Match Thread Everton v Man City. 23rd August at 16.00.

[blue4eva77]

He wasn't terrible, he was just up against a very very good player that knew how to exploit his weakness and lack of support.
Just because someone played better than you, doesn't mean you played bad

What?? You thought Galloway was good today. He was absolutely terrible.

He was everywhere. He even managed to get megged at one point through ball watching. Fair play to City, they saw him as the weak link and took him to the cleaners.

On the flip side he needed that. He's learning and he got an education today. He earned his masters degree within minutes.

 

[andy4efc]

Just to add, hope the chap who was rushed away is okay.

Last season a guy in upper bullens had an epilectic fit sat right behind us, the poor guy is blind already. Whole row had to move and stand out the way as they couldn't get his body straight in the very small area of seats. Froffing at the mouth it looked really really serious, thankfully the man is good and well now and only having to suffer watching us most of the time! Hopefully the guy today has the same recovery.

Kudos to Sergio Aguero, always liked him but more respect and humanity for the guy now.

 

[Khalekan]

Howard made two howlers and will be blamed for losing us the game.

And rightly so.

 

[Bobbys Shoe Polish]

Don't think I did. I'm saying that it's surprising because it's something they are supposed to work on a lot.

You did.

 

[WA Toffee]

What?? You thought Galloway was good today. He was absolutely terrible.

He was everywhere. He even managed to get megged at one point through ball watching. Fair play to City, they saw him as the weak link and took him to the cleaners.

On the flip side he needed that. He's learning and he got an education today. He earned his masters degree within minutes.

I didn't say he was good, I said he wasn't terrible and up against someone who was better than him.

 

[The Equaliser]

You did.

I said : "keeping possession is supposed to be a cornerstone of the Martinez philosophy and something they spend a lot of time working on in training."

If you object to someone saying something like that and complain that it is being critical of Martinez it is not surprising that so many Blues are put off him by people like yourself.

 

[KevMirallas]

We weren't that bad really, but nobody will be able to compete with Silva and City when they play like that.

Our left hand side was a turnstile, especially when Browning came on, but I thought Coleman and Cleverley were brilliant. Barkley too, I've seen enough from these games to suggest he's about to hit the next level. He runs games for us now.

Howard made some saves but was hopeless for the goals. His career in a sentence really. Lukaku was poor, Naismith too when he came on. Stones and Jags good.

On to the next one. We should have a decent season, and City should win the league.

 

[jazzy]

Because ours were up against some o the best attackers in the world

Isn't that what Lukaku thinks he is ?

 

[jazzy]

We weren't that bad really, but nobody will be able to compete with Silva and City when they play like that.

Our left hand side was a turnstile, especially when Browning came on, but I thought Coleman and Cleverley were brilliant. Barkley too, I've seen enough from these games to suggest he's about to hit the next level. He runs games for us now.

Howard made some saves but was hopeless for the goals. His career in a sentence really. Lukaku was poor, Naismith too when he came on. Stones and Jags good.

On to the next one. We should have a decent season, and City should win the league.

I agree with all that bar the comment about Barkley.

Thought he worked hard yesterday but too often gave the ball away

 

[thebluenosebolt]

They're winning because we've got a rubbish keeper and a kid at left back.

They won because they have Silva....we have the titshard of Oz. Not too gutting tbh. Onwards and upwards.

 

[Groucho]

We were good in the first half, problem was, Man City were great in the second half. That is where the wealth difference is evident. Everton are a good team,and we look better than last season already, mostly. Up against teams other than the one that will clearly win the league, we'll be sound for the majority of the time.

We are a top of the range Ford that needed a repair all last year. Everton the Ghia*, if you will, and we've just had our clutch done. Day to day, we look good, we have all the bells and whistles and we are reasonably quick in real world terms. We're ace. Yesterday we're sat at the lights after pulling level with a souped up Watford and then burning Southampton off, ready for the next team, feeling rather good about ourselves and with good reason too. Then as the lights change to green, Man City blast past in a Mercedes S-Class.

Suddenly we feel ordinary for a little bit. And sure, there'll be Chelsea and Arsenal driving by in Jags and BMW's, however there'll also be Nissans and Vauxhalls to encounter. This is not to say I'm happy with mediocrity, I'm not, but one step at a time, eh?

What all that crap above means, is that I think that apart from the first half against Watford, we've played better than we did in most games last season, which, while being beaten by Man City certainly does not please me, does at least mean we can recover from last season's abhorrence, and kick on from there.




*made up with thinking of that

 

[bourneblue]

Our left side was non existent in attack midfield or defence,watching Barkley trying to beat 3 men at a time was so frustrating as their was no outlet for him,certainly not on our left.
The game cried out for mirallas and Oviedo to bolster our left side.
Bringing Del on with 5 minutes to go was ludicrous,he should have come on as soon as city scored.

