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

[GambianToffee]

Bollocks Matty, 2-0 up at home in charge and he let the other manager take the game away whilst he sat passive.

At 2-0, you’d have struggled to find a blue who was saying “this game looks like it’s getting away from us”.

We were battering them. Dyche can’t legislate for Coleman not stopping the cross and Mykolenko switching off for 2-1.

And at 2-1, every outfield player loses their heads.

 

[blackie_jones75]

This ability to make 5 subs can be a massive game changer. Seen it in Rugby Union where they replace an entire front row or scrum half and fly half after 40/60 minutes and it’s just seen as part of the game . Sooner we wake up to fully utilising this / even replacing players after one half like for like the better (Coleman for Dixon for example). Just having some flashbacks now , that Coleman miss was criminal and to be fair they could have scored at least 2 or 3 more in added time .

 

[RomanReigns]

Coleman shoulda been off about 65 get young Dixon on

Tim shoulda been off about 70 get garner on

McNeil should have been off about 85 get O’Brien on and just keep the clean sheet and see off the win

Calvert Lewin and Ndiaye off on 92 let them get their standing ovation bring on Begovic and Young for all I care cos the game is done

That’s how you manage a 2-0 lead you ginger dinosaur

 

[duncs pigeon]

Football is all about opinions, imo its the 11 players on the pitch at 86 mins cost us the game. Top players will manage the game out, go down, feign an injury, hit the ball into the corner, keep possesion etc etc. Im just hoping, at the end of the season, that this isnt the result that send us down. Today was the best we have played in a long time, some lovely football in all fairness, so hopefully, keep that level up and take some positive out of the negative. UTFT.

 

[Old Blue 2]

Having seen the goals, all three we conceded were down to Pickford!

1st goal: low cross about 3 yards from the goal line. Take a step and intercept it!

2nd & 3rd goals: Crosses into the six-yard box. Get off your line and collect or punch away!!!

Dracula Pickford. And it's not the first time he has been glued to his line!

I'd rather have the second string 'keeper in, who would at least dominate his six-yard box. Opposing managers must now be saying: Get as many crosses in as you can, Dracula will stay on his line. If you win the header, it's a goal...

 

[TheBigIguana]

At 2-0, you’d have struggled to find a blue who was saying “this game looks like it’s getting away from us”.

We were battering them. Dyche can’t legislate for Coleman not stopping the cross and Mykolenko switching off for 2-1.

And at 2-1, every outfield player loses their heads.

He should’ve immediately made a sub more or less as a timeout. Doesn’t even matter what the change is. Just refocus.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Coleman shoulda been off about 65 get young Dixon on

Tim shoulda been off about 70 get garner on

McNeil should have been off about 85 get O’Brien on and just keep the clean sheet and see off the win

Calvert Lewin and Ndiaye off on 92 let them get their standing ovation bring on Begovic and Young for all I care cos the game is done

That’s how you manage a 2-0 lead you ginger dinosaur

The 5 subs rule means you’re at a real energy disadvantage late if the other team uses 5 and you’ve only used 2.

 

[GrandOldSte117]

Still feel absolutely sick here. Someone make me forget this football club Men in Black style

 

[bluestevon]

and they fell apart for him to see that happen

And he did nothing to change it, only to accelerate it

 

[bluestevon]

He’d just made subs. He wasn’t passive. He may have mismanaged the moment but I’m not sure passivity is correct

He made his first dun on the 83rd minute, by that time Bournemouth that made 5. And the goal was coming for twenty minutes lad unless you're blind

 

[Gilbert..]

This ability to make 5 subs can be a massive game changer. Seen it in Rugby Union where they replace an entire front row or scrum half and fly half after 40/60 minutes and it’s just seen as part of the game . Sooner we wake up to fully utilising this / even replacing players after one half like for like the better (Coleman for Dixon for example). Just having some flashbacks now , that Coleman miss was criminal and to be fair they could have scored at least 2 or 3 more in added time .

I mean wasnt dixon for coleman just plain bloody obvious. Coleman was knackered. Young right back sitting there.
Why? Just why?
The stubborness of him kills me.

 

[bluestevon]

At 2-0, you’d have struggled to find a blue who was saying “this game looks like it’s getting away from us”.

We were battering them. Dyche can’t legislate for Coleman not stopping the cross and Mykolenko switching off for 2-1.

And at 2-1, every outfield player loses their heads.

Are you serious lad, the goal came because we started threading water, several players looked knackered and they were throwing in fresh lads
Was chatting to my brother during it and both stated that we needed to make changes or they'd get back into it ..was bloody obvious

 

[If You Know Your History]

Still not sure how that happened. Absolutely cruising

The most bizarre match I've ever witnessed.

The Bournemouth fans didn't even celebrate their first goal, presumably because they assumed that it was a pointless consolation goal.

 

[Tullz]

The positive got peed up the wall in the last 5 mins mate, with the managers awful game management.

Its not just on the players what happened today.

Sounding like a broken record now but it was the players pathetic inability to close out a game.

It was easy, game was won but somehow... Somehow..

 

[SPOTTER]

Pretty good performance that, totally dominated especially second half, freak end result, need to focus on the positives rather than the freak result. We looked a good team and could have been 4 or 5 nil up t it went tits up.