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Match Thread Brentford v Everton - Preview, Match Report and 3-day MotM Poll

Everton Man of the Match

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Amazing how one win can, change your feelings. I went from giving up on Premier league football to being excited for next weeks match. We have been very lucky that the rest of the bottom half clubs have also struggled to pick up points. Hopefully we can win our next two matches.
 
Weebarra said:
Me too. May be its confidence and belief in himself, is back but it was good to see.

The back line played very well, but Young got caught out a few times and gets exposed out of position.

Hopefully v Villa, Young will realise he is not playing for Everton.
UTFTs!
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Getting booked in the first 30 seconds is about the worst thing that can happen for a full back. Shows his experience and cleverness to be trusted to play the rest of the game and still hold his own
 

Massive contrast to the Arsenal game.
We are far better when we play on the front foot.
Maybe it's a confidence thing but we do really need to start getting in the faces of the better teams and not giving them too much respect and sitting back.
Maybe when Harrison is fit get him wide right and move Garner into the centre.
Also, Good to see that Beto is taking the pressure off DCL and we can manage him better.
Maybe use him as an impact sub in tight games , until he regain his fitness.. Made a difference yesterday against a tiring defence.
 
Old Blue 2 said:
It's fine to disagree, as all that we state on here are opinions.

I didn't see any lying down, only an attempt to keep them at bay. And that was done successfully until they produced an absolutely superb move from a corner to finally undo us.

Feigning injury is the curse of many modern players, and Arsenal were up to that trick as we all saw, with the ref (as usual) not seeing through their cheating game.

As for strolling around, you may see it as that, but quite a few statistics in the modern game show that possession isn't everything. Norwich had 69% possession yesterday, and got hammered 6-2! If a team like Arsenal pass it around at the back quite a bit, it does wonders for their possession stats, but does not necessarily translate into loads of goals. The two are not mutually inclusive, rather exclusive.

Yeah, I've been watching Everton (probably) for longer than most on here, from around the 56-57 season when my father first took me on the Gwladys Street. I saw us win the league and FA Cup before I was 16. Seen some glorious Everton teams: the 62-63 team that scored 84 goals with Vernon & Young getting 42 between them. The 69-70 team that broke up all too soon. The glorious mid-80s team that was slaughtered, in retrospect, by you-know-what. But I've also seen some pretty abysmal Everton teams in the mid-70s, the '90s (the relegation scrape year), and in more recent times that we have all gone through in the last two seasons.

I agree with you that we should have been more aggressive last week, but there is a feeling among Everton supporters which I'm sure you've seen on here, that certain refs seem to 'have it in' for our club - witness the ludicrous disallowing of the goal in the first half against Fulham when the score was 0-0. Their keeper missed clattered into an Everton player, dropped the ball, and we scored, as you know. It should have been a goal, or a penalty. Changed the course of the game completely. The Spurs & Man City home 'handball' games, the Clattenberg derby, I was on the Kippax for the '77 semi-final against the RS when we were blatantly denied a perfectly good winning goal. Sickens me to the core. Had we gone ploughing into Arsenal players last week, with their feigning injury at every turn, we would have definitely been on for a red card or two. That is how refs 'protect' the 'Sky six' nowadays, as we saw in the Man Utd-Wolves fiasco refereeing in the first game of the season - no pen to Wolves, 3 points to Man Utd, nothing for Wolves.

I think we have the making of a decent team, and we saw that with the decent performances against Fulham, Sheff Utd & Wolves, and it all came together better yesterday.

Apologies for the long post; I hope I have explained myself better that I did with my previous post.
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Yes you have. Is what happens when the alcohol dissipates from your system.
 

I feel a bit lost, having nothing to complain about from the football this weekend.

Maybe we can all feel a bit short changed by the lack of effort in previous games, having seen that they do have some fight and passion after all...

Boooo... for the previous games!!!
 

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