Match Thread Everton 2-3 AFC Bournemouth (Sat 31 Aug 3:00 PM)

Your Everton MOTM vs Bournemouth


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Absolutely shell-shocked after that! After all the screanming and cursing were out of my system three questions came to mind…

1) Why do we employ so many ‘professionl athletes’ who cannot compete for longer than 80 minutes? No other team in any of the four leagues runs out of steam like we do?
2) Why do our considerable tall and muscular centre halves struggle so badly to deal with. Rosses?
3) Why, when two nil up and suddenly coming under the cosh at the end, do none of our players take a booking for the team or time waste, to break up the flow of the oppositions play?

My brain is wrecked after that, one of the most entertaining Everton performances for a long time, yet we spewed our rings up and handed it over to them.
 

Not reading the room but an attempt at some positives:
- Ndiaye can beat a man, play a forward pass, and genuinely looks a cut above the rest.
- Tim Iroebgnum looks great (for 80 minutes)
- We played some of our best football under Dyche between the 45th - 80th minute.
- Branthwaite coming back should make the back line a little less useless.
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No Everton for 2 weeks, so that's two safe weekends.
- I thought I had got numb to Everton being Everton, but this current state of shock and anger has made me feel something.

That's about it really. I can't believe how disgraceful that final 10 minutes was.
 

Still in shock can't believe what I've just seen, from our best performance for ages tooour worst collapse I've ever seen from any team manager and players left on pitch wtf was that
 
Well that was a real kick in the teeth...Mykolenko criminal for the first goal.

However we don't need to be too downhearted, from what I saw, (most of the second half), until the capitulation we played really well, looked very bright, playing with intent and snapping into challenges.

We are going to be absolutely fine this season, a kick in the teeth for sure, but ultimately the only real cost to us might be we finish thirteenth instead of twelth.
 
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