Match Thread Everton 0-3 Spurs . Sun Oct 26th. 4.30

[JobForTheMoyes]

Did we not finish above the spurs last season?

Do we have better players? Do we have Champions League football? Do you live in the real world?

 

[bullybeef]

Do we have better players? Do we have Champions League football? Do you live in the real world?

I think I do but you obvs know different fella

 

[Rita_Poon]

phone in - Moyes dug out for no HT changes, Beto and Barry hammered, then he mucks it all up by suggesting McNeil play as striker with his sweet left foot.

 

[MACCA75]

Pretty much everything went against us today, but our glaring weaknesses are becoming handicaps. Simply not good enough in either box, that's why we lost.

Doesn't really change where I thought we'd finish this season. Somewhere between 9th and 14th depending on injuries etc.

Absolutely no chance we finish 9th. There are a lot of good teams in this league, and we aren’t one of them.

 

[Zeke]

If you’re a Spurs fan you go….“well that was a lot easier than you thought it was going to be”.., but then again…we pretty much rolled the red carpet out for them!

 

[atrottel]

I thought we would have a ball against their full backs, but Porro was far better than I expected and dealt with Grealish pretty well. N'Diaye was our MOTM but they decided to double up against him and we have no effective strikers anyway to get on the end of anything.

 

[sladen90]

I mean....we were the better team.

 

[Dharma]

Spurs won that without breaking sweat. We are completely impotent

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

I'm sorry but if you are 0-2 down at half time at home - you really don't send the same XI players out for the second half. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is just stupid. We have nothing down the middle of the park. When Alcaraz plays in the middle he can drive it forward but KDH is just a little too lightweight.
On reflection our desire to only play down the wing coupled with their two fast fullbacks and towering CB's was guaranteed to produce nothing for us.
We never really troubled them.
But it comes back to Moyes has a going in plan and cannot change it once it isnt working.

We conceded set play goals. The actual open play was quite even and in some ways in our favour.

The same eleven outplayed them by a fair margin in the second half. Gana was much, much better second half, so whatever adjustments and conversations were had did the trick.

We lost that match because we failed to handle them defensively at corner kicks. But you don’t fix that making substitutions.

 

[Blue Neon]

Jack and Illi working their socks off for what! To much wing play with no end product players to finish in the middle.

 

[Lapeno77]

Got to persist with Barry till Jan in the hope he develops.

Beto is done.

 

[Zeke]

Anyway…night chaps….as i’m going to a funeral tomorrow and it’s probably going to be more fun than watching that game of togger!

 

[bobbylatch]

Pro

That Thomas Frank did a number on Moyes.

Not much cutting edge in our side and we are pondering too much.

Problem is the build up play is far too slow. We are much more effective as a counterattacking tream. Not enough quality all over the pitch to play a possession based game.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

A ridiculously flattering result let alone scoreline which completely turned on the referee who let one team do what they want from corners and the other not.

Ndiaye was again good and was arguably the best player on the pitch again for the second loss in a row. Being given offside from a corner that is headed straight in is a new one on me and both the Tottenham set piece goals had fouls albeit slight on the goalkeeper whereas I counted at least two occasions where Everton players were manhandled and obstructed at corners and that crank Pawson did absolutely nothing.

He needs to be called out for that as it is clear he has agenda against us.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

I think I do but you obvs know different fella

OK, you are Thomas Frank and Everton and Spurs offer you a job in the summer before this season. Which job would you take, considering budget, European football, etc?