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

[Bally1989]

It that team doing the rounds is correct then its put a downer on the fans before kick off

He’s just getting it badly wrong at home and I think it’s really time to say goodbye in the summer

 

[Simon Buttle]

Yes, but Garner is our best RB full stop now.

Ild play him there until the summer, tbh.

BTW, I've also seen Garner have some pretty anonymous perfromancs in MF.

Yes, he's in impressive form in MF right now, but if we have him at RB he's still dynamic enough to push up into MF and get stuff going then get back into position - and he'll still be our set piece go-to player.

And, tbh again, I actually support Moyes in putting Branthwaite LB if that's what he does.

He isn't a RB and he has said himself he doesn't want too play there same as he doesn't want too play as a DM.

 

[davek]

He isn't a RB and he has said himself he doesn't want too play there same as he doesn't want too play as a DM.

He might not believe it's his position but that doesn't contradict the fact he happens to be our best option there.

We need a specialist and have done since well before the Patterson dud was bought.

Maybe this summer...

 

[TheBigIguana]

Nah, you're just a WUM mate, and by my own stupidity i keep getting caught in it..

You wont ever be happy, I honestly don't know why you support Everton..

I always like these “you won’t ever be happy” posts about the team that is hopelessly mediocre. Maybe I’d be happy if they weren’t that!

 

[Vaughan]

I wonder is the plan to transition to3 at the back with Garner and Armstong or Ndiaye playing as Wingbacks when attacking?

Rather than a solid back 4

wondered this but dewsbury hall maybe as the left wing back

all feeling very walter smith 00/01 anyway

 

[windymiller]

Hopefully

But it's more the lack of balance to the team than the fact its a new stadium. We have more possession at home generally, and there is more pressure on us to make the running in games. We just haven't been able to find any kind of balance between creating chances and also staying defensively strong. It's not an easy thing to fix, especially when you don't have good centre forward or full back play.

I don't think it's got anything to do with the stadium (I really think the crowd's impact on a game is massively overhyped on here), it's more that we don't have a cogent game plan for playing with slightly more of the ball against slightly deeper opposition. Away from home we are happy to sit back, absorb pressure and wait for opportunities, at home we have fewer opportunities to do that and probably a little more (but only a little more) impetus to attack and that leaves us more exposed at the back. The space we are playing in is less important than the tactics, in my opinion. We'd be in the exact same position if we were still playing at Goodison.

 

[blue to the bone]

Nah, you're just a WUM mate, and by my own stupidity i keep getting caught in it..

You wont ever be happy, I honestly don't know why you support Everton..

He isn't a supporter . He has no emotional attachment to the club.
It's a football manager type scenario for him. Not worth engaging with at all.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Moyes to rock our worlds with team selection:

Pickford
Rohl - Tarkowski - Keane - Branthwaite
Garner - Gana
Armstrong - KDH - N'Diaye
Barry

 

[windymiller]

Pickford
Garner
Tarks
Keane
Branthwaite
Tim
Gana
Armstrong
KDH
Ndiaye
Barry

That's tonights starting 11

Playing for the 0-0 then.

 

[hetion]

Have we seen Tim and Gana as a good pairing ?

Brighton at home where we were pretty average but did win
Villa at home where we absolutely battered them but couldn't finish
Fulham at home where we were v good and did win

That might be it?

Allows Gana to do what he's best at now, which is the role he played at Afcon too, controlling the tempo and playing the ball forward (this is Garner's role now too which is why I think they're a bad pairing now!)

While Tim tackles everything that moves, which used to be Gana's role but he can't really do it anymore

 

[Roger Milla]

Hope that leaked team isn't right. Is it really too much to ask for, for players to be played on merit and in their proper position. I've been saying it all season, so I suspect it is too much to ask for.

 

[Simon Buttle]

He might not believe it's his position but that doesn't contradict the fact he happens to be our best option there.

We need a specialist and have done since well before the Patterson dud was bought.

Maybe this summer...

But its not the best option because it just creates a problem in midfield then. The difference between Moyes and a smart manager is that the smart manager is going 3 at the back to get around the FB issue, or better still just stand firm with Moyes and tell him the club is buying a RB rather than let him dither about insisting on them being 6ft+ and an absolute yard dog.

 

[MikeH72]

Pickford
Garner
Tarks
Keane
Branthwaite
Tim
Gana
Armstrong
KDH
Ndiaye
Barry

That's tonights starting 11

If that’s the team then I would genuinely sack him.

 

[Bally1989]

If that’s the team then I would genuinely sack him.

Yanks might start getting upset that everyone hates going the homes games and spend less money.

 

[windymiller]

He isn't a supporter . He has no emotional attachment to the club.
It's a football manager type scenario for him. Not worth engaging with at all.

I find the whole "pick a random team thousands of miles away from you" approach a little peculiar. I'm not having a go at anyone, before I get lambasted on here, I'm delighted that people choose Everton rather than the usual Real Madrid, PSG, Man City nonsense but what is the process of choosing us? I'm sure we got a bunch of American fans after Tim Howard and Landon Donovan played for us and maybe a few other players drag in a few casual fans but that can't be the whole answer. I can't really imagine supporting a team that I've never seen in the flesh and likely never will (other than in a meaningless friendly tournament). I guess we're lucky that we live in a country that has both high quality top flight football (with one of those clubs being within an hour of 95+% of the populace) and a reasonably healthy ten tier football pyramid offering loads of local opportunities to see footie.