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Match Thread Everton v Brentford. Preview, Match Report and MotM poll

Your Everton MOTM vs Brentford

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Bilbo said:
@Tree13 Lucky we bitched Utd & Chelsea then...
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Very, very much so. Without BOTH of those unexpected wins we'd already be down, IMHO. Can't underestimate the psychological impact of winning those two games, or the results against Leicester.

Equally the psychological impact of drawing with teams already relegated, or losing to teams who are in exactly the same dire straits as ourselves, is massive - all the more so when some members of the squad display behaviours all season long that suggest they have very fragile self-confidence.

Mathematics is all it boils down to, however. If we'd BEATEN Burnley instead of losing to them it would be a six-point swing in our favour. They'd be below Leeds right now, and we'd be eight points ahead of them.
 

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Tree13 said:
Very, very much so. Without BOTH of those unexpected wins we'd already be down, IMHO. Can't underestimate the psychological impact of winning those two games, or the results against Leicester.

Equally the psychological impact of drawing with teams already relegated, or losing to teams who are in exactly the same dire straits as ourselves, is massive - all the more so when some members of the squad display behaviours all season long that suggest they have very fragile self-confidence.

Mathematics is all it boils down to, however. If we'd BEATEN Burnley instead of losing to them it would be a six-point swing in our favour. They'd be below Leeds right now, and we'd be eight points ahead of them.
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well we’re not so today we have to do our own thing
 

Tree13 said:
The whole point of games in hand is that you have to win them. The idea is that we should be doing all we can to get to absolute mathematic safety in the fewest games possible. It's naive and nonsensical to keep saying "this game / result doesn't matter, there's more games after this one" because there are only 38 games in total, we've already played 35 of them and we aren't safe yet.

To illustrate this, look at two games from earlier in the season:

2-3 loss to Burnley
0-0 draw with Watford

Neither fixture would have been viewed as a big game in advance, but the RESULTS are huge.

Had we scored 1 more goal against Burnley ( and all other results stayed the same) we'd be far better off with another point (and Burnley would be on 32, not 34). If we'd BEATEN Burnley, we'd already be safe.

One goal against Watford the other day and we'd be two points further up the table now with less pressure to win v Brentford and Palace.

Now here's the kicker: which would you say is objectively the easier task?

a) scoring one goal against Burnley and one goal against Watford; or

b) winning a Prem fixture at the Emirates against an Arsenal team in contention for a CL place?

Because these players messed up so badly against Burnley and Watford, we now have a must-win game against Brentford. Hence it's a *HUGE* game.
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Context, innit.
 

I was at OT last week for the United v Brentford game and I thought they looked shocking against an average to poor united team.

No doubt they will play much better against us
 
COY...F....F.....F....F....F....B's

(I'd have broken the swear filter if I'd typed that in full - bit tense about this one, it has to be said ?)
 

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