Date: Saturday 2nd February
Venue: Goodison Park
Kick-off: 15.00
On Saturday Nuno Espirito Santo will take his wolfpack up to Liverpool to face Everton.
Wolves previous two league games have been against mid table mini league rivals, Leicester City and West Ham. In their home game against Leicester, Wolves punished the visitors for their poor defensive performance and snatched a 4-3 victory with an injury time, Diogo Jota goal (the third of his hattrick).
On Tuesday Wolves put West Ham to the sword with a dominant performance, reminiscent of their second half display against Spurs at Wembley in December.
On Tuesday Everton scraped a 1-0 victory over bottom of the table Huddersfield providing them with a much needed 3 points. With only 8 points from their previous 10 league games and after being dumped out of the FA Cup by Championship side Millwall, Marco Silva’s men have not been enjoying much success of late.
With the League Cup final being contested by Man City and Chelsea and with Man City, Man United and Chelsea still in the FA Cup, for any ‘mini league’ team aspiring to play in Europe next season, the coveted 7th place is still up for grabs.
7th place is currently occupied by Wolves (for the fourth time this season) but with Everton just one place and 2 points below them, this is another ‘6 pointer’, so important to both sides.
Everton will be without Lucas Digne who was sent off against Huddersfield and now serves a 3 match suspension.
Wolves will welcome the return of Centre Back Willy Boly after his 3 match suspension.
The game will be shown live on beIN Sports HD3
Gem’s prediction: 1-2
Everton v Wolves Match Preview [LIVE]
posted on 1/2/19
Joe Mason has had his contract cancelled so that's another one gone.
So in summary, we signed one, who was already here, sent 3 out on loan and got shot of 4. Plus we got lots of lolly from Stoke for Afobe and we will be getting a nice little bung from Burnley for selling Sam Vokes.
If nothing else at least we pretty much balanced the books with regards to the transfer window.
posted on 1/2/19
Having just looked at the Neves goals, again, I was wondering about his celebration and found out that it comes from Andrea Pirlo: I think therefore I play book, just for those that didn't know. 👈
posted on 1/2/19
comment by GeminMallorca (U18318)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
Joe Mason has had his contract cancelled so that's another one gone.
So in summary, we signed one, who was already here, sent 3 out on loan and got shot of 4. Plus we got lots of lolly from Stoke for Afobe and we will be getting a nice little bung from Burnley for selling Sam Vokes.
If nothing else at least we pretty much balanced the books with regards to the transfer window.
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Don't forget Batth too Gem. I find it hilarious that Stoke have effectively bank rolled the Jonny deal. Living in Stafford, there's loads of plastic clay 'eads around here that all of a sudden are finding themselves too busy to getup the A34 on Saturday afternoons.
posted on 1/2/19
comment by Oldgoldilox - 1 Carl Ikeme (U17303)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by GeminMallorca (U18318)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
Joe Mason has had his contract cancelled so that's another one gone.
So in summary, we signed one, who was already here, sent 3 out on loan and got shot of 4. Plus we got lots of lolly from Stoke for Afobe and we will be getting a nice little bung from Burnley for selling Sam Vokes.
If nothing else at least we pretty much balanced the books with regards to the transfer window.
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Don't forget Batth too Gem. I find it hilarious that Stoke have effectively bank rolled the Jonny deal. Living in Stafford, there's loads of plastic clay 'eads around here that all of a sudden are finding themselves too busy to getup the A34 on Saturday afternoons.
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No didn't forget about Danny, he's one of the 4 I referrred to as getting shot of.
Total Income for the window
Batth - £2.5m
Iorfa - £0.5m
Afobe - £12m
Vokes c. £2.5m
Total - £17.5m
Less £15m for Jonny
Leaves a nice little £2.5m profit to keep FFP happy.
posted on 1/2/19
Ffp is a farce and has closed the shop at the top, man city and Chelsea are up there because they didn't have to follow ffp rules, they couldn't do that now.
posted on 1/2/19
After giving season ticket holder the inconvenience of not being able to book their own seats for the cup replay, they have now decided to open the whole stadium after all, and it looks likely to be a sell out
posted on 2/2/19
Wolves confirming they did have an enquiry from Boro to take Traore back on transfer deadline day but say they had no interest in letting him go
posted on 2/2/19
Presume that Boly for Saiss will be the only change to the team that beat West Ham. Good test to see how good this team is today. We will field our strongest 11, and go in good form and face a team that will likely finish in the top half of the table. So it will be a good measure of where we are at
posted on 2/2/19
Everton are the perennial top half mid table team in the prem. They are always favourites to finish in the coveted 7th spot and so for that reason I see them as our strongest rivals.
They have certainly not been at their best lately and if Wolves can produce a repeat performance from last time out, I can only forsee a win for Wolves.
Whatever the result, it should be a good game between two proper footballing sides.
posted on 2/2/19
About 30 tickets left in the home parts of the ground for the cup replay, although the Community Stand wont be open so that brings capacity to about 28,000. Shrewsbury have quite a few tickets unsold though