EVERTON (0) vs (2) LIVERPOOL - FULL TIME

Everton's playing an early match against their merseyside rival - Liverpool. This is one important match that the Toffees has to win. Hibbo is back on the right, allowing Neville to take up the defensive midfield role. The stage is set for Everton to give Pool a beating! COYB!

Liverpool have been controlling the match but Everton had the opportunityin the 13th minute corner, but Timmy could not power the shot towards goal.

Fellaini nearly scored in the 27th minute with his strike, but the referee ruled an infringement against Everton. There's really not much of space for players to move. Timmy had a penalty claim waved away in the 43rd minute.

The first half ain't much of a livewire. Let's see what happens in the 2nd half.

Moyes must be wondering when it'll be a good time to bring in Saha, who has been a threat in the last two games and soon after, Everton trails in the 57th minute. Everton 0-1 Liverpool. Damn, Everton is two down now. Total collapse of Everton's defence in the 61st minute. Everton 0-2. Saha is on for Hibbo.

Everton needs to score to press Liverpool in the final 15 minutes. Chance in the 77th minute but it was not meant to be. Everton's game is getting from bad to worse. Timmy has been sent off for a foul on a Liverpool player. Disaster! Now, I just want the match to end. Even Everton's passes are going haywire!

Imagine! EVerton has not won a single match at Goodison! Sigh!

Score: Everton 0-2 Liverpool
Scorer: Not even in it!
Assist: Painful!
Sub: Saha

Actim Players Ranking: 230908

Everton players in the Top 100.

Yakubu: 9th (82) - Fifth best striker (23/9); Ninth (26/8), (16/9) - Best position: 9th
Arteta: 16th (78) - Fourth best midfielder (16/9); Seventh (26/8), (23/9); Tenth (19/8), (2/9); - Best position: 12th
Neville: 65th (57) - Best position: 57th
Yobo: 76th (53) - Best position: 85th

Previous Top 100.
Lescott: 90th (41) - Best position: 60th
Baines: 82nd (25) - Best position: 82nd

HULL (2) vs (2) EVERTON - FULL TIME

I was tracking this match from the web as it wasn't shown on cable and boy, was it nerve wrecking still!

The fans were hoping that Everton will do fine, but the concern has always been the leaky defence.The players are good but Moyes knows the problem was that nobody outside of the team could contest the defence places. Jacobsen was unfortunately injured in his international match and missed his debut for Everton. He would have kept the defence on their toes.

But it was the same start as most of their matches this season - Everton was one goal down in the first half. Disappointed no doubt, but I always felt that Everton stood a chance somehow. Then Everton went behind with another goal just at the start of the 2nd half. Scored by our very own Neville! My heart ebbed to the lowest point. this would have been the worst time for Everton to concede as while you're trying to gain parity, you realised you get kicked in the face with a second goal.

Everton's defence was totally out of sorts and it not until the introduction of Saha that lifted the spirits of the team. The first Everton goal came courtesy of Everton's talisman Timmy. A blast of a shot! The second came six minutes later with Ossie putting one past the opposing goalkeeper. What a miracle. Everton nearly snatched a late winner with Saha prodding through to the goal but his shot was well saved.

Score: Hull 2-2 Everton
Scorer: Timmy, Ossie
Assist: Yak
Subs: Lescott, Saha, Vaughany

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EVERTON (2) vs (2) STANDARD LIEGE - FULL TIME

It was a tough game for Everton. As much as they tried to buy this win by purchasing Standard Liege's better player, Marouane Felliani. The team was happy to see the return of Ossie.

You'd think that with a full complement of the first XI players, Everton should be doing quite ok. But it turned out otherwise. In the 8th minute, Lescott was one of the culprit who could have cleared the ball away. Instead, he dillied-dallied and the ball was tapped beyond him. A cross and a goal. Everton was down 1-0.

In the 22 minute, Everton maintained parity with Yak scoring from a lovely pass from Ossie. Wonderful contribution, and wonderful sweeping goal.

But Everton was on a backfoot again when an innoculous ball that was floated across the Everton penalty box was slotted in by Yobo. Own goal!

But in the 37th minute, Castillo tried to prove why Moyes should consider taking him in on a permanent basis when he blasted the ball into the net! Everton 2-2 Standard Liege and it ended with this score.

Everton will have the unenviable task of needing to score to win in the 2nd leg. It'll be tough. Well, I guess we might as well focus on our Premiership.

Actim Players Ranking: 160908

Everton players in the Top 100.

