Match Thread Everton vs Chelsea - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[Chrismac]

Tarkowski makes us 10 times more solid at the back, good option pulling Mykolenko into LCB, surely Kegs time is up if we're after Coady, bringing Holgate on instead of him shows he's 5th at best.

 

[Curtis]

That was an awful game

No it wasn't

 

[TyphooToffee]

Can't complain with that really. Defence much improved - Tarkowski's presence paying off already.and Ashley Cole seems to be sorting out defending set pieces. Going to need a striker though.

 

[Runub]

Did not learn a lot there. Pretty obvious where the problem areas are. Imminent improvement to midfield will help but need a forward urgently. Also Alli should never be seen again

 

[bluelegend]

No 9. No goals. Simple as.

 

[Bebeto]

Richy come back...frustrating when it seems that defensively we look more solid, then we now need to fix the attack and probably not a lot of money to do so.

 

[Thetigerblue]

Only bright spot for me is we've looked far more sound defensively than previous. Addition of two decent mids and a striker will help as well.

We competed well and with a proper striker would have probably got something from that. Played well in the main apart from Gordon and Gray who were woeful lets be honest, lacking so much quality, composure and game management from them two so it was an uphill task.

Iwobi and Tarkowski superb and I though Patterson done well for his full league debut

We won't be winning many games though with what we had up top today thats for sure.

For me the basic problem is some of our players are too thick.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

No striker, no goals...its that simple a problem....if we don't bring someone in, we're in the same mess as last season

Lampard said pre match they were working on something up top.

 

[Bob Latchford]

Has he actually been played in his proper position yet, Richarlison and Dom struggle up top

Apart from the first few games he hasn’t trusted him very much since and didn’t start him today. Im not even sure what his best position is tbh.

 

[Drico]

Its an absolute disgrace the club left Lampard to go into that game with that front line. I want to see Kenwright and Moshiri come out and publicly apologise to manager and supporters for their ineptitude

Yup, but hey, many of the fans buy into it with their "wasn't too bad", "not too disappointing" and "we'll be okay with more of that" kind of comments. The board get away with it because losing at home to Chelsea is acceptable to too many. It should never be acceptable - in any circumstances. Not if we are a truly big club. But then, we're not any more...

 

[PITA]

Added, we were a few minutes in though

But why 10 minutes in the second half?

In first half Godfrey nearly dies and we got 9/10 mins. What happened in the second half?

 

[Frenk]

No it wasn't

Agree it wasn’t.

 

[Cels]

Disappointed but not overly concerned.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Pleased enough with that. You can see the basis of an actual team developing. Few more additions (one of whom, for the love of God, needs to be a striker) and we should be in for a much better season.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

What an awful match. Really depressing stuff from both sides.

We will stay up. And we have the new stadium to look forward to.

That’s all I’ve got though. Sick of seeing Bill’s clueless face munching on Quavers, too.

I think you need some help.