Match Thread | Everton vs Man City (27/12/23)

[paulsimpson]

Michael Owen with a smug grin on his face. Another Anfield shill.

Let's see what he looks like at 10:20 pm. Hopefully City will haul this back.

 

[eyalluvitt]

You can’t legislate for a Rodri brain fart like that, absolutely gave them it on a silver platter

 

[phargrave]

Sky Sports' Pete Gill:

"Foden just made a 60-yard pass back to Ederson practically from the edge of Everton's penalty area. Hats off to Everton's defence. That's some compliment delivered by Foden."

Sums the game up perfectly…..

 

[hateutd]

We kept possession. It's more important than heading towards their goal.

Useless possession, without goals.... Can't see us winning something this year,with all these injuries and defending problems.... :(

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Playing with 3 - sometimes even 4 - centre backs can be painful to watch.

 

[drthingy]

Are there any positives?

We’ve got the wind in the s second half?

 

[Tb1981]

Can see why pep is reluctant to play Phil in the middle

 

[01cravend]

Down to recruitment not just injuries.

Allowing top players to leave and bringing in mediocre ones wasn't a good strategy.

True Gundo bailed us out of these type of games the last few years and as frustrating as he could be Mahrez was our most consistent G/A output winger

 

[ninjamonkey]

Garbage once again.

Why are we playing 1v1 at the back? It creates so much risk where everybody needs to be perfect everytime and for what? So we can push walker up a bit where he can offer us fuck all? That brings me to the second problem here. Walkers on the ball way too much. We all know he's by far the worse player in possession for us so why are we setup to not use what he's good at and have him see more of the ball than anybody? Completely baffling and the key contributing factor in my eyes as to why we can't get up the pitch.

Then we've got Bernardo put out wide when he should be central to help us control the game and get up the pitch and we've got nunes central when he should be out wide to allow him to actually run with the ball. That's just a complete no Brainer for me, I've no idea what peps thinking there either.

It's beyond shit and I can only see us losing by a bigger margin second half without a big change. There's nothing on the bench to offer that change and pep seems insistent on sticking with these piss poor tactics. How many games without a win before he fucking realises what he's doing is shit?

 

[wolviedinho]

The club will rise again.

We don’t accept mediocrity and need to start taking steps to change things in January and the summer.