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Match Thread Everton v Tottenham Hotspur - Preview, Match Report & MotM Poll
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BigDuncis Blue
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Yea correct. Which also applies to some of the easy chances we miss, yards out.....oh yeh and when the ball drops to one of our players outside the box.....great chance to hit the target, most fans are thinking keep it down...of course it goes miles over the bar
BigDuncis Blue
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Agreed....but we made it very easy for them
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Big Fat Sam
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Pickford. 2/10. Whatever way you look at it, he conceded six goals and was solely responsible for one of them with a mistake even a Sunday league goalkeeper shouldn't make. After the Liverpool mistake, it's becoming too often. Needs dropping big time.
Coleman. 2/10. It's no coincidence that every one of their attacks came down his side. He'll be having nightmare about Son all over Christmas. His attacking was pathetic and his crossing somehow even worse.
Keane. 3/10. Too easily lost by the strikers and too slow alongside Zouma. Has been much better this season, but that was a horror show yesterday.
Zouma. 3/10. Annihilated by their attacking players.
Digne. 5/10. A quiet game but understandably so when everybody around him was appalling and Richarlison ahead of him was not interested.
Davies. 3/10. Fuming after seeing his name on the team sheet and proved himself once again to be miles off the quality needed. Game completely passed him by, as if he was some guy they'd pulled onto the team from the Gwladys.
Gomes. 4/10. A very rare off day. Carrying an injury after playing every single game at the heart of the side?
Richarlison. 3/10. Offered nothing whatsoever. Didn't once take on any of their players and can't remember him even having an attempt on goal.
Sigurdsson. 5/10. I'd have given 4/10 if not for his goal. Don't remember him touching the ball the entire first half. Goal well taken, but we had long since lost our heads by then.
Walcott. 5/10. Same as Sig really. A nothing game but at least he can say he has no support from Coleman at all and was able to grab a goal. He should be in those positions a lot more as he took it very nicely.
DCL. 4/10. Extremely unlucky with the disallowed goal. I can see why it was, but it was very very soft and if the defender hadn't thrown his arms up then it would have been given. In any case, aside from that he offered nothing at all, as expected.
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Silva. 1/10. What he's thinking playing Davies in there I'll never know. If he's your only option then it's better to completely change formation. After they scored four I was hoping it'd end up a cricket score so that it really gets drilled home to him exactly where our weakness lie, namely at right back, centre half and up top. We urgently need two new starting xi players in January, but I don't think it'll materialise as this will be, again, viewed as a write-off season. He'll probably arrogantly put out a second choice side against Lincoln and they'll smash us out of the cup to really top off one of our worst runs of form in recent years, then we'll be hoping the side doesn't completely capitulate and plummet towards the relegation zone - it's happened with teams before.
Coleman. 2/10. It's no coincidence that every one of their attacks came down his side. He'll be having nightmare about Son all over Christmas. His attacking was pathetic and his crossing somehow even worse.
Keane. 3/10. Too easily lost by the strikers and too slow alongside Zouma. Has been much better this season, but that was a horror show yesterday.
Zouma. 3/10. Annihilated by their attacking players.
Digne. 5/10. A quiet game but understandably so when everybody around him was appalling and Richarlison ahead of him was not interested.
Davies. 3/10. Fuming after seeing his name on the team sheet and proved himself once again to be miles off the quality needed. Game completely passed him by, as if he was some guy they'd pulled onto the team from the Gwladys.
Gomes. 4/10. A very rare off day. Carrying an injury after playing every single game at the heart of the side?
Richarlison. 3/10. Offered nothing whatsoever. Didn't once take on any of their players and can't remember him even having an attempt on goal.
Sigurdsson. 5/10. I'd have given 4/10 if not for his goal. Don't remember him touching the ball the entire first half. Goal well taken, but we had long since lost our heads by then.
Walcott. 5/10. Same as Sig really. A nothing game but at least he can say he has no support from Coleman at all and was able to grab a goal. He should be in those positions a lot more as he took it very nicely.
DCL. 4/10. Extremely unlucky with the disallowed goal. I can see why it was, but it was very very soft and if the defender hadn't thrown his arms up then it would have been given. In any case, aside from that he offered nothing at all, as expected.
