Everton Players on the International scene this weekend | OneFootball

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World Cup Qualifiers mean a few of Everton's players are featuring for their national teams this weekend.

Iliman Ndiaye was in action on Friday for Senegal against Sudan in CAF Group B, winning 2-0. Unable to get on the scoresheet, the forward was brought off after 83 minutes. Senegalese outlet D Sports commented, “True to his style, Ndiaye chained together dribbles and technical moves, making the Sudanese defence suffer.” Idrissa Gana Gueye was an unused substitute on the night.

Harrison Armstrong came off the bench to score an equaliser for England’s U19 side against Spain to secure a 3-3 draw. Arriving late in the box, the 18-year-old was on hand to poke home from Rio Ngumoha’s cross.

On Saturday evening, England take on Andorra at Villa Park, with Jordan Pickford in goal despite him not playing for a club that is giving him European football… Fortunately, he had very little to do in a 2-0 win.

Michael Kenrick 2 Posted 06/09/2025 at 12:53:45

A big feature of the fanfare about signing Adam Aznou was that he's a full international who plays for Morocco.

Well, seems they're doing okay without him. Whopped Niger 5-0 yesterday and he was not in the squad.

Grant Rorrison 3 Posted 06/09/2025 at 13:01:38

Michael 2. Must have a right dour, negative dinosaur coaching them.

Paul Hewitt 4 Posted 06/09/2025 at 13:10:28

Aznou is not in the squad because he's just coming back from an injury.

Michael Kenrick 5 Posted 06/09/2025 at 13:21:31

He played almost a full game for the U21s on Tuesday.

He should be fit again.

Dave Abrahams 6 Posted 06/09/2025 at 14:19:16

Harrison Armstrong made a goal and scored the equaliser in a 3-3 draw.

Watching the goal it looks an easy tap in, but watch him signal for the ball having to fight to get past a defender continually blocking his way before slotting it home, then he gives that defender a shoulder charge on his way back to restart the game, he took the captains armband when he came on at the start of the second half.

This was in the second game of their games; they play Holland in the third game next Tuesday 11:00 am BST.

7 Posted 06/09/2025 at 16:17:15

The World Cup is gonna to be tedious. They've added an extra round so we have to endure 72 first round games just to get down to 32 teams for the second round.

With dynamic pricing I'm going to wait on buying tickets. They're already planning presales of minimum $200. But in the club World Cup they did the same but people who waited until the last minute got semi final tickets for $8!!

I'm just hoping in Kansas City we get some half interesting teams. My nightmare scenario is we get Switzerland, New Zealand, UAE and Honduras.

Kieran Kinsella 9 Posted 06/09/2025 at 16:22:00

lol Les. True with this genius Tuchel at the wheel and Jordan Henderson

Geoff Trenner 10 Posted 06/09/2025 at 16:44:13

I watched the Northern Ireland game the other evening to see what all the fuss was about Isaac Price.

I know he has scored a good few goals for Wales (9 in 22 games) and has got a few for West Brom already this season but I can't say that I was that impressed. An off day perhaps? Has anybody seen enough of him to form a more rounded opinion?

Geoff Trenner 11 Posted 06/09/2025 at 17:36:09

Brain fart! He has scored 9 in 22 for NI! Where did Wales come from?

Mike Gaynes 12 Posted 06/09/2025 at 17:42:59

Kieran, I've got games right across Puget Sound from me in Seattle, but the ticket prices made my eyes water.

I'm definitely gonna wait until the last minute and try to get resale tickets for myself and my nephew.

Stan Grace 13 Posted 06/09/2025 at 19:03:29

Geoff #17,

Here's your answer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Wales

Tom Bowers 14 Posted 06/09/2025 at 22:09:21

So, yet another yawnfest for England against a team no higher than National League standard.

It took 66 minutes for a England player to get on the score sheet. Madueke and Rashford for all their possession created nothing apart from that one poor cross that their defender headed in. Tuchel has no idea just like he proved at Chelski. He is just winging it and collecting a big paycheck. Notice how he picked a lot of London players.

When is Fifa going to put all teams like Andorra into a larger qualifying group and let them fight it out for the right to play the top ranked teams.

Pickford could have had a 90 minute snooze.

Kieran Kinsella 15 Posted 06/09/2025 at 22:16:32

Tom

It’s amazing how charlatans land these roles. I read a German papers insight into Ten Haag this week. Apparently he favored push ups over ball work, refused to speak to anyone unless absolutely necessary, didn’t deliver team talks, told players to figure out their own tactics, and only wanted to sign players listed with his agents. Leverkusen weren’t too proud to admit their mistake and immediately sack him. But the more I watch the more I suspect Tuchel is a similar charlatan

Andrew Keatley 16 Posted 06/09/2025 at 22:31:59

Dave (6) - Armstrong certainly scored the equaliser but he didn’t make either of the other England goals; he only came off the bench after 69 mins when the game was already 2-2.

Also Everton’s Douglas Lukjancics played the 90 minutes in goal for England is the same game. He made an absolute howler for the first Spain goal - think Lloris in the 2018 World Cup final - and was then beaten from 25 yards in a shot he probably should have managed to get a decent hand on. Not a good day for him. Couldn’t do anything about the 3rd Spain goal, which was one of the softest penalties I have even seen given (for a flailing hand).

This is a very good group of youngsters - including Dowman and Monga playing up a few age groups - and they could and should have beaten Spain comfortably.

