bluekipper.com - Everton Match Report- Blackburn

Everton: Martyn, Hibbert, Yobo, Clarke, Naysmith, Nyarko, Linderoth, Gravesen, Kilbane, Campbell, Radzinski.

Bench: Unsworth (Nyarko 46), Jeffers (Naysmith 81), McFadden (Kilbane 46), Chadwick, Simonsen.

Referee: Phil Dowd

Well fuckin' hell were do I start with this one.Can someone tell me how a side who have Chelsea pinned in their own half for 80% of the game last week can throw in a first half performance, so lacking in creativity, intelligence and courage.Moyesy has got his work cut out here, were as we have not been able to score for Christ knows how many games, at least we could call on a fairly solid defence to capture us a point here and there.Young Peter Clarke was called in as a replacement for Alan Stubbs who went down with the flu virus sweeping through Goodison just before the kick off, and unfortunately for Clarkey he was involved with a group of players who had a nightmare.Within thirteen minutes, headers from shite man Babbel, and ex Manc and Jordans beau Dwight Yorke went flying into Martyns net.These two players were given the freedom of the Everton's eighteen yard box, and minutes later it could have been worse as Babbel got free again only to have his header saved by Martyn.The on looking recently sacked Reidy was looking on, wondering whether his ex Leeds team had started playing in a Royal Blue kit.This is all I am prepared to say on the first half other than we were shite, as shite as I have seen in a long long time.

HALF TIME: Blackburn 2, Everton 0.

After a well received bollicking, Moyesy shuffled his deck a bit. On came Faddy for a very in effectual Kilbane, and Unsworth for Nyarko.This seemed to spark the troops into action and within four minutes a decent run by Faddy down the right set up The Rad with an easy header wide to Friedel's right, to halve Blackburn's lead.Was the cavalry charge on, no not really, yes we looked more hungry but the football seemed to go out of the window, as an aerial bombardment rained down on Blackburn's defence worthy of the Luftwaffe.Linderoth and Campbell found there way into the referees notebook, as at last Everton tried to make a game of it.Blackburn were not totally lying down and in the 65th minute Martyn was called upon to make a flying save from substitute Gallagher, the game had a bit of tempo to it now with The Blues pressing hard.Linderoth was unlucky to see his header go inches wide and with ten minutes to go Jeffers was brought on to replace Nace, in a last throw of the dice.Seconds were left on the clock when Grav threw in a centre and inexplicably Unsworth put the ball over when it seemed so much easier to break the back of the net.Dumbo still had time to let one fly from thirty odd yards, but Friedel watched it settle on the roof of the net.Referee Dowd blew his whistley thing and that was that, Everton got what they deserved out of an extremely inept performance.Jack Shit.Bottom three is now were we have settled upon, and if this team of under achievers don't get their fingers out soon, that is were we will be staying.

FULL TIME: Blackburn 2, Everton 1.

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Moyesy says: “I was frustrated because of our overall performance especially in the first half. At least in the second half we had more blood and thunder about us and we showed some guts. If nothing else we had to show that we had a bit more spirit in the second half because in the first, people probably wondered whether or not Everton were up for the game."

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Team News Update
Alan Stubbs is out of tonights game. He has not been able to shake off a virus he has had over the weekend. Peter Clarke or David Unsworth will now partner Joey Yobo in the defence.

Just got back from the local after spending a mostly enjoyable afternoon watching the shite get beat by the lovable Mancs. The pub was chocker with shite fans who don't go to the game and plenty of smiling Toffeemen. I stayed and seen Chelski stuff the barcodes. I was in a very pleasant mood until a shite fan informed me that if we get beat by Blackburn we go into the bottom three. I told the shite to do one and told him that I love Gary Neville.

This is one of those must get something from games. It looks like David Moyes will pair Wayne and The Rad up front because Big Dunc and Super Kev will be missing. Stubbsey will be in for the injured Davie Weir. Other than that it will be the same team that took on Chelsea. And if we perform the way we did in the Chelsea game especially in the 1st half, I see no reason why we can't get a result on tomorrow night.

David Moyes said: "We won both games against Blackburn last year, but if I’m being honest, Blackburn were the better team. But luck made all the difference - and this is the point that I’ve been making - that performances tend to lead to results, but now and again they don’t - just like we didn’t against Chelsea last week.
Monday night’s game is a big and important game for both teams, but aren’t they all in the Premiership?. They’re exciting games with big crowds coming to watch them and hopefully this will be no different. From my point of view it’s the next game, it’s the most important one and we’ll be doing everything we can to try and get the three points."

Alan Irvine said: "We haven’t picked up the points that we should have done. I’ve certainly seen Blackburn lose a couple of games that they shouldn’t have lost and we’ve felt that way as well, the latest being the Chelsea game. But we’re both desperate for the points and it’s very important that we get them.”

Everton from: Martyn, Hibbert, Yobo, Unsworth, Gravesen, McFadden, Chadwick, Radzinski, Rooney, Linderoth, Naysmith, Kilbane, Jeffers, Campbell, Clarke, Simonsen, Osman, Nyarko.

Joggers eleven to start: Martyn, Hibbert, Stubbs, Yobo, Naysmith, Gravesen, Linderoth, Nyarko, Kilbane, Radzinski, Rooney.