Match Thread Everton v Notts Forest. Sun Dec 29th. 3pm

[lungo]

Forest havnt played like a team who are up the top. In fact the only difference is that they can score goals but their overall play is as bad as ours

they have pace on the right and left.Plus Woods who has his Jelavic moment. Wont last but …

 

[widnesblue]

He won’t take Doucoure off before Mangala or IGG.
Even then, I very much doubt he will put two strikers on as neither of them will work hard enough out of possession for him.

It’s Dyche, obviously he won’t do that. Rather lose than go for it. The man’s an utter plum.

 

[IrishBlue2022]

We are atrocious but that was a stonewall penalty on Branthwaite wasn’t it? Or is pushing players in the back allowed now? Did it even get reviewed?

Spurs got a penalty for less in their game.

 

[Bedfordblue]

They will be in the post game press conference. The official radio commentary bells already said this was probably our hardest fixture since Wolves . The excuses were in early

I don’t doubt it, Dyche will have his preferred script at hand for the post match presser.

 

[Marius57]

Welcome to Dtche ball Broja,,

Yet it’s all been DCLs fault

 

[Mashtray]

I'd go doucs for Dom and go 4-4-2 with Broja slightly behind

 

[ValBlue]

Midfield is all over the place when not sitting deep...which really says Dyche doesn't know any other way to play/ train them to play differently

IGG, Mangala and Doucoure has no creativity or coordination. IGG and Mangala might be fine if they had Garner in front of them, who can actually thread the ball through. Doucoure can only get it stuck in his feet

 

[Verbal Kint]

Are you kidding?

What are you talking about.....

How has the ref robbed us

 

[johnjoeefc]

It's not even in the top 25 that, we've had many worse.

What makes this one bad is the lethargicness, and how clear it is that you can play like that for hours and never score. Something must change

 

[Axlswhk]

Absolute rubbish. The biggest flaw is the lack of meaningful forward passing in midfield.
The trio of Doucoure, Gana and Mangala won’t give us any meaningful forward passes. Side ways and backwards is all they know, it’s slow and meaningless and the result of this is having to break down solid banks of 4 at every possession and we are extremely poor at it.

 

[BigBeto1]

I'd go doucs for Dom and go 4-4-2 with Broja slightly behind

Yep never mind how bad some of the others have been. Douc has been atrocious, breaks down almost every attack with his inability to either kick a ball or run in a straight line

 

[bobbymill]

Welcome to Dtche ball Broja,,

Could hear some arl fella shouting that in the park end

 

[Bedfordblue]

Yet it’s all been DCLs fault

Tbf, Broja has looked more involved and engaged (to me at least) than DCL has lately (and I actually don’t mind DCL!)

 

[Davideeyore]

We are atrocious but that was a stonewall penalty on Branthwaite wasn’t it? Or is pushing players in the back allowed now? Did it even get reviewed?

Nah it wasn't, because it was us. But if it was the RS it would be a nailed on pen.

 

[jonnyg]

An absolute nightmare from the manager here. Doucoure and Harrison should not be on the pitch. He simply has to add another striker, or even two. He should be fighting for his future here, but he's standing there with his arms out utterly clueless.

Really can't see any potential employers looking at this and going 'he's our guy'.

If he doesn't drop a level down after this it's short-term contracts and firefighting jobs for the rest of his career imo