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His beard/stubble/whatever it was, was epic. Hope it stays.

DAVID LUIZ SIGNS NEW 5-YEAR DEAL [sky Sports]

And people said Stoke City would be too tough for Oscar. L.to the O.to the.L.

@CFCrusader, I shouldn't be getting involved, but this is a genuine question - are you taking the piss with your posts? Like genuinely. Are you a fan of another club who's just having fun on this forum by trying to be funny or something? If not and you are being genuine with your posts, I fear for you.

Ah. I remember getting the piss taken out of me when one of my first posts on this forum was that we should sign him. *sigh*

Of course it was a shit half. Like most of you blabbered on about when we beat Barcelona; possession doesn't win you games, goals do. We haven't scored, and they've come closer to scoring than we have by hitting the crossbar. Just because we're finally putting passes together doesn't make it a good half, and just because we haven't conceded doesn't make it a good half. We're European Champions... against Stoke City. What have they won trophy-wise? Exactly. They're not exactly showing brute force today either. We should be winning; no excuses. I'm sorry but people need to raise their standards on here.

Dean Sturridge on commentary will be laughing and thinking to himself about how Sturridge woulda likely put that miss-kick from Torres into the back of the net.

How many free-kicks has Luiz actually ever scored..?

Please not Luiz,

...he literally missed the ball...

ffs. can't stand Luiz. he makes awful decisions, especially with his passes.

Assuming the ref isn't a cock, I'm expecting a penalty to us today. Won by Hazard, of course.

Every Everton game so far this season has been really exciting, including this one vs. Swansea City. Possible top 6 team maybe?

Lukaku starts vs. Reading

Lovely looking team. I'm not too sure it'll work as we have no leaders in midfield now, but I'm very glad we're trying something different. What do we think - Is it a double pivot of Rami and Mikel? Or a mid 3 of those 2 plus Oscar?

I feel as if people just go along with this "you can't use light players vs. Stoke, they're too rough and play rugby" because it's easy. Yes, they're aggressive, but they're not supernatural freaks with extreme strength. There should be no problem, in theory, if Oscar was to start this game.

Er, can someone even confirm that the reason for him closing his Twitter account was due to fan critisisms? Until that point, no one should be accused of being the reason for him closing his Twitter even if they did send him this so-called 'abuse'.

His real problem is he's a pussy.

Surely a decent bet?

He seems to keep making changes during the game either too early or too late (or just making the wrong changes full-stop.) We were playing great stuff when we started out in what looked to be a 4-3-2-1 tonight, but then for whatever reason, he changed it into the 4-2-3-1 which is when Juve got on-top. *sigh*

I wonder what it would be like to play with a striker and at least 1 capable defensive midfielder But no, seriously. Why the fuck is Luiz getting games over Cahill? He thinks he's fucking superman and marauds up the pitch to try and win the game by himself. It pisses me off. Why hasn't Azpi played yet? WHY THE FUCK CAN'T ROMEU GET A GAME?!

I hope no-one dares to defend Mikel after tonight. Even he knows he fucked up by pulling his top over his face. Can't believe he's in the starting XI of what are supposed to be European Champions.

And look. As usual, for some reason a fan favourite, Luiz strolls away, dismissing Di Matteo's orders.

It would be nice if we had a fucking striker who we can expect goals from.