers insight into Ten Haag this week. Apparently he favored push ups over ball work, refused to speak to anyone unless absolutely necessary, didn’t deliver team talks, told players to figure out their own tactics, and only wanted to sign players listed with his agents. Leverkusen weren’t too proud to admit their mistake and immediately sack him. But the more I watch the more I suspect Tuchel is a similar charlatan

Also Everton’s Douglas Lukjancics played the 90 minutes in goal for England is the same game. He made an absolute howler for the first Spain goal - think Lloris in the 2018 World Cup final - and was then beaten from 25 yards in a shot he probably should have managed to get a decent hand on. Not a good day for him. Couldn’t do anything about the 3rd Spain goal, which was one of the softest penalties I have even seen given (for a flailing hand).

This is a very good group of youngsters - including Dowman and Monga playing up a few age groups - and they could and should have beaten Spain comfortably.

Anyway, I was able to get my tickets to the Chelsea game in March. 7th home game, the first one in HD after falling in love with the Grand Old Lady from the first sight. Spare me a thought tomorrow when you see the LTU-NED scoreline. UTFT!

Must be rough mate. Especially as Latvia, Georgia and now Uzbekistan of former smaller Soviet states have all qualified for major tournaments. But at least your guys are no worse than the larger, more established footballing nation of Belarus? Anyway enjoy the Everton visit mate.

Must be rough mate. Especially as Latvia, Georgia and now Uzbekistan of former smaller Soviet states have all qualified for major tournaments. But at least your guys are no worse than the larger, more established footballing nation of Belarus? Anyway enjoy the Everton visit mate.

Try this one to cheer yourself up

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1530708.Stamping_Grounds

What confuses me is the BBC commentary generally damning of Ireland for failing

to win. Ireland is a country of 3 million people with a low level poorly paid “professional” league of 10 teams. While football arguably ranks behind rugby, hurling and Gaelic football in terms of popularity. Hungary has three times the population, recent and historic success in football and at least one world class player — something Ireland presently lack. In reality, based on population, league strength etc Ireland is at the level of Armenia. But somehow people seem to expect them to be rubbing shoulders with Portugal. Similarly, Scotland although at least Scotland has a semi competitive league and a much longer football history. I say this as someone with a Scottish Mum, and two Irish grandparents but expectations are out of whack. Meanwhile the Welsh similarly sized population wise seem to accept their limitations and population size and are just excited for the odd major tournament appearance.

It was an old-fashioned game of two halves. Ireland was in a real trouble most of the 1st half and then fully dominating the second one. Irelands weakness is that their team has a real soft centre in both defence and midfield.

By the way and according to Wikipedia, Ireland's population is over 5 million which is one million plus more than Croatia. Just underlines how great the Croats have been in the international competitions over the years.

Yeah, even before independence, Croatia has punched above its weight producing top class players. Maybe it's something in the Adriatic water?

My U in O-Level Geography was justified after all!

I haven't watched Ireland since big Jack was there but he was lucky as most of his starting 11 were playing for Premier League clubs.

I got my information off another Everton website which stated “ An assist and a goal for Armstrong” which I thought was right but I'll take your word that it wasn't.

I definitely read the subs wrong, I thought they all came on at half time but re read the report and he came on as you said in the 69th minute, sorry for the misinformation.

Where have all these babas come from?

Here's your answer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_Laid_an_Egg

Source, Scott?

Maybe we released him a tad soon...

For what it's worth I'm not sure he'll ever reach the very top and play regularly for a decent Premier League side. His numbers for Northern Ireland are exceptionally good, and he's a decent footballer, but I've seen more that I like in Harrison Armstrong - who I think can be an Everton regular in years to come.

Let’s see how he progresses maybe he will get to a higher level, it didn’t upset me when he left like it did when Liam Walsh left for Bristol City, I thought he had gone on loan but they bought him for over £2M I think—but like his Everton career he has suffered with injuries which I think has spoiled his chances of making it to the top—- but he was ambitious and really thought he could go further and he trained hard and went back for further training at Everton after most training sessions had finished for the day.

