Everton vs Man City - 10th Jan, 2015.

[LocalNative]

Wonder what changed, the players are putting more effort in now. Strange. The passion and fight is back.

It's Lukaku. I'm telling you, he's looked brilliant in the last two games and I think his determination is now brushing off on the others.

 

[Norwegian Cow]

Naismith's passing was poor. Redeemed himself with a goal though

and with amazing workrate.

 

[AussieToffee]

I recognised Everton today.

Think we're back!

 

[marty mcfly]

I think I saw jagielka shouting a few times and having a go at the ref, i wonder if its the everton atmosphere or just overnite improvement lol had a great game too

Grew into the game. Did nothing wrong in the 2nd half and looked to be back to his old self.

 

[toffeejack]

He's too inconsistent for my liking.

we got what we paid for tbh. i go easier on criticism of players like him, because it's what i expect of them. some players are just better than others. jagielka and barry are the ones that pee me off more because they're much better players and playing nowhere near their potential and for such a long time as well.

 

[marty mcfly]

Or has he read this forum?

Well Baines cut his hair after we slagged him off.

 

[Saint Domingo]

John Stones makes life better.

 

[canuckblue]

The ref - looked a nailed on pen for us oN Jags - no foul on the keeper Joe Tart as he misjudged it in the wind for jags to score - city's goal a lucky deflection with Coleman slicing it into his own net!
Overall a good performance v the Champions!

Coleman never touched it. Whiffed on a tough clearance.

 

[johnnydawg68]

Momentum is a funny thing. Two draws but feel like we're about to go on a run. Biggest thing is we've gone behind And come back. Need to get the first against the Hammers and feel the floodgates could open.

 

[COYB]

NAISMITH I [Poor language removed] LOVE YOU !!! COYB

 

[ijjysmith]

Very tough to pick a MOTM for us.

Thought Stones, Besic and Lukaku were all excellent. Jags made up for a bad first half with a great second too.

 

[The Esk]

Thanks lads - much more pleasant match thread, better performance helped, but equally most posters helped too.

 

[OneTrueLegend]

Good result today, I would have taken a point before kick off and didn't really think we would get anything.

Stoke next, they are just above us in the table, but have a game in hand and are 4 points better off!

Hopefully they will get beat by arsenal on Sunday and then we can beat them and narrow the gap

 

[The_Street_End]

We looked decent there. Rom was quality, as was Stones. Great to see them fighting for each other and trying to go for the win towards the end. Well in Blues, let's push on.

 

[toffeejack]

No way a pen on Jags. Went down like a right soft git. And Naismith barged Hart on the Jags disallowed goal.

Ref was a bit crap elsewhere like.

this basically. i'm still not sure about their goal, it hit his arm, but wasn't intentional and would have hit his side anyway. i do despise city though, we never get anything against them from officials. the amount of points they've had off us last 5 years purely because referee performances and this was another iffy goal they've scored against us - a mass amount of luck involved as well.

thought coleman could have done better on the line, but it was a lucky header, it was that midrift sort of height where you don't really know what to do. higher or lower and it would have been cleared off the line.