Everton v Sunderland. Boxing Day @ 15.00.

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Tree13 said:
I'll take this back if someone posts stats to prove me wrong, but I bet about 22 of those shots were from outside the box and more than half the corners failed to beat the first man.

We were woeful in the final third today (watched on internet), lacking anyone who could take a man on and beat him and also lacking anyone who could thread a killer pass through to Lukaku. It was painful watching Lukaku drift out to the right wing in order to get the ball - he is supposed to be tucking away chances created by others for him, but we just take potshots from outside the box instead.

Back four and Robles were good today, everyone else was meh. Badly need a top CM and a decent winger in January, as clearly demonstrated by the total absence of quality depth in those positions today.
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It looks like 2 shots inside the box that were saved. 4 shots inside the box that went wide. And 3 shots inside the box that were blocked.
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/statszon...4/team-stats/11/0_SHOT_01#tabs-wrapper-anchor

I still think that our major issues are lack of movement and not getting enough men up and down the pitch quickly enough. If you watch City they break teams down because they have players coming short to drag the defender out and then play a one two into the space behind them.

Liverpool are becoming very good at playing diagonal through balls in behind defenders.

If we're going to remain static and not commit enough men into the box it's going to be very difficult to move defenders around and create space for ourselves.
 
kenada_blue said:
Was a bit tough to thread a through ball to a lone striker with 10 Sunderland players squeezing the space.

City would struggle to score through that the way you've mentioned. How many times have you just seen a side be restricted to shots outside the box?

To me, when we went down to 10 men, it was a key attack. Ross has a wicked shot on him and if you cant break a team down, you should use it, and gamble on a bounce, a deflection, a save off the keeper. It almost paid off, not forgetting the amount of corners we had.

Top play makers split those types of defences down. £20mill+ ones.

It was either that or lump it to Fellaini....oh wait.
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Or actually take on a man and try to beat him? You might succeed, you might draw a foul, even a penalty. But all we did was pass it side to side twenty-five yards out until someone had space to shoot.

We are lacking imagination, creativity and penetration.... the only players who provide this are Deulofeu (injured), Barkley (sometimes) and our bloody fullbacks. McCarthy, Pienaar and Mirallas all need benching IMHO but we don't have any depth. I hope we see Donovan come back on loan again, we could certainly use him right now.

Fair play to Sunderland. They were lucky with the goal, but after that they played very tactically-aware football and got the points.
 
chicoazul said:
Why's loads of you having a go at Sunderland? They've done [Poor language removed] all wrong like.

Decent set of fans out of a sea of belters in England. They'll be buzzing and rightly so, if I'd seen how cocky our fans were of the victory before then I'd be doubly buzzing.

Everton aren't we?
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They sang the 'Feed the scousers' song.

They're belters.
 
kenada_blue said:
Was a bit tough to thread a through ball to a lone striker with 10 Sunderland players squeezing the space.

City would struggle to score through that the way you've mentioned. How many times have you just seen a side be restricted to shots outside the box?

To me, when we went down to 10 men, it was a key attack. Ross has a wicked shot on him and if you cant break a team down, you should use it, and gamble on a bounce, a deflection, a save off the keeper. It almost paid off, not forgetting the amount of corners we had.

Top play makers split those types of defences down. £20mill+ ones.

It was either that or lump it to Fellaini....oh wait.
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I know that the Spanish players are technically very good but they're also in perpetual motion and they know where the space is before they receive the ball. I imagine it's something that Martinez is trying to encourage but we're still some way short. If players stand still and decide what to do once they receive the ball to feet it's pretty easy to defend against unless you're a talented dribbler.
 
Okay, that sucked. S**t happens.

I'm sure the miscreants have been duly eviscerated in here by now, but this is all part of the deal of following a team. Some days you lose games to crap teams. It happens. Everton could have been better and had tons of chances to draw even or better, but it didn't go in. Their keeper played a blinder.

It got better when Barkley got in, but not better enough.

We have a fine team and visionary manager, yet we are still entitled to nothing. We need to remember this when we're handed a s**t sandwich like this for Christmas. No one is entitled to victory - you win it on the scoreboard or you don't. Quality will usually do it, but even quality fails now and then.

Get your chins up. Southampton is next.

I wouldn't want to be Southampton. Just saying. This will be a cracker.
 
Today was our chrimbo present for Sunderland coz we don't want Newcastle fans getting all smug if they go down.

Really hope they stay up.

As for us, you often learn more from a defeat so I hope manager and players can take today's lesson on board and kick on from here. Roll on Sunday, I'm looking forward to the Southampton game and watching Ross back in action.

Come on Chico, get that preview up. Photos of Alan Ball, Gary Speed and Inchy's goal are compulsory.
 
billycopper said:
It looks like 2 shots inside the box that were saved. 4 shots inside the box that went wide. And 3 shots inside the box that were blocked.
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/statszon...4/team-stats/11/0_SHOT_01#tabs-wrapper-anchor

I still think that our major issues are lack of movement and not getting enough men up and down the pitch quickly enough.

If we're going to remain static and not commit enough men into the box it's going to be very difficult to move defenders around and create space for ourselves.
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Two close-range shots saved, and yet some are saying we were only denied an equaliser by their keeper having "the game of his life".... At least one of the blocked shots was off target if that link is accurate, as were all but six of the long range efforts.

I think you're right about the lack of movement and not enough players in the box. It's not enough to say "you get results like these sometimes" if we want a top three/four finish - a home game against the bottom team in the division simply HAS to be three points, but we didn't do enough to earn them today.
 
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