Everton v Spurs. 3rd Nov @ 13.30.

[Titus Bramble]

Very poor first half, especially the first half hour. Lukaku has been pretty isolated and when we do actually get our foot on the ball our passing is as bad as I can remember. Sort it Bobby.

 

[lungissimo]

Jesus. What next

Coleman is a terrible defender. Osman Pienaar McCarthy Jagielka playing badly

 

[Del]

Osman,Lukaku,Coleman and Kev have been the worst offenders in that half

Honestly don't know how Osman gets into our starting 11

Hpe Martinez puts a rockets up there arses and we make Spurs pay

 

[toffeejack]

anyone else take a draw now? ha

Positives: at least we can't play any worse in the second half, we're not losing
Negatives: Half Time is only 15 mins long.

Think bobby should have swapped mirallas and pienaar half way through that half as to stop vertonghan getting forward so far, he's outshone baines in that department today.

passing's been shocking and the 2 yellows were absured. Howard got booked for what i presume was the ref thinking he was asking for a yellow when in fact he was asking the linesman to signal a free kick.

McCarthy got booked for an accidental trip that he knew nothing about. 50/50's haven't gone our way, but nothing major and isn't the reason we're playing so badly.

need to pass the ball better and possibly get barkley on for osman to just try and change the momentum.

however pissed off we are, spurs will hopefully be more so because they really should have taken at least one chance there.

Crowd have done their best to be supportive, so there should be no excuses if we don't turn up second half, OCYB FFS

 

[uknightbreed]

shockingly bad. out jumped ,out paced, out muscled , cant string two passes together.

mirallas and osman for me are just aimless and pointless.

 

[Nickpop]

Why are we looking so nervous all the time? We will gift them this unless we sort it out.

Spurs in fairness have been superb, they are outpassing us with ease. They still havent had any real clear cut chances, but they will come unless we change it.

We are being outdone physically aswell, the likes of Kev M is being pushed off the ball by the wind.

Need to give them 11 a right Spanish bollicking !!!!!

 

[johnnydawg68]

To get to halftime level after that performance can only be considered a plus. Get into them Roberto.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

People not mentioning Lukaku, who, whenever he's had the ball has done very little with it.

 

[dholliday]

I think having that lad making runs on the right is just what's needed

I'm willing to see it, but worried he might lose the ball more often than do fine things with it.

 

[tim cahill]

wow, that's one of the most one-sided 0-0's I've seen us play.

The game feels too fast for Deflolflu. Ross should come on, tho'.

I think it'd be perfect for him. We need someone to scare them at the back. It's been way too easy for them.

 

[jazzy]

Get osman off, hes just walking around in his own little world, i honestly cant stand the little **** anymore.

We need to pick the tempo up and press higher up to

yeah he was terrible no doubt about that but if you think that it was all down to him you are one eyed and biased.

personally I cant choose between him Mirallas and Pienaar as to who should get the hook

 

[SchoolOfScience]

No energy in midfield and no composure when we get the ball.

All our problems are stemming from midfield so far, ****e when were pressured, we need to get used to it fast as most teams will now realise its THE way to stop us playing

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

To get to halftime level after that performance can only be considered a plus. Get into them Roberto.

I can't imagine Roberto giving the hairdryer. It'll just be something like 'must do better next half boys but good commitment to defend'

 

[Bilko]

Pienaar has been woeful , but he seemed to be getting more into it as it reached half time , he's not hiding anyway. Mirallas has been beaten all ends up , think he might be sacrificed

 

[bicycleheader]

For people criticising Osman, he hasn't been so bad on the ball when he has had it and won a couple clever free kicks to relieve the pressure. His failing has been the same as always, that he has been to easy to bypass and he couldn't win a tackle to save his life.

I would get Barkley on because we need his pace and ability to break forward, but being honest Barkley doesn't add much more defensively. He is quite lazy getting back or pressuring the nearest man.