Arteta: 12th (75) - Fourth best midfielder (16/9); Seventh (26/8); Tenth (19/8), (2/9); - Best position: 12th
Yakubu: 16th (67) - Ninth best striker (26/8), (16/9) - Best position: 16th
Neville: 75th (45) - Best position: 75th
Yobo: 85th (41) - Best position: 85th
Lescott: 90th (41) - Best position: 60th


Previous Top 100.
Baines: 82nd (25) - Best position: 82nd

STOKE (2) vs EVERTON (3) - FULL TIME

Timmy is back!!! Hope that he'll hold on fine. Also, there're starting places for Fellaini and Castillo. First time in a very long while that Moyes could play 4-4-2.

Very quickly, Everton gave away a free kick just at the edge of the penalty box. Somehow, Everton is not settling down as fast they would like to. Stoke seems to be controlling the game for the first 10 minutes of the game. Good stop by Howard in the 12th minute. The ball was actually going in.

Everton's playing rubbish while Stoke's defending really well. Can't really understand why Everton players are always fighting for the same ball as well. Really not enough communication on the field; very patchy. It's 32nd minute and Everton has not even tested the opposing goalkeeper.

From nowhere, Everton's in the lead in the 40th minute. A long ball trapped by Arteta who one touch reached Cahill. With another nice one touch, the ball came into the path of Yak who made no mistake anywhere around the penalty box. Stoke 0-1 Everton. Timmy's assist.

Everton nearly scored through a counter attack but a nice tackle on Cahill saw the ball being cleared away. Half time. Everton really needs to play better than that looking at the players we have at our disposal.

Second half sees a sluggish start once again. But Everton put in another goal from Arteta's free kick. No one closed Anichebe who flicked the ball beyond anybody's reach. Stoke 0-2 Everton. Arteta's assist.

Stoke scores one from a bullet volley. Stoke 1-2 Everton. Stoke scored again but was denied because of a foul on Yobo. But Stoke really scored this time. Stoke 2-2 Everton. Rubbish defence once again. Everton really don't know how to handle Stoke. In the 72nd minute, Everton was supposed to be awarded a penalty but instead, they were given a free kick and the chance has past.

And now, a miracle has happened!!! Everton scores from a corner!!!!! Timmy heads in a thunderbolt in the 77th minute! Crazy! Coming back from a six months layoff, and now he scores. Stoke 2-3 Everton. Timmy is taken off, Rodwell replaces him. Assist by Arteta.

Suddenly, everything comes alive. Both sides were going at each other's necks and it was edgy stuff! But Everton managed to crawl to the finishing line, barely. Timmy made a big difference tonight.

Score: Stoke 2-3 Everton
Scorers: Yak, Anichebe, Timmy
Assists: Arteta 2, Timmy
Subs: Rodwell, Vaughany

Will We Get To See Our New Buys?

So the dust of the transfer market has settled and Everton has brought in five players. So will they play?

Much news has surrounded the Toffees most expensive player, Marouane Fellaini. Will he be our midfield maestro? Will Segundo Castillo be able to replace Cars? Will we see Louis Saha and Lars Jacobsen play in the next couple of months?

Tomorrow's match will tell.

Actim Players Ranking: 020908

Everton players in the Top 100.

Arteta: 26th (47) - Tenth best midfielder (19/8); Seventh (26/8); Tenth (2/9) - Best position: 17th
Yakubu: 44th (32) - Ninth best striker (26/8) - Best position: 25th


Previous Top 100.
Lescott: 60th (29) - Best position: 60th
Baines: 82nd (25) - Best position: 82nd

Transfer Deadline

So finally, Moyes promise of bringing five to six players has come true. The fourth player to join Everton is our current record breaker Marouane Felliani. It's claimed that the club has been tracking him for the past two years and Felliani's stock has sky-rocketed and now he has cost Everton 15 million pounds. There're two fronts on how Felliani will handle the Premiership:- Learn the physical way of handling the defenders, or sink. I hope that we have not purchased him on impluse because of Moyes's promise to bring in players.

The fifth signing is ex-Wigan shot stoppoer Carlo Nash. Nothing to crow about, but he's brought in as a cover to Howard and guess what, he's been given the No. 1 jersey. But is he really No. 1?

So all in all here're the make-up of the new players:- A perpectually injured striker, a second rated goalkeeper, a free transfer defender, a south american so-so midfielder and a 15 million pound youth.

So will Everton compete in the top five at the end of this season. With much luck. I hope I'm proven wrong. I really hope I am.

A Striker Checks In!

Louis Saha has arrived! All you wish for him is to be fit, at least for 10 games in a season. Saha is a good player, but he's as fragile as toothpicks. On his good day, he would match any world class striker. Just cross my knickers and hope everything holds up.

Truthfully, we need another few other players, but we are really just a couple of hours away before the the transfer deadline. So can Moyes pull through a few more loan deal?

We'll see.