Everton failed to transfer its strong Premier League form to the English League Cup on Tuesday, losing at home to Norwich while Liverpool and Arsenal dealt better with lower-league opposition in the third round on Tuesday. “Normally not, but you don’t know what is normal in life and normal in football”.
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Who will come out on top in the battle of the managers Ronald Koeman or Alex Neil?
“At the moment I think Manchester United or Bayern Munich are the most suitable for him, especially Bayern”, he told Het Nieuwsblad, per the Telegraph. Even when I mention that, I’m not insane? The big teams have much more qualities and unless it is like it was last season it will be impossible.
Enner Valencia will start in place of Lukaku in the third-round tie at Goodison Park with the Belgium worldwide given time to recover from a toe injury suffered on Saturday.
Darron Gibson will miss the game after undergoing groin surgery which is likely to keep him out for the next month while James McCarthy, Muhamed Besic and Tyias Browning are all still unavailable.
Everton dominated the game but failed to trouble Norwich keeper John Ruddy sufficiently.
There’s still a long way to go of course, but Koeman seems to have got his players playing in his style quickly in a transformation that’s barely believable to how the club finished under Roberto Martinez.
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Stoke City assistant boss Mark Bowen suggests that Xherdan Shaqiri is available for tomorrow’s EFL Cup tie against Hull City. “The medical department told me he could have played against Chelsea but I heard the word risk too often so I decided no”, Klopp said.
