And on we plod.
On retrospect from the Sunderland game we weren't too bad against an in form, decent team on their home ground. Certainly not a performance or result to go overboard on but taken in context it was yet another game where we had the opportunity to finish a team off and [Poor language removed] it. Aside from those other things that excite, like some boss skill or a crunching challenge or incisive build up play, it's those moments where we pummel the ball into the net that make watching Everton sometimes ace. There's just not enough of them right now.
WBA have put in some good performances this season - against Arsenal really stands out - but they are on a winless run of five games, one more than us. Last weekend was a bit of a shocker for them as they took a three nil bumming off Stoke at home. As you might expect from a team recently promoted, there is not a huge amount of quality in the squad. Only notable really are Dorrans, once linked to us Odemwingie and often linked Scharner, the latter for his knack of scoring against us, taking a dig in the guts off Ferguson and turning up once with a [Poor language removed] blue haircut. Tit.
Roberto Di Matteo, the most Mexican looking Italian ever, has done a good job to bring them up but keeping them up will be his yardstick. Far too often WBA have tonked their way up, played pretty football and gone straight back down. Not unlike a Skol drinking long lost uncle with minty slip on shoes who turns up at Christmas, gives you a fiver, and then goes missing until two years later.
What would be nice would be to see us really grip the game by the scruff of the neck without needing to go a goal down first, and similarly not retreating into our shell if we score a goal, like were playing in the San Siro away. Goals remain the problem. What is not helping is persisting with Saha who continually has an anonymous game which we can handle if he does his usual thing like scoring once or twice out of absolute nothing, which he's clearly not at the moment. That's made all the weirder by preferring him to Yakubu, who before Saha got the recent run of games was looking something like what we used to remember and more importantly a key component on our ability to play 4-5-1 effectively.
Not helping the cause is the absence of Fellaini as he's far more accomplished than everyone's current favourite pantomime villain in that position. While everyone is fuming at Heitinga at the moment they might like to take a minute to reflect that he's playing there - out of position - due to Fellaini's own petulant tackle. I can't wait to have him back for the game after this but that [Poor language removed] has got to stop. Hopefully that will provoke a response from Arteta, who really needs to use this game against WBA to return to dominating the passage of play against similar opposition like he used to, he's so conspicuous by his absence.
In summary: Id love to see us swerve the need for a desperate 4-3-3 in this one please, Everton.
The optimist in me says were only a goal or two away from a good run but that elusive Brock moment just isn't going to happen, and even if it does then its twenty years too late. Back to reality, anything other than three points will be absolute [Poor language removed].
On retrospect from the Sunderland game we weren't too bad against an in form, decent team on their home ground. Certainly not a performance or result to go overboard on but taken in context it was yet another game where we had the opportunity to finish a team off and [Poor language removed] it. Aside from those other things that excite, like some boss skill or a crunching challenge or incisive build up play, it's those moments where we pummel the ball into the net that make watching Everton sometimes ace. There's just not enough of them right now.
WBA have put in some good performances this season - against Arsenal really stands out - but they are on a winless run of five games, one more than us. Last weekend was a bit of a shocker for them as they took a three nil bumming off Stoke at home. As you might expect from a team recently promoted, there is not a huge amount of quality in the squad. Only notable really are Dorrans, once linked to us Odemwingie and often linked Scharner, the latter for his knack of scoring against us, taking a dig in the guts off Ferguson and turning up once with a [Poor language removed] blue haircut. Tit.
Roberto Di Matteo, the most Mexican looking Italian ever, has done a good job to bring them up but keeping them up will be his yardstick. Far too often WBA have tonked their way up, played pretty football and gone straight back down. Not unlike a Skol drinking long lost uncle with minty slip on shoes who turns up at Christmas, gives you a fiver, and then goes missing until two years later.
What would be nice would be to see us really grip the game by the scruff of the neck without needing to go a goal down first, and similarly not retreating into our shell if we score a goal, like were playing in the San Siro away. Goals remain the problem. What is not helping is persisting with Saha who continually has an anonymous game which we can handle if he does his usual thing like scoring once or twice out of absolute nothing, which he's clearly not at the moment. That's made all the weirder by preferring him to Yakubu, who before Saha got the recent run of games was looking something like what we used to remember and more importantly a key component on our ability to play 4-5-1 effectively.
Not helping the cause is the absence of Fellaini as he's far more accomplished than everyone's current favourite pantomime villain in that position. While everyone is fuming at Heitinga at the moment they might like to take a minute to reflect that he's playing there - out of position - due to Fellaini's own petulant tackle. I can't wait to have him back for the game after this but that [Poor language removed] has got to stop. Hopefully that will provoke a response from Arteta, who really needs to use this game against WBA to return to dominating the passage of play against similar opposition like he used to, he's so conspicuous by his absence.
In summary: Id love to see us swerve the need for a desperate 4-3-3 in this one please, Everton.
The optimist in me says were only a goal or two away from a good run but that elusive Brock moment just isn't going to happen, and even if it does then its twenty years too late. Back to reality, anything other than three points will be absolute [Poor language removed].
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PML - good line there mate.
