Decent defensive effort from collocini and enrique, though williamson struggled and certainly did a couple of errors, he got by. Perch is a walking sack of useless crap - everything he did was ugly.
Ben Arfa certainly had class. Tiote nice and confident. Carroll amazes me, gotta see him in an england shirt. Nolan is IMO overrated and unrefined, like Barton, though i'd admit they have their moments.
Overall, fair play for going to Goodison and winning. Though i'm holding it more as our error than your merit.
Yeah, Williamson got lucky on a few calls, struggled in patches against stronger or quiucker players. Perch is rubbish, and a silly signing, we've signed three right backs in the last year or two none of them good enough for this league - I'd rather have one good than what we have.
Barton had a good game, grew in confidence, one of his best for us. Nolan had one of his better games for us as well, he was useless last start. Still he's not good enough to start IMO, but will probably continue to do so because we have so few decent options up front (kind of like you guys).
You'll have no troubles this season. Just like you're having a bad run now you'll go through a good run later in the season and will finish top 10. A disappointing start no doubt particularly when you've had a relatively good run with injuries - spare your options up front. Agree that the signing of Beckford probably wasn't a great one. He had a good scoring record in league one, but needed a lot of chances to get the goals. Being in the team that for a large part of the season were head and shoulders above the rest means he got loads. Up two classes and in a team that's not known for creating loads of chances you need to be clinical.
