Everton - Sevilla

The OS Facebook site is showing the game live.

We are up 1-0, not sure who scored since I just started watching.

Klaassen has a decent touch at times, but he's not part of the game at all really. Worrying.

Pickford with a great save there on a one-on-one. Sevilla are no mugs.

Klaassen with the shit pass of the day. Dear me that was poor.

It was Sandro who scored the 1-0 btw.

We are lacking in creativity across the middle of the park.

Great to see the tempo is pretty high though, it's just not a friendly.

Rooney - Schneiderlin - Klaassen have good triangle play but when Klaassen tries to pick a pass he just can't get it done. If he's indeed the creative midfielder we have been looking for, we probably need to keep on looking.

HT, 1-0, Sandro scored after 30 seconds. Not enough ball possession and creativity.

Arsenal beat Chelsea in a penalty shoot out for the Charity Shield.

60 mins played, 1-2 now.

What a great run by Lookman. He needs to play more IMO.

2-2 FT

Should mentioned btw that the Everton FC Facebook live feed was spectactular. Great quality - impressive.

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:Should mentioned btw that the Everton FC Facebook live feed was spectactular. Great quality - impressive.

How did we play? The scoreline is encouraging at least.

Armchair wrote:

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:Should mentioned btw that the Everton FC Facebook live feed was spectactular. Great quality - impressive.

How did we play? The scoreline is encouraging at least.

I thought we looked decent but ultimately I think the result was "lucky". They were no mugs and at times we had a hard time getting hold of the ball. I didn't get to watch more than about half because I was grilling , but I thought they were the better side.

We didn't create much in the middle of the park with the anticipated starters, and that's worrying to me. I don't really want to single out any players, but Klaassen had some great triangle play passes with Rooney and Schneiderlin, but he can't complete a pass when he has to think. If he's supposed to be the creative midfield general, we are in for a rude awakening based on (the little) I have seen.

Rooney is class, albeit slow, but you can see his composure on the ball, easily finding a free player to pass to. He's going to need help though when it comes to creating something from the midfield.

Schneiderlin was too much a sideways passer (again) - think Barry. I'd like to see him looking upfield more.

The defence looked pretty good I thought, even though we were burned a couple of times due to lightning Sevilla speed.

I think the Europa League games and this friendly were good for us before the start of the season.

Thanks Thor. Klaassen didn't look good against the Slovaks so I'm not surprised to hear he struggled against Sevilla. Hopefully he's just suffering from 'new team nerves' and settles into things soon.

Thought we struggled again today took an. early lead through Sandro but spent the next 70 minutes chasing the game, no closing down on Benega for the first goal, Gareth Barry clumsy in giving a away a penalty 1-2 which was actually on the edge of the area,Savilla lucky with that one, Jonjoe Kenny came on as did Lookman both linked up well finally gave us some pace up front,Equaliser by Kevin Mirallas penalty justified a score draw, Koeman needs to bring in some pace and get a target man, Rooney and Ramirez not going to replace Lukaku. Rebuilding process continues.

I have watched Adrian Guaye and Morgan Schniderlin for a while now, I don't think they can play together always in each other's way. Cucu Martins seems to play better on the left than on the right.