Best team performance in a long long time.
Got a new manager bump and with the spirit and personality of Dunc, we got it x 2.
And we played to formation/tactics that gave the players the means to put in a good team performance.
Silva style of play gave the players no confidence in each other, they did not work as a team.
We don't have the players to do what he was trying. Our players loose the ball too easily.
And to press the way he did you have to be able to keep possession when you get the ball other wise you leave yourself wide open.
The space behind the press, and in general, between the lines was way too big.
Basically your second guessing a lot, its a false confidence.
Gylfi and Schniederlin in the middle played a much more cohesive disciplined game, and with the 442 built around them, everyone worked for each other with commitment and confidence, They had a much better collective sense of what they were doing.
Gylfi was creeping forward a bit too much at times, but at least Schneiderlin could easily read this within compact formation.
But at least with these two you had guys than can pick a pass.
Whoever ends up playing in midfield, the way we were set up on Saturday should always have been the start of a transition and building foundations for the seasons ahead.
Until we get a proper spine to the team we shouldn't be trying to play differently.
No.1 aim should be to CBs who have pace can play with their feet, can pick the passes, who have both vision in defence and attack.
But also have the toughness and arrogance needed to dominate their box.
Hopefully Dunc can get us through to the end of the season.
Meanwhile the board need to have a good think about what is possible, what will be most successful.
I don't think we should aspire what I'd call super rich football. The differing styles of City and Barcelona, or a Madrid, a PSG, a RS, all have one thing in common, they have world class players and managers, only they can consistently attract, to allow them to play the football they do.
You can't throw a manger like Koeman in and expect what he is trying to work at Goodison. The style of football he tries to play, he has only probably realised himself, only works with a certain level and type of players (outside of the Eredivisie). With players like Van Dijk, De Jong, De Ligt and Wijnaldum he has made a hapless Dutch side get back amongst the top. Its born out of Barcelona's dream team. Cruyff himself would not have been able to make Everton tick. And we will never be able to buy/attract Van Dijk or De Jong.
But that doesn't mean all is lost.
But we can build a team and style like Leceister and Atletico and kncok the super rich off their perches.
We need to find a new Simone not a new Pep.
And we need to be realistic about our style, rather than chasing the latest fashion, bc we will just end up in the same mess.
Then it get down to to astute buys and developing and unearthing top class youth.
Cause we got the Goodison factor just waiting in the wings for a real challenge to be had.