Match Thread Stoke City v Everton 1/2/17 KO 8pm GMT

[Blue in Oklahoma]

Robles earning his first team status today.

 

[Tin-Tin]

They have only had a week off and our players acting like they have never met

 

[LocalNative]

Our defending has been poor, but ffs that pass from Crouch, seriously? It works one time out of 50

Think young Holgate has been caught out a few times. Pushing up too far - which wouldn't usually be a problem but nobody is filling in when he does - and it's leaving us exposed to the ball over the top.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

honestly gana starts that first goal doesn't happen as he's be mopping up in midfield
DM is where this games turned on

aside from thati t's worked fine
Holgate will lose the occasional ball, but there;s no portcullis if the ball breaks

 

[Jamiednm]

Doesn't change the fact that we've got little options to change the team.

Nor does selling those two players.

 

[Librarian]

Everton

 

[steele]

Robles keeps us in the game. I think Ross has seen more of the ball in the last 20 minutes and raised his game. Williams and Holgate hasn't impressed. Holgate the one to blame for the first goal.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Schneiderlin has looked boss, silky touches, very clever player and he's slotted right in.

 

[Bullet]

McCarthy to come on second half to shore up the obvious weakness on our left.

 

[Milkman]

God I hate Stoke so much. And Shawcross. And Mark Hughes. And their fans. They're the embodiment of Brexit.

 

[a bell maul]

Nope. Rewound, he was good.

Yes, great save by Robles

 

[ijjysmith]

Everton

Never a truer word said.

 

[bitter-no-better]

Think we just need to pass it quicker . Too many touches at times. Stoke are not the quickest side so we need to break faster.

 

[BlueToff]

Not as bad as you're all making out ffs, bunch of cry-arses.

Not good, like, but we've seen worse.

Poor defensively, though it's really just been them lumping it to Crouch that we haven't dealt with.

We've been sloppy in midfield, and that has stopped us gelling going forward. Coleman and Baines have got forward well and Kev's looked lively - if not a bit sloppy.

Needs to improve second-half.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

Sorry mate, but what's a " belief gap " ?????????

simply we went a goal behind and weren't asserting ourselves
we went fornt them edging it to Charlie adams being lionel adams
because we lost that belief mate and they had it

 

[Huyton Layne]

Halftime highlights and Holgate is dropping off keeping people onside marking no one for most of their shots if not all.