2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[andy4efc]

We have a run of eight games before Christmas where we could foreseeably lose around six of them. Spurs, City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Leicester included in that run.

Benitez needs a buffer to survive any such run. Progress in the League Cup would have been it.

If we go into the new year around 12th-14th, which is very plausible, then things could get very, very nasty.

In my view, he needed cup progression as a safety net, and that's now gone.

Dont think he even needed a cup run, just needed to win the expected games against lesser oppositiion and if we got drew against a decent team then there is a free pass.

Royally naffed it.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Has he resigned yet?

 

[Mashtray]

Terrible performance

But I really think we should keep slowly introducing Gordon. There IS a player there

 

[ToffeeTim]

I would have played the Under 12s tonight.

I would probably have exploded if that had happened

Wouldnt have had to watch the game then tbf

 

[Goat]

Terrible performance

But I really think we should keep slowly introducing Gordon. There IS a player there

I dislike doing this, but no, there isnt.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

I know mate, but the risk I suppose is if Doucoure pings his hamstring then that's that.

All it does is expose our squad and recruitment.

that team tonight should still be good enough to beat qpr. My issue is with everything that people have said Benitez is good at actually not being there.

He's got us running around a lot. Yayyyyy. We're mostly very crap at footy though.

Its almost like the same squad of players that have been crap under every manager since Moyes including Carlo Fantastico are still crap!!

Shock horror!!!

Sack the manager!!

Get some other fella in he'll make Iwobi play like Sterling honest!!

 

[Tubey]

Dont think he even needed a cup run, just needed to win the expected games against lesser oppositiion and if we got drew against a decent team then there is a free pass.

Royally naffed it.

If that's City away, I'd have said play the kids, got unlucky with the draw, so be it. I couldn't give a toss about the League Cup.

But I understand that others do, so when you get QPR away then with the scenario we have then you don't take risks with it - you put the game to bed and make sure you're in the next round.

Benitez - in my mind inexplicably - decided to be Billy Big Bollocks about it and play a reserve team. He deserves every ounce of criticism for it, because if he didn't have the nous to understand the damage this has caused him, then he deserves that damage.

 

[ToffeeTim]

And finished bottom half twice because of it which saw him lose his job.

Its almost like you need a quality squad with depth to fight on two fronts like the big clubs have...

Its almost like playing weakened sides full of dross gets you knocked out.

I'm fed up losing these games. Its embarrassing and its avoidable.

 

[stretford blue]

Feel for the 3000 blues who went tonight the club really don't deserve the level of support it gets

 

[Kev The Rat]

We’ve seen better squads than these do in managers at Everton. Don’t see why a weaker team would be an exception.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Its almost like the same squad of players that have been crap under every manager since Moyes including Carlo Fantastico are still crap!!

Shock horror!!!

Sack the manager!!

Get some other fella in he'll make Iwobi play like Sterling honest!!

Let is know when its ok to criticise Benitez

 

[windymiller]

If Potter lost 1 game in 5, sitting in 6th in the table, lost on penalties in the league with 7 players injured, would you want him out too?

Why are you lot obsessed with Potter? It's weird.

 

[Zezti]

I dislike doing this, but no, there isnt.

I would really like us to avoid doing this for the next 3+ years of him lingering around like Davies, Kenny, etc.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Its almost like playing weakened sides full of dross gets you knocked out.

I'm fed up losing these games. Its embarrassing and its avoidable.

Damn that Benitez if only he played DCL & Richarlison to have scored us goals

Mina who's always injured to play 3 times in 7 days

Allan who came off injured 3 days ago

Coleman our only decent RB

Pickford to save those pens

Oh wait.

 

[Carloblues]

I would have played the Under 12s tonight.

you wouldnt have though would you.