Everton (H) | Post Match Thread

Only thing I'm going to say is that we need to ignore the hype. We're still less than half way through the season yet the media rant on line a 7 point gap is a 17 point one.

Arse are a good side but they're not that good, and nobody else comes close at the moment. I'm expecting us to win the title again and by some margin.

My only slight reservation is that we've given up the intricate passing in favour of punting the ball in for Erland at every opportunity, and that's just not going to work every week. But Pep knows that and will tweak it as required.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
Well they are right in a sense. The xG was something like 2.0 - 0.06. So we did control the game, nothing he said will have been incorrect. I just wish we were more entertaining. Our football is mind-numbingly boring. Pep has gone from being synonymous with beautiful, attractive football to producing kind of stale, slow, overly-cautious football with little to no risk ever being taken. It’s boring.
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Yes it was terribly dull at times today, endless possession in our own third of the pitch. When we venture over the half way line it ends back back in the same place the ball came from. After the Everton goal today I and the folks I sit with were saying we wouldn't have scored that because the player wouldn't have shot but passed to someone. We must be one of the few teams who can get a corner and the ball ends up back with our own goalie.
I don't think we particularly controlled the game by the way, don't care what the xg says.
 
That was dog shite. Incredible pedestrian poor performance. we have the arrogance that we think we deserve to beat every team by just walking onto the pitch. Wake up you wankers! And why is it every time we play crap people seem to blame it on the ref? It’s not the ref’s fault we are mediocre. The blame lies solely at the feet of the manager and the players. It‘s about time that both give their fucking heads a wobble and wake up and start putting a decent shift in.
 
hilts said:
It is neither the time to fall to pieces nor to expect history to repeat itself when it went in our favour. I can't be arsed looking but it would be interesting to know the furthest we have been behind points wise with equal games remaining.

Somewhat concerned is the sane view but you will always get the fretters and the clappers in any fan base.
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I agree with this. I'm generally pretty pragmatic, and history has shown Pep closes out seasons very well so I just can't bring myself to fret about this. But at the same time, this is one of those you come away from and think "should've won that"
 
Newman Noggs said:
I bow to no-one in my appreciation of Stones, Akanji and Ake as centre halves. What they are not, however, is playmakers. And yet, it seems that every move ends up back with one or the other and they are then expected to either thread a Silva-esque through-ball to the forwards or make a Yaya-esque rampaging run to unsettle the defence neither of which they are capable of.

It just isn't working and I hope Pep tries something else soon.
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You were doing well there until the final sentence.
 
Not a good day at the office today we looked way off the pace. Changes made too late on in the game also. We need to crack on and beat the rent buys now.
 
garyCTID said:
That was dog shite. Incredible pedestrian poor performance. we have the arrogance that we think we deserve to beat every team by just walking onto the pitch. Wake up you wankers! And why is it every time we play crap people seem to blame it on the ref? It’s not the ref’s fault we are mediocre. The blame lies solely at the feet of the manager and the players. It‘s about time that both give their fucking heads a wobble and wake up and start putting a decent shift in.
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I don’t think things are that bad. They’ve been putting in a decent shift for most of the season
 
Sk@mcfc said:
Not even half way through we will come again and it will be with a vengeance as usual ,I’ve heard some shit tonight off supposedly fans fucking grow up we’re CITY
We’re PEP’S CITY
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Yes, one of the reasons I'm not in here so much these days, especially the post-match thread. Its embarrassing sometimes, too often in fact. Even clubs much lower down than us don't get the amount of crap levelled at them that the so-called fans in here come up with when a result doesn't go our way.

Just as well Pep doesn't read this drivel or he'd probably have gone years ago.
 
wolfie1988 said:
Bad day. Bad team. Bad ref. Bad(dodgy) fixture organisation by the league. 2 days rest v 4 days rest is too much
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Isn’t this what squad rotation is for? We could easily have played Foden, Cancelo and Walker today without any detriment to the shape. Could have added Palmer too along with Bernado who was the only change. 5 lots of fresh legs.
 
Very poor and awful too watch, not all our fault though the officials and technology broke our rhythm as much as Everton’s tactics did.
 
We can’t win every game at a canter we weren’t at it today along with their time wasting a bent ref and an absolute worldie of a goal we drew shit happens we’ll be back
 
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