Match Thread Everton 2-4 Brentford. Sun Jan 4th. 3pm

[Dwight K Schrute]

The manager and the team had a shocking afternoon

Can we please stop playing O Brien at right back. He is absolutely rubbish at it and clearly a good centre half. Teams target him and get joy every time they come forward

Embarrassing home performance. Pathetic

And likewise, Keane is a liability at CB. He cannot mark a man and is always trying to pinch and win the ball back in the opposition half and is slower than a ship that's taken on 2/3rds of its weight in water to then get back. Tarkowski is nearly always crap when played next to Keane. As bad as O'Brien is at RB, his recovery pace saved us on a few occasions. He should have stayed at CB.

I was fearful Moyes would do this when he said 'Keano' had a chance of playing. And I said to my mates, if he does, we'll be playing into their hands.

Seems most people can see this, other than Moyes. I just find Moyes so frustrating. For all the food he does, he so often fails to see the absolutely blindingly obvious!!

 

[windymiller]

Lets just call it right today. Thiago could and probably should have had two hat tricks. They sliced us up at will all game. Two late goals doesn't paper over the cracks for me.

That was probably the worst game Moyes has given us in his 12 months here. Very very poor.

I expect the after match interview to be accurate and apologetic.

Ha ha, good luck with that.

 

[N0L1M1TK]

People think that Michael Keane has had a good first half of the season, and for his capability he has.

Is it any coincidence he comes back into the side and we concede 4. No.

Jake should have played CB with Tarks, Patto/Garner or Rohl should have started at RB.

Poor from Moyes today. Why change what has worked so well at Forrest.

 

[blueconverse]

We can't be conceding four at home multiple times a season. Disgraceful

 

[Marius57]

Keane was appalling.

Grealish needs to make more crosses. He often seems to delay.

Myko worked very hard.

Armstrong is clear class.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Concerning that 3 out of our 4 defeats at HD have been by hefty margins

I’m still not concerned about the season, but we absolutely have to get full backs in at minimum this month

 

[miami]

And just to top the day off, scumbags get an injury time winner.

Edit. Fulham equalise. lol.

 

[GoldenToffee]

One thing we know for certain is this squad is nowhere near good enough for European football

What's another 5 or so years when we've already waited 40 years to be a relevant football club?

 

[windymiller]

In three games at home, we've conceded 11 goals and scored 3,with teams playing through us like a knife through butter. If we play teams that can pass and move then we need more in midfield or close them down in their own defensive area. Moyes doesn't seem to want to change his system 4-2-3-1 which has been shown to be wanting at home. If he doesn't change then the season will just fizzle out with zero chance of winning the FA cup or getting Europe.

To be fair he changed from that at half time. And we got even worse.

 

[Ring master]

So annoying. Big massive let down again. could be so high (in 6th) and we mess that chance up again

 

[Marius57]

People think that Michael Keane has had a good first half of the season, and for his capability he has.

Is it any coincidence he comes back into the side and we concede 4. No.

Jake should have played CB with Tarks, Patto/Garner or Rohl should have started at RB.

Poor from Moyes today. Why change what has worked so well at Forrest.

Agreed. On Moyes today. Think that was a poor decision to bring him back in

 

[Mr PEN86]

MOTM votes for Grealish? Bar the assists I think he was mid today. Losing the ball so often and could've got the ball in earlier on several occasions. Kayode kid kept him quiet. Keep saying when he gets the ball out his feet earlier to cross the outcomes are usually better than all this slow down, multiple taps-forward rubbish he loves to do. Two assists doesn't warp my thinking, he wasn't great.

 

[Bwana]

The pickled egg in defence wouldn’t do much worse than Keane today.

A BLT sandwich would've been again on par with McNeil today.

 

[Rodebaard]

Got bullied and the ref allowed it. Keane was awful. JOB showing again that he's not a right back. Dibling totally isolated whenever he had the ball. Should have taken off Keane, and moved JOB into centre back.
Think Moyes needs to take the blame for the team selection and his decision making on subs. Second half was a total shambles.

 

[Mr PEN86]

Keane was appalling.

Grealish needs to make more crosses. He often seems to delay.

Myko worked very hard.

Armstrong is clear class.

Exactly.

Myko is so average though. Just not what we need from a modern left back unfortunately