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YaYa's Left Peg
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Hehe, i fully agree, Koeman is the grandfather of the modern definition of a defender at the very top. He played the ball rather a lot and took a few free kicks for Barca if memory serves. They may have got lucky, hey it happens, but they were also very solid at the back under extreme pressure. Everton will end the season with fewest goals against if they play half as well in a defensive sense for the rest of the season. We played 'pretty good' and still had them under the hammer all match.
There is no better time than right now in my opinion as a fan given our dynamics (of any club), espesh if you are 15+yo.
Everton's defence won't play as well or get as lucky as they did yesterday.
Mr Ed (The Stables)
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Everton's defence won't play as well or get as lucky as they did yesterday.
We need them to.
However the reality is Spuds, the Gooners, and all will beat them easily at home.
This happened to us last season when managed a 0-0 draw away at the mighty Villa. Everyone else went there and smashed them.
Two points dropped I'm afraid, but we are still top of the League and hopefully Pep will have gained more experience of the Premier League.
We need them to.
However the reality is Spuds, the Gooners, and all will beat them easily at home.
This happened to us last season when managed a 0-0 draw away at the mighty Villa. Everyone else went there and smashed them.
Two points dropped I'm afraid, but we are still top of the League and hopefully Pep will have gained more experience of the Premier League.
Swings and roundabouts bud. Spurs scraped a draw at the Hawthorns, where we routinely win in canter. The real deciders will be against other contenders. Last season we were abysmal and lost the league right there. In MP's first year, we beat all others at home with the exception of Chelsea, who fortunately gave it back by losing at places like Villa (thank you Fabian Delph!) and Palace.
Yes. This clearly is you drawing s line under it :)I don't think he watched it,too busy watching every single player on the planet playing
I guess it depends on what you consider a good performance. Did I like some of the play? Sure. Was particularly impressed by Sane's performance early. Liked Gundogan in the middle. He looks to be making great strides as his fitness catches up. But like I pointed out in my original post our play in the final third was poor. And that is where the difference of a good game vs a poor game lies for me.well done Dax biggest load of bollocks ive seen posted on here for a while.
By the way, I notice most share this opinion. Including Pep. Again I repeat, until Nolito's introduction, we labored in the final third, and our movement was sluggish.
On 3 occasions Kevin cut between the either the 2 CBs or the CB and the RB in one occasion, he was onside and had the player on the ball read his run he'd have had a clear line to their goal. Dihno, Silva and Gundogan all missed this opportunity. On other occasions, no one was making runs or dragging defenders out of position to create those creases needed to exploit their defense.
In terms of possesion we were dominant. But this was expected as Everton chose the option of bus packing as opposed to pressing.
So while our passing on defense and in midfield were 'sublime' as many chose to point out. I didn't find it uniquely impressive, coz it came with minimal pressure early.
I know getting in line is popular here, but I don't share the 'we were fantastic' claim. Yes, we should have won, having 3 penalties, 2 missed and one not called. And also coz we killed their leftback constantly and should have created chances from the right. But in terms of the type of football that creates chances from intelligent movement and incisive passing in the final third, these were few and far between. For that reason this was for me a poor performance.
But it seems many disagree. That's fine and not unusual :)
Oh shit it!It's unbelievable mate
What did you think about our movement in the final third?You normally have a good platform for performances from seeing it first hand, I know you weren't at the game and yes it does matter...
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Certainly, dropping two points at home, and above all, missing two penalties (and a third, which we should have been given on Sané) is no grounds for complacency.
But from where I was sat, I saw several positives to be taken from this match. Some exquisite approach work, especially in the first half. Free flowing passing, between two, three, four players, which suddenly found us in the last third. That was where we didn't perform, in truth, and only there. There is a terrific understanding developing in the midfield. Promising stuff from both our new boys, Sané and Gundogan, although they're obviously only performing at about 70% of their capacity. As did the team, overall – about 70% decent. Silva getting close to his imperious best. Sergio's developing a mind problem. He will get over that, but it had better be sooner rather than later.
We are top, and this team is still developing. We will play better as the season goes on. Of that, I'm absolutely certain. We must take the three points against Southampton, we now have no choice. Not satisfied with Saturday, obviously, especially gutted about the penalties, but still confident that the team's going in the right direction.
Funnily enough, most of the comments I could hear around me as I came out of the stadium were more balanced than some that are being made on here…
But from where I was sat, I saw several positives to be taken from this match. Some exquisite approach work, especially in the first half. Free flowing passing, between two, three, four players, which suddenly found us in the last third. That was where we didn't perform, in truth, and only there. There is a terrific understanding developing in the midfield. Promising stuff from both our new boys, Sané and Gundogan, although they're obviously only performing at about 70% of their capacity. As did the team, overall – about 70% decent. Silva getting close to his imperious best. Sergio's developing a mind problem. He will get over that, but it had better be sooner rather than later.
We are top, and this team is still developing. We will play better as the season goes on. Of that, I'm absolutely certain. We must take the three points against Southampton, we now have no choice. Not satisfied with Saturday, obviously, especially gutted about the penalties, but still confident that the team's going in the right direction.
Funnily enough, most of the comments I could hear around me as I came out of the stadium were more balanced than some that are being made on here…