Match Thread Everton 1-1 West Ham . Sat March 15th. 3pm

[Andy Gray Diving Headers]

Took my dad to what will be his last game at Goodison. A good finish to the game which was almost a perfect one. Putting sentiment to one side, I thought Myko was poor, JB struggled against Kudos, Garner needs to do more when he has the ball, and Doucs has to be dropped. It could be a busy summer!!!! But to end on a positive, thanks Goodison for the memories with my dad.

 

[Marius57]

I thought mykelnko looked very poor, tbh. His passing is crap, he doesn't seem to want to cross and he is always out of position.

He put a couple of really good balls in. One of our best crosses in the first half was from him. He was keen to get forward as well and yeah, he made a couple of mistakes second half defensively, but he rarely got beaten. (Despite for most of the game having Alcaraz playing pretty much in the centre rather than lw).

He made 6 crosses, 3 were accurate.
For balance, JOB made 7 with 3 accurate.
Harrison as a RW made 10 but only 2 accurate.
Alcaraz as ‘LW’ made 6 with 2 accurate.

 

[Khalekan]

Big Jake MVP again

 

[Dharma]

Both fullbacks had good games, both centrebacks didn't.
Ward-Prowse ran the show.
Graham Potter organised his team superbly 2nd half and dismantled Moyes' tactics.
Think West Ham will be there or thereabouts next season.

 

[Tel001]

"Not much room to get in behind them".

That's your job to draw them out.

Seeing as we have just sacked a manager that no matter what happened on the pitch , we never got “ drawn out” I think we can assume that it’s not always possible .

Some teams away from home simply don’t give you space .

Not saying we played well but how many team do you think we’re saying the same about us over the last 2 years?

 

[MaximusEvertonius]

West Ham made more second half adjustments and limited us more the second half. At the end of the day, they’re still a PL club. Almost any club can win on a given day. Thought West Ham played well, better than us almost the entire second half.

 

[davek]

Seeing as we have just sacked a manager that no matter what happened on the pitch , we never got “ drawn out” I think we can assume that it’s not always possible .

Some teams away from home simply don’t give you space .

Not saying we played well but how many team do you think we’re saying the same about us over the last 2 years?

The excuse at the moment is a valid one that we dont have Ndiaye to pick a way through.

To not switch personnel until very late and 1-0 down thought doesn't help.

 

[MisterJ]

As is traditional, last on MOTD

 

[9LeagueTitles5FACups]

how come no one celebrates with big man O'brien?

As nice as it would have been for the players to celebrate with O'Brien, the other players had the right idea in getting the game restarted, so that we could attempt to get a winner. That plan very nearly came off when Alcaraz had the glorious opportunity at the end.

 

[MaximusEvertonius]

Like you said, it probably has everything to do with getting the match back on as quickly as possible to try to secure a win. If he got the equalizer 20’ prior it would definitely be a club celebration.

 

[superkeeper]

While we weren’t at the races today, I thought a draw was about right. It looked like the performance of a team playing a different formation/system to what they have been playing recently. Doucoure and Alcaraz, only one of them can be on the pitch at any one time, based on today, preferably Alcaraz in my view. O’Brien the bright point today for us and as I saw on twitter earlier, makes Dyche’s decision to not play him more and more daft, with each passing week.

4 draws in games where I would’ve been hoping for a couple of wins, but we’ve been giving ourselves a chance of winning those games, which is still a big improvement of where we were not so long ago. Unbeaten run goes to 9 games, that’ll end in April, I’m sure, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we do pick up a few points in there, those teams aren’t infallible to us now I don’t think.

 

[kenada_blue]

Hundred percent foul on Beto before Soucek scores.

 

[Tel001]

The excuse at the moment is a valid one that we dont have Ndiaye to pick a way through.

To not switch personnel until very late and 1-0 down thought doesn't help.

Maybe not but two of the people on the bench have not played for ages and are coming off long term injuries

Not making excuses but his options are limited and nobody can deny he has done amazing since he came .

A very boring end to the season looks on the cards and I for one am looking forward to the change

 

[9LeagueTitles5FACups]

9

it wasn't a pen mate, kicked the ground

Just watched it back and I have to agree with that verdict. Beto clearly kicked the ground with very minimal contact from anyone else. At the ground, it looked like there was contact which would have been worthy of a penalty.

 

[Vintage]

@billybeeru did the tickets work out for you in the end mate?