Everton v F.C. Porto, August 3rd, KO 16:00pm.

[Bigmaclad]

no were not but we look so not ready for start of season

It's a couple of pre season friendlies mate we'll turn up for the first game and tonk them it's all fine

 

[cjohno]

It's a couple of pre season friendlies mate we'll turn up for the first game and tonk them it's all fine

hope your right, we need to get going a little more, we look in not arsed mode at the moment

 

[Bigmaclad]

hope your right, we need to get going a little more, we look in not arsed mode at the moment

Pre season is all about match fitness, can't really judge the performances that much as the teams usually so disjointed to get everyone up to speed

 

[bainesontoast]

I sure wish we were beating teams 10-0 in pre-season only for it to mean nothing when it matters.

 

[mrb85]

I thought Hibbert did alright from what I saw.

He did. Some people have no idea.

 

[Bigmaclad]

Hibbert is the best right back in world football

 

[mrb85]

Todays gate was about average for our home friendlies. Evertonians don't do friendlies really. Never have. And today the admission price was a bit ridiculous.

 

[TomDixie]

Liverpool fans are giving us stick for only having 19000 today and parts of the ground closed.

A combination of factors resulted in today's relatively low attendance.

More importantly - For the Arsenal match in 3 weeks we've already sold approx. 39K, with there only being a few restricted views left.

 

[Oviedo37]

Liverpool fans are giving us stick for only having 19000 today and parts of the ground closed.

weird bunch them.

 

[zirc]

Liverpool fans are giving us stick for only having 19000 today and parts of the ground closed.

Could be worse. At least our captain didn't fall over and bottle a title challenge.

 

[zirc]

By they way, just saw the result. Fuming here. Moyes out.

 

[ilikecheese]

Hibbert is the best right back in world football

Yes mate, he really is. We are in the sunset out our golden age as a club...Lee Cattermole tweeted me that just mnutes ago...link isn't popping up at the moment, but it did happen....

 

[FCBarça]

I really liked Olivier Torres. Ace little player

Going to be a great player

 

[andybaker]

It wouldnt have mattered if we won 5-0 or got beat 5-0

Pre season is just completely irrelevant.

Unless of course your Man U or Liverpool now and having won the world series, total domination is about to commence

 

[marty mcfly]

It wouldnt have mattered if we won 5-0 or got beat 5-0

Pre season is just completely irrelevant.

Unless of course your Man U or Liverpool now and having won the world series, total domination is about to commence

The actual score doesn't matter (I wrote LOL whenever we scored) but the manner of the performance was more than worrying.

There's a difference between knocking the ball around and playing good football but conceding a few goals from slack defending. We on the other hand barely got a kick in the first half. The second half was much better, bringing on Besic and McCarthy and pushing Osman wide plugged the big hole in the middle they where playing through and after that it was a more even game.

But I never want to see Osman or Pienaar start another game and Ross can't play further back. He's not defensively strong enough.