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Fornales is a terrible footballer, Arthur had been awful, Rice has been awful, noble non existent, forgot Haller was on the field and Roberto shouldn't of been beaten near post at that angle!!
bubbles1966 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:23 pm
At a bare minimum, one of Fornals or Lanzini off to allow Yarmy on. I'd probably add Snodders or Wilshere as well.
We're lucky to be only 1 down, but our midfield is disjointed and contributing nothing at either end of the pitch.
Fabianski saves the goal...so would Jussi, Randolph and Adrian.
Can anyone tell me what Robbie Earle is talking about, please? "Everton are playing like West Ham and West Ham are playing like the old Everton." Does he mean this season, or this game?
Can we play the second half like old mid-1980s Everton please?
when we are attacking, the players supporting whoever is on the ball are either miles away and running in the opposite direction, or basically treading on their toes.
there's an optimal passing distance that we seem to be at great pains to avoid for whatever reason.
61dicksey wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:17 pm
Anderson is boiling my piss , he has been dreadful just giving the ball away not giving a ****.
Anderson is frustrating but he's still a player that can pull a rabbit out of the hat and needs to stay on the pitch. Lanzini however is too slow and no where near his best,he needs to come off as does Formals.
Unbelievably we're still in this game and Yarmalenko is on a good run of form as long as he's fit he should be playing, maybe then we could turn this around.
I can't believe I'm saying this but given how poor we've been in that first half and still only 1 goal down, we can still win the game if we raise our performance to a tad below average.
I'll be happy to see Whilshere coming on just so we can have a semblance of control going forwards. Really don't know what Rice was doing in that first half, he wasn't marking Iwobi and it wasn't like he was hedging to our right hand side helping cover Fredericks and giving him extra protection. He was just marking the space in the middle whilst Richardlison keep running behind on our right or Iwobi getting the ball in space centrally and having all the time in the world shift it out wide.
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Puff Daddy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:20 pm
He's a bit of a luxury player to be honest. Not always what you want in your side when you need to get stuck in a bit in midfield on difficult away days.
The problem is, he’s never in a million years a left winger.
Bilic did this when Payet was out. Insisted on forcing Lanzini out wide.
If he can’t player centrally because Noble, Rice and Fornals are there then he shouldn’t be in the team.
Get a winger on. Get Lanzini central instead of Fornals.
