Everton (a) Post-Match Thread

[west didsblue]

Made hard work of that. Missed a couple of good chances, but a couple of excellent saves from Ederson as well. Sterling not at his best and Zinchenko and Otamendi were poor. Rodri is class though and is becoming one of our most important players. Ederson motm for me.

 

[SS2dan]

Up till the diapers game this was the game I feared most just happy with three points

 

[burning blue soul]

Tough game. Held it together against a physical team. Ref was worded up about tactical fouling by city, but not too fussed about the everton one's , for some weird reason.
Stirling should have had a hat trick!!
Happy gabriel got a goal.
All in all, tough place to go to get 3 points.
Defense was pressured as well.... and city, sort the corner defending out please!!!

 

[Newman Noggs]

Some magnificent performances in there. Thought Fern was majestic in the air. Eddie was colossal, Ota was excellent and the all round will to win was exceptional notwithstanding one or two sub-par performances. Talking of which, all credit to Raz for keeping on going and getting his reward.

 

[Blue Coop]

Not our best but a big 3 points at a tough ground.

I am baffled by the decision to keep playing Zinchenko in this back 4. He was fine filling in when we had 80% possession every game but at the moment that isn’t us. He offers us nothing going forwards and is a total liability at the back. He’s done a good filling in over the last few years, the same way Delph did for a spell, but now feels like the right time to leave the experiment.

He’s got Cancelo and Mendy on the bench..

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

Ederson and Mahrez absolutely superb today. Dilemma for Pep with both Jesus and Agüero looking incredibly sharp. Can we play them both?

 

[Gray]

Hard watch that, not at our best but battled to a win.

That is one thing about this squad they are actually bloody good scrappers.

 

[BosnianBlue]

Was tricky at times but quality paid off. Mahrez easily MOTM. Great game by Ederson.

 

[give it to gordon]

Did you see the state of Michael Oliver running back towards the half way line at the end of the game.. It's after taking me until now to get up off the floor from rolling around laughing.. someone needs to find a gif of that.

Yep it was funny lol

 

[willipp]

We weren’t great at all, but Gundogan and Sterling have to take those chances and we win that game easily. It’s easy to blame defensive players and they all need to improve, but we have to be more ruthless away from home.