a bell maul
Player Valuation: £30m
usually very good...not today
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Rugby Toffee
Player Valuation: £60m
I thought he did ok....Barry was the midfield weak link today
Covering for Barry again
...I honestly think the decision to put an extra man in there disrupted the balance. Schneiderlin was also relatively poor. I'd put that whole performance down to the manager getting the tactics wrong.
Early booking stopped him being his usual combative self today. But certainly not our worst player.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Can say that about any Everton player v top 6 away or Liverpool at home. Big players step up in big games. He went missing when we needed him. So frustrating.
a bell maul
Player Valuation: £30m
yes...Koeman bottled it today. He totally disrupted what had been a well functioning mid field unit. What is it about Everton that causes footballing erectile dysfunction in its managers?
..to be fair he tried something different. Sometimes it backfires. Today it did. Folk were critical of Martinez that he didn't have a plan B. I thought Barry looked off the pace, it might be an indication that at his age he'll lose his edge without game time.
a bell maul
Player Valuation: £30m
...but things weren't broke so what needed fixing? Yes, he tried something different and you are right; it backfired. But why entertain the possibility of a backfire by tinkering with a purring engine?
...I suppose this is what coaches do, he clearly thought it was a way to thwart Spurs and our normal shape might leave us open. Hero if it comes off, idiot if it doesn't.
a bell maul
Player Valuation: £30m
that is all very well. I guess what nonplussed me was the fact that clearly, by halftime, his tinkerings had manifestly failed. Yet nothing was done in the break to redress the failure.
Koeman was a deer/possum/rabbit in the headlights today...poor from a manager getting paid what he is.
...yep, was thinking that at half-time but perhaps he thought 1-0 with 20mins to go and I'll go for it. I'm not defending him, I'm trying to understand his logic but he did get it wrong.
a bell maul
Player Valuation: £30m
yes mate, in essence, we are both singing from the same choir sheet. What kind of annoys me though, is that we were a form team coming into this fixture and he changed a winning formula...and the reality (i.e. we lost badly) configures failure. And back on topic, so did Idrissa fail...as a result of Koeman's decisions regarding set up.
I appreciate we are all millionaires in hindsight, but , as we say in the markets, 'the trend is your friend'...and Koeman went short in a rising market.
And me and you, as Everton supporters, are the poorer for it.
Koeman gets paid 100K a week(!!) to get things right...he failed badly today
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