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

[NCLBlue]

Our crossing was shocking. Walcott seems scared to shoot.

Should be beating these teams at home.

 

[RomanReigns]

Far too many times we just play out to the wing and do nothing

No through balls from any attacking player

Our best chance came from a Pickford punt up the field

It’s ridiculous

 

[ToffeeTim]

No, that's the main annoyance

We looked content with a point. There was no caution to the wind. There was no urgency. It was a very poor performance. Not one player who was given a chance dud anything to suggest they deserved another one. It wasn't the reaction to a setback of a good team sadly.

We need 3 points on Monday now. The pressure is high because we are getting nothing at City, nor the following week either you'd think.

 

[maccavennie]

With a dropped point Sunday and a piss poor result tonight, what a wasted opportunity to make up ground with Chelsea getting beat and Arsenal drawing and could have gone 3 clear of Utd.

Really costly performance and result tonight and just adds more pressure on Monday. Sure Watford will have watched tonight and thought they will just do the same and sit in.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Our crossing was shocking. Walcott seems scared to shoot.

Should be beating these teams at home.

That's because lately when he has been shooting mate he misses!

 

[Berenger]

One thing that worried me today was the number of terrible decisions that didn't seem to fit with a plan. For instance, Digne and Gueye taking potshots from distance when the ball bounced out, absolutely no chance they are going in. Playing a team like Newcastle you just can't waste opportunities like that, takes 3 minutes to get everyone back into the box etc.

 

[ADT]

Hate to say it but that was like watching a Martinez team

 

[Pete Campbell]

Coleman for me. Tried all night. Our momentum has screeched to a halt now, really disappointing.

 

[BlueToff]

We looked content with a point. There was no caution to the wind. There was no urgency. It was a very poor performance. Not one player who was given a chance dud anything to suggest they deserved another one. It wasn't the reaction to a setback of a good team sadly.

We need 3 points on Monday now. The pressure is high because we are getting nothing at City, nor the following week either you'd think.

I wouldn't say content, really, Tim. We just lacked any conviction to our play - there's a difference.

There was probably a fear of not wanting to get beat, which is understandable late on given what happened on Sunday.

Fact is we should have come out of the blocks raring to go and even though we dominated, never really threatened them until that Gyfli chance, and then we scored. After that we did nothing.

And no, we are a good team. We can have a habit of saying 'we aren't a good team' after something like this happens.

We're a work in progress, yes, but we are a good side. We proved today that if we are going to play in a certain way that Silva wants us to, though, then we have to have certain players (or types of player) in certain roles.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Hate to say it but that was like watching a Martinez team

Duh duh duuuuuiih!!!!!!!

 

[BigDuncis Blue]

They didn't look scared, they just looked off it. There's a difference. The crowd - and I hate to blame anything on the crowd because it's a two-way streak - but Christ the crowd were awful. Then again, we didn't give them much to get excited about.

Look, it happens. We needed a response and unfortunately came up against a side who were well-organised and once they got their chance they took it. Thankfully we pulled one back but once they got to HT they were never gonna do anything other than what we did.

Silva's subs didn't work and I think they could have been different/earlier.

Didn't really get taking Gylfi off (other than minutes) because we needed some craft and guile and we just ended up going long.

The main issue for me was Tosun. It's not that he played badly. It's not that he did much wrong. He just didn't offer what we need for how Silva wants to play. We NEED that striker to be able to get about and stretch a defence and he just can't do that.

Without that, we weren't able to get on the ball in that number 10 position at all.

The crowd - really.....sometimes you talk absolute bananas

 

[BlueToff]

Coleman for me. Tried all night. Our momentum has screeched to a halt now, really disappointing.

Your second point, no, it hasn't.

FFS, not everything is black and white. We were all buzzing four days ago. And even after the derby we still had positives to take. Today was pretty dire but it hasn't stopped all the momentum.

We're on a good run. Today was a very annoying result but we're back in 6th.

We didn't play well and there's a number of reasons for that. We have to look to get back on track against Watford, but it's not all doom and gloom.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Your second point, no, it hasn't.

FFS, not everything is black and white. We were all buzzing four days ago. And even after the derby we still had positives to take. Today was pretty dire but it hasn't stopped all the momentum.

We're on a good run. Today was a very annoying result but we're back in 6th.

We didn't play well and there's a number of reasons for that. We have to look to get back on track against Watford, but it's not all doom and gloom.

You have to imagine Man Utd will wake up at some point.

 

[BlueToff]

The crowd - really.....sometimes you talk absolute bananas

As I said, it's on the team to up the atmosphere. I 100% get that.

But it just seemed really flat from the off. And it always seems to unless we're really under the cosh or going against the grain. When I think of a Goodison night game I think of an atmosphere all the way through, and it hasn't been there for some time.

Again, I will stress that the team need to perform, but it's a two-way streak sometimes. Once Gylfi missed that chance the crowd were loud and raucous and within a few minutes we'd scored.

 

[BlueToff]

You have to imagine Man Utd will wake up at some point.

Aye, but there's nothing to stop us matching them.