Match Thread Everton v Newcastle United - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

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Toffee90 said:
Three big problems here;

Coleman (finished), Davies and Niasse are absolutely chronically bad footballers. If you're going to introduce three of them on to a field incrementally, you've then got pretty much a third of the outfield players who are serious weaknesses. The ball comes to them, Newcastle will recycle it. All three must be sold, and feature as little as possible from now on.

Secondly, 'Everton' as an entity are becoming unsupportable. We are managing to produce footballing spectacles which you couldn't imagine. Anyone would say we are cursed.
But it's much more simple than that. It's a lack if leadership on the field. It's two or three leaders telling players to put their foot through the ball, shouting at Pickford to come and collect it.
Holgate and Delph look like they have something about them, but that's two players and effectively 9 passengers. Panic stations is always going to prevail.
Case in hand, City have had huge defensive issues with a lack of leaders (Kompany gone/Laporte missing), and coincedentally have the same issue of late goals and collapses.

Thirdly- Pickford is 110% not good enough. I am tired of watching the ball squirm through is arms and roll past him. Alisson or De Gea would have grabbed that ball at the end, and not let go of it for dear life. He's frustrated with himself. And so he should be. He is not commanding his box, he is panicking with the rest of them.

There is now a gulf between the 'losers club' and the 6/7 players we should be playing week in week out. That being Holgate, Bernard, Richarlison, Sidibe, Calvert Lewin, Digne and potentially Kean and Mina. The rest need to be moved on, whilst reinforcements brought in.

This is a massive job for Ancelotti, he has to gut the club of the losers mentality and bring players in with belief.

It's 'only football', but as fans we are tortured at the moment. It's enough to ruin every other weekend. We are desperately unlucky, but the factors above need to be sorted.
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This is absolutely spot on, we were cruising until then three awful subs come on, we are crying out for a commanding keeper, sell Pickford while he's England number one, and Davies would struggle in the championship. Big clear out required , on the plus side ,that was some of the best football I've seen for a while, Carlo and his team are making a difference.
 
JobForTheMoyes said:
Seriously - if you are talking the performance that changed the game, I don’t see anyone else who fits the bill more.

I mean, a centre half that scores TWO injury time goals, one of which is an overhead kick?!?
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That's the most bizzare thing about the match. Steve Bruce was scratching his head and looking miserable because all his subs were defenders. It wasn't even tactical, he had no options.
 
you can blame anything there from the subs, keeping, defending for 2nd etc, one thing is for certain we take it to easy, that 2-0 should have been 3 or 4 up,to then do the impossible ad draw conceeding 2 in 90 seconds
 
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