Jamo Martinez
Player Valuation: £70m
They actually only had 1 shot on target. Mitoma's 'shot' would have gone out for a throw in if it hadn't hit someone.
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Match Thread Everton v Brighton - Preview, Match Report & MotM Poll
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Jamo Martinez
Player Valuation: £70m
We had 22 % possession when we beat them 5 - 1 last season.
Effectiveness is what makes football interesting. Not possession.
Brighton are a very good side but they are still a mid table team.
The kind of play we are seeing now is effective and decent enough when you are in a relegation fight and needing anything you can but is not even a third of the way through the season. It’s eye-bleeding stuff, made worse when don’t even seem to try to counter attack or offer an out ball.
I feel like if we tried to keep playing as we did before we scored, we might have done something, hoping to hang on for almost the whole match is not likely to be that successful very often.
The kind of play we are seeing now is effective and decent enough when you are in a relegation fight and needing anything you can but is not even a third of the way through the season. It’s eye-bleeding stuff, made worse when don’t even seem to try to counter attack or offer an out ball.
I feel like if we tried to keep playing as we did before we scored, we might have done something, hoping to hang on for almost the whole match is not likely to be that successful very often.
Dario Terracotta
Player Valuation: £70m
Hell of a save from Pickford though and I was also delighted VAR ruled in our favour,but yeah for all their nice football they never truly threatened us.
They were all over us, all over the pitch, all over themselves etc etc. But they only managed to score one goal with a luckily deflected cross. Possession isn't everything, it's what you do with it that matters. In games we've won we've been out possessed.
Kind of saved by VAR as well. Draw was fair.
Kevsleftpeg
Player Valuation: £8m
Think Pickford should have done better for the goal watching the replay. He could have just stood up and reached it rather than diving.
Looked like he couldn't sort his feet out in time
Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £35m
If he was off by the VAR metric, then so be it. That barge in the back, however, was a clear penalty...
When you lead for about 80 mins, it's the latter and frustrating - especially with a weird OG. But it's not a bad result either, and it was a good week.
I'll take it, you didn't understand the reason for my post and leave it at that.
we had a plan and it almost worked, an awful lot of their 80% possession was passing it around their back 4 looking for an opening and our structure was tight and disciplined, there weren't many openings. Their possession was passive and ineffective. Their main outlet was Mitoma and, controversially, Young defended against him really well and restricted him to very little. Their goal came from when Harrison was versus Mitoma and Mitoma got more space and got his cross in, Young and Pickford were unlucky. Brighton are a decent side, not a shabby point.
Key word in your statement is 'Or'. Who knows how changes would have affected the result.
I had a poor stream but I did see two breakaway moves in the last 20 minutes when the players messed up through poor decision making. One involved Gana carrying the ball. I can't remember who led the other. Both gave us opportunities to get to 2-0. I'd put the blame on the players first.
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