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Everton vs. Manchester United: Your Running Commentary

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Opening weekend of the Premiership campaign has been plenty entertaining, but there is still one more intriguing match on tap involving one of the league's marquee teams.

Everton and Manchester United are set to square off on Monday afternoon (3pm ET, ESPN 2, ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.com) at Goodison Park, and both teams will be aiming for three points to the start the season. Tim Howard, who is coming off last week's heroic performance in the U.S. men's national team's historic win over Mexico at Estadio Azteca, will start against his former club, while recent Red Devils acquisition Robin van Persie is on the bench at the beginning of what should be an open finale to the first week of Premiership action.

If you will be watching today's match, please feel free to share your predictions, thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.

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  1. Maybe don’t rely on injury prone frail CBs? Like I said, Man United’s defense is a joke. They were exposed last year and will continue to be exposed this year.

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  2. United deserved to lose. This game could have easily been 3 or 4-0. They are going to have a hard time even finishing in the top 3 with that joke of a defense.

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  3. Lacking a holding midfielder, injuries in the defense, being dominated in the air, intricate passing without any end product.

    I have to wonder if Robin van Persie still thinks he’s at Arsenal.

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  4. Absolutely right. And they’ve just persisted in having Carrick mark him.

    In hindsight, I might’ve started Berbatov just for his height with the problems they’ve been having in the air.

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  5. Which is why United will still struggle with Manchester City and your team. Also, why I don’t consider United a serious contender for the champions league this season.

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  6. I don’t think it was a dive or even an embellishment, but it definitely wasn’t a penalty. He just fell over. Didn’t like him whining about it afterward, though.

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  7. Ya, I was slightly referring to that one but more to the 2-3 that Everton had. There was one where Baines was running into the box and someone came flying into him but Baines was honest and didnt go down. And then the Jelevic one in like the 5th minute.

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  8. “Or maybe I just have no clue what I’m talking about. that’s always possible.”

    Nah, that can’t be it. Everybody on the internet knows everything. 😉

    To be serious though, the question of medical staff competency (and of course corruption) is a good one. Are injury-prone teams the fault of the medicos, the trainers, or the GMs who don’t do the due diligence on a player’s durability? Maybe a bit of all three?

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  9. It’s not surprising Man United is struggling against Everton. Carrick is getting beaten badly by Fellaini, Man United’s midfield of Cleverley/Scholes will get controlled by any midfield with two hard working players in it.

    On the plus side, basically every touch Kagawa has looks to be the smart/right one, and provided a really good ball in stoppage time for Rooney.

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  10. World class goalkeeping by both keepers. Kagawa is really impressive Everytime he gets on the ball he does something positive he had a couple balls hes sent they toward everyone’s goal. Valencia doing well at right back. Would love to see Clint on Everton could really be great in the hole and it would allow Fellini to play more as a box to box. Great game though glad the little league world series didn’t delay the game I was worried for a sec would put it past Espn.

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  11. I often wonder these same things. Are there certain exercises that they do or don’t do that cause these problems?

    I also wonder how big a role medical staffs play in this. Everyone knows that the Suns medical staff is top notch and kept Nash and Hill healthy when they probably could have missed games. You’d think soccer would be similar.

    Or maybe I just have no clue what I’m talking about. that’s always possible.

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  12. Fellaini’s winning all those long balls down the center. They might just wanna send everyone deep and call a hail mary play haha.

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