Intro and Team News
IBO Reporter - channonite
Intro
|Everton have never been a team that Saints have been able to cope with that well and that goes back years, home and away. I always remember the black day at Goodison Park many years ago, where Stevie Williams and Peter Osgood both got sent off. The full back, John Bailey was held responsible by Saints fans and forever after he got incessantly booed, even when he got a move to Blackburn some time later.
The omens are not looking too good this season, with both Richarlison and Dele Alli likely to be in the Everton side. Both have shown an unnatural habit of being able to score every time their sides have met us. Add to that the fact that recently appointed manager Frank Lampard seems to have reinvigorated a hitherto moribund Everton and is also related to 'Arry Redknapp and things were not looking too promising.
Thankfully this is football and Saints recent form probably trumps all the above. Lampard is a decent manager though and not to be underestimated.
Team News
|When the team was announced it was immediately clear that the rumours of an injury to Perraud were probably right, as the only change was Livramento coming in at right back, with Ward-Prowse shifting across to left back. There was no sign of the Frenchman on the bench. Everybody else was as the starting line-up at the last game against Manchester United away.
Right to left - Adams had a great game and was unlucky not to score, Walker-Peters was up and down the pitch like a flipping metronome, Salisu was immense again and Livramento was good, without quite reaching the heights of earlier in the season
Southampton
- 44 Forster
- 21 Livramento
- 35 Bednarek
- 22 Salisu
- 2 Walker-Peters
- 17 S Armstrong (Djenepo 90'+3)
- 8 Ward-Prowse
- 6 Romeu
- 24 Elyounoussi
- 10 Adams (A Armstrong 90'+1)
- 18 Broja (Long 83')
Substitutes
- 5 Stephens
- 7 Long
- 9 A Armstrong
- 13 Caballero
- 19 Djenepo
- 20 Smallbone
- 27 Diallo
- 32 Walcott
- 43 Valery
Everton
- 1 Pickford
- 23 Coleman
- 4 Holgate
- 5 Keane
- 2 Kenny
- 17 Iwobi (Townsend 65')
- 6 Allan - Booked 15' (André Gomes 45')
- 30 van de Beek
- 24 Gordon (Alli 75')
- 9 Calvert-Lewin - Booked 40'
- 7 Richarlison
Substitutes
- 3 Patterson
- 14 Townsend
- 15 Begovic
- 19 Mykolenko
- 21 André Gomes
- 32 Branthwaite
- 33 Rondón
- 34 El Ghazi
- 36 Alli
