Match Thread Leeds 1-0 Everton, Mon 18 Aug, 8.00pm

Your Everton MOTM vs Leeds

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Librarian said:
The key to passing is moving and showing for the ball by everybody, the players just don’t support one another.
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We too often look like a team that just doesn’t train with a ball

obviously didn’t help that we had a back four incapable of using their left foot so were very easy to stop from building up as they just pressed our left hand side of defence towards the touchline and we just gave it away constantly
 
Oddson said:
To all the negative bell whiffs: to start the 1st game at Elland Road with a hostile crowd was an immediate disadvantage, There’s 37 games left, sort a right back/winger, defensive Midder & possibly a striker to play off the shoulder then we’ll be sound.

We need to integrate Grealish, Barry & Aznou ( 5 games away) into 90 min football, only negative is Gana looks slightly off pace & think he’ll be targeted more this season with a hard press. Safe journey home blues. 😎 🍺
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A good side shuts a hostile crowd up.
As witnessed by me sadly many a time.
 
Oddson said:
To all the negative bell whiffs: to start the 1st game at Elland Road with a hostile crowd was an immediate disadvantage, There’s 37 games left, sort a right back/winger, defensive Midder & possibly a striker to play off the shoulder then we’ll be sound.

We need to integrate Grealish, Barry & Aznou ( 5 games away) into 90 min football, only negative is Gana looks slightly off pace & think he’ll be targeted more this season with a hard press. Safe journey home blues. 😎 🍺
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Don’t you think it’s a shame that it’s same old Everton and you would think they would learn after going through the same thing year after year. We can see it but the people at the top can’t. Why?
 

Evermaarton said:
It's a bit like the chicken and the egg. He has got very few useful balls but every ball he did get stopped our possession immediately. The problem is that his first touch is non-existent. If you want to play a possession kind of football, he is useless. Since he cant hold a ball, has no linkup play, no first touch, everything stops with him. You basically play with 1 person less. If you want to play a striker like him, you need to play a very direct style of football but we lack pace on the wings for that. With KDH, Grealish, Ndiaye and Alcaraz we have attackminded players who like to have the ball instead of running after it the whole time (defensively or in attack). Beto is not the striker to play alongside those players. Not his fault, just not his qualities. I dont mean to bash him since I do think the guy has heart. He just isn't good enough for ehat we want to do.
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See I don't disagree with you, but even Moyes and the squad changed the play style to get beto firing last season - he's not going to be a backs to goal striker over night, so why expect anything different now? Just play early balls over the top and through balls down the middle and he will create a chance. Of course though in order to do that you need to have the ball and do something with it. We were shocking, but if Barry or chermiti started the actual fruits of our labour would have been exactly the same.
 
MOTM Hmmmmm that is a difficult choice. No player played well but if I have to choose one then I give it to Garner despite him being pathetic in the 1st half. Playing at left back it took him a good while to get his head around it but in the 2nd half he seemed to have grasped it and played OK. Wooden spoon for me is O'Brien
 


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