2021/22 Frank Lampard

[COYBL25]

I will concede that selling Digne to bring in Mykolenko was a disaster. I'm still concerned.

You‘re nuts.

 

[Efcjake]

So here's the thing: Sunday is a massive moment. Leicester are bad, I get the reputation and everything but they've been really, really bad the second half of the year. They're also going to be shortly removed from a massive second leg away. This is a chance to go away and play with confidence and actually be the better side. Yes above all else we need to win but all this "crap" I'm talking about not seeing enough from him can literally begin to be proved wrong on Sunday.

So while 1-0 with 28% possession and 7 shots or whatever is perfectly fine given what we need it also to me doesn't scream "Frank figured it out!" We can actually outplay them.

You're cherry picking stats from games against Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea and assuming that's how we are going to set up for every match.

 

[Efcjake]

What did you think about the Brentford and Leeds wins?

I didn't think we played those games anything like how we have played recently. I think those were closer to how he wants us to play but their confidence is so fragile that when we concede they lose the plot so he has changed to keeping it tight to see the season out.

@TheBigIguana have you answered this yet?

Did we play the same in those Brentford and Leeds games as we have against Chelsea and United?

 

[nsno-chris]

Yes I'm aware, but even low possession teams normally don't dip below 30%. That's a lot of pressure to handle and Leicester aren't good enough to give that much respect to.

We can have 1% possession if we win 1-0

NEA

 

[TheBigIguana]

You're cherry picking stats from games against Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea and assuming that's how we are going to set up for every match.

No, I'm saying we need to have success doing other things

 

[TheBigIguana]

@TheBigIguana have you answered this yet?

Did we play the same in those Brentford and Leeds games as we have against Chelsea and United?

The Leeds game is legitimately our only good league performance of his time here. That and maybe the Leicester game last week.

Yeah Brentford was great too, shame about it not counting for points.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Yes I'm aware, but even low possession teams normally don't dip below 30%. That's a lot of pressure to handle and Leicester aren't good enough to give that much respect to.

We can worry about that at the end of the season and in pre-season.

 

[NathDogg]

Do me a favour, please dont be *right* in any other season, because the relegation battles that ensue when you are *right* are taking their toll on everyone's well being.

I really wish I wasn’t right about Benitez being an absolute busted flush of a manager and horrendously wrong for Everton fc, but very sadly i and many others were spot on.

Not sure how I can do you a favour and be wrong about things in the future, if it relates to a manager being crap at his job - I’ll call it like I see it and won’t make excuses for him, unlike the cardinals. It’s like I can give Frank time and suppport (which I gave to Benitez) as I can see what he is trying to do, and the hand he was dealt was a shocker. You and a few others seem to want him to fail, and that would mean we go down, just so you can fangirl over Benitez and say in some broken universe that you were right? Odd baffling wrong behaviour.

It seems that you are also blaming me for being at fault for the relegation battle were in, because I called the Spanish fraud out and didn’t insert myself up his colon (no room while you were in there even if I wanted to)?!

Sadly, this is something else you are wrong about - it’s not my fault we’re in a relegation battle - that honour sits with moshiri and you’re overweight Spanish pin up, so you’re ire should be directed at them, not me.

To then suggest that I have negatively impacted on the well being and health of fellow Evertonians, by calling out our previous manager is frankly appalling, disingenuous and uncalled for. Another thing you are wrong about.

 

[Efcjake]

Yes I'm aware, but even low possession teams normally don't dip below 30%. That's a lot of pressure to handle and Leicester aren't good enough to give that much respect to.

With 36% possession at home we managed to create as much as they did.

 

[TheBigIguana]

With 36% possession at home we managed to create as much as they did.

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Yes which is why I used a number below that when I said I wanted to see us play better. We've been diabolical in away matches.

 

[Efcjake]

Do me a favour, please dont be *right* in any other season, because the relegation battles that ensue when you are *right* are taking their toll on everyone's well being.

Do us a favour and dont religiously advocate for a washed up kopite who managed 7 points in 4 months ever again.

 

[Efcjake]

Yes which is why I used a number below that when I said I wanted to see us play better. We've been diabolical in away matches.

But if we are creating as many chances as they are with less of the ball then why is having less of the ball a problem?

It's not ideal but it's not the problem.

 

[Efcjake]

The Leeds game is legitimately our only good league performance of his time here. That and maybe the Leicester game last week.

Yeah Brentford was great too, shame about it not counting for points.

And they were set up differently to the more recent games weren't they?

That's how I believe he wants us to be playing. The players are too low on confidence to maintain it when we concede and so he has had to focus on stopping that from happening.

A new season with some new players and some decent time in preseason to work on those tactics and I think we will look very different.

 

[Parker]

We can have 1% possession if we win 1-0

NEA

Possession is a meaningless stat for a team who aren't looking to dominate the ball.

If we stopped having shots I'd be more worried.

 

[COYBL25]

No, I'm saying we need to have success doing other things

No, we need to stay up anyway we can and then we can have success " doing other things " next season.