Match Thread Everton v Brentford. Preview, Match Report and MotM poll

[andy5000]

Hope you get a good sleep as there’s a few fireworks going off.
Btw where’s 7 hrs away?

Cornwall. Was supposed to be 5, but add in a couple of stops and chaos on the m6 and I think it was just shy of a 7 hour trip.

 

[Remember-the-name]

COYB ?????

 

[matty1878]

my anxiety has just started lol

come on everton please let’s put one foot in this league for sure

 

[matty1878]

Heard @matty1878 is after lighting 2 dozen sparklers at the Brighton Hotel

it was me lol

 

[witchdoc187]

Todays the day then! Really hope in ten or so hours we’ll be mathematically safe and this whole shitshow of a season will be over!

I honestly don't think there's a chance of that happening. (Well obviously there is a chance) but we just don't do it the easy way

 

[witchdoc187]

I'm outside the ground already set off all my flares!!!! Where's everyone else? Let's be having you. Leeeetttts beeee havinnnnn you

 

[coollino]

my anxiety has just started lol

come on everton please let’s put one foot in this league for sure

When did it stop??

 

[coollino]

I'm outside the ground already set off all my flares!!!! Where's everyone else? Let's be having you. Leeeetttts beeee havinnnnn you

I'm at home being a responsible adult thank you very much

 

[anton66]

No fireworks last night?

I think there was a few earlier on. Don’t understand why, had something happened?

 

[matty1878]

When did it stop??

when we’re playing like today knowing what we need it goes sky high

 

[Ring master]

Looking at it, we have conceded 2 pens this season to Brentford, and both scored to Pickford's right, maybe something to watch if we somehow concede another 1

 

[Tree13]

No it’s not.

How is it bigger than Coventry? Or Wimbledon?

There’s still another two games to go.

The whole point of games in hand is that you have to win them. The idea is that we should be doing all we can to get to absolute mathematic safety in the fewest games possible. It's naive and nonsensical to keep saying "this game / result doesn't matter, there's more games after this one" because there are only 38 games in total, we've already played 35 of them and we aren't safe yet.

To illustrate this, look at two games from earlier in the season:

2-3 loss to Burnley
0-0 draw with Watford

Neither fixture would have been viewed as a big game in advance, but the RESULTS are huge.

Had we scored 1 more goal against Burnley ( and all other results stayed the same) we'd be far better off with another point (and Burnley would be on 32, not 34). If we'd BEATEN Burnley, we'd already be safe.

One goal against Watford the other day and we'd be two points further up the table now with less pressure to win v Brentford and Palace.

Now here's the kicker: which would you say is objectively the easier task?

a) scoring one goal against Burnley and one goal against Watford; or

b) winning a Prem fixture at the Emirates against an Arsenal team in contention for a CL place?

Because these players messed up so badly against Burnley and Watford, we now have a must-win game against Brentford. Hence it's a *HUGE* game.

 

[blue61]

No it’s not.

How is it bigger than Coventry? Or Wimbledon?

There’s still another two games to go.

Indeed, the situation was much worse in 94. We'd taken four points from a possible thirty before the last game. We just need to hold our nerve and creep over the line.

 

[Bilbo]

@Tree13 Lucky we bitched Utd & Chelsea then...

 

[allezlesbleus]

Taking your flag?
If you still have.

Haha! I think I will! Got a Ukrainian one for my daughter in law that Mykolenko smiles at when he sees it so might stick with that!!!
Decisions! Decisions!!