2019/20 Carlo Ancelotti

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You couldn’t make it up. The most shambolic half hearted performance by a team of internationals, against a bunch of kids, yet they blame one of the most decorated managers in the game, who has been here for 5 minutes, for the loss. It is exactly this kind of weak mentality and lack of responsibility and accountability, that is inbred into our current playing staff. Carlo has this window and the summer one to move out this type of player.
 

Thank god we have Ancelotti in charge. It’s the only positive I can think of right now. Under Silva none of this would have come to light and shown some of our senior high profile players for what they are. For a start Big Dunc wouldn’t have been given the freedom to challenge the players, Silva had him handing out bibs whereas Ancelotti seems happy to let him assert some authority. With Carlo in charge now he automatically becomes the most important person at the club - as it should be. From here, assuming he’s back sufficiently he will drag this club – kicking and screaming if necessary – back to where we want and need to be. Any of those players not on board or not up for challenge (and several showed they weren’t on Sunday) will be binned.
 
AmericasToffee said:
Still laughing that some nitwit wage-stealing first teamers are blaming the tactics for losing to a largely reserve team.
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Hopefully that has helped Carlo pinpoint exactly who the wasters are, most of them have been here for 4 managers now Koeman Sam Silva and now Carlo and the same players have been constantly hopeless. Anyone who had a go at Ferguson and Carlo should be slapped on the transfer list and told they'll never play for the club again not even for the reserve team. Imagine Everton players questioning the tactics of a 3 times champions league winner, Carlo could lose 90% of his medals and still have more left than the entire squad combined, the absolute neck of them bunch of wasters get the F out of our club if your not willing to show some commitment.
 

Khalekan said:
I wouldn’t go that far....showering them with derision before the game is self defeating as at best it will de-motivate them further (if that is even possible) or at worst, lead to them downing tools altogether in a metaphorical Harvey Smith gesture toward us.

Maybe no reaction at all, just a silence when normally we applaud each name as it is announced?
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Agree 100% @Khalekan, silence instead of clapping when they come out to Z cars, silence when the names are read out! Make them work so flippin’ hard for any applause or appreciation whatsoever!
 

canuckblue said:
Watched the game Sunday -- one of the rare games we can get over here these days because the TV rights have switched to DAZN -- and it was clear to me bypassing the midfield would have worked just as well and playing from the back. Pickford's distribution, has has been noted, was more toward the sideline, trapping the receiving player. And neither Mina nor Holgate are capable of launching pinpoint long passes -- 90% of the time those efforts find an opposition player.
We did get those great chances in the first half, so something was working, but you can't play from the back when the midfielders are unwilling or incapable of quickly playing the ball forward. Schneiderlin is not a playmaker (nor is he a defensive midfielder as that would require some tackling ability) and Sigurdsson is more of a set-piece specialist than anything (he doesn't play enough quality through balls for my liking to be considered a playmaker; one great pass every four games just doesn't cut it). Delph is just off an injury and Gomes is out, meaning Davies is probably the best CM we have. And that sums up the problem.
What Carlo MIGHT have done is go three at the back and move Holgate into midfield, but that really wouldn't have made that much of a difference, IMO. Bottom line, and especially in light of this apparent dressing room spat, is that this team needs an enema and Carlo is going to wield the hose.
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I agree with your take on the tactics.

Another analyst does too:

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Ancelotti’s first Everton mistake prevented a historic Anfield victory

The veteran manager’s half time adjustments proved to be an enormous error
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  1. Despite the youth in his team, Klopp’s Liverpool came out playing the same high-pressing style that his first-team generally utilizes. If there’s one thing true of Jurgen Klopp, it’s that the man could teach a mailbox and a traffic cone to gegenpress.
  2. Everton’s counter to that was to play long, direct passes over the top from the start of the match — and for the most part, it worked. The young Liverpool defense lacked the pace, positioning, or both required to keep Theo Walcott, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, and Richarlison from creating chances on the break. This became even more true after James Milner departed with an injury.
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The halftime whistle came, with Everton outpossessed pretty handily in the first half, but easily the team with the better scoring chances. Another half like the first, and the Toffees would be the obvious favorites to go on and get a hallowed victory at Anfield for the first time in 20 years.

Except that isn’t what happened.

For whatever reason, Everton came out in the second half and completely eschewed what had worked for them in the first half. Gone were the long balls to Walcott, Richarlison, and Calvert-Lewin, replaced by quick spells of short passing between the defenders and midfielders.

In the face of a team managed by a man synonymous with a high-pressing style, Carlo Ancelotti decided he needed his team to play out of the back through the core of Mason Holgate, Yerry Mina, Morgan Schneiderlin, and Gylfi Sigurdsson.

Predictably, it was a sh*tshow.

The fresh-legged Liverpool youngsters forced turnover after turnover from the overwhelmed Everton players, and finally, in the 71st minute, Curtis Jones made the Toffees pay for their sloppy play out of the back with an absolutely outstanding goal. Credit to Jones and the Liverpool youth players for taking advantage of what was given to them, but Ancelotti made life extremely easy on the young Reds.
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The catastrophic inability/unwillingness of a team of high-priced, experienced PL players and internationals, to string a pass from line to line through a bunch of kids, is what's angered the whole Blue community. Justly so. I've never been so angry at the side. My TV is lucky it didn't have a brick thrown through it.

If they can't do that, the whole thing should be blown up, which seems to be happening and is for the best. It's been festering for some time. Time to pop the zit.

It's ridiculous that their best play probably was to keep bypassing Schneiderlin and Sigurdsson, lump it long, and hope for the best.

But: if they kept playing Route 1 ball, they probably would have gotten a result.
 

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