Everton vs West Ham utd

Everton against West Ham Utd on Monday evening in the Hill Dickinson Stadium when the focus returns to the Premier League campaign.

This was expected to be a party for David Moyes of the Great Start he gave Everton in the Premier League of this season after he had mastered them masterfully from the relegation zone since he replaced Sean Deyche in Janaury.

But it has become a bit sour after it had fallen apart in what some people should be an uncomplicated match against Wolves in the Carabao Cup. The consensus display seems to be that he was seriously wrong when applying so many changes that he should have played his strength from the start and then had turned into his fringe players after winning a victory – or at least made it a decent fist.

But it’s gone now. A long, long wait for success in the League Cup in all its weird forms continues for at least a different season, making the FA Cup in the new year the only opportunity to win a trophy this season.

And so the focus returns to the Premier League, where a few good results on the back of inspiring versions of Jack Grealish and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall were supposed to have set the tone for dramatic improvement in the prospect of Everton this season because they had finally seen players who were on Mooyes and attacking Flair.

But the range of tricks and taunts that make up the playbook that Jack Grealisk has at his disposal seems limited and vulnerable to him. Combine this with its restraint to go for goal instead of trying to set up the perfect feed for someone else to score, and you have the root of Everton’s problem, because unfortunately those strikers are nowhere to be seen.

Neither Beto nor Barry have produced such a thing as what has so far been required this season, but it would certainly be too radical to anticipate that David Moyes would follow a different approach and possibly link Iliman NDaye to play with Grealish, so that he would feed the critical definitive ball to the Senegalese spiker.

Perhaps the test against his former charges in West Ham, who have won 1 and 4 of their 5 Premier League matches have lost its season so far and they are now growing away in the relegation zone, a place above wolves.

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Jim Bennings

1 Posted 26/09/2025 at 1:47:17 PM

Röhl and Branthwaite already excluded by its appearance.

Röhl did not take long to start the Everton injury curse and in terms of Branthwaite, undoubtedly start at the beginning of November before he is even almost at full speed, something has to figure out with him, to drag these kinds of injuries as much as they are.

In other news, the Scottish media indicated Youseff Chermiti last night as “anonymous” playing for Rangers.

Another gem of the amazing world of Everton Scouting.

Michael Bennet

2 Posted 26/09/2025 at 2:00:46 PM

I have just seen West Ham Presser. Moyes starting with the defensive attitude that says players he has chosen are all players in the first team that he is happy with …

He was asked a number of uncomfortable questions and he became spiky. It is better to bounce back on Monday or we will unravel, I think. What do you think and girls think?

John Williams

3 Posted 26/09/2025 at 2:12:34 PM

I think you sing from the RS Hymn Book Ie Football is more than Live & Death.
I have news for you, it’s not much more to worry about than winning or losing a football match.

Tom Bowers

4 Posted 26/09/2025 at 2:15:01 PM

We all feel in the same way that Wolves game and only a decent winning performance against the hammers will help erase the bad taste that Moyes has made.