Match Thread Everton v Brighton - Preview, Match Report & MotM Poll

[Calvin]

It’s not free flowing though. It’s possession for the sake of it. Without Mitoma to give them some impetus they would struggle I think.

I kinda remember them having a number of nice passing moves going down both flanks.

 

[Calvin]

But creating no chances. We ceded possession and territory deliberately and wanted to play on the counter attack.

So they were all over us, then

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

I kinda remember them having a number of nice passing moves going down both flanks.

Which resulted in very few chances.

 

[Calvin]

Which resulted in very few chances.

Regardless of chances created, they were all over us

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

So they were all over us, then

No, we let them have possession for most of the game.

 

[Calvin]

No, we let them have possession for most of the game.

I see, so we were deliberately poor in possession

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

Regardless of chances created, they were all over us

No, they had more possession. And we deliberately let them have it because that was the best way to beat them. The game pretty much went exactly to plan until we tired in the second half.

 

[Vaughan]

i know we don’t have many options but the game has changed and 5 subs means you need to make changes. if every team is making 5 changes every match and we make 2 in last 15-20 minutes our players are going to have so much higher levels of fatigue.

could have even been something like patterson for harrison if he wanted to try and keep it tight.

it’s tough because we don’t have many options but a fresh player is better than a fatigued player

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

I see, so we were deliberately poor in possession

There is no difference in passing the ball 100 times resulting in no shot on goal and passing it 3 or 4 times resulting in no shot shot on goal.

 

[Calvin]

There is no difference in passing the ball 100 times resulting in no shot on goal and passing it 3 or 4 times resulting in no shot shot on goal.

I see, so who gets more tired? The team passing the ball or the team chasing the ball?

 

[tommytowne]

Regardless of chances created, they were all over us

Played us off the park. The possession stats didn't lie.
I doubt I've ever seen a team do that all the years I've been going the match.

 

[Calvin]

Played us off the park. The possession stats didn't lie.
I doubt I've ever seen a team do that all the years I've been going the match.

Amazing how others can watch the same game and see something so different

 

[tommytowne]

Amazing how others can watch the same game and see something so different

I'd be interested to see how many touches of the ball their big centre back no.29 had.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Played us off the park. The possession stats didn't lie.
I doubt I've ever seen a team do that all the years I've been going the match.

They didn't do much with the ball though. Their style is fairly boring at times with quite a lot of pointless passing.

Tactics weren't that bad. It was our passing to set up counter attacks that let us down a lot

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

I see, so who gets more tired? The team passing the ball or the team chasing the ball?

So the team that is most tired loses? Not heard that rule before. Saw Everton under Martinez perform in a similar way numerous times and lose. We weren't great in possession and didn't make the most of the counter attack opportunity we had but in terms of chances created the game was pretty even.