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

[COYBL25]

The players literally don’t care

I think they do, but are just being set up to play football that makes your eyes bleed.

 

[Daytripper]

It had all the tempo of a behind closed doors match.

 

[Baxtinho]

A lot of this on Dyche, but we have quite a lot of players that can’t do basic things like control the ball under the tiniest bit of pressure.

We were told that he'd get the best out of them. Not seen a bit of it.

 

[Daytripper]

He's given up after 5 games.

You wouldn't want to be in the trenches with some of our fans would you

True. Bombs going off, “it’s fine. Stop cry arsing”

The lad is obviously fed up for god sake

 

[roy vernon]

Mate these players don't care. This has become very clear to me in the past few years. They don't give a sugar about Everton or the supporters

There is an apathy about the club for sure, but. It's Dyche's job to change that, in fairness if I was a premier league footballer playing for Dyche with his Neanderthal tactics, I'd probably be apathetic too.

 

[chad]

Genuinely at a loss regarding the complaints about extra time.
We wouldn’t score if played until next weekend. It saved us from further embarrassment.

 

[jtl60]

Really dull today. I appreciate we had to surrender a lot of the ball but we had no impact as an attacking force

 

[Sussex]

Be nice if some of the players put some effort in to earn their wage.

If we didn't know, is going to be a long long hard season.

 

[Toffeeback]

I think they do, but are just being set up to play football that makes your eyes bleed.

This is what I see too. I think they would put in a shift if they believed in what the manager was serving up.

We keep going on about the players just being overpaid pansies that don't care, but most of this squad wasn't even around for the last few years. If people keep thinking that the problem is a group of players not caring, how can that be explained when the group of players changes? Have we genuinely signed 30-40+ players over a multi-year period all with the same bad attitude? That doesn't seem possible.

For me that's a problem with the people above the players.

 

[scratchnsurf]

Awful performance, the worst bit being we looked beaten from minute 1. Tactically a shambles, 2 man short corners throughout and we never changed how we defended them so they just kept doing it. We had absolutely no idea what to do with the ball simply because they occupied the full backs. Onana, Gana and Doucoure made my eyes bleed, compounded by the fact that Garner, who can actually play a bit was left out. McNeil offered nothing and whilst he needs minutes to keep him on until the 87th minute was ridiculous. Considering Pickford is lauded for his distribution it was shocking today. When Young is swapped for Patterson because we need a goal it shows what the mentality was from the start. Please can we stop launching the few dead balls we get straight into the keeper's hands?

I never expected us to win but I did expect us to try to win.

Dyche should be getting a better level of performance from what he has available to him than what we saw today.

 

[Sharpies volley]

We don't pass and move. We pass and stand still. We don't move towards the ball, we wait for the ball to come to us allowing the opposition to get in front and win the ball. We can't even control the ball. It's school boy stuff. Shocking, just shocking.

 

[HTCHERO]

I felt they was decent, but the ref had their backs. Th issue with me was Sunday league manager not going two up front.

 

[MACCA75]

Is it crazy to actually start a game on the front foot? I’d love to see the stats on how many times we concede a corner within 2 minutes.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Never laid a glove on them.

That's ultimately the most disappointing aspect of the performance for me.

 

[Davidoff]

Dyche has totally missed what it means to manage everton, as did allardyce. You got to go out to try and win every game - no you don't have to be naive, but trying to worm a 0-0 at home means he's not fit to be here