 

[Mogwai]

We were good in the first half, problem was, Man City were great in the second half. That is where the wealth difference is evident. Everton are a good team,and we look better than last season already, mostly. Up against teams other than the one that will clearly win the league, we'll be sound for the majority of the time.

We are a top of the range Ford that needed a repair all last year. Everton the Ghia*, if you will, and we've just had our clutch done. Day to day, we look good, we have all the bells and whistles and we are reasonably quick in real world terms. We're ace. Yesterday we're sat at the lights after pulling level with a souped up Watford and then burning Southampton off, ready for the next team, feeling rather good about ourselves and with good reason too. Then as the lights change to green, Man City blast past in a Mercedes S-Class.

Suddenly we feel ordinary for a little bit. And sure, there'll be Chelsea and Arsenal driving by in Jags and BMW's, however there'll also be Nissans and Vauxhalls to encounter. This is not to say I'm happy with mediocrity, I'm not, but one step at a time, eh?

What all that crap above means, is that I think that apart from the first half against Watford, we've played better than we did in most games last season, which, while being beaten by Man City certainly does not please me, does at least mean we can recover from last season's abhorrence, and kick on from there.




*made up with thinking of that

If they are in a Nissan GTR we are screwed! But love the analogies

 

[bluestevon]

We were good in the first half, problem was, Man City were great in the second half. That is where the wealth difference is evident. Everton are a good team,and we look better than last season already, mostly. Up against teams other than the one that will clearly win the league, we'll be sound for the majority of the time.

We are a top of the range Ford that needed a repair all last year. Everton the Ghia*, if you will, and we've just had our clutch done. Day to day, we look good, we have all the bells and whistles and we are reasonably quick in real world terms. We're ace. Yesterday we're sat at the lights after pulling level with a souped up Watford and then burning Southampton off, ready for the next team, feeling rather good about ourselves and with good reason too. Then as the lights change to green, Man City blast past in a Mercedes S-Class.

Suddenly we feel ordinary for a little bit. And sure, there'll be Chelsea and Arsenal driving by in Jags and BMW's, however there'll also be Nissans and Vauxhalls to encounter. This is not to say I'm happy with mediocrity, I'm not, but one step at a time, eh?

What all that crap above means, is that I think that apart from the first half against Watford, we've played better than we did in most games last season, which, while being beaten by Man City certainly does not please me, does at least mean we can recover from last season's abhorrence, and kick on from there.

Bright sparks though was lukaku and barkley kept trying and worked really hard, thought cleverley was outstanding, cbs looked solid and cileman looked back to his very best - with someone in front partly due to cleverleys intelligent movement


*made up with thinking of that

Main problem in that game mate is that you cant play an in form city with players playing out of position as it will get brutally exposed, missed baines massively and bobby made a mistake leaving a kid with kone in front of him for 60 mins, that chelsea hammering last season has left him gunshy about taking any risks against the likes of a city at home i think, no way should we have not thrown on mirralas when trailing, not go nna mention deulefeu as think he is badly lacking fitness and could do with a full cup game followed by 1-2 under 21 ones. Last part of my post got added to your quoted text ffs lol

 

[GwladysBlue]

We were good in the first half, problem was, Man City were great in the second half. That is where the wealth difference is evident. Everton are a good team,and we look better than last season already, mostly. Up against teams other than the one that will clearly win the league, we'll be sound for the majority of the time.

We are a top of the range Ford that needed a repair all last year. Everton the Ghia*, if you will, and we've just had our clutch done. Day to day, we look good, we have all the bells and whistles and we are reasonably quick in real world terms. We're ace. Yesterday we're sat at the lights after pulling level with a souped up Watford and then burning Southampton off, ready for the next team, feeling rather good about ourselves and with good reason too. Then as the lights change to green, Man City blast past in a Mercedes S-Class.

Suddenly we feel ordinary for a little bit. And sure, there'll be Chelsea and Arsenal driving by in Jags and BMW's, however there'll also be Nissans and Vauxhalls to encounter. This is not to say I'm happy with mediocrity, I'm not, but one step at a time, eh?

What all that crap above means, is that I think that apart from the first half against Watford, we've played better than we did in most games last season, which, while being beaten by Man City certainly does not please me, does at least mean we can recover from last season's abhorrence, and kick on from there.




*made up with thinking of that

I think we can all agree that nobody can be too downbeat on losing to the probable title winners, it was the lack of effort to try and win the game that annoyed me.

In a game that was crying out for pace he brought Naismith on. Our midfield then had Naismith, Barry, Cleverly and McCarthy in it. Imagine having a double substitution of Deulofeu and Mirallas. It would have got the crowd up, and who knows what might have happened?

For me his substations yesterday were too Moyes like. Where the brave Martinez has gone, I don't know.