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title: "Fans doubt Everton’s claim of technical glitch behind “leaked” team news"
canonical: "https://readeverton.com/fans-doubt-evertons-claim-of-technical-glitch-behind-leaked-team-news/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Elliott Cuff"
section: "Feature Writers"
published: "2019-09-13T20:00:03Z"
modified: "2019-09-13T20:00:03Z"
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# Fans doubt Everton’s claim of technical glitch behind “leaked” team news

Everton have confirmed that a technical glitch was responsible for Thursday’s “leaked” team announcement on Twitter.

Several fans had been shocked yesterday to see the club tweet their team sheet for Sunday’s game against Bournemouth a few days too early.

In place of the usual informative text about changes, the caption simply read “5 changes blah”, while fans also took umbrage with the line-up specifically, with Morgan Schneiderlin partnering Fabian Delph in midfield, leaving Andre Gomes on the bench.

![Alex Pantling/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readeverton.com/readeverton/2019/09/1169829817.jpg)

When questioned about the tweet, [Everton replied](https://twitter.com/Everton/status/1172164958915706881) saying, “Purely a technical issue while testing our graphics platform. No early team news here!”

> Twitter: @MattBaxterEdit Purely a technical issue while testing our graphics platform. No early team news here! (@Everton)

Many Everton fans didn’t believe the club however, while it will now be interesting to see how the club line up on Sunday.

> Twitter: @Everton @trevor\_p\_malco @Dan\_EFC1878 https://t.co/o2PaOwaKyo (@CallmeDownsie)

> Twitter: @Everton @Dan\_EFC1878 https://t.co/FJ3qsiuNqL (@Paul\_Parr\_1989)

> Twitter: @Everton @Dan\_EFC1878 nice save (@SteveMuIcahy)

> Twitter: @Everton @EvertonNewsFeed @Dan\_EFC1878 We’ll know if this ends up being the team. Marco would be mad to bring schneiderlin in for Gomes (@jjisblue)

### Read Everton Verdict

I can buy that it was a technical glitch, sure. The club were likely trying out something and accidentally hit tweet, it can happen.

At least I hope so, because even though I’m a bit of a defender when it comes to Morgan Schneiderlin, I don’t see any sense of starting him over Andre Gomes, particularly when playing away. We could do with that creative spark, and Andre definitely brings that while Morgan does not.