Match Thread Everton 2-1 Crystal Palace. Sun Oct 5th. 2pm

[Tel001]

The weak link is Mykolenko. Palace are allowing us to funnel possession to him.

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He gives it away or goes back to Pickford every time

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

We'd do very, very well to break their defensive shape. They know their system inside out by the looks of things.

 

[Joey66]

Get McNeil on for Dibling, start getting crosses in. Or at least have McNeil on set piece deliveries.

To who our no 9 is like a statue? Worst no,9 in thd 5 divisions

 

[HowitzerThe5th]

Friedkins need to drop Moyes pronto. He's not even yesterday's man. This performance is dismal, tactically naive, rinse and repeat rubbish. Playing into the hands of a very solid side. Can't say he wasn't given a proper spend for the summer. No fullbacks of note and no striker. Literally ridiculous. Every aspiring club in the PL has a young continental tactically oriented coach, not a granddad from Glasgow. Bloody awful.

 

[Zatara]

I'd get Grealish off.

Move Ndiaye left, Alcaraz central, Dibling right.

No more of this "just give it to Jack" rubbish.

Cowards football...one man team.

 

[HappyJack]

Recruitment, recruitment, recruitment.
Pace, pace,pace…
Goalscorers, goalscorers….

 

[captainvindaloo]

We are just not in this. But for Keane and Pickford, we could easily be three or more goals behind by now!

 

[jamieni]

Nah, it's bad but there's loads of bad teams in the league this season. We'll end up in roughly the same position we've been in for the past few years. It's dreadful to watch again, though.

Just hoping getting Branthwaite fit and Rohl maybe getting into the squad when fit will add a bit more for us. Can see 13th or 14th. Unless we go mad in January and spend £150millon on three players

 

[GoldenToffee]

One decent chance in the half; Garner’s ball into Barry, should’ve scored.

Palace then go down the other end shortly after and make their advantage count. That’s the difference in quality of individual player.

It's absolutely gutting we're now a football club dramatically behind Crystal Palace, a club that has won one domestic trophy in its entire existence.

 

[Bob Latchford]

You know it's bad when Michael Keane is the best Everton player on the pitch

We've also given Warton way too much space, at one point he walked the ball forward about 30 yards without being closed down

MK is head and shoulders above the rest of them. 100%

 

[LinekersLegs]

He does. Everyone wants him to do well but he's shown zilch so far. Confidence is through the floor.

Tbf Moyes has hardly been great at putting him in positions to improve his confidence.

 

[brittcop1]

Nothing has worked. Honestly think we should put Alcaraz up top. Barry and Beto won't impact this game anymore than he would. Marked Grealish out the game. Dibling a pedestrian. Garner best on the pitch again

The sideline is marking Grielish out the game...hes hugging the line which is great if you have the pace to burn the fullback, a skilled overlapping fb on your team or a good cf making smart runs...we have none of the above.

 

[Toffeeslam]

Performances have been getting steadily worse now and it’s just the same sheet but different toilet.

Maybe a change of manager might be needed

 

[bullybeef]

Let’s be brutally honest, it’s a very deserved score line. We are so one dimensional and slow in the build up, it’s easy to defend against. Not sure what the answer is but something needs to change to get something out the game.

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Slow, predictable with little or no intensity.

 

[steven]

Broken and dysfunctional in so many areas…

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Striker not good enough
Centre mid not good enough
Full backs not good enough
Arguably RW not good enough right now.

Wasted a lot of money on that Grealish loan in reality for what I’d hope would at least be a tilt at Europe but our performances v Leeds, villa,Brighton, West Ham, Liverpool and now this have been miles off what is needed.