Spot on, his pressing is absolutely shocking.
Slow jog toward opponent, stop 5 yards away and pretend to press. Not covering passing options is another high crime.
Spot on, his pressing is absolutely shocking.
Slow jog toward opponent, stop 5 yards away and pretend to press. Not covering passing options is another high crime.
Billy Liar
Player Valuation: £1m
Was Dave right about his 1/5 decent games?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Yes.
But I wont blame him for last night. He was handed a role in a set up that didn't suit it.
People understand that you can't be bad at pressing on your own right? They do know pressing is a team thing..?
The effects of an Everton defeat on the adult brain need a proper neurological study I swear.
The effects of an Everton defeat on the adult brain need a proper neurological study I swear.
Dymak
Player Valuation: £40m
No, I think you can be bad at pressing on your own. The idea that an individual can't excel or be deficient in pressing is ridiculous imo.
For example do you press forward and disrupt the decision making of the ball carrier, force him into a side where play will go nowhere, force him to make mistakes, force him to go backwards.
To do this you have to get close and make a challenge, not stand 2 to 5 yards away ball watching. That’s, like you said, Klaasen and Siggurdson level of pressing.
Pressing is a tactical system, not something each player just decides they're going to do on a whim. Of course he can close people down ffs, he's a professional footballer. If he looked bad at doing it, it's because the whole team was bad at doing it.
Of course it’s a system, nobody saying it isn’t.
Individual effort must first and foremost be sufficient to form a team effort isn’t it.
nobody is asking him to win the ball like Kante, but you can’t be pressing by ball watching yards away or not covering passing options. He is not the only culprit last night to be fair but he is definitely one of the worst when it comes to forward pressure.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Summed the match up by putting the only free kick we had in a decent position into the first man. Seriously, why can no one at Everton lift a set piece over the first man without putting it out the ground?
Another who allowed the nerves to completely take over for no reason.
Another who allowed the nerves to completely take over for no reason.
But also put in an absolute peach of a corner that O'Brien should have scored from. Casually ignoring that one.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
If it was me, and I said the same in 2023.
I'd have KDH next to Garner in the middle because I think they complement each other.
One left and one right footer. One more attacking and one more defensive. One prefers to carry and the other prefers to pass the ball.
Back in 2023 i'd have had Onana sitting behind them. Now i'd have Grealish in the 10 ahead of them as the link between midfield and attack.
That seems logical to me. However, it also means dropping Gana. In which case it makes KDH a strange signing based on the urgent need for other positions to be filled.
I could also say the same about Grealish / Alcaraz but understand that for the fee short term it can add alot of value.
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