Everton v City post match

Everton would have had no complaints going in 3-1 down at half time in reality. Nailed on pen which changes Everton's game plan if we score it and two very good opportunities to score ( Silva, Stirling) They score with first shot ( 4 goals in our last seven have come from the oppositions first shot) I wasn't overly concerned at half time.

Their second goal killed the game and that part for me is where we were sorely lacking. Showed nothing to mount a fightback. Heads down too easily.

Pep has pointed out in a number of post match interviews how we dominate possession and chances but he has to see now that well organised teams know how to play us and we must come up with a solution to being so easy to score against. The 'whole team defends' approach is not working because we don't have the legs for it week in week out or we don't recover possession quickly enough when we lose the ball. Loss of possession led directly to the first three goals.

Spurs will be a tough game and he has got work to do for that match. Badly missing Fernadinho and Gungodan for me.
 
Blue Tooth said:
Everton would have had no complaints going in 3-1 down at half time in reality. Nailed on pen which changes Everton's game plan if we score it and two very good opportunities to score ( Silva, Stirling) They score with first shot ( 4 goals in our last seven have come from the oppositions first shot) I wasn't overly concerned at half time.

Their second goal killed the game and that part for me is where we were sorely lacking. Showed nothing to mount a fightback. Heads down too easily.

Pep has pointed out in a number of post match interviews how we dominate possession and chances but he has to see now that well organised teams know how to play us and we must come up with a solution to being so easy to score against. The 'whole team defends' approach is not working because we don't have the legs for it week in week out or we don't recover possession quickly enough when we lose the ball. Loss of possession led directly to the first three goals.

Spurs will be a tough game and he has got work to do for that match. Badly missing Fernadinho and Gungodan for me.
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So what? We don't score goals. We have a forward line that is shit in front of goal.
 
Eikeimmel79 said:
Stupidity is doing same thing and expecting different results" said by Einstein demonstrated unfortunately by Pep.

He needs to change or adapt his philosophy to cope with the Premier League but seems too stubborn to do so. You can't win consistently if you can't defend and grind out results especially in this league as anyone can beat anyone on any given day. The days of turning up and steamrolling teams are long gone it takes fight and the ability to adapt. We used to bully teams with a powerful midfield and could grind out those one nil wins. We just don't seem capable of that these days and look lost when things don't go right. We do lack a leader on the field that voice to spur us on. Nobody has stepped up in the absence of Hart and Kompany and it shows.
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Nige and GazBaz. Never replaced. (Wonder how many times I'll repeat this, before we get replacements) This was the engine room which delivered the simple start to our attacks and covered the arses of the back four - not the Vinny and Joleoninho needed their arses covered on too many occasions.
 
Blue Tooth said:
Everton would have had no complaints going in 3-1 down at half time in reality. Nailed on pen which changes Everton's game plan if we score it and two very good opportunities to score ( Silva, Stirling) They score with first shot ( 4 goals in our last seven have come from the oppositions first shot) I wasn't overly concerned at half time.

Their second goal killed the game and that part for me is where we were sorely lacking. Showed nothing to mount a fightback. Heads down too easily.

Pep has pointed out in a number of post match interviews how we dominate possession and chances but he has to see now that well organised teams know how to play us and we must come up with a solution to being so easy to score against. The 'whole team defends' approach is not working because we don't have the legs for it week in week out or we don't recover possession quickly enough when we lose the ball. Loss of possession led directly to the first three goals.

Spurs will be a tough game and he has got work to do for that match. Badly missing Fernadinho and Gungodan for me.
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We've no chance vs Spurs
 
teddykgb said:
Fans aren't managers because we're irrational, over reactive, and seldom can see the bigger picture. We beat West Ham and everyone is in love with Zaba's rebirth as a CM and crying for the same tactics in the next match. Then we get thumped by Everton and how could the manager not see that the midfield was too old and why couldn't he change shape to combat them? We aren't good at this and we won't be. I am struggling to cope with Bravo as much as many of you and maybe the manager will need to make a call there, but appeals to what a fan would do in this situation are not going to produce much in the way of a sensible approach to anything. It would be overreactive and incoherent. And even then fans label you the tinkerman and go bananas that if the manager would just play a settled XI everything would be different.

Just look at the increase in quality in all of the managers who have left us and all of the players who have left us. Whenever a player is injured, he improves massively in the eyes of our fans. Now, if we just had Joe, Nasri, and Mangala, everything would be different! Forget that we suffered from all of the same problems last season with those players and that plenty of fans had problems with each of those players in different ways.

It's really, really hard to take a long view after a day like today. But we won't get anywhere as a club overreacting to today either. It is not an exaggeration to say that Pep could lose every match for the rest of the season and he'd still be the most successful manager in world football. As fans, we need to back him, even during a tough spell. This season clearly doesn't seem like it's going to produce what we would have wanted but there's nobody I'd rather have turning the squad over. I keep coming back to this point. The core group here essentially quit on everyone's re-favorite, Mancini. Dressing room unrest, absolutely dire performances that everyone conveniently forgets. We sacked him, brought in Pellegrini. The same exact thing happens. Now, we go and get the undisputed best manager in the game and he suffers the same problems with largely the same group. Can we maybe put to rest the idea that the Managers were the problem? If anything, I have a lot more respect for both Roberto and Pellegrini today because I feel like this season is proving that there really wasn't much they could have done.
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Great post, agree with every word.
 
I've just watched SSN's post-match interview with Pep and I am struggling to think of any other interview, with any other manager, that was so obviously intended to bait and provoke. The interviewer was asking nothing but negative, leading questions intended to get a rise and angered response from Pep so they could write another "Pep in Meltdown" story.
 
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