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

[Victus]

Zero excitement watching this team.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Why is our fast skillful number 10 on the wing

He's had a good game there to be fair

 

[knowing your history]

Not a bad half. Plenty of effort.

Certainly another nick this game 1-0 against these, nearly worked out from the corner and should get a couple more of those in the second half.

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Much better

 

[hktoffee]

Lindstrom and Beto should come on now.

But Dyche won’t make changes until it’s 0-1 with 11 mins to go.

 

[HappyJack]

The half was summed up at the close. Brilliant from Ndiaye slips ball into McNeil who loses out to pace. He seems slower than a Sloth on weed.

 

[Kev The Rat]

225 minutes of nothing from Dyche this season

 

[Baggzio]

Done well here imo, but McNeil is killing us. Looks shattered and slow already, Lindstrom or Doucoure on for him at half-time, and we'd look miles better.

All the new lads looking really impressive, Ndiaye and Tim running the show.

 

[blindbert]

A through ball to Mcneil?

oh you must be new here...

That was painful to watch. Ili won't be trying that again.

 

[Osamabindiesel]

We need to do the simple things once we get into good position. Dom needs to be on the last man for Harrison’s cross. There was nowhere else he could have hit that and if Dom had trusted his teammate, that is a goal.

Myko needs to beat his man with that cutback. Again, the ball goes into the box and good chance it’s a goal. It’s just simple things like these that we need to get much better at.

 

[LostLegend]

Not a bad half by any means.
We dwell on the ball far too much when we hit them on the break.
The amount of times we've broke away then a player has made 2 or 3 more touches, passed backwards allowing them to regroup is frustrating.

Iroegbunam looking decent again and Ndiaye looking positive.

 

[mahermi1]

We played some decent joined up togger there, mainly through Tim and Ndiaye.

 

[Milkman]

Ndiaye and Iroegbunam are absolutely class, real ballers being let down by a team of Dychean cloggers like Harrison and McNeil.

On the whole though, really solid and massively improved on recent weeks. Just toothless where it counts.

 

[blue to the bone]

What's really worrying is that the 3 promoted teams appear to be better than last year's crop.

Do they.
2 of them are on target for 0 points from 3 games. 1 may have 2 .

 

[Jebus_lives]

What's really worrying is that the 3 promoted teams appear to be better than last year's crop.

It's the winter months that kill promoted teams.