David Moyes/Everton Big Game Mentality

[scottym]

This season we've lost our 2 most important games of the season against Wigan and Sunderland. Now I wouldn't mind if we'd have went out there against them and put in good performances only to be beaten by fluke or a simply a better side on the day but instead we put in a spineless performance in both.

Had we won both those games, like on paper we should have, we could currently be sitting 2 points off the Champions League and potentially with an FA Cup Final to play against City (should we have went on the beat Millwall). I know "if's but's an maybe's" but it's very much within the realm of possibility that we could have been in that situation today.

Obviously you can look at the board who have to take a lot of the blame for failing to back Moyes in January but surely Moyes himself has to take some responsibility himself for us yet again bottling it when it matters like we usually do (Semi Final last year, final against Chelsea and probably more I've blocked from memory)

 

[Brennan]

Why is Sunderland our second most important game ?

 

[Goat]

Arsenal and Spurs were bigger games than Sunderland.

 

[noharmdone]

Moyes will show this to be wrong when he goes to United..

 

[scottym]

Arsenal and Spurs were bigger games than Sunderland.

Disagree, after those 2 games were out of the way Sunderland became more important imo.

 

[Goat]

Disagree, after those 2 games were out of the way Sunderland became more important imo.

So if we use your logic, Fulham is a MASSIVE game?

 

[toffee matt]

Could you imagine Moyes at utd

70 min when chasing a lead: rvp off , Ferdinand on. or something like that.

 

[scottym]

So if we use your logic, Fulham is a MASSIVE game?

Yes, had we beaten Sunderland it would have been.

 

[Azzurri]

Bottlers lead by a bottler. Simple.

 

[Goat]

Yes, had we beaten Sunderland it would have been.

What about Chelsea at Home?

 

[Frank Drebin]

We always lose the Mersey-Wear derby ffs.

 

[snipellis11]

But we have won a lot of massive games this season to make it become a massive game, it was a big game because we were up there challenging for a top 4 place but to be in that position we had to win other massive games, e.g man utd, city ect.

 

[scottym]

What about Chelsea at Home?

Was a big game at the time obviously but in back in December, although we lost, there were still a hell of a lot of points to play for.

 

[Goat]

Was a big game at the time obviously but in back in December, although we lost, there were still a hell of a lot of points to play for.

What about West Ham away?

 

[scottym]

But we have won a lot of massive games this season to make it become a massive game, it was a big game because we were up there challenging for a top 4 place but to be in that position we had to win other massive games, e.g man utd, city ect.

United's a poor example as it was the first game of the season, never really a massive game. Yeah obviously we have had good results this season but simply we've lost the 2 games when it mattered most and played some of our worst football this season during them.