Lucky point from us. QPR can feel aggrieved they didn't win; especially since the decision went their way. Poor game from Everton. For the first time in a long time—and I'm a staunch Moyes supporter—I'd say the manager got this completely wrong. Strac, Cahill and neville offered nothing all game and these could've been subbed much earlier.
barkley should've been introduced.
I'd cancel any training this coming week and just have them practicing passing and moving, passing and moving in double training sessions until they can do it with any degree of authority.
Can't remember a sustained number of passes or control by Everton in the whole game. We're playing a championship side in all but name and we were technically played off the park.
Moyes needs to get an attacking assistant in straightaway and delegate full responsibility to him at that end of the pitch. Talk about anaemic, we were practically lifeless. But for a pinger from Drenthe we offered next to nothing, no coherence.
ah fück it. Fück off Everton. Sick of you today.
Howard - 4/10. Did well but should've done better for their goal.
Heitinga - 6/10. Nobody looked good back there today.
Distin - 5/10. Not very good.
Baines - 6/10. Struggled.
Pienaar - 6/10. Wasn't helped by seemingly playing on his own wherever he was. Never given an option or an outlet.
Fellaini - 8.5/10. As good as it got today. Unfortunately his team mates are crap.
Neville - 3/10. Not seen a more toothless performance since Linderoth aka the invisible man played in the centre.
Cahill - 5/10. Cahill without goals is just a forward defender (and we already had one of them in midfield in Neville) He breaks play up and makes a nuisance of himself but he was never going to set up balls or spray the ball around or dictate tempo. Waste of time.
Drenthe - 6/10. Scored a top drawer goal. Gave away a silly one. Gave the ball away many times. Won loads of free kicks and then balooned the set pieces towards the first man. A mixed bag and often selfish but we seemed to lose any attacking impetus when he came off. Possibly because Drenthe was ignoring the attacking tactic of running three quarters of the way down the sideline and then running out of ideas, width, team mates and losing possession. (we did that about 300 times).
Strac - 3/10. Worked hard but was marked and played out of the game. May as well have been playing with ten men so anonymous was he. Why did we have to wait so long for him to be subbed?
Osman - 5/10. came on late, out of position and out of practice. By then Everton were comfortably watching QPR stroke the ball around like they were Barcelona in their first training match back from the beach.
Jelly - ? Not given enough time. Had a chance to shoot and fluffed his lines. I'll not start judging him yet. There was flashes of attacking verve there. But Moyes has found his perfect attacker already. The strac is another defender between the opposition and Tim Howards goal.
Moyes - 2/10. Make your subs. Act decisively. Try to win a game not lose it. Hire an attacking coach.
Sigh. This is a proper Ghost style toys out of the pram rant. Fück off Everton. That won't do.