I don’t rate Pickford as high as most but if we had to chuck Mykolenko in goal I think it might matter! They were playing Bernardo as a deep midfielder at times!
Do people understand that he was really good last year in the second best league at just 22 in his first year there? We should be shouting from the hills for him to start over bang average Beto and expect that in time he’s going to score goals in...
My point is right now a lot of bad is happening because Tarkowski is making bad choices and is a step slow to everything. If he’s playing Branthwaite can only do but so much.
With Branthwaite back at fitness, I don’t think those goals happen. I think you’d also see Myko taking more chances in link up with Grealish. But without Jarrad, Myko is playing a little cautious, which I understand. And he might’ve been coming...
City’s brand of pressing is still different than what ours should be. They counter press quickly when they lose the ball because they can manipulate teams into compact shapes through those long spells of possession. We need to be a side that...
Everton should not be trying to play like City. We should be trying to transition quickly and score goals. Not build from the back and control games through long spells of possession. It’s a fundamentally different thing requiring a fundamentally...
No it’s crying out for CBs and a manager who step up the pitch as a rule and not just when they’re comfortable or chasing a game. Then the gaps start to disappear.
We categorically do not need to play deeper and more conservatively.