Everton vs Birmingham City All Goals & Highlights 23/01/2010
  • 14 years ago
http://budurl.com/WatchLiveSoccer Team News With our game at Portsmouth being called off and the squad having enjoyed a nice trip to Malta I would expect the side to be the same as the Man Utd game. New signing Michel will probably start on the bench. Everton do not have any new injury worries so will probably play a similar side that played in their great result against Man City last Saturday. Last Meeting Our last meeting was just before Christmas when Blues somehow managed to come away with a 1-1 draw despite being played off the park for most of the game. Seb Larsson equalised Bilyaletdinov’s early goal. Our last meeting in the FA Cup was in 2000 and ended 2-0 to Everton. Recent Form Both Blues and Everton are in good form at the moment. We are of course on a record unbeaten run stretching back to October 17th and if you ignore a Europa cup match where they fielded a weakened team Everton are unbeaten since November 29th. Something has to give. Outlook When the draw was made I was not happy. This was one of the worst draws we could have got which is a big disappointment as I thought we had a good chance of a decent cup run this year. With the club safe from relegation (I think I can safely say that now) there was no reason not to have a real go in the cup, especially with Man United and Liverpool already out. I fear though this year’s chance may well end tomorrow. Everton have recently hit good form and have got some players back from injury and like us will be looking to do well in the cup this year. They are of course last year’s beaten finalists and have a good pedigree having last won it in 1995. On the positive side Blues have had a chance to recharge their batteries with the Portsmouth postponement and the trip to Malta. I’ve thought that some of the recent performances have been looking a little tired. The FA Cup is perhaps not the great competition it once was but I’d personally trade a few places in the league for a Wembley appearances.
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