The Skipper

Looks like 4-3-3.

He hasn't been poor man, come on. Yes he hasn't been in his mesmerising, inspired form in the last 2 and a half games, but to say he's been poor is over exaggerating it.

Why both...

I would bring on Schurrle and Ramires right now, we need Ramires' energy in midfield and Oscar is having an absolute shocker and is a liability at the moment. Would rather let Eden have a go at number 10.

Take off Oscar before he gets another yellow. Way too slow today.

Everton playing some wonderful stuff.

Fair play, Martinez has set his team up excellently.

Opening 20 minutes or so was mostly Everton dominating and creating at will but we've settled now. Oscar has had an absolute shocker and is breaking down most of our attacks hence why we've struggled offensively but overall we've been below average.

Jagielka's had a game and a half fair play.

Get Willian or Eden in at number 10 and put on Schurrle IMO.

Eto'o has been okay, he's feeding off absolute scraps though, not much he can do.

If your number 10 is having such an off game of course you're going to struggle to keep the ball or produce anything in the final third. Oscar needs to step it up or I can see him going off soon.

Oscar's in Barry's pocket.

Oscar is looking so lethargic.

Everton are carving us open with will.

Oscar is losing possession in the final third too often. He seems fatigued.

Really envious of Everton's fullbacks. We'd be a lot better going forward if we had those two starting for us.

That work rate from Willian. Excellent.

Traore not starting. Huge news. They've replaced him with Naismith.

https://twitter.com/AndersonFlows/status/437201092448124928

It's pretty much the same, it depends on the game plan we're going to implement. In this case, I would've probably picked the same team as Everton aren't going to put 11 men behind the ball as they are pretty comfortable in possession, so you want that defensive solidness which is what the back four of Azpi - Terry - Cahill - Bane provides. Against teams that just pack their men behind the ball though I would pick a different back four, one that included Luiz and Cole, as they'll help us to be more threatening offensively. The front six remain the same in both teams, apart from when we need more pace in midfield, in that case I'd put in Ramires for Lampard.

Everton XI: Howard Coleman Distin Jagielka Baines Barry McCarthy Pienaar Osman Mirallas Traore Pretty strong team from them too.

Solid team.

Happy 30th Branislav!

LOL no Jay, keep dreaming. I can't do any MPs in March though, ridiculously busy.