The Blues make their longest domestic journey of the season to Pompey, so what do the TV execs do, give it a dinner time kick off to really piss the fans off. Joey Yobo as we heard earlier today will be out for a good few weeks with a hamstring problem, so that may mean a first start of the season for Lars Jacobsen who had his own injury worries last year. We hear on the grape vine that Moyesy may be resting Tiny Tim, but I reckon the Aussie will fight tooth and nail to start, but if he does start, it will be the usual suspects in the line up, as that's all we have.
The players are most definitely focused as at the Hall of Fame Dinner last night, I got chatting with Phil Jagielka (name dropping, you bet I am), and I said get us to the Cup Final Jag. He told us he did not want to talk about it, as we had loads of important League games to play, and it was on Moyesy's orders, get in there, now that being focused.
The Blues are still in hot form, losing only one match in eighteen, and conceding only once in the last five games. In saying that though we have to go back to Christmas since our last Premiership win on the road, also our last two away games ended up in nil all draws, so were due one on the road. We owe Pompey after our thumping 3-0 defeat back in August, and our form at Fratton Park is good losing only once there since 1957. COYB FTRS
Moyesy says: There has been a momentum going for a few months. The players have kept going and shown great attitudes, wherever they have been asked to play. We have ground out results in the last few weeks and prior to that we were playing some fantastic football in a great style. Aston Villa and Arsenal are in the pole positions to qualify for the Champions League and we want to hang on to their shirt-tails and keep close to them.
We have to win our games and they have to win theirs to stay away from us. We have closed the gap a bit but there is a bit to go and we won't be giving up. The points total we have now won't be enough to finish in sixth position because the teams below will gain more points than that. We have to keep picking up points for that reason too. We would like to be able to spend a bit more to give ourselves more of a go at getting closer to them. But with what they (the board) give me, we do everything we can. The players here have done a great job and I would like to give them added support. They deserve it, you can see the way they are playing and the spirit they have, so if I could add one or two to support them, it would be ideal." (21/03/09)
XI To Start: Howard, Jacobsen, Lescott, Jagielka, Baines, Osman, Pienaar, Felliaini, Neville, Jo, Cahill
Everton from: Howard, Neville, Jagielka, Lescott, Baines, Pienaar, Osman, Cahill, Fellaini, Saha, Jo, Rodwell, Baxter, Nash, Castillo, Jacobsen, Gosling, Wallace, Van der Meyde.
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