Everton post-match thread

[blue b4 the moon]

So much wrong again last night. I was hoping after Watford we would have kicked on.

Umbrella passing around their box, no tempo qgain, no end product, too many not putting the effort in etc

Another pisspoor Madderly performance, thier first should have been disallowed and when will we get a penalty?

Pelli is too safety first in general but was right to shore up at the end. 2-1 is still very much game on, 3-1 would have been a disaster.

I fear that come April we'll be willing the season to end. After a great first 5/6 games we've looked poor to wank, if Komps is out Pelli needs to earn his dough and devise other tactics....

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

it was always going to be a tricky game against Everton, as they are somewhat of a bogey team for us. I aid to a fellow City fan in work yesterday that I can see us struggling (considering our poor away form as well).....he said he would take a draw. Everton were bang up for it last night and they were better in all departments. That said it is a 2-leg game and one that we can over-urn when they visit us at the Etihad.

Also I am just glad that it wasn't the league game last night as we would have lost more ground, I expect us to now go on and actually beat everton in the return leg of the cup and also in the upcoming league game. Playing them 3 times over 4 weeks should go in our favour. Our away form though is very worrying and has been for some weeks, the players don't look confident enough and last night for me was the worst performance I have watched for a very long time.

The passing was slow, did not penetrate the midfield of everton quick enough and Aguero looked lost. The style of play that allows Silba to feed Ageuro was actually none existent last night as everton smothered the spaces in front of silva so he could not find kun. Then through in the lack of movement elsewhere and it was just frustrating

 

[sam-caddick]

The most frustrating thing for me is how well we start then all of sudden around 20-30 minutes in we just seem to disappear.

It's happend quite frequently this season, especially in recent weeks against Everton last night and Leicester last week.

Also, I have read after many a game this season that we have had 15-20 shots on goal, however I don't remember that many clear cut chances being created. Aguero hardly had a chance bar two or three attempts last night, we should be creating at least 8-10 opportunities a game for him in my opinion with our quality.


Very slow at times and not much intent being shown to get the ball into the box, it's almost becoming similar to how United have gone under Van Gaal where it is very possession dominated but without that much intent to score.

 

[buckshot]

if Komps is out Pelli needs to earn his dough and devise other tactics....

I don't think his heart is in it. He refuses to play Nacho, Sterling was also a good option. Taking off Mangala for DeMichelis made no sense as they're both equally useless. Trophies are there to be won this year but the team is no longer responding to MP. Bring in somebody to see out the season and maybe you'll get a spark.

 

[dasein]

I don't think his heart is in it. He refuses to play Nacho, Sterling was also a good option. Taking off Mangala for DeMichelis made no sense as they're both equally useless. Trophies are there to be won this year but the team is no longer responding to MP. Bring in somebody to see out the season and maybe you'll get a spark.

Who would come in as a stop gap? I mean it's not like we have a few trusted ex-managers that could do it, like Chelsea have.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

it was always going to be a tricky game against Everton, as they are somewhat of a bogey team for us. I aid to a fellow City fan in work yesterday that I can see us struggling (considering our poor away form as well).....he said he would take a draw. Everton were bang up for it last night and they were better in all departments. That said it is a 2-leg game and one that we can over-urn when they visit us at the Etihad.

Also I am just glad that it wasn't the league game last night as we would have lost more ground, I expect us to now go on and actually beat everton in the return leg of the cup and also in the upcoming league game. Playing them 3 times over 4 weeks should go in our favour. Our away form though is very worrying and has been for some weeks, the players don't look confident enough and last night for me was the worst performance I have watched for a very long time.

The passing was slow, did not penetrate the midfield of everton quick enough and Aguero looked lost. The style of play that allows Silba to feed Ageuro was actually none existent last night as everton smothered the spaces in front of silva so he could not find kun. Then through in the lack of movement elsewhere and it was just frustrating

It will only be in our favour if Pellegrini acts on where we went wrong. I doubt he he will.

Where is this great football that is so good we have to put up with a wobbly defence? Other than the odd game we have been turgid to watch for 12 months or more.

Conceding within 2 mins of scoring was amateurish last night.

 

[mancity1]

I don't think his heart is in it. He refuses to play Nacho, Sterling was also a good option. Taking off Mangala for DeMichelis made no sense as they're both equally useless. Trophies are there to be won this year but the team is no longer responding to MP. Bring in somebody to see out the season and maybe you'll get a spark.

Mangala did his hamstring in the first half. Could be out for a number of weeks now.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I don't think his heart is in it. He refuses to play Nacho, Sterling was also a good option. Taking off Mangala for DeMichelis made no sense as they're both equally useless. Trophies are there to be won this year but the team is no longer responding to MP. Bring in somebody to see out the season and maybe you'll get a spark.

Mangala is out injured.....I refer to my post in the united thread.

 

[dasein]

I'm not sure if either of these points have been made yet, but
1. I feel the Everton game last night was like others season as a whole for us- started great but then nothing
2. I don't think the recent Watford result helped our players tonight- after the Watford game I said that we can take some belief into the last few mins of a game knowing we can win it, but last night just showed that the players thought they could win it without trying, the 2 city goals at Watford were world class and I thought that was the only thing that separated us from Watford, and sadly we are not likely to get ourselves out of shite with world class goals every game, unless we start putting some effort in.

 

[Champions2012!]

Even Martinez couldn't bring himself to say yes to that one...

It's because he's going to trafford, which means them lot now got the 2 most gifted players the world has ever seen in Marshall and lukaku