West Ham v Everton. Saturday 22 April, 3.00pm

[ToffeeTim]

7th is ours

 

[davek]

1 point gained.

Wrong attitude. Two points dropped. That's the mentality we need.

 

[Pete Campbell]

2nd half he became our one man midfield taking Davies off for Barry was a dreadful mistake by RK!

100%. Can't work out why he was taken off.

 

[hktoffee]

Wrong attitude. Two points dropped. That's the mentality we need.

Nonsense. When your hero Martinez can't even win at home or away in the last 2 years.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Wrong attitude. Two points dropped. That's the mentality we need.

Yep, small time thinking it as a point gained.

 

[davek]

We didn't win because we don't have an outball at the very top, meaning we are too often easily nullified if a side decides to shut up shop.

Today was exactly why Lukaku would be a flop at a giant club, because they play those games every week and rely on movement from the entire attacking unit to break teams down. We can't reliably play off Lukaku, meaning we can't reliably pick up form and thus consistent results.

It is also why we need to re-evaluate the approach to our squad in the summer, bring in a more technically gifted footballer with the brains to move and receive a ball and pull defenders out of position, because if we want to compete at the upper levels we need far more than just a goalscorer in that role.

If we keep Lukaku, fine, but we need that high quality plan B as a matter of urgency.

Giant clubs have threats all over the pitch to provide a player like Lukaku the freedom to get about.

There's no point in saying Lukaku would struggle at elite clubs. You put Costa in this team and he'd be struggling here.

 

[davek]

Yep, small time thinking it as a point gained.

I hate the attitude that "you win your home games and draw your away games and you're fine". Yes. great. Fine. Bollocks to "fine".

It's small time thinking from small time fans.

 

[Tubey]

Giant clubs have threats all over the pitch to provide a player like Lukaku the freedom to get about.

There's no point in saying Lukaku would struggle at elite clubs. You put Costa in this team and he'd be struggling here.

Completely disagree. Costa in our side instead of Lukaku and we'd be vastly more potent.

That is a far from hopeless Everton side that you are dismissing. There's threats all over the place - the problem is the balance of play and how everything breaks down, meaning that those threats can't get in to the game in advanced areas.

 

[hktoffee]

Yep, small time thinking it as a point gained.

Not for me. The team was under-preformed today.

 

[Abraders]

Giant clubs have threats all over the pitch to provide a player like Lukaku the freedom to get about.

There's no point in saying Lukaku would struggle at elite clubs. You put Costa in this team and he'd be struggling here.

Unfortunately this is very true

 

[davek]

Completely disagree. Costa in our side instead of Lukaku and we'd be vastly more potent.

That is a far from hopeless Everton side that you are dismissing. There's threats all over the place - the problem is the balance of play and how everything breaks down, meaning that those threats can't get in to the game in advanced areas.

You didn't just say a 24 goal striker has hampered us have you?

Lol.

Thinking cap on lad....

 

[ijjysmith]

Yep, small time thinking it as a point gained.

I hope people were like me and joking when they said that.

We should have dicked that Wham team by about 6.

Club Tropicana drinks are free.

 

[MikeH72]

1 point gained.

It's not mate.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Not for me. The team was under-preformed today.

Underperformed is a huge understatement mate.

 

[Tubey]

You didn't just say a 24 goal striker has hampered us have you?

Lol.

Thinking cap on lad....

Nope, I'm saying that a player who has scored seven less would offer 10x more to our general play.

There's no doubt in my mind Costa is the superior striker to Lukaku. Indeed, it's not even close.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

I hope people were like me and joking when they said that.

We should have dicked that Wham team by about 6.

Club Tropicana drinks are free.

They're piss poor West Ham, if we had been a bit more braver and less negative from the off we'd have got all 3 pts there today, IMO like.