Everton (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[bearcityblu]

On the positive side, we didn't lose. Now just 12 points needed for safety target of 40 points !

 

[Lavinda Past]

And that's why we have 70% possesion, they let us......

We can't hurt them when we've got the ball, we're too busy preparing for the next rotation.

Rinse and repeat.

 

[Bluewars II]

It has to be one of the worst decisions this club ever made not letting him go to Saudi.

He wanted it, and we "demanded 100M" WTF, they probably would have been happy to pay half, so 8 years service and titles galore would have cost us zero.

Walker 30m rejected, Ederson 40m rejected, Silva 40m rejected.

Shocking decision making, Khaldoon, you should be kicking arse big time.

I don't understand the Kev hate personally, he helped us win the title last season.

I think he deserve a bit more patience to get back into form, I think he looked more energetic and direct than Foden. I can't see much difference to how Kev normally plays, he always had high turnovers and Pep always said he expected kev to play further forward towards the end of his career.

 

[Akiva]

That's a fair assessment but why have we just fallen off a cliff in such spectacular style? It really doesn't make sense

There's been plenty of time wasted trying to dissect City's woes this season, but I suspect the answer is a combination of injuries, a failure to upgrade over the summer and a few key players having a particularly bad collective season.

I thought City looked good today. One shot, one goal for the opposition while we toil at the other end has been a meme for us for years and today was no different. Haaland scores the pen, or even leaves the rebound to an onside Foden tap in, and we'd be having a different conversation. It was a decent game that alas doesn't exist in a vacuum from our other less than decent games of late.

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

It was another dreadful, pedestrian, passionless display from a team who have completely run out of ideas and cannot do the basics. It was fucking boring that.

Quite honestly, if we didn't have some points on the board, this team looks like relegation candidates. I can't understand how Pep, a manager reknown for his love of midfielders, has ended up with a collection who can't defend or attack. I just can't see us winning another game at the moment.

It goes without saying that NDiayes goal was pretty much their only shot they'd had and yet towards the end of the game,they ended up with a scandalous 4 on 2. We made Doucore look like Yaya at times the way he rampaged with the ball.

Pep has brought so much to English football and every manager now plays his style. Every keeper plays with their feet and our rivals play inverted fullbacks and without strikers. I think he knows needs to learn from them now and get back to basics. Defend, don't concede and you have a chance. Play balls early and into space etc. unless we put players behind the ball then any team in the PL will pick us off.

I think the most worrying thing for me is we keep losing the same way. We just didn't look like scoring today did we? Haaland looks bored, Kovacic, Gundogan offer absolutely nothing. Lewis can't play in midfield. Only Savinho offered any kind of threat.

I'm also worried that any new players will come in and slot in with the boring sidewards passes.

I've given up on anything this season.

 

[red 2 hats]

No Rodri
No Ederson
No Stones
No Diaz
No Bobb
No Walker
No Grealish
No Nunez

No bench
No depth
No leadership
No hope

 

[City64!]

I don't understand the Kev hate personally, he helped us win the title last season.

I think he deserve a bit more patience to get back into form, I think he looked more energetic and direct than Foden. I can't see much difference to how Kev normally plays, he always had high turnovers and Pep always said he expected kev to play further forward towards the end of his career.

Wasn’t Kev injured for 3 months? It was Foden that won us the title last season, stepping up. His fall off this season is dramatic

 

[blue whippet]

I'm at the point where I'm quite surprised when we score but not surprised when we concede. It's either a turning point, a miracle or shit EFC finishing when they burst through on 90+ with four on two and miss.

I will hold my hands up and admit I wasn't in the least bit surprised that Earling didn't score his penalty.

 

[Lavinda Past]

That penalty goes in we start getting our swagger back.

The saga now continues,

Good bits of play today, improved performance. Yet still below our usual standards. Midfield wasn't over run.
Hopefully we can build from this.

We were playing Everton. Our midfield was never going to get overrun, just bypassed.

 

[lawton mellor]

Haaland is a confidence player and at the moment it’s at rock bottom. Really didn’t expect him to score, he body language was that he didn’t expect to score.

Is Haalands dip in form since the death of a family friend?