2020/21 James Rodriguez

[edge]

Waste of space tonight , should never be named in a side while , gomes, siggy and Davies are in the same team 100% should be banned from starting in the same team ever again in the prem.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Waste of time playing him if we're going to be negative and sit deep. He's a baller who needs movement in front of him.

 

[KaiserEFC]

There were 10 other players doing the exactly the same

And they’re quite rightly getting pelters as well as the bloke who subbed himself off

 

[TheBigIguana]

I'm just expecting more effort. He showed nothing today. That's not Everton.

I disagree. I mean what are you expecting him to do? He's not in the team to be a ball winner or to be the guy taking it off the defense and he does both things as best he can because no one else does. No he's not good at them but it shouldn't even be a thing he has to do.

 

[bilyaletdinov_]

should only play RW when we have a solid midfield behind him

 

[maccavennie]

Waste of time playing him if we're going to be negative and sit deep. He's a baller who needs movement in front of him.

Yep, when we are playing that deep it's pointless playing him isn't it.

 

[Toast]

And they’re quite rightly getting pelters as well as the bloke who subbed himself off

I feel as if he subbed himself off.
Didn’t fancy it at all.

 

[tsubaki]

He's playing as the RW, he can't get the ball because not one of the 7 players deeper than him can pass forward, so he goes deep to get it and gets frustrated because then there is no movement off of him to get forward and somehow he ends up being the problem?

We've been here before with Rom but we are bad because of the bad players not because of the good ones.

The parallel with Rom is a good one - he was someone else who was repeatedly played in a way that didn't get the most out of him (ie: as a lone forward to hold the ball up rather than one of a three), and it cost us badly.

I know this is a nonsense what-might-have-been but if we'd had a front three of Richy - DCL - Lookman (or Deulofeu, or even Kean) with James behind them we'd look vastly improved on what we are now.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I disagree. I mean what are you expecting him to do? He's not in the team to be a ball winner or to be the guy taking it off the defense and he does both things as best he can because no one else does. No he's not good at them but it shouldn't even be a thing he has to do.

Do the basics, keep the ball, track runners, get involved in play.

He did nothing then looked to be subbed. Not for me I'm afraid.

 

[kenada_blue]

What's your point?

Whole team didn't want to know tonight.

 

[Mrk]

I disagree. I mean what are you expecting him to do? He's not in the team to be a ball winner or to be the guy taking it off the defense and he does both things as best he can because no one else does. No he's not good at them but it shouldn't even be a thing he has to do.

People get derided on here for making the same argument for Gylfi and Richarlison, and rightly so.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Yep, when we are playing that deep it's pointless playing him isn't it.

What he ends up doing macca is running around like a headless chicken chasing the ball and dropping too deep.

 

[KaiserEFC]

I feel as if he subbed himself off.
Didn’t fancy it at all.

Wasn’t even a foul that took him off, waited for a firm challenge and walked.

 

[maccavennie]

What he ends up doing macca is running around like a headless chicken chasing the ball and dropping too deep.

Taking the ball off Holgate 12 yards from goal.....to have to pass it back to Holgate as there's no one to pass to lol

 

[MACCA75]

You can maybe have one luxury player. You can’t have several of them