Paul Kossoff 17 Posted 06/09/2025 at 23:06:14

I fell asleep watching the England game. I woke up at the end and asked my son if the paint eventually dried, he said it hadn't, and was still wet to the touch. I'm so glad I don't really support England, and have never liked the risk of our players getting injured, and Ive got an exiting attacking team to watch.

Paul Kossoff 18 Posted 06/09/2025 at 23:27:15

Kieran. Ten Hag spent, wasted, £616 million while at United, I wonder how much he got from those transfers?

Colin Glassar 19 Posted 06/09/2025 at 23:28:59

I couldn’t be bothered watching. I just seen the final score. Bring back Sam!

Rokas Grajauskas 20 Posted 06/09/2025 at 23:48:06

It’s always kind of amusing to be reading these comments about the English national team. Since this World Cup qualifying cycle I started doing the Lithuanian national team games on the national TV as a commentator. Trust me, what you consider “watching paint dry” sounds like an extremely exciting preposition. Two days ago we played home against Malta after drawing 0-0 away against them in June, and we ended up snatching a draw at home after being given a shabby penalty in the 97’ minute. Malta was seconds away from getting their fourth World Cup qualification win in 117 games. Yeah, I know. Tomorrow I’m going back to the national stadium to do the game against… the Netherlands! Can you imagine working as a commentator on national TV in a game, where 0:4 would realistically be considered as a positive result? It’s not watching paint dry, it’s watching “paint” dropping the T and consistently stomping you in the nuts time and time again, making your soul dry out in the process.

Anyway, I was able to get my tickets to the Chelsea game in March. 7th home game, the first one in HD after falling in love with the Grand Old Lady from the first sight. Spare me a thought tomorrow when you see the LTU-NED scoreline. UTFT!

Kieran Kinsella 21 Posted 07/09/2025 at 00:03:42

Rokas

Must be rough mate. Especially as Latvia, Georgia and now Uzbekistan of former smaller Soviet states have all qualified for major tournaments. But at least your guys are no worse than the larger, more established footballing nation of Belarus? Anyway enjoy the Everton visit mate.

Kieran Kinsella 22 Posted 07/09/2025 at 00:03:44

Rokas

Must be rough mate. Especially as Latvia, Georgia and now Uzbekistan of former smaller Soviet states have all qualified for major tournaments. But at least your guys are no worse than the larger, more established footballing nation of Belarus? Anyway enjoy the Everton visit mate.

Ant Sorvoja 25 Posted 07/09/2025 at 01:45:22

Still unsure why I watched Republic of Ireland match against Hungary. Happy to report that Jake O’Brien played full game as a right-back and had a very good game. Jake played often in a more advanced marauding wing-back role and putting plenty of inviting crosses in. By the way Jake looked better player in this game than his opposing RS left-back Kerkez.

Kieran Kinsella 26 Posted 07/09/2025 at 02:12:51

Ant

What confuses me is the BBC commentary generally damning of Ireland for failing

to win. Ireland is a country of 3 million people with a low level poorly paid “professional” league of 10 teams. While football arguably ranks behind rugby, hurling and Gaelic football in terms of popularity. Hungary has three times the population, recent and historic success in football and at least one world class player — something Ireland presently lack. In reality, based on population, league strength etc Ireland is at the level of Armenia. But somehow people seem to expect them to be rubbing shoulders with Portugal. Similarly, Scotland although at least Scotland has a semi competitive league and a much longer football history. I say this as someone with a Scottish Mum, and two Irish grandparents but expectations are out of whack. Meanwhile the Welsh similarly sized population wise seem to accept their limitations and population size and are just excited for the odd major tournament appearance.

Ant Sorvoja 27 Posted 07/09/2025 at 03:19:40

Kieran. It was an old-fashioned game of two halves. Ireland was in a real trouble most of the 1st half and then fully dominating the second one. Irelands weakness is that their team has a real soft centre in both defence and midfield.

By the way and according to Wikipedia, Ireland’s population is over 5 million which is one million plus more than Croatia. Just underlines how great the Croats have been in the international competitions over the years.

Martin Farrington 29 Posted 07/09/2025 at 08:13:41

I will be painting a wall and watching the paint dry. Way more exciting than this tedious bunkum, if anyone wants to come round and join in the fun.

Geoff Trenner 30 Posted 07/09/2025 at 10:52:07

Thanks Stan. My U in O-level geography was justified after all!

Sean Kelly 31 Posted 07/09/2025 at 11:09:57

The problem for.rip off Ireland is that most of their players are playing in lower league or bench warming for their clubs. I haven’t watched Ireland since big Jack was their but he was lucky as most of his starting 11 were playing for premier league clubs.

Sean Kelly 32 Posted 07/09/2025 at 11:10:27

Starting 11

Sean Kelly 33 Posted 07/09/2025 at 11:18:09

Kieran we are nearer 5 million than 3 and that’s excluding norn iron.

Dave Abrahams 34 Posted 07/09/2025 at 11:47:31

Andrew (16) Yes you are correct, I got my information off another Everton website which stated “ An assist and a goal for Armstrong” which I thought was right but I’ll take your word that it wasn’t, I definitely read the subs wrong, I thought they all came on at half time but re read the report and he came on as you said in the 69th.minute, sorry for the mis information.

Peter Gorman 35 Posted 07/09/2025 at 11:48:56

Wow Sean, that's like a 20% population increase in the last 20 years.

Where have all these babas come from?