Match Thread Everton 2-1 Crystal Palace. Sun Oct 5th. 2pm

[God Benfrey]

Wharton and Kamada having all the time in the world in midfield, can't get anywhere near Pino and Sarr dropping in aswell

 

[brittcop1]

Palace have done their homework, double marking Grealish out of the game and waiting for our own players to surrender possession in midfield.

We are just so predictably mediocre.

Easy assignment...

 

[Rita_Poon]

we can't move the ball quick enough to involve Dibling on the right. Horne digs barry out for the garner through ball, has to get a touch..

 

[TheBigIguana]

Ndiaye needs to come deep and pick up the ball. When the fullbacks pass to Grealish/Dibling there's no one in the space inside to pass to, ends up going back to the CBs.

Keane and Pickford the best performers so far.

He’s a forward. He’s not going to do that because that’s not how he plays. That’s why he can’t be the #10.

 

[bullybeef]

Palace are fitter, quicker and more hungrier

This too!

 

[Tony1985]

Let’s be brutally honest, it’s a very deserved score line. We are so one dimensional and slow in the build up, it’s easy to defend against. Not sure what the answer is but something needs to change to get something out the game.

 

[stretford blue]

Very one sided game Pickford has kept us in it really need to get the next goal there two fullbacks are sensational

 

[davek]

Clueless.

 

[Zatara]

They’re doubling up on Grealish, even at the halfway line.

We’re allowing their best player, Wharton, the run of the park completely unmarked.

It’s tactical dominance

This and it looks like our sole tactic all season is to give it to Grealish and knock it side to side and backwards then recycle back to Grealish.

Not for me.

Get Alcaraz on and go for them.

 

[bluenorthwarrior]

Baffling how often teams seem to have 2 or 3 men around our players on the ball but we seem unable to stretch the play into the gaps this must cause.

 

[DanB90]

Maybe our players should be praying more

Seems to be working for Munoz

Should be a good thread to set up after full time.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Hindsight and all that - but Alcaraz & Beto really should've started today. Ndiaye & Charly are flexible enough to switch between the right & the middle.

 

[blackie_jones75]

Bad , really bad , have to change things tactically

 

[Fedlingen]

Dibling not shown too much, but some of the passes O'Brian has played to him have just been ridiculously bad.

 

[pfim]

Barry missed the chance granted. But we were just dominated, if not for Keane and Pickford it’s 2 or 3 down.

Ndiaye is too high and needs to pick up one of the midfielders out of possession.

we’re overrun and it’s not down to individual players. There’s an imbalance in the midfield both in numbers and ability and it needs to be fixed if we have any chance of getting into the match.