Match Thread Everton 0-1 Manchester United - Monday 23rd February 20:00

[Bez2k2k]

Barry - can’t control, can’t shoot, can’t score.
Tarky - legs catching up
Armstrong - pointless
N’diaye - needs a break
Gana - 35 years old in a young man game

Too many of these players. It’s just becoming poor. Watch Newcastle win tomo and then come into our game full of confidence.

 

[Huyton Layne]

That lineup stunk of a loss
Gana needed dropping.
Harrison isn't a LW
Garner is our best midfielder
Tarkowski and Keane are too slow together

It's frustrating that he can't see any of these issues.

 

[MACCA75]

If you are playing without pace, then everything has to be perfect. Passes have to be accurate, intricate. We just aren’t good enough for that.

George needs to start as he has the pace to cause chaos.

 

[Alex Young`s Cat]

A pretty average Utd and a ref that looked like he was on work experience.

But that was an absolutely agricultural approach. Corners an embarrassment, what were we thinking doing the same nonsense over and over again?

Poor.

This 100%. Surely we have some "thinkers" on the pitch who can change the delivery on set pieces. It was obvious it wasn't working.Isnt a definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result

 

[brucemate]

Starting with just 3 attacking players isn’t good enough. Especially when one of them is pretty rubbish.

Plus we do not attack as a unit, there was a lot of times when we were looking to cross wobbly Barry and Ndaiye outnumbered in their box. Nobody breaking from central midfield.

 

[Mr PEN86]

Too many square pegs in round holes. Lumping it up to Barry and hoping for the best. Sigh.

Spot on. He's so keen to squeeze in his favourites. Keane wasn't the one. Patto RB with Branthwaite and Tarky in the middle. Myko at LB. George out wide and maybe put Armstrong in the 10 with KDH further back alongside Garner.

 

[Rita_Poon]

MotM - referee.

By miles!

Our corner trainer a distant second.

No side in the league is that bad, the same way, repeatedly.

 

[jamieni]

His movement is not good enough, his control is lacking and he's slow to read the game. But, I half wonder if it's down to our style. Nothing is direct, nothing is urgent and nobody is near him to support.

He looks like he could be dangerous turning and running with the ball but our stock play is to whack it 50 miles in the air towards him.

 

[lieneverton]

Good handling by their keeper today.

Actually catching the ball and commanding his 6 years box on corners etc.

The fact we did the same thing 10 times in a row was absolutely mental. Became laughable. Agree Lammens looks good, mind.

 

[Blue Neon]

No chance of pushing for a Euro place with them 2 clowns up front. Both totally inept and will / have cost us heavily. Think we'll see more and more empty seats as season moves on. We totally fluffed that summer transfer window.

 

[UpperLeftBlue]

Moyes made indefensible choices in that lineup tonight. Mainly, he's started with a single wide player in N'Diaye. He's then put an 8 at RW, a 6 at RB, a CB at LB. This is with George, Patterson and Myko on the bench. It is a joke. Following the selection, we then play without wide outlets all game and force everything long or through the congested, chaotic center. The sub choices were again too late in coming and lacked a clear change in tactics. At 0-0, plan A is not working. Subs need to change the approach with personnel to accomodate the change. George changed the personnel, but not the tactics. Beto changed the tactics, but neither he nor Barry play in a partnership. It feels like the complaints I had in the last 2 seasons under Moyes. Plays favorites in lieu of strategy. Dithers about in game change. Fails to effect change in game.

 

[Caolam]

I hope we all enjoyed the thought that we might see European football at The Hill Dickinson next year. It was as fleeting as it was unlikely but it was nice. We are four players short of a team that could get into a European place, all now depends on the summer window, would have looked more healthy if we could have offered new players European football. Hopefully we don’t fall off too far now that we become unattractive to new players, I don’t think we will.

 

[roy vernon]

We didnt deserve to win or lose

I didn't say we did, we certainly didn't deserve to win though and neither did they. Garner good, Branthwaite ok, the rest of them were poor

 

[brittcop1]

No, what I said was 100% true and I refuse to blame Tarkowski's failures on anyone but Tarkowski.

Honestly i dont hate Keane...hes had a pretty good season but has a mistake in him...Tarks is not great either. Like to see JB and JOB playing there but Moyes sees them as full backs

 

[overkill]

Disagree mate, thought it was a war of attritican first half, but second half felt we dictated the game, couldn’t score, then got picked off.

Thought Man Utd were perfectly happy with what we were doing 2nd half, we never game close to scoring & opened up for them to break.

Its always as black and white as team with more of the ball are in control.