Match Thread Everton v Fulham - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[sheedys big toe]

Shower

 

[Sharpies volley]

One of the best managers the world of football has ever seen is the only Everton manager ever to have lost to Fulham in the league at Goodison Park.
Siggurdson, woeful.
James, woeful.
Gomes, woeful.
Digne, woeful.
Richarlison, please Barcelona, come and get him.
The rest of them. Awful.
MOM, I'd probably give it to Iwobi. Looked like he was coming on at one point and his movement was better and quicker than any of the others.

 

[banno]

So our only attacking ideas are, 'get it out wide to digne and hoof one in the box and hope for the best'?

Really?

While a team in the bottom 3 shows obvious offensive drills and patterns, and all done with speed and slickness. That's not good enough Everton, and carlo.

Yes that is our plan our only plan

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

Fulham have played well but perhaps I should qualify this and say that they are statistically one of the worst teams in the league and a side that until tonight have never won a league game at Goodison - if we have genuine aspirations to finish top 4 or top 6 we should be winning this hands down.

Absolutely.

 

[Moomin]

Of late Fulham have drawn with Liverpool, Brighton, Newcastle, Spurs, Brighton, West Brom, West Ham.

They are no pushovers.

Bottom 3 team.

If we want to finish top 4 we need to be winning these games.

 

[Bilko]

Which thread on site earlier, was warning the new Blue ?

 

[number4.]

He did absolutely nothing? Keeper went down holding his face from zero contact and the Fulham players were acting like he got hit. Keane was just the closest player to him

flicked his heel up into keepers chest in frustration. Knew exactly what he was doing, don’t understand how var didn’t give red. Lucky but well take it

 

[sandman77]

We used up enough "spirit" against Spurs so I fully expect us to stink the house out today with a disgustingly lazy, laboured, performance.

Bring me the lotto numbers....

 

[Yarrgh]

Well played Fulham.

As for our lot? Absolute knobwhistles.

 

[Bullens Rd]

End on a high note, with another Holgate backward pass

He was appalling tonight. Cannot play again at right back. And shouldn't start at centre back. We have a big problem now, but I think it needs to be Godfrey at right back from here.

 

[Dublin blue 75]

Sometimes you feel the EITC charitable foundation is too infused in the culture of this club. We lack anything remotely close to a killer instinct. We just do enough every season and that’s quite fine and acceptable to the hierarchy.

 

[Ring master]

To many changes to please players, and playing players not were they should be etc are some of the mistakes

 

[GwladysBlue]

Holgate, Mina, Keane, Godfrey.

That is our best defence.

Will you finally learn this, Carlo, because watching you tinker every bloody week is infuriating.

 

[Leylo]

Sigurdsson and Gomes the slowest midfielders in the premier league

 

[Ryu79]

I wouldn't either but I don't play in the Premier League so he better gets use to it. Although Bayern is probably colder than Liverpool and he played there for two years. I really don't think is the weather but whatever it is I hope he finds his rhythm soon again.

Bizarre attacks from fans on an injured player. Have seen James play well for Everton in cold, in rain, when getting kicked on - and it's sad to see Everton fans recycling these stereotype based comments.

Same people were slagging off the team at half time at Old Trafford and then going silent a few minutes into second half.

James couldn't influence the game tonight (at all), but he put in a shift in the first half, starting attacks from midfield winning back the ball on a several occasions (Coleman's run at goal came off a proper two footed tackle James got stuck into in midfield - coincidentally the only sign of blood flowing through veins in the team for those 45 minutes). The game plan just didn't work - for anyone - I thought Holgate was worst on the field in Blue, personally.

He got a knock at the start of second half and you could see him limping, then came up hurt a few minutes later on the pile up tackle - looked more like he aggravated the earlier injury than an opponent injuring him). As Sassy said, hope it doesn't keep him off field for too long - these calf injuries have been a problem for him.