Everton - Leicester

Can we get the three points....?

And Leicester.

All Leicester in the opening 5 mins

We keep giving the ball away trying to play out form the back.

Anyway, off to the fireworks...

Stunning goal by Leicester. Can't say it's not been coming either.

We really struggle to create much. DCL ends up being pretty isolated.

booooooooo

We're not that good are we?

Some days you just have to forget it and move on. The burning question is 'how many of those days will we have for the remainder of the season?. That was was utter pedestrian crap. Zero movement everytime we had the ball. Lots of strolls down dead ends. We've had a few performances like that this season, but usualy we've managed to be solid at the back. Today we weren't, everyone had a mare.

Maybe the only positive is that we don't have to keep reading shite about whether DCL can make a late charge for the World Cup (regardless of his injury today, he's played about 10 games in a year and a half FFS.) Tarkowski didn't does his chances any favours today either, but that suits us I guess.

Anyway, without stating the obvious, we need some decent attacking reinforcements in Jan. Not holding my breath though.

Goodison_Gringo wrote:Some days you just have to forget it and move on. The burning question is 'how many of those days will we have for the remainder of the season?. That was was utter pedestrian crap. Zero movement everytime we had the ball. Lots of strolls down dead ends. We've had a few performances like that this season, but usualy we've managed to be solid at the back. Today we weren't, everyone had a mare.

Maybe the only positive is that we don't have to keep reading shite about whether DCL can make a late charge for the World Cup (regardless of his injury today, he's played about 10 games in a year and a half FFS.) Tarkowski didn't does his chances any favours today either, but that suits us I guess.

Anyway, without stating the obvious, we need some decent attacking reinforcements in Jan. Not holding my breath though.

Yeah, it's clear we can't rely on having DCL available. We need another quality forward but I'm not sure we can afford one.

No way will DCL go to Qatar. He'd pick up an injury boarding the plane.

hairy cataract wrote:Surely DCL was never going to Qatar? Setting aside his injuries, I can’t see him as better than any of the alternatives. I think DCL to the World Cup was just paper talk.

If you wind back to the mid-end of last season when the Barcodes wanted him for 80 million, before he started to crumble into glass fragments he was probably no2 behind Kane to board the plane... now he's about no. 25 on the World Cup selection list & worth about 25 pence or a packet of out of date Walkers Cheese & Onion crisps.

A few things to reflect upon a day after the game.

- We are really lacking for speed. Watching bits and pieces of Chelsea - Arsenal and now Villa - Man U, and even the difference between us and Leicester, it's so obvious how much more cumbersome and slow we are in our play compared to other teams.

- Moving the ball forward - when Arsenal were up against Chelsea earlier today, when they got the ball in their own half they still played it forward. There were quite a few times when they lost possession in the Chelsea half, but when that happened the Arsenal players were likely thinking "OK, we lost possession of the ball, but when we did, it was deep in the Chelsea half. It's fooking difficult for Chelsea to score when they have the ball some 25-30 yards from their own fooking goal". Some of these balls they lost possession on were longer balls straight down the pitch, none of this sideways/backwards shite.

- Spatial awareness, something that especially Grey and McNeil have no fooking clue about. Grey will skin a player just to then stand on the ball and wait until the very same fooking player gets back to close him down and then Grey tries and skin him again. A lot of times there are now two defenders on him and he loses possession. I mean, what the fook? Get past the player and fooking attack the goal! Defenders generally hate it when they get a player attacking them straight on. McNeil, well, he is so predictable. He has no right foot, literally, ok not literally, but fooking close, so he always turns inwards to his right in a 90 degree to 180 degree move. Defenders can therefore easily close him down. And what about the high clearance that one of our defenders did in our box and McNeil looks up at the sky, tries to track the ball, fails in doing so and runs around like a headless chicken nowhere near the ball. If it weren't so fooking bad, I'd laugh at it. Comedy hour.