Dead ball situations

[riddick]

Not trying to be reactionary but we were beyond woeful with them today. And not just free kicks/corners, there were about 5 times when a ball went out for a goal kick and, after the replay was over, it was a Chelsea throw.

I thought Digne was quite good early in the season with them but the last couple matches have been wasteful as anything. We should have had a lot more than 1 shot on goal with all the free kicks/corners we had today.

Especially at the end, we were sitting back, getting a free kick and turning over possession back to Chelsea immediately. Really caused a problem.

 

[evertonarntwe]

Digne put some good balls in to be fair
The problem is more the attacking of the balls rather than the actual ball

 

[EverBlue92]

Ive said it before you can beat the top sides if you use set pieces effectively.

Today you look at the corners and free kicks we had and just one of those perfectly in the area and you have Mina, Keane, Gomes, Richarlison etc all big lads attacking it.

Silva needs to address it as we could have nicked a 1-0 win today had we put a few good balls in.

 

[Eggs]

..we lost Sigurdsson ahead of getting a few free kicks in decent positions. Digne whips the ball in but hits more bad ones than good ones.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

That's the only thing i was disappointed with today. We still lack the required quality in the final third to hurt teams consistently and today was a good example. Just extremely wasteful at times.. almost as if we were afraid to potentially be over-extending and letting Chelsea in.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Digne has already been Evertoned. Most go into the first man or are over hit. Don’t know how Everton do it.

 

[riddick]

Like I said as well tho, it wasn't just corners/free kicks. Pickford's distribution has been fairly shocking all season. When we got him there were a ton of Sunderland supporters saying "he's going to get so many assists for you, his distribution is amazing!". It's pretty glaring tbh.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Digne has already been Evertoned. Most go into the first man or are over hit. Don’t know how Everton do it.

I'm convinced that we just simply don't work on set pieces in training.

 

[trueblue84]

I'm convinced that we just simply don't work on set pieces in training.

Not just everton. Watch most teams and their set pieces are awful. You'd think when you're paying someone 100k + per week they'd be able to knock the head off a matchstick from 30 yards with a ball. Doesn't seem to be the case, though, which is odd, given most other sports have people who can do things with such precision.

 

[Verbal Kint]

Jags playing the cross field sidewinder straight out for a goal kick....

I missed those days

 

[EverBlue92]

Jags playing the cross field sidewinder straight out for a goal kick....

I missed those days

Glad those days are gone!

 

[sageyefc]

Digne put some lovely ones in in the first half just a shame Keane has a head like a 50p

 

[ijjysmith]

This is not just an Everton problem.

No team is really any good at set pieces.

 

[Connor]

That first corner when Gomes headed wide was brilliant.

Downhill from there.

It'll come.

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

Mina will score off a set piece before Christmas. And hopefully that will happen at Anfield.