Gray is spot on, but it does make you wonder what the side works on in training. Lukaku makes early runs all game, he is one of the few players who always provides an option. Granted a lot of the time it is the longer ball, but he makes some good runs and hardly ever receives the ball, instead it goes sideways and we slowly try to work our way up the pitch. I’ve said it loads of times, if I was him I’d have been complaining for months asking why he was brought in, if they aren’t going to play to his strengths. The few times players have taken it in to their own hands and played him in early, we’ve scored. Even with Mirallas, same thing.
Teams are pressing us high up the pitch because they know we won’t go long and it’s only a matter of time before someone loses the ball and they can attack us. Everton need to start mixing the game up and when sides press us, hit it early to Lukaku and Mirallas, to try and force teams back and stop them pressing. Everton have become the easiest side in the land to play against and it’s frustrating to watch. We rarely look like scoring but always look vulnerable every time we don’t have the ball. It’s like a basketball game, if one side had been on the ale all day and the other was super fit.
And for anyone saying Gray isn’t an Everton legend I can only think they are too young to have seen him play. I guess for the younger posters it’s difficult to imagine Lineker and Gray being Everton players.
