Match Thread Everton 3-3 Manchester City Monday 4th May 20.00

[Bluepablo]

Bringing on late subs cost us the win.

Not sure why he took Rohl off. Hope it wasn’t to get the crowd applause given the game was still in the balance.

 

[witchdoc187]

Gone from gutted we're rubbish and can't compete to gutted we drew lol.

 

[ValBlue]

I get that but we were 3/1 up and let in equaliser last minute. So surely we are also disappointed.i know I am

Obviously yes? Are both teams not allowed to be disappointed or something? Mate

 

[Baggzio]

Mate, we are not good enough for Europe. It isn't the Holy Grail if we end up playing too many matches with a poor squad.

We need to sort a strong squad in the summer to have a right go at Europe next season. This mob would just perform like a damp squib at any level in Europe and then crash in the league citing tiredness.

We need an absolute strengthening everywhere in the summer, then a consistent league campaign that shows we are capable of turning up for the big occasion.

I have seen both the Bayern and the Bucharest performances. No point in qualifying for a meaningless European tournament if it impairs our league results.

The money alone is huge. Also frankly, we should quite easily compete in the Europa League and would be one of the favourites if we were in the Conference League.

Nothing meaningless about entering a competition you’ve a good chance of winning, especially in my opinion as a near 30 year old man who’s never seen his team win anything.

 

[Andy McGurk]

Doesn’t really

We play palace who play Thursday
We also then play Sunderland who are shipping goals left right and centre
And play spurs who may be safe or down by then so who knows

A point is better than a defeat but it feels like a defeat

Moyes just said it does, did you hear his interview?

 

[Mozza1987]

4 points off 6th with 3 games to go. It's not over.

It's probably over to be fair

 

[Smurph]

Feels like a defeat, but objectively a good result. We have the better run in than Bournemouth and Brentford. I’m certain 7-9 points still gets us Europe. We could do with Spurs being safe by the last day.

 

[Fonzy]

I'm happy with the overall performance of the season aslong as we put in shifts on the last few games. We have come a long way. And hopefully will have a bit of a kitty to get some quality in through the summer.

Yeah and for moyes to buy the players and for us to see them play once every 3 months

 

[Librarian]

I’m not going to kick them for that

1st Half was horrible but 2nd half we battered them all told and that should be the approach for every home game

 

[BlueTX]

But we are fighting against more than just those two teams though.

Those 3 are the teams immediately ahead of us. If we win all 3 and they lose the matches I suggested as difficult, we pass all 3 into 7th place. Right now, that puts us in Europe. Unless I'm missing something...

 

[snipellis11]

Feels mad to feel this gutted about that result in the end

 

[Dario Terracotta]

I get that but we were 3/1 up and let in equaliser last minute. So surely we are also disappointed.i know I am

I'm absolutely gutted,we have done fantastically well to get ourselves into a dominant winning position at home and we have totally pooped our kecks at the prospect of beating them.

 

[Bluepablo]

I'm happy with the overall performance of the season aslong as we put in shifts on the last few games. We have come a long way. And hopefully will have a bit of a kitty to get some quality in through the summer.

We have just equalled the points total earnt by Dyche in 23/24. Not sure we’ve come very far in truth except for avoiding the points deduction.

 

[st.domingo]

That was a little like watching Everton playing our much more expensively assembled twin self.

They should have been out of sight at half time.

How many times have we seen Ev have a million chances in the first half, only to run out of ideas and eventually lose.

Well, it kind of went the other way tonight.

Of course, being Pep Guardiola’s Man City of 2026 vintage, the opposition weren’t quite crap enough to implode completely second half - and we let them off the hook with our own tomfoolery.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Feels mad to feel this gutted about that result in the end

Know what you mean mate but I think its because the reality is a point does absolutely nothing for us.