Match Thread Everton v Brighton - Preview, Match Report and MotM poll

[Tramps_mate]

Nobody makes excuses for the manager?!

£1.7m
Hasn't got his own players
Injuries
Players down tools
Brands
The medical staff
Too many games
Too few games

Nothing but excuses, he's apparently not responsible for one thing at the club.

We played five at the back. Against Brighton and Hove Albion. At home.

Exactly. Nothing else matters. THAT is the reason he needs to go..

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

I wonder what is it going to take for Benitez to be replaced? If being 2 spots above relegation doesn’t panic Moshiri then what will?

My feeling is that, had Brands not gone, Benitez would probably be out now, but Moshiri is too stubborn to get rid of Benitez this soon into the experiment of giving him full control.

Rightly or wrongly - and unless we have a very sharp turnaround in form I think we’ll all agree it’s wrongly - I don’t think we’ll see the back of him this season.

 

[toffee-boy]

Gordon and gray, the only ones who played well ..

Doucoure was awful today, probably his worse game for us.

Should of bought gomes on at 60min

Lack or ideas or direction, looked like a pre season game.

We need our first 11 for the rest of the season without injury. Hope braithwait comes back soon

 

[Johnniepk]

Rb says its something we've been working on. Seriously? The players looked they had just met!

 

[PhilM]

Working on corners? Your (not my) massive arse! That performance was indefensible.

 

[Gradwell Dave]

I don’t understand how you can play with wing backs plus two natural wide players in Gray and Gordon. Tactically Benitez is about 15 years out of date, don’t even think Brighton played that well, they didn’t have to.

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Never thought I'd ever be saying this but I'm glad I'm not your boyfriend

Oh Fred, there is much worse things in life than being a sex slave

 

[windymiller]

Not watching. I assume he said we won the running again.

 

[stretford blue]

Not watching. I assume he said we won the running again.

He goes on about individual mistakes but fails to answer why Brighton dominated the game

 

[windymiller]

He goes on about individual mistakes but fails to answer why Brighton dominated the game

Never his fault. Wonder where he picked up that personality trait?

 

[Barnfred 55]

Oh Fred, there is much worse things in life than being a sex slave

Depends where you stick those pins.

Anyway back on topic. Benitez out.

 

[Sassy Colombian]

My feeling is that, had Brands not gone, Benitez would probably be out now, but Moshiri is too stubborn to get rid of Benitez this soon into the experiment of giving him full control.

Rightly or wrongly - and unless we have a very sharp turnaround in form I think we’ll all agree it’s wrongly - I don’t think we’ll see the back of him this season.

That’s my feeling. Not sure which of the two is more stubborn. I hope the experiment works for our own good. But I don’t wish to witness is Benitez given full control during the January window only to get fired right after it.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Working on corners? Your (not my) massive arse! That performance was indefensible.

He probably does work on corners a lot.

Its just that his methods are archaic and didn't even work 20 years ago.

Everyone line up in a row and not take responsibility.

 

[Cels]

Well done to Brighton for taking the game to us right from the off. To be fair though, they must have been given a confidence boost when they saw that Rafá had set us up like a bunch of scared schoolchildren. We were the home side and he should have been bolder with the formation and approach to the match.

Anthony Gordon gets MotM for me. Top performance from the lad.

 

[Steve EFC]

The most disappointing thing for me is today we had a much stronger squad to choose from than recently and yet the performance level dropped even further.
How does that work??
I don’t even rate Allan anymore, he’s not that good. And he’s one of our better players.!!
The kids could do no worse..