10 in 24 for northern Ireland, 3 in 4 for wba. Scored against Germany.

The game ended 2:3, Memphis Depay got a brace and became the all-time leading goal scorer for team Netherlands, passing Robin van Persie in the process.

But it was a surreal feeling. And it definitely made me smile to see the Dutch fans going through what we went years ago - most of the social media comments were marked with the hashtag #KoemanOut.

I was waiting for a chance to use the Ronald-McDonald phrase on air, but the game was unexpectedly too intense to do that. Happily threw some sneaky jabs at Van Dijk, though.

Somewhere after the 80th minute Koeman actually made some defensive changes, bringing on J. Timber and De Ligt. It was astonishing to see the 7th ranked national team making defense oriented substitutions and bringing on Arsenal and Man Utd players to protect the slender lead against our bench, who play in the local league and get paid somewhere around 800-900 pounds a month.

"The Netherlands are celebrating their victory against Lithuania, whereas Lithuania is celebrating its victory against the national football apathy" was one of my closing lines. Woof!

Thanks to anyone who have read this, I've been a long time lurker on this forum with the occasional post or two in the past decade. But today I feel like this is the place where I can release all the emotions.

Oh, I went to the game wearing my "We are Everton, we shall not be moved!" T-shirt from Nychyl and left a few "BALTIC BLUES" stickers around the stadium. It was a good evening.

That's my report for "Everton Fans on the International scene this weekend". Love from Lithuania, COYB!

But hey, guys, no recriminations.

Ian #40, after he took himself to Belgium (his decision, not Everton's), Price scored one goal in 63 appearances for Standard. And he scored 1 in 15 for WBA last season.

Seems like he's maturing into a class player at 21. Great. But it's a bit early to speculate we might have missed out.

Dave #42, turns out there was no reason to grieve Walsh's departure. He lasted only 18 games at Bristol City, failed again at Swansea, and played for Luton last season, where he was red-carded three times in just 1400 minutes as they were relegated to League One.

Reguilon, the 28-year-old, is a free agent, would he not be worth a gamble?

Christy
It's a mystery
Why we don't get full back cover
From the free market without bother
The rest would be history

This long weekend's football has been atrocious. Roll on Saturday.

Christy #47, I think Reguilon has started one game in the last 16 months. Can't imagine he's remotely game-fit.

Reading your post makes reflect that football is a game of 11 v 11 and upsets can happen anytime and it was almost one for Lithuanian football's history books.

I hate international breaks though. The footy is generally abject and ToffeeWeb tends to turn into 'my random views on everything'

Now THAT'S corrupt.

Jake O'brien looking all at sea in a Back 3

I cringed reading the BBC commentary early on and Kevin Doyle talking about Ireland winning 4-0. Have Ireland -- even when they had good players -- ever been a team to trash opponents away from home?

That being said, Portugal are far and away the best team in the group. So Ireland were at best competing for second with Hungary, who are stronger than Ireland anyway. Even then, second place might earn you a playoff against Germany or Italy as things stand.

So I don't see it as a surprise or disappointment they won't go to the World Cup while Given and Stephen Kelly seem to be shocked. But the extent of the failure was surprising.

Great story, for them. On the flip side, Fifa are currently selling "right to buys" for $600 for first round group games. You don't get a ticket for your $600 but you get the option to buy one when they go on sale.

Can't imagine too many RTB purchasers were banking on Cape Verde being in that hat for the draw. With Suriname top of their CONCACAF group maybe some are in for a nasty surprise when the draw is made.

Yes I know all about Liam and his career, I felt for the lad, injuries spoilt his chances of proving himself at the top, spoilt him of going to the competition with four or five other Everton young players when England won it.

Loved his attitude, always wanted to win, on the other players' backs when they made a rick and had a go at himself when he made one, a great trainer couldn't get enough of it listening to other people talking about him, I'll always grieve for players with bottle who play for the team first and foremost.

Did you ever see him Mike?