Match Thread Everton v Watford - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

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Ihaters said:
I though we got the big decisions (mostly) but they got away with 90% of the little ones tbh
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Maybe.
With regards Richarlison, I think the refs are going to be wising up to some of his stuff.
The one where he's lying on the ground and play goes on down the other end - it looks a harsh challenge on him, but replay shows he doesn't do anythig to play the ball, is in the completely inferior position, purposefully falls into the watford who is jumping up and timing it well and makes the clearance, richarlison actually and stupidly gets into a position where he could get hurt, comes off ok but still goes down like he's mortally wounded.

Sorry but don't like it.
He needs to get his head screwed on properly and start playing the football his talent deserves.
We don't need any more of this hard done by mentality.
 
Gomes was not great, Siggy was okay, Gana was fine, but Doucoure and Quina were just better.

Honestly, think Silva got it a bit wrong today. I know he wants to attack with width, but you have to be compact when you lose the ball and they were picking off passes and cutting through the middle of our midfield like a knife through hot butter. I didn't like taking Bernard off as he was good tonight. Thought Lookman didn't make a lot of sense in that particular match. But when you've got Tosun, DCL, and Niasse as CF options, it's not a good solution. I think Cenk would do fine with another CF in a 2 man front, but otherwise we BADLY need a CF that can hold the ball or win something in the air. Richy is just getting beat up out there. Starting Richy on the left and bringing Bernard off the bench would be devastating against tired teams.

We just aren't quite good enough with the ball against teams we are better than. We are missing that bit of chemistry + quality and can't generate enough out of the possession we have. Gomes gave it away too often today and couldn't match up athletically with the Watford midifeld. Coleman obviously struggled in the air against these guys and while he did have some moments in attack, it didn't make up for his sloppy defending.

Say what you want about Troy Deeney, but he won a ton of ball in the air today and make it difficult for us.
 
TheBigIguana said:
I never got a good view of the Mina one but not sure it had to be another yellow even if it was a foul. The pen was only 50/50 because refereeing is so terrible that we've come to expect those kinds of fouls won't be seen but it was 100% a foul. And as I said they also had a goal come directly from a shaky decision.
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It COULD have been and it was a foul.

The offside goal was kind of silly. Walcott should've have touched it, and had he not, the result was the same. It didn't affect the play at all. Not saying it was an okay no-call, but we deserved the goal.
 


CRIMHEAD said:
Gomes was not great, Siggy was okay, Gana was fine, but Doucoure and Quina were just better.

Honestly, think Silva got it a bit wrong today. I know he wants to attack with width, but you have to be compact when you lose the ball and they were picking off passes and cutting through the middle of our midfield like a knife through hot butter. I didn't like taking Bernard off as he was good tonight. Thought Lookman didn't make a lot of sense in that particular match. But when you've got Tosun, DCL, and Niasse as CF options, it's not a good solution. I think Cenk would do fine with another CF in a 2 man front, but otherwise we BADLY need a CF that can hold the ball or win something in the air. Richy is just getting beat up out there. Starting Richy on the left and bringing Bernard off the bench would be devastating against tired teams.

We just aren't quite good enough with the ball against teams we are better than. We are missing that bit of chemistry + quality and can't generate enough out of the possession we have. Gomes gave it away too often today and couldn't match up athletically with the Watford midifeld. Coleman obviously struggled in the air against these guys and while he did have some moments in attack, it didn't make up for his sloppy defending.

Say what you want about Troy Deeney, but he won a ton of ball in the air today and make it difficult for us.
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Thought he was distinctly average first half, but way better second half... gave us a fair amount of trouble.
 

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