2019/20 Marco Silva

[Axlswhk]

This is a small sample but if you watch closely this set up happens constantly when we have extended possession. Players in the center just drift into the box and the wide players are left to hit and hope on a cross.

Exactly. To add to this.

The back 6 is extremely guilty of slowing the tempo. Seems to be very fearful of being adventurous in quick and forward channel passing.

All players are guilty of having too many touches on the ball, slowing the game down further. What happen to one two return passes?

our attacking phase is almost always 20 over pass sideway/short before eventually pushing wide and crosses. At this level, 10 passes amongst ourselves is enough for any opposing team to set up 2 banks of 4.

Schneiderlin cannot contribute anything meaningful both defensively and offensively. Main culprit for slowing everything down.

I don’t understand the obsession with fullback taking throw in when we are screaming for a quick breakaway with the nearest players taking a quick throw. Again this slow down everything.

Why do we insist every attacking phase must consist of fullback getting high up the pitch? Fullback overlapping is welcome but why are we always insisting on slowing it down for the fullback to get into attacking position? rarely seen us breakaway 3 v 4 or 4 v 4.

our midfield inability to win possession meant our winger had to drop back and defend. This is fine but whenever there is turnaround, no attacking players is in a good position to effectively carry out any quick attack.

 

[Toffeelover]

Exactly. To add to this.

The back 6 is extremely guilty of slowing the tempo. Seems to be very fearful of being adventurous in quick and forward channel passing.

All players are guilty of having too many touches on the ball, slowing the game down further. What happen to one two return passes?

our attacking phase is almost always 20 over pass sideway/short before eventually pushing wide and crosses. At this level, 10 passes amongst ourselves is enough for any opposing team to set up 2 banks of 4.

Schneiderlin cannot contribute anything meaningful both defensively and offensively. Main culprit for slowing everything down.

I don’t understand the obsession with fullback taking throw in when we are screaming for a quick breakaway with the nearest players taking a quick throw. Again this slow down everything.

Why do we insist every attacking phase must consist of fullback getting high up the pitch? Fullback overlapping is welcome but why are we always insisting on slowing it down for the fullback to get into attacking position? rarely seen us breakaway 3 v 4 or 4 v 4.

our midfield inability to win possession meant our winger had to drop back and defend. This is fine but whenever there is turnaround, no attacking players is in a good position to effectively carry out any quick attack.

All down to team selections, tactics and subbing, who does that?

 

[TheBigIguana]

All down to team selections, tactics and subbing, who does that?

It's all tactics for me currently. Not sure any players can succeed playing how we play.

 

[Lelouch]

Surely Silva can't be telling the players to cross it every game, I mean surely not this is why I put the blame on the players a little.

 

[Toffeelover]

It's all tactics for me currently. Not sure any players can succeed playing how we play.

Ask Silva he keeps trying with the same old plan.

 

[Stan Lee Park]

Surely Silva can't be telling the players to cross it every game, I mean surely not this is why I put the blame on the players a little.

Good to see irony is alive and well.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

It is bizarre how little we play through the middle, it simply must come from him. We seem totally bereft of ideas except for give it to Coleman/Digne to cross it in. It doesn’t help that our strikers movement is virtually non existent, but still the one dimensional tactics are painfully easy to defend against. We should have the quality to play through teams occasionally, but we never even try.

 

[roy vernon]

We’re never happy, we have been moaning that the home form and the away form were at odds. Well, Marco has now got the away form and the home form at the same level and we are still moaning.

 

[4737carlin]

Surely Silva can't be telling the players to cross it every game, I mean surely not this is why I put the blame on the players a little.

Then he needs to tell them to do something else, they are doing exactly what he has told them to do

 

[sharkey1001]

"Be Everton" is the thing we should NEVER aim to be. The culture of mediocrity flows through the veins of EFC. Kenwright's tenure had no other aim that to attempt to "punch above our weight"/knives to gunfights. Moshiri seems to have just embraced that. From a "world-class stadium" to a "decent stadium of 52k". How is 52k capacity gonna bridge the gap?
From Witsel and Mata as Year 1 targets to Bolasie and Schneiderlin. From selling Stones, Barkley, Deulofeu and Lukaku to replacing them with Williams, Sigurdsson, Bernard and no-one.

The old slogan "once everton has touched you"... actually means you are now infected by mediocrity

 

[Lelouch]

here’s a guy that has always got out of town just before he’s been found out. And he’s been very successful at it - until now.

Get this - I heard last week that no-one can raise a voice in his dressing rooms. Calmness reigns.

This is from It was just banter Keys.

 

[Gilbert..]

Just noticed the two wins this season have come against the team bottom. And the team 2nd bottom. And we only just managed to get them over the line.
Grim.

 

[Remember-the-name]

We'll be in the bottom 3 this time next month in total freefall.

 

[Gilbert..]

Oh. And the team 3rd bottom. We supplied them with their only win.
Ha.
Fck off Everton.

 

[Gilbert..]

No point. I remember looking at the run of home fixtures last year expecting to be pummelled in each one. Who knows if we sort ourselves out fast.

And i posted at the time. And had lots of responses. That those results were just as much to do with how poor utd arsenal and chelsea were.