Match Thread Everton v Arsenal - Barely a preview, Match Report & MotM Poll

[Norwegian Cow]

No. Dyche at least has a plan. Negative as it is. Lampard was crap and should have been sacked after keeping us up. He didn't have a single thing going for him. Dyche has kept us in this game, as depressing as it has been. Under Lampard we'd have been walloped.

Trying to not get them to score while having no plan on how we can counter, etc. Might be a plan, however its not a genius plan

 

[Victus]

Zero passion in that performance, it really showed. The crowd shouldn't be that dead at 0-0 or 1 nil down. Very very poor game of football from us.

 

[Deulofeumygod]

Playing for nil nil at home after no wins and our strongest squad available (bar Coleman) is completely unacceptable

 

[Bluerover]

Reidy and Royle looking at that shower. It is sickening what has been brought into this Club

 

[Toffe3m4n]

We are so, so lucky that the four teams immediately around us look about as poor as we do otherwise we'd be nailed on for the drop already.

 

[Mase]

We had nothing. Majority of players showed their weaknesses today. We couldn’t connect passes and when we did we didn’t control or make the right decision

 

[Rugby Toffee]

SIGH* We just aren't very good are we

 

[mahermi1]

Positives Branthwaite our man of the match.
And that's it.

 

[Blue Magic]

If it had been 4 hours, do you think we might score a goal?

If it had been 4 days I think we'd have struggled.

 

[tnc85]

A stat came up on Sky Sports. We are bottom of all the attacking football stats!

 

[GoldenToffee]

12 minutes at Spurs, like 20 mins in the Villa game, where is the consistency? This league is a joke and I don’t know why I care so much

I'd be more angry about it if I thought it would make a difference to us, but it woudn't, so I can't find the energy to be angry about yet another thing. Raya didn't need to be in goal today, might as well have had a deck chair pitched up next to his water bottle to the side of it. We were simply pathetic. Expecting Beto or DCL to create and finish chances when the entire rest of the team is pathetic and cannot pass, cross, dribble or produce a single moment of magic. Not happening.

 

[polish]

That was grim.

 

[Bebeto]

Small positives are Mykolenko and Branthwaite

Mykolenko kept it at 1 null down for us...best player defending last ditch tackles and blocks with tark. Patterson has to play if mykolenko starts, but then that leave young on the bench...something I have a feeling dyche is not keen on.

 

[Mr PEN86]

Even he is thick though. 5 minutes from the end after an Arsenal attack that DCL stopped with a header, we've got nobody upfield, DCL himself is jogging away from our box, and Pickford just hoofs it straight to an Arsenal head, and they attack again.

Ha. I actually remember that thinking what is this guy doing. There's no one there. Resorted to long balls that invariably just came straight back

 

[Daytripper]

Peter Reid and Joe Royle at the end there, get on with it sell outs