Closed Everton v Chelsea

[CHOULO19 24,332]

'Always', meaning 'twice'

I'm counting the times he's scored against me on FIFA

[Special Juan 27,553]

Lukaku a knocking bet to score.

[Paul1970 250]

That's a possibility. Just watch his first few matches at the WC. What's more, I think we are the kind of side ( being well-organised defensively) that he tends to really struggle against, so I expect a lot of bad first touches and mislaced passes.

So him to score against us then

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Lukaku a knocking bet to score.

Will he even be fit for the match? He's currently doubtful.

[kobematabryant 400]

Was really looking forward to this before the Costa possible injury news broke.

If we win this it would mean quite a lot, Goodison park has been a bogey ground for us and to win there would show we mean business.

We won there when we had Benitez.

[Jase 43,479]

We won there when we had Benitez.

Funnily enough, that is our one and only win from the last 6 league trips to Goodison Park.

[Madmax 9,219]

Naismith, Vellios, Anichebe, Beckford, Stracqualarsi (or whatever) .. Everton's crappy strikers always seem to score against us. We'll probably have to add Lukaku () to the list now.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

With Costa now out and Drogba/Torres starting I can see we get a lucky 1-0 win at best or at worst lose 2-1. Probably a draw will be the result which is not too bad.

[Parky 739]

This will be a tough game especially without Costa.

I'd be happy to take 0-1 win.

Prediction 1-2 Drogba and Oscar to score.

[Pizy 18,537]

Press conference today or tomorrow? Having a brain fart here and can't remember how it worked last year.

[Jase 43,479]

Press conference today or tomorrow? Having a brain fart here and can't remember how it worked last year.

It's always on a Friday for games at the weekend.

[BenIsLegend 475]

We won there when we had Benitez.

We played pretty shit though and had to rely on Lamps to dig us out.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

We played pretty shit though and had to rely on Lamps to dig us out.

Everybody knows its a tough place to play, we'll be fine just have to be patient and take our chances. That was the difference last year we should've been up 2-0 before they scored and also should've equalized very early in the 2nd half.

[Billy. 2,742]

glad to be getting this one out the way so early in the season

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Funnily enough, that is our one and only win from the last 6 league trips to Goodison Park.

And they completely outplayed us throughout that match but Frank somehow nicked 2 goals.

[Jase 43,479]

And they completely outplayed us throughout that match but Frank somehow nicked 2 goals.

Maybe the secret is to play like crap if we are to win there. When we seem to do well against them, we can't get the right result..

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Another one of this will do

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

With Costa a doubt, I could see a surprise tactic by Mourinho. Maybe 433, false 9 or something.