JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £80m
As of yet I’ve seen nothing to suggest that Broja is better than DCL unfortunately.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
Some of the hype for a couple of 10-15 min cameos was way over the top. Today was the Broja we all saw at Fulham.
JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £80m
He looks like he should be a bigger presence. I dunno. Hopefully he’ll get on a scoring streak
I’m amazed that a striker playing for a dinosaur that hates anyone who plays further forward than the half way line isn’t shining.
Baffling really.
Baffling really.
Nyhus
#EvertonNorge
Yeah, what we saw today was exactly what i expected, and why i feel so confused as to why the club was so intent on signing him over multiple seasons. I very much doubt his loan will affect our fortunes mentionably at all, but i hope im wrong.
Gene Parmesan
Player Valuation: £750k
I’d like to see him have the amount of game time that DCL has had before writing him off.
Just the same as Beto isn`t a target man striker and yet we persist with the hoofball and then wonder why we never score.
It was hardly surprising that he kept dropping deep to get the ball yesterday, as it was the only way he was going to get the ball.
Chrismac
Player Valuation: £15m
Even yesterday he showed more quality than Dom.. his touch and link up play is better, isn't constantly offside, and was close to getting on to a few balls over the top.
He won't be match fit to chase long balls all game so I'll give him a bye for now in terms of the 'lazy' shouts.
His movement looked decent, that run Ndiaye made early doors he was in perfect position to be slipped in and was screaming for it, likewise Harrisons late waste of space against City he again was in a good spot screaming for the ball.. something you won't find Dom doing.
I'd keep him up there and work on him and Ndiaye linking up as much as possible
He won't be match fit to chase long balls all game so I'll give him a bye for now in terms of the 'lazy' shouts.
His movement looked decent, that run Ndiaye made early doors he was in perfect position to be slipped in and was screaming for it, likewise Harrisons late waste of space against City he again was in a good spot screaming for the ball.. something you won't find Dom doing.
I'd keep him up there and work on him and Ndiaye linking up as much as possible
I've said the exact same thing in the Dom thread. Whilst they may have different attributes and whatnot, so can't be directly compared, strikers will get a raw deal.
Broja ended up having to deal with the same dreadful service (hoof ball), which meant he eventually had to stray wide or deep to even look like getting a touch.
The tactics are the largest problem here, not the players.
SuperKev91
Player Valuation: £8m
I think we have a huge issue in service as well though.
Who do we have who you’d trust to actually deliver a good ball? Or even a hockey assist like Pienaar used to regularly do for Baines. I think McNeil strikes a good footy, Jim Garner too to an extent. Lindstrom maybe at times.
Other than that I think N’Diaye can nit stuff together superbly but his technique is lacking at times (look at his shot yesterday after lovely feet on the edge of the box).
We’ve got a huge quality gulf to actually provide service to the forward players. Just getting the ball to our attackers is an issue, nobody passes a ball well in the middle really (bar possibly Mangala/Garner when fit).
I’d like to see Iroegbhunam come back in when fit in this flat three we’ve been trying. At least he’s progressive.
Oh we do, and importantly I ain't saying this is a squad of world beaters simply lacking in class, yet if you watch the play the tactics limit us significantly.
We do not attempt overlaps, and our wider players often intentionally come inside and wait for reinforcements - the regularity of it shows it's something asked of them.
Our primary tactic is hitting these long, high balls up the pitch and hoping that our forward can win the header, hold the ball and then do something with it.
It's horrible to watch.
SuperKev91
Player Valuation: £8m
Oh it’s atrocious to watch absolutely.
I think there’s some method in limiting our movement though, we’ve got no athleticism in transitions.
Lampard tried to open up and be expansive and we got absolutely hammered. He went back to pretty much Dyche ball and we just about stayed up. Then tried to open up again and look what happened there.
We’ve got no recovery legs anywhere on the pitch. Richy used to bail us out a lot, as did Onana when here. There’s nothing really now in terms of proper recovery pace so we can’t commit too many or risk conceding. And we know we don’t score many so if we become leaky that’s game over.
Remember when we played hoofball with Maupay as a lone striker?
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