"Everton can't deal with crosses"

[Blue Juice]

Set pieces in general both attacking and defensive are atrocious. Fair enough funes mori has massively improved attacking potentials from corners but defensively his marking isn't strong enough to get into position to replicate this in defence. The times of having a cahill, fellaini type who you can be 99% sure is going to get their head on the ball is gone.

Offensively the corners are atrocious as well, constant outswingers which very rarely best the first man at best. As other people have posted it seems 100% of the training time is spent passing to death as opposed to working on the situations which can directly win or lose us a game

 

[deipnosophist]

Unless we are 3-0 up with 15 minutes to go, I am nervous. Even then, I'm thinking the worse case scenario is a draw....says it all.

 

[sageyefc]

Set pieces in general both attacking and defensive are atrocious. Fair enough funes mori has massively improved attacking potentials from corners but defensively his marking isn't strong enough to get into position to replicate this in defence. The times of having a cahill, fellaini type who you can be 99% sure is going to get their head on the ball is gone.

Offensively the corners are atrocious as well, constant outswingers which very rarely best the first man at best. As other people have posted it seems 100% of the training time is spent passing to death as opposed to working on the situations which can directly win or lose us a game

He regularly completes the most defensive headers during games, hes the only one who attacks the ball

 

[Rook]

We totally suck at defending crosses but really the story was "everton can't defend with 10 men for 2/3rds of match against a pretty solid side".

 

[oldblue]

We've been poor from setpieces and crosses for awhile. I think losing Fellaini and Distin has been a big factor as well as having a keeper who didn't organise or take responsibility.
Mori and Robles has improved things but we also play without full backs or a midfielder who can challenge in the air.
Problem is who would you leave out in these positions to bring in players who can help

 

[Everton_Gary]

Any time I see the ball in the air I think it's going to be a goal. horrible feeling.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

I think losing Fellaini and Distin has been a big factor

Disdain was woeful in the air. Truly woeful.

 

[billytoffee]

That bloke Jesus dealt with crosses better than we do and died on one FFS!!!

 

[riddick]

wasn't a big part of dave's defence of Martinez 'get that clown out of goal and we will stop conceding bad goals'? Well, Robles is in goal and we still have an awful awful defence. One person gets responsibility for that.

 

[Anna]

I hate how easy the team are to play against. Press the defence high forcing them into mistakes or keep lumping crosses into the box and eventually they'll pay off. That's literally all teams have to do against us.

This team is literally Kevin Keegan Mark 2. Absolutely no concept of defence or managing a game, just kamikaze all out attack in the hope of scoring more than the opposition does.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

wasn't a big part of dave's defence of Martinez 'get that clown out of goal and we will stop conceding bad goals'? Well, Robles is in goal and we still have an awful awful defence. One person gets responsibility for that.

The last few weeks of howard in goal, and it was his ONLY defence of martinez. It was ALL down to howard, and we'd be praising @davek for his perspicacity, once robles was between the sticks.

Now, if we can just change our fanbase...

 

[Zezti]

Here's my pro paint skills:

Our defence is the blue line, the black circles are areas we don't press, red arrows are how the opponents tend move from there and white arrows where the ball gets crossed.

We simply give teams far too much time to pick out a pass. One way to defend against crosses is to stop them coming in in the first place - see Leicester, they close players quickly and block every cross/shot.

 

[BlueToff]

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-cant-deal-crosses-west-10997391



This has been mentioned within threads, particularly match day threads for some time. Everton's inability to defend a cross or high ball.

I'd say we can't defend against pretty much anything, but crosses/high balls do seem to cripple us more than most.

What do you reckon? Are we vulnerable from crosses?

Yes, definitely.

However, I've said this quite a bit that actually over the last few games Oviedo and Coleman have been much more effective at stopping them at source, while Lennon and Clevs have also being tracking back to help do so.

Yesterday, even with 10 men, W.Ham were lumping crosses in but because we had Lennon doing all the graft in midfield and Besic pressing, it meant that McCarthy could drop deep and be an extra man in our penalty area and that often allowed us to double up and get rid of the balls into the box.

As soon as Lennon got subbed, that changed and Besic and McCarthy were both having to pressurise the ball. Add in a lacklustre attempt by Barkley and Oviedo at stopping the cross for the second goal as well, along with dreadful marking from Mori and Jagielka.

 

[nsno-chris]

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-cant-deal-crosses-west-10997391



This has been mentioned within threads, particularly match day threads for some time. Everton's inability to defend a cross or high ball.

I'd say we can't defend against pretty much anything, but crosses/high balls do seem to cripple us more than most.

What do you reckon? Are we vulnerable from crosses?

Something that goes side by side with this is our inability, or lack of instructions, to press the opposition. It drives me bonkers, we invite pressure by dropping further off the play, only defending 30 yards from goal, this is the same with the crossing issue, we allow the opposition to put crosses into the box, we stand off them. It's unbelievable and extremely poor management that this is not addressed.

Look at spurs, there rise under their new manager is down to that solid defence, which amazingly starts with the front line pushing and harrying the opposition defenders to either win it back or collect the second ball.

Barca were kings of this, and still are. It'll be interesting to see how the RS adapt to this next season under klopp, but it's something that's a must for us

 

[sageyefc]

wasn't a big part of dave's defence of Martinez 'get that clown out of goal and we will stop conceding bad goals'? Well, Robles is in goal and we still have an awful awful defence. One person gets responsibility for that.

And in his defence we have only conceded a few since, the 3 goals yesterday aside we've been much better defensively