Everton (H) | Post Match Thread

[SamTheGuru]

We look so lethargic slow and ponderous we deffo need some energy from somewhere.

Rico Lewis was looking pretty awesome. But I know what you mean.

 

[Phil Mitchell Foden]

Rodri gets way too much credit for what he brings to the side. He routinely slows down the tempo of our play, rarely picks out a killer pass. Positionally he's poor and physically he's one paced and looks leggy.

He needs legs around him in the deeper role to cover the ground he can't, it's why Pep's had Rico/Bernardo alongside him for long spells.

His biggest flaws were there to see for the Everton equaliser, plays a hopeless hospital ball that gets cut out for the counter - and on the track back is positionally awful and neither presses the man with the ball or fills in a vacant spot at the back. Just mindlessly gets back and behind the ball, and they ping one top bins.

He has his pros, but he's an incredibly frustrating player sometimes.

 

[applecentral]

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Ah you are going to be one of my favourite posters i can see it.

I'm not a happy clapper you geek, i'm an old **** who has watched us for over 40 years and now finds gobby little twerps like you thinking they know everything about nothing droning on and on about shit.

I've seen us come back from worse positions than this before.

Have you?

He probably has, looking at his dress sense. I never realised one could buy shoes that big.

 

[blue whippet]

Add another 45 minutes and the outcome would be the same. It's just one of those days

YES, we could have played until we saw the new year in but still not scored.

 

[waspish]

The way we looking now a tired team a team that’s had the hard slog of two leagues titles under severe pressure!

Me now would settle for mid table and the guarantee of winning the champions league!

 

[vmsuhail]

I said this in summer. We never replaced sterling or jesus. Alvarez needs time. We have no left back and no pace whatsoever no cover for rodri. Don't say Philips

Any replacement needs time, except for Erling Haaland. Agree about Sterling, we didn't replace him.

 

[come-on-barney]

How did we go from Sterling and Sane, which was exciting to the ponderous build we have now. We have never recovered from stripping pace from the side.

 

[Shaffer92]

We're pretty much the same as last season. I suspect it's changing the way we play to try and accommodate the goal machine that is causing the cracks.

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

Whatever he needs, he needs it sharpish. Because the league is slowly slipping away.

The problem with a good assistant manager is they never stick around as always gets a shot at management

 

[come-on-barney]

Anyone know how many league games we have still to play?

How many of those are against Arsenal?

Not enough to recover