Everton (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

At one point in the second half, Everton were on the break and they had 7 or 8 running forward in support. City won the ball back and there was zero intention to spring a counter attack, we just revert to type.
Truth be told, we have had a very formulaic system for the last few years and it's been damn successful, arguably at the cost of not being particularly exciting, but that now seems to have morphed into an utterly predictable pattern of play that teams have finally come to terms with. When you combine our drop off with other teams learning to frustrate or even beat us we end up where we are now.

Obviously there are more factors at play than just my assertion above but I am genuinely missing some of the style of play from our early success when we could transition from defence to attack in 3 passes and score with breathtaking speed.

January is looming large and we can't just rush into buying players at an inflated fee, particularly if they are panic buys. Hopefully the club will above panic buying but I'm not sure some of our fans will cope if we elect to save our money until genuine targets become available. We may just have to brave a dire season and truly rebuild in the summer. By then we will hopefully have a far clearer picture of the 115 situation and plan accordingly.
 
If you can't keep a cleansheet and can't score a penalty. Then you don't deserve any points. Am grateful for a point.
What disappoints me most is Blue on Blue fighting in Block 211.
What have we become?
 
That move when the ref played "advantage" (which was good refereeing) but then our shot was blocked and Everton nearly scored from the counter attack.
That was almost the Mother of all farces, especially when the original culprit was then yellow carded.
 
paulsimpson said:
Wouldn't say title- challenging but today was a good performance relative to what we have seen from our boys this past few weeks. If the Gvardiold header goes in and Erling scores the penalty we are home and dried and on the up again.
Small margins. Everton are good at getting clean sheets as Pep has said. But we weren't good enough in that we didn't win the game and that's how we are judged.
An experienced energetic defensive midfielder in the January window plus a defender to give cover for our injured back line and we will have a breathing space to fully stop the rot and go on to have a better season than we are right now. Remember players will be available to buy. Dias was a January signing and what a player he has proved to be for us.
At the moment we only have eight first team players available. It's still horrendous for Pep and for all of us. But we must show more fight in trying to get the win.
Hope Jack is back for Leicester
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I wouldn’t let Jack anywhere near the team tbh , hes in a Vuitton , young baby , Chinese chicken wings bubble world of his own , not scored a goal in the whole of 2024 . Doku all day long - and Doku is like speed boat without a pilot - but he scores one in six.
 
flb said:
I wouldn’t let Jack anywhere near the team tbh , hes in a Vuitton , young baby , Chinese chicken wings bubble world of his own , not scored a goal in the whole of 2024 . Doku all day long - and Doku is like speed boat without a pilot - but he scores one in six.
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The ol’ Darren Huckerby comparison. Yet Huckerby was better than Doku.
 
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