Need someone with more creativity. I like Iwobi and he's been great in CM, but would love someone to come in and dictate the tempo and be able to spread passes.
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Need someone with more creativity. I like Iwobi and he's been great in CM, but would love someone to come in and dictate the tempo and be able to spread passes.
He’s our most creative player by a mile.
It's worth remembering that every team in the Prem this season, has in at least one game performed below their own level, including City.
kenada_blue
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Think it's the set up. In a 3 we're solid enough. There's just not link up with the front 3.
If you look at the RS the past couple of seasons, their midfield is based purely on athleticism, win the ball, feed the front 3.
We do that...falls to bits with our hot and cold front 3 that barely score or create.
If you look at United they had a holding 2, with 1 dictating player, and a creative 10 in a 4231 formation.
Dymak
Player Valuation: £40m
Lampard has largely been overly defensive during his time at Everton, perhaps that’s not surprising given how poor we were in defence last season.
But just like he eventually binned off the back 5 to great effect, I think he will soon bin off having two defensive midfielders playing alongside each other in the form of Gueye and Onana, and we might stop sitting back so much.
I think we will soon enough play with one overly defensive midfielder like Gueye or Onana, who will line up next to Iwobi and then we will get a more attacking midfielder like Kudus or Kamada In Germany.
But just like he eventually binned off the back 5 to great effect, I think he will soon bin off having two defensive midfielders playing alongside each other in the form of Gueye and Onana, and we might stop sitting back so much.
I think we will soon enough play with one overly defensive midfielder like Gueye or Onana, who will line up next to Iwobi and then we will get a more attacking midfielder like Kudus or Kamada In Germany.
cjuk87
Player Valuation: £10m
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if we had De Bruyne. The players are stood still, watching the man on the ball. They should be moving into space and offering options, instead, they literally ball watch. It's criminal.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Onana is not a defensive midfielder, well he certainly isn’t playing as one anyway
2 mistakes by arguably our best players lost the points.
Not the manager , nor anyone else for that matter.
The only way Lampard could have influenced that would be to not have selected them in the first place.
UltraVires
Player Valuation: £10m
He could but at the same time, those players have shown in the last few games that they have the ability to implement his game plan so I think he owed them a chance to turn it around.
As for the DCL change, Frank said that he had 20ish minutes in him so there isn’t too much he could have done with that one.
We were never going to go from the situation last season to having a season of performances where we have no off days so I can move past yesterday and just hope we put a better showing in next week even if we still come away with nothing against a tough team.
Based on what I’ve seen from Tarks, he and Coady will probably be reminding the lads of the minimum expectations during the week.
i reckon lol
Do you lot go to a hotel the night before a home match or does the coach pick them up from ground early morning and take them to training ground for lunch then come back for game?
johnjoeefc
Player Valuation: £25m
Before the game Ian darke on the commentary said that Frank had the team really g'd up for the game and I think this could be a bit of an own goal from him. As many of the players seemed overly keen and as a result there were a lot of mistakes made. Gordon had a shocker which isn't a surprise considering his other home performances this season. The central midfield couldn't knock two passes together either.
It may have suited to just let them have the ball and play on the counter. Both their goals came from being wasteful in possession and another good chance of theirs came again from gueye losing the ball.
I think Frank may learn from this because if he has got them overly worked up for the game it was perhaps not necessary and would have been better to take a more professional pragmatic approach to the game. But this is all speculation of course based on what one commentator said.
It may have suited to just let them have the ball and play on the counter. Both their goals came from being wasteful in possession and another good chance of theirs came again from gueye losing the ball.
I think Frank may learn from this because if he has got them overly worked up for the game it was perhaps not necessary and would have been better to take a more professional pragmatic approach to the game. But this is all speculation of course based on what one commentator said.
everton1953
Player Valuation: £40m
The manager was entirely to blame for reacting so late to what was blindingly obvious, his choice of Gordon, Onana and Gana all playing so badly in the first half that two should have been hauled off at halftime or even earlier.
Yeh don’t understand that shout. He’s not a defensive mid at all and I’m thankful he isn’t.
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