Match Thread Everton v Man Citeh

[ilikecheese]

Will be shocked if we keep a clean sheet...need a goal or two.

 

[Alan Whittle]

Credit to Koeman here. Davies playing as a spare man at the back and covering attacking midfielders that City are rotating. Caught out once by De Bryune but otherwise immaculate.

 

[Gladystweet]

Half time. Let's look forward to some more build up to the Man U game

Yeah, we'll also be reminded how many times the RS are on live on tele in the upcoming weeks..

 

[Blue Cheese]

Good half Boys!!

 

[toffeejack]

good stuff blues, mirallas and barkley have been a lot closer to lukaky today which has helped massively. How we need a playmaker though, we could have been 3-0 up if we had an eriksen or silva type player just threading the balls in. Thankfully davies has that about him and a lovely ball in behind for the goal.

These are here for the taking if we want it! They have a fair few players who don't want to be up for a battle and we need to counteract that, a lot of going down easily from them, especially the one who was taught the RS art of diving upon his move to them a few years back.

 

[dannyboy]

Like the old Mirallas today, he was excellent throughout. Completely wrong about Barry prior to the game, he's done well too.

We've got to really get at them this half. If we attack then we can definitely get another goal or two. Sit back and defend and I'm pretty certain they'll score.

 

[everton2004]

Coleman has been a bit anonymous, looks very lethargic when he's on the move

 

[bol-uk]

Barry and Barkley do not work together in the midfield, especially when there is no Gueye to do the running.

Apart from in that half you mean

 

[Huyton Layne]

At least Pep will be happy as they had 70% possession. True it was their defence for 90% of that or DeBruyne dropping so deep he was behind the centrebacks but he should be delighted.

 

[DanB90]

Good first half of footy that. There's more chances in this if our players take care, don't flap and just hoof it every time they get the ball.
The movement on the counter has actually been good

 

[bluestevon]

Credit to Koeman here. Davies playing as a spare man at the back and covering attacking midfielders that City are rotating. Caught out once by De Bryune but otherwise immaculate.

and barry gettuing tasked with tracking toure which is covering his loss of pace

 

[blue to the bone]

Never goin to dominate against city but we have done well. Go lucky perhaps on occasion but been a solid disiplined performance. Bit of composure and we can score again.. strong bench today too which should help. Mason is in trouble a bit might need to look at that on that side of the pitch

 

[Groucho]

Pleased that there's a bit of gumption being shown.

 

[billybeeru]

Over the course of the half, the service to Lukaku has been mostly dreadful. Midfield needs to be more clinical when given the chance to break.

Good half though.

 

[Prevenger17]

Tom Davies is god. Fair play to Mirallas there, very accurate rebound off Lukaku for the goal