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Silva. 1/10. What he's thinking playing Davies in there I'll never know. If he's your only option then it's better to completely change formation. After they scored four I was hoping it'd end up a cricket score so that it really gets drilled home to him exactly where our weakness lie, namely at right back, centre half and up top. We urgently need two new starting xi players in January, but I don't think it'll materialise as this will be, again, viewed as a write-off season. He'll probably arrogantly put out a second choice side against Lincoln and they'll smash us out of the cup to really top off one of our worst runs of form in recent years, then we'll be hoping the side doesn't completely capitulate and plummet towards the relegation zone - it's happened with teams before.
Old Blue 2
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This.
Although for their equaliser, once Pickford comes out to clear, our defender should have simply got out of the way and covered behind him. That is basic Sunday League coaching: if the 'keeper comes out, defender covers the empty goal behind him.
Davies has shown himself to be a stroller, and that is not good enough in the modern game. He's had his chance, move him on...
Disallowing DCL's header was akin to Ferguson's disallowed goal against Villareal. Are we now reaching the point where the game has become a non-contact sport...??? Agree with you above re the officiating.
The biggest problem is the big hole in the centre of midfield, particularly between the half-way line and our back four. It is an unfortunate thing to say, but we have never replaced Gareth Barry in that holding central midfield role just in front of the central defenders since he left.
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Big Fat Sam
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I'd start looking at a three man midfield be to honest. Gueye sitting there behind two passers. Gomes is one of them and somebody with a bit of magic alongside him, also with bit more of a goalscoring threat, given licence to roam, would be ideal. Hell, even try Sig there, he has those qualities. This formation is killing us. Right now we are far too top heavy, without even threatening the opposition goalkeeper most of the team, and leave huge gaps in midfield when on the back foot.
4-3-2-1 - Richi and Berni behind a new striker. Koff with the rest of them.
4-3-2-1 - Richi and Berni behind a new striker. Koff with the rest of them.
NilSatisOptimum
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It was either Lewin or Gilfy. Lewin was unlucky not to have 2 and Gilfy is at time in football career where he should be best on pitch most matches. So Lewin gets for taking his chance as a striker and finding the net.
Cognitive dissonance overload yesterday - Many have stated recently we've had an indifferent start under Marco, but played 5 of the top six away already so we can still salvage some points against the big 6/7 teams at home surely....
First one to roll into town - we get mullered 6-2
Everton that
First one to roll into town - we get mullered 6-2
Everton that
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Toffeelover
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charlie atkins
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Just 22 bookings all season. No fight at all. Soft as [Poor language removed].
Finally watched the goals back:
1-0 - Good work by Dom, good run and finish by Theo
2-0 (Disallowed) - Why?
1-1 - No comment
1-2 - Zero awareness and anticipation for the rebound by our midfield
1-3 - Again, zero anticipation of a rebound
1-4 - Coleman should get fined for the header and the "block" but a brilliant strike as well
2-4 - Great work and finish from Sig
2-5 - Keane looked too static then just gave up
2-6 - Poor covering all over the spot
Our defence really is back to being very bad again. Son is a brilliant little player.
1-0 - Good work by Dom, good run and finish by Theo
2-0 (Disallowed) - Why?
1-1 - No comment
1-2 - Zero awareness and anticipation for the rebound by our midfield
1-3 - Again, zero anticipation of a rebound
1-4 - Coleman should get fined for the header and the "block" but a brilliant strike as well
2-4 - Great work and finish from Sig
2-5 - Keane looked too static then just gave up
2-6 - Poor covering all over the spot
Our defence really is back to being very bad again. Son is a brilliant little player.
Both of them are to blame.
What I would say is given we were playing a ludicrously high line, that means the goalkeeper acts as the sweeper. So I can understand Pickford coming out.
They both cocked up. Both hesitated when both of them should have just focused on the ball.
I think the main worry for me is we seem to have stopped doing the basics in the last few games, all over the pitch.
Our good run came from the basics being in place and building from there.
We need to - at the risk of sounding like Fabian Delph - go back to basics and build from there.
It's probably more Silva wanting to add more to our overall play than any real complacency. That, and the fact our players are all about as mentally strong as a twig.
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