Everton V City post match

Just watching the highlights again on Sky Sports (as you do!). Re. that first goal, it really was a demon delivery by Dave. Flat and with pace on it. A striker's wet dream of a delivery.



Or even a CB/makeshift LB!
 
Fantastic result last night. Not at our flowing best going forward but to win away at Everton & not concede a shot on goal all game is brilliant. 3 points vs Chelsea & it’s been an incredible week & then a good rest before the Newport game.
 
Weren’t really fully at it last night.

So many great runs from Sané and so many players just not passing it early enough. Get that right and we’d have had a fucking bag full against them. Instead he kept getting called offside (one that actually was well onside).

After Leroy went off we lost our way for ten or fifteen minutes.

Was a bit of a bizarre performance.

But we finished the game very well in injury time. Did the right thing, held the ball in the corners ourselves instead of kicking it long giving it back to the opposition.
 
Commentators talking about Everton as some plucky little team - rather than a team/squad that has had £300m of 'talent' added to it in two years. They have to be judged by our standards now.
 
Weren’t really fully at it last night.

So many great runs from Sané and so many players just not passing it early enough. Get that right and we’d have had a fucking bag full against them. Instead he kept getting called offside (one that actually was well onside).

After Leroy went off we lost our way for ten or fifteen minutes.

Was a bit of a bizarre performance.

But we finished the game very well in injury time. Did the right thing, held the ball in the corners ourselves instead of kicking it long giving it back to the opposition.
Kevin comes on and we're immediately a scarier team for Everton to deal with.
 
Sorry, but regardless of goals scored or conceded with De Bruyne on the pitch (distorted incidentally by his late appearance and fluke goal in a game we still lost against Palace), you're replying to something that I didn't actually say.

De Bruyne started at Leicester and Newcastle, and was largely anonymous in a disappointing team performance at both grounds.

Last night, he was great, but we need the De Bruyne of 17/18: not the peripheral player from previous seasons.
When Kevin's on the pitch we become the stuff of nightmares for any opposing team. Aside from the killer through balls, the raking long range diagonal passes, the surge when he's on the ball and the vicious accurate shots, he has a psychological effect on opponents - just like the other small group of elite players across the world.
 
Fantastic result last night. Not at our flowing best going forward but to win away at Everton & not concede a shot on goal all game is brilliant. 3 points vs Chelsea & it’s been an incredible week & then a good rest before the Newport game.
We're in danger of taking things for granted - limited an opposing team that's added £300m of players to its squad to no shots. Not at our best. Even in Barca's pomp, they had scratchy periods and relied on moments of brilliance at times. An off-day for us (most shots/most possession) is still good by normal standards. I'm actually pleased to see us winning when not at our best. The form (15/20 shots, laser passing at the back and over 70 per cent possession against decent teams) will return.
 

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