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One save in the first half, then everything else came after the pen. The game was clearly set up to be a pinch a goal job. But the usual heads went.
Don't think any team deserved to win up until the pen.
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One save in the first half, then everything else came after the pen. The game was clearly set up to be a pinch a goal job. But the usual heads went.
Don't think any team deserved to win up until the pen.
Its because the reasons for having a pop are irrational.
The alternatives were to play Gordon Iwobi or Bernard. The chances of the doing anything different were minimal because they don't perform on a regular basis.
The tactics were working but we got undone by a soft pen and silly decision by Gomes and then an horrific individual error by Mina. Players don't take responsibility on the field so they deserve the blame entirely.
Hickson9
Player Valuation: £30m
Even with our lineup, Doucoure and Sigurdsson should have been much closer to DCL and we should have gone direct earlier and crossed from wide earlier.
Instead we just fannied about with it the whole of the first half in the middle and didn't look at all threatening. The play was staid, at best.
We came up against a solid, low block and did nothing to turn them around.
I think Nkounkou was played out of position and it neutralised his effectiveness. One of the three you mention could have played out there with Nkounkou at left back, or Delph played at left back from the start to cross from deeper.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
I'm very concerned about the lack pace that Ancelotti has contributed with his signings this summer.
They are very good signings Allan and James, but they come into a squad which already has players who lack pace and who get game time like Sigurdsson, Gomes, Delph, Mina and Davies.
The more we see of a Richarlison-less starting line up the more you realise how much we rely on him. His running basically makes up for some of his team mates.
They are very good signings Allan and James, but they come into a squad which already has players who lack pace and who get game time like Sigurdsson, Gomes, Delph, Mina and Davies.
The more we see of a Richarlison-less starting line up the more you realise how much we rely on him. His running basically makes up for some of his team mates.
Hickson9
Player Valuation: £30m
How were the tactics working? We did nothing for the entirety of the first half.
Jim Hopper
Player Valuation: £40m
Agree with that. But for the penalty it was stale boring like for like game going nowhere.
My only gripe with the game was we needed someone like Bernard on from the start of the second half, just someone to run around and create space so others can get the ball, we didn’t have that. Regardless of who stood in for Gomes be it Gordon, Iwobi, Bernard I think having someone on like that prior to their goal would have been great. Obviously the game changed after the goal.
We had only given up one chance against our own goal and it was from our own corner. The tactics were working. We had started to offer some threat at start of second half too and Sigurdsson fluffed a decent chance.
Did you expect our useless reserve players to batter them today? And if so, why?
I'm not paid millions a year to pick players or set - up a team mate (so don't ask me. lol) but you can see some merit in those saying he got team selection wrong, no width, weird substitutions. I can see what he was trying to do in the game (eventually) firstly don't lose the game, keep it tight and try and nick one from a set - piece/ breakaway.
Hickson9
Player Valuation: £30m
Did we even have a chance in the first half?
I would have liked us to not play in a way that perfectly suited their 3-5-2.
I would have liked some support in and around DCL and for us to go more direct earlier. For more crosses from wide earlier.
Basically go over or around their massed defence.
I don't think anyone expected us to better them but it was a really, really poor offering.
4 starters out and 3 of them are our creativity. Gomes gives and pen and second goal is from a deflection that Mina should have stopped outside the box. Carlo is blameless for today. People saying Gomes, Sig and Delph in the first 11 made them loose faith in the game. Gordon is not a centre mid! Who else should he have played? The u23s?
samcdavies94
Player Valuation: £6m
It's completely reasonable to consider that the manager got it wrong, while we were up against it from the outset with the absentees. Playing so narrow with only one to aim for in the box was never going to create a load of chances and, if you're going to make a change once you go 1-0 down in the 56' minute, then you may as well have made it at half time.
Along the same lines, if you're gonna play for a point, then you better make sure you get it.
Along the same lines, if you're gonna play for a point, then you better make sure you get it.
I would really like all those things too but who were the players going to do it?
I look at that bench today and my word is it average.
We were missing both our full backs and both our wide players. Players got opportunities as a result but were absolutely awful and didn't take them. They have to have a look at themselves in the mirror and decide if they are good enough to play for Everton.
samcdavies94
Player Valuation: £6m
Well he didn't need to play five centre midfielders did he? For all their faults/ inexperience, there were 3 wide men on the bench and 2 strikers. Plenty of opportunity to pick a different system.
Carlo did brilliant today though didn't he? He still warrants criticism when he deserves it.
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