2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

[Stanley Parker]

Tottenham have had a very difficult month, but are in a fantastic vein of form. I expected them to be tired and field a weaker team - and thought we would be able to match them. Silva apparently thought so too.

Gana was a great loss, and after Gomes went off, Davies and Schneiderlin could not exert any influence in midfield. In hindsight, we should have played a much more cautious formation.

 

[Khalekan]

Find it hard to blame marco for this one, the starting team was the best available. We would have been two nil up if the ref didnt call for the softest touch all game. Then you cant predict Pickfords rash decision. After that defence doesnt trust the keeper.

Indeed.

Marco was doing well up until the 96th minute at Anfield.

Since then the players have looked demoralised and that is what I am finding lacking in him.

Those next two home games in particular should have been producing passionate performances to exorcise the Anfield ghost but they were insipid and leaves me questioning his motivational skills.

Now, we can criticise his inaction on the substitute front yesterday but that debacle is squarely on Pickford’s shoulders.

I am looking for Silva to be strong at Burnley.

He has already, rightly, stood by Pickford, after The Pit.

Yesterday has to have consequences for him though.....Silva needs to bench him.

 

[Bluewolf]

I've said all season two things are guaranteed this season, 1 that we are going to give someone a hammering and 2 that we're going to get a hammering. I didn't think it was going to be spurs at home I'll admit.

My issue was Silva just stood there while we got destroyed looking like a lost lamb. When your teams loosing like that you have to do something, anything! Go 442, go three at the back just do something. Even if it won't work you have to try, even if it's just to look like your trying but to just to sit there with the same tatics and change nothing and just make like for like replacments is a big red flag for me.

 

[Eggs]

Looking at that bench im not sure what he could have done aside from Zouma swapping with Coleman and Mina subbing in for Coleman.

Unless he went full Ossie Ardiles of course

....it wasn’t necessarily changing personnel, our two full backs were getting caught upfield (just look how often Zouma is having to cover the LB position), and more importantly we rarely protected the back four from central midfield. It was too gung-ho and suicidal against a team of quality.

 

[LocalNative]

I've said all season two things are guaranteed this season, 1 that we are going to give someone a hammering and 2 that we're going to get a hammering. I didn't think it was going to be spurs at home I'll admit.

My issue was Silva just stood there while we got destroyed looking like a lost lamb. When your teams loosing like that you have to do something, anything! Go 442, go three at the back just do something. Even if it won't work you have to try, even if it's just to look like your trying but to just to sit there with the same tatics and change nothing and just make like for like replacments is a big red flag for me.

It was a bit concerning that after a first half of them carving us open at will he refused to change things. That was an absolute pasting yesterday and with the mental fragility our team has embedded within them, I can't see things turning around fast.

I like Silva, I like what he's trying to achieve, but I'm nervous with him in charge that will be the first of several hammering's we're on the end of.

 

[i started duncan chant]

We aren't - Spurs are on another planet to us. That would've still been the case had Walcott's goal been the winner. They're brilliantly managed and having a cracking side. That's why they are where they are, why they keep qualifying for the Champions League. But look how they got there, they took a punt on a young and relatively inexperienced manager (could same the same about Silva). They stuck with Kane who looked bang average for ages, and used the Bale money to buy players like Eriksen. Bingo

But were they getting spanked by letting in six at home whilst developing? No side that concedes too many goals does well in the league.

 

[tadpole]

Find it hard to blame marco for this one, the starting team was the best available. We would have been two nil up if the ref didnt call for the softest touch all game. Then you cant predict Pickfords rash decision. After that defence doesnt trust the keeper.

Kilbane didn't find it hard - he said that Everton were "tactically inept". And looking at the spaces in our defence that Spurs were able to exploit again and again, it's hard to disagree. I agree that we could have seen a very different scoreline were it not for the two turning points that you mention. But when you concede six home or away, there's no hiding place.

We've got quality players - they're just not delivering. That's the truth of it. There'll always be gaps that we'd like to fill. But the potential is there. And what worries me is that Silva's not doing a good job of bringing it out. It's half way through the season, we still don't know what our best front four is, and we've got a back line who cost a lot of money to assemble who are being let down at times by a lack of tactical nous.

 

[EverBlue92]

Mancini
Conte
Jose
Wenger
Nagellsmann
Hasenhuttl (if continues to do well at Southampton this season as done a great job in Bundersliga)

Thats my shortlist. Hopefully Brands is doing his scouting as he'll need too come the seasons end imo.

 

[cronullasharks]

Martinez / Koeman > Yes.

Allardyce > Paid off.

What a shambles

 

[polish]

For me yes it is, its an embedded philosophy, we are at the start of a cycle. If we want to progress we are going to have to go tow to toe with teams like Spurs, United, City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Mordor. Dont get me wrong we have clear limits now that need to be built on over time. But the philosophy and psychology around it, is important id rather try and have a cut of the big teams, then try and scrape another glories draw to be honest.

The thing is that if you don’t have a players that can go toe to toe its very stupid and naive trying to have a go in those games.

Playing smart, organised and not giving the space up doesnt equals playing for a draw.

 

[welshtoffee]

Mancini
Conte
Jose
Wenger
Nagellsmann
Hasenhuttl (if continues to do well at Southampton this season as done a great job in Bundersliga)

Thats my shortlist. Hopefully Brands is doing his scouting as he'll need too come the seasons end imo.

I may be totally wrong but i sure i read that Nagellsmann is going to Leipzig

 

[EFC78]

Still think we're going in the right direction under Silva as things stand. I wasn't convinced by getting him in the first place due to having a fear about him being the next Martinez. But I don't really see comparisons with Martinez' stubborn weaknesses yet. There was the conceding from set pieces at the beginning but I think we've sorted that out mostly now.

I put our recent run of poor form on the players. They aren't mentally strong enough when things go against them, and they allow the pressure to get to them far too easily. Unfortunately Pickford has had a particularly bad month in that regard but he will come through it.

We need to be patient with Silva, as we don't really have any alternatives. We're only half way in to the new season and despite an awful run in December, are still well in the running for 7th which was the realistic aim at the start of the season. Man United will most likely push on now, but they shouldn't be near us anyway.

7th is still achievable and I think if we sort ourselves out in the next 2 or 3 games with positive results we will be fine in the 2nd half of the season. Could do with strengthening up front though.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Not knee jerking here. Still think he’s the man. Gets an entire free season unless we’re flirting with relegation. We’ve got problems only time, money, and stability will fix.

 

[welshtoffee]

Not a Silva fan at all but we have got to give him the season, I know its very early in his Everton manager career but at the moment he has got a worse win percentage than Martinez, Koeman and ruddy Allardyce ...THAT IS GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY !!!!!!

 

[BernieH]

I missed the game yesterday, thankfully, I was under the impression he'd played 3 at the back again, which he didn't. terrible result and performance by all accounts and he needs to earn his corn now but he has my full support. the time has come now to stop the merry go around and try to build something sustainable like Spurs have done, we need to stick with Silva, I think he will build a decent side but bumps in the road will happen, 6 goals against though is unacceptable.