People will rubbish it but really wouldn’t mind seeing us go for broke in one of these away games and play Rohl Iroegbunam and Alcaraz in a 3. Yes it’s bold but would be nice for once to see an Everton midfield that isn’t automatically slower and weaker than its opponents.
I don’t know why we have a never ending proclivity to buy or develop central midfielders who can’t shift. Since Moyes arrived the fist time:
Osman, Neville, Fellaini, Bily, Gibson Barry Cleverley Davies Klaasen Siggurdson Rooney Schneiderlin Gueye Gomes Bernard Allan Van de Beek Garner Mangala KDH - some of them are good players but not an ounce of pace between them.
That’s before you get to the plethora of wide players we’ve paired with them that have no pace which include all of the current wide options.
The exceptions like McCarthy Barkley Rodwell Doucoure Onana are few and far between. When was the last time you saw an Everton mdifield really put it on an opposition midfield and bully them all over the pitch? Perhaps once or twice when we paired Onana and Doucoure with Garner, a good few times in 13/14 with Barkley and McCarthy. It just hardly ever happens though.
We’re always a yard behind even bang average premier league teams, even some champions ship teams in the centre of the pitch.
You look at Arsenal and the pace and power they have in every position across the park and on the bench. That’s the level the elite are at. We continue to spend money on slower and slower players and packing the team with them every week.
. Seen that we have the oldest average XI in the league. Why we have the likes of Gana starting, with dynamic players like Alcaraz warming the bench, I’ll never know.
