2020/21 Carlo Ancelotti

[blueblueskies]

We have got 1 less point than Man City in away games this season. If we could sort our home form out the top 4 would be a real possibility

 

[Bluestar]

Exactly, last time I looked they had 8 of their first 11 starting that game. I’d have taken that almost every single time for Everton in a derby where we’re nearly always missing 5 or 6 of our best players.

They’ve just got to suck it up. we’ve had to for so long,

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

We were missing mina and Allan, with dcl on the bench. That's a massive part of our spine. Still battered them

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

You can only beat what’s in front of you.

Indeed.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Exactly, last time I looked they had 8 of their first 11 starting that game. I’d have taken that almost every single time for Everton in a derby where we’re nearly always missing 5 or 6 of our best players.

I recall past derbies when their kids have done us. Or when the little gargoyle who ended up at Bolton ran the midfield. Or when King Orc Skirtl came back from the cold to dominate our forward line. There's been plenty where they've 'not been at full strength'. Excuses.

 

[Drico]

What a morning. For breakfast, I am tucking into their many excuses and washing them down with copious quantities of their mouth-watering salty tears.

 

[ToffeeDan]

Brilliant stuff from The Maestro.. they went in with no inferiority complex, on the back of two lousy results and missing two vital players. What can you say about the back line and who was this keeper we played? Davies, Douc.. Richo working the defence manfully, James threading lovely passes, Gomes sniding his way into the book (still has to work on his defending!)...

The RS had their Glen Keeley moment (except it took him twenty seconds to give up a silly corner from which we could have scored and two more minutes before we capitalised..)

Incidentally that's our fastest winning goal in a Derby since Derek Temple netted in less than a minute on the way to a 4-0 win at the Pit (oh happy day!) way back in about 1964. (I think Dacourt scored a faster one but we lost that game in true Everton That fashion).

 

[Drico]

So we've beaten Arsenal, Chelsea, and Leicester. Ok, we have tended to do that over the years now and then.
We've won away at Spurs. Fair play, we haven't done that too often in recent years.
We've snatched a point from impending doom at Old Trafford having been two down. Cool! But we have some form for this.
We've won a cup tie against a "top six" club having conceded four. Wow! 1991 revisited!
We've won a derby at Anfield. 1999 revisited!

We've often done one or maybe two, at a stretch, of these things in any given season over the last 30 years. But have we ever really done the lot in one season? I don't think so. This shows that Carlo loves to operate against the big boys. That's his level. He can take them on one-on-one with what he has, but imagine what he could do against them - and the so-called lesser clubs - if we do actually furnish him with "big six" level players? Back him Moshiri! It's an obligation!

 

[Jim Hopper]

The professor. Look at that grin.

 

[maccavennie]

Anyone got the Indiana Jones video of Ancelotti shooting Klopp

 

[mccole]

He completely Trolled our ENTIRE fanbase in one of the most pressured games of the season and we all owe him a MASSIVE apology.

This season he has tactical changed to make us nothing short of amazing at times.

Yes we have had slip ups but every club has included City.

Fingers crossed we navigate through March with a good points tally because it's a real shame we don't see this great man and this upcoming squad play against European clubs.

 

[jazzy]

Hands up ......I like most on here was puzzled by Carlo's line up ......WTF do we know.
Just let the Master get on with his work.

 

[Fansince1988]

We were missing mina and Allan, with dcl on the bench. That's a massive part of our spine. Still battered them

Im going to sound negative, but did we batter them? No we didn’t but what we did was defend very well and took our chances, that’s what we have to do more of going forward in the big games.

 

[bitter-no-better]

Made up we have this fella. But I am so pleased for Duncan Ferguson. Having played and won a few derbies he must have been as disheartened as us fans these past 10 years. You could see how much it meant to him.

 

[Toffeelover]

Im going to sound negative, but did we batter them? No we didn’t but what we did was defend very well and took our chances, that’s what we have to do more of going forward in the big games.

Possession does not win games, goals do.