Everton V West Ham FA Cup 6/01/15

[moyeslovechild]

Small steps

Sometimes it' needs something like that to be a catalyst

City next game... we'll see...

 

[orly]

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well done BBC, well done

F5 B O Y S

 

[ijjysmith]

People moaning about the ref.

Some undoubted bad decisions but he played a great advantage which let us score.

We would have messed the free kick up and we all know it.

 

[The Mighty Quint]

Nothing wrong with that Lukaku header, Creswell knows he's beat and goes down very easy, hardly any contact, certainly not enough to go down.

 

[streeky]

our system at the minute has us 2 in midfield against our opposition's 4/5. Barkley moving central, mirallas moved central neismith central and all not tracking back. suicide football. I don't mind us playing 1 in the hole but not 3. Get Oviedo in front of baines get naisey or McGeady in front of seamus and push the back 4 up.

 

[peteblue]

Piece of toast to a bun fight......

 

[Mrk]

It wasn't it was better then most recent performances

That's not saying much...

 

[matty1878]

That's not saying much...

It says your wrong

 

[toffeejack]

F5 B O Y S

nope, still there

 

[bluelegend]

Barry plays every game I'd prefer him as captain,who else could it be? I always think cm is best place for a captain.

You're having a laugh. Barry wouldn't inspire confidence.

 

[ijjysmith]

That was our 6th most creative performance under Martinez.

Created 15 chances apparently.

Which I can't remember.

 

[faddy the blue]

Mind you, this was a team without Sakho, Song and Koyoute. They bossed the midfield while we never won the midfield battle. You need those 1 min spells in the midfield where you CMs link with your wingers or AMs to create space to release a pass to the full backs or forwards. The only time our midfield starts acting is when we're on a counter otherwise they never control the play.

 

[Brad McEachern]

Well that was a good goal by Lukaku, about damn time he scores given the money the club is paying him.
Overall it was a "meh" game by Everton to be honest. First half the attack were buzzing like bees around a hive, had some super chances by Lukaku and Mirallas but just couldn't finish. To me, that came back to haunt us in the second half because when you have quality chances to score like we did in the first half you got to put away a tleast one of them because you don't want to give the opposition any sort of life and make them feel that there still in this game. In my opinion, just making it 1-0 Everton at HT would of deflated them a bit.

Well look what happened. Second half came about and it was West Ham that was playing with vigor and poise. They had a good attack going, were pushing around our defenders (particularly Carlton Cole) and scored off of a James Collins goal. After that it seemed like Everton was about to call it a day because it seems like they played like they knew what their fate was going to be (although Ross Barkley had a nice run that went nowhere near the 90th minute) until stoppage time when Lukaku puts it home, forcing a replay.

Hey I know my post is all negative, but i'll give credit to Everton, atleast they scored a tying goal to force a replay as they had enough fight to score that goal. Hopefully this does enough to brighten the confidence of the club who's in dire need of it, but with Man City coming to town, it won't be easy.

But we live to fight another day, i'll take it.

 

[TommyDavo]

There was effort and a willingness to keep going to the end. Not seen that for quite some time so hopefully Thursday's debacle has served some purpose and a bit of clear the air has happened. Rom was back to his best there

 

[jinkyali]

Special mention to Robles. Kept us in the game. Came for crosses.