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

[Blue Roo]

Nah. Friend was just awful it didn't benefit anyone. The entire first half Richarlison got mauled with no calls coming our way. Obviously the offside goal was bad but they caught us out for the second with a quick free kick and the reason we weren't ready is because it was a blatant dive. Success drew about 4 or 5 fouls and I think only the one by Gomes actually was one. It's just the standard in this league now no one has any right to complain because they'll get their share of awful decisions.

Each tot heir own but for me he was biased to the Blues.
First goal wasn't.
Mina should have had a red.
The pen was 50-50.
The decisions that change results went our way....for once, and with that on our side we still couldn't win.

 

[Ihaters]

Pickford - 4 - made some ok saves but his distribution was Sunday league and so was his command of the box
Coleman - 1 - good grief
Keane - 4 - meh
Mina - 5 - better of the 2
Digne - 7 some great balls and the free kick was a peach
Gueye - 2 - a good old fashion “I haven’t a clue what to do so I’ll run round a lot”
Gomes 9 - loses a point for a misplaced pass. Still a god, and beautiful
Walcott - 3 - has the composure of Barn Door Barlow.
Bernard 5 - some nice little one touch flicks got us away but still off the pace. Baller though
Gylfi - -10 - sigh
Richarlison - 7 - scored and got the crap kicked out of him for the best part of the game

Lookman - 2 - the myth continues
Other subs not arsed

Coleman was really not that bad, did some lovely stuff in attack, did a kot of good stuff in defence too. Though Walcott did okay when he stopped just running into traffic, a lot of nice build up play and dangerous crosses came in from the right, the attackers kept running into some odd areas.

Agree with Gomes though, different class to the rest.

 

[Cameron Manning]

Watford were hands down the better side. And robbed by the ref.

Really poor from the lads.

Voted for Digne - great to see him step up like that.

I voted for Digne because he was the best of a very poor team effort, only voted to be honest to see who else had voted, think it should have been scrapped for this game, terrible performance all round.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Each tot heir own but for me he was biased to the Blues.
First goal wasn't.
Mina should have had a red.
The pen was 50-50.
The decisions that change results went our way....for once, and with that on our side we still couldn't win.

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.

 

[Cels]

Really struggling with this one. No one in particular stood out, but I feel Lucas Digne did a little better than the rest.

 

[Ihaters]

Each tot heir own but for me he was biased to the Blues.
First goal wasn't.
Mina should have had a red.
The pen was 50-50.
The decisions that change results went our way....for once, and with that on our side we still couldn't win.

I though we got the big decisions (mostly) but they got away with 90% of the little ones tbh

 

[Blue Roo]

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.

There was no doubt it was a second yellow. Didn't get near making contact with the ball.
Should have 0-0 with a man down. And the way they were playing, we were playing , it could've been embarrassing.

 

[Strikinglyhandsome1]

Too many fouls in general that gave them a chance to put it into our box. Lacked intelligence when defending as a whole. So much wrong tonight.

 

[CRIMHEAD]

There was no doubt it was a second yellow. Didn't get near making contact with the ball.
Should have 0-0 with a man down. And the way they were playing, we were playing , it could've been embarrassing.

Thought it was 1-0 at that point. Not sure it was a yellow, either.

 

[Frang]

If we lose the next two then we are in the sort of slide that Marco hasn't been able to stop to date...

 

[Blue Roo]

Thought it was 1-0 at that point. Not sure it was a yellow, either.

It was 1-0 but goal shouldn't have counted.
Mina took the player out and at no point made contact with ball, in a position that you could argue it was a straight red if only for the watford player taking a touch away from goal, but yellow all day long.

 

[-Rob-]

If we lose the next two then we are in the sort of slide that Marco hasn't been able to stop to date...

Losing to Man City & Spurs wouldn't rant be a slide, they're tough games. We have much easier games to come after that.

 

[TheBigIguana]

There was no doubt it was a second yellow. Didn't get near making contact with the ball.
Should have 0-0 with a man down. And the way they were playing, we were playing , it could've been embarrassing.

It was 1-0 when that happened and as I said I really can't say for sure because the only angle I have seen is from behind where you really can't tell. And again even then it didn't have to be a card so it very well could have been just a free kick.

 

[DrEFC]

How Success conned so many free kicks, and didn't get booked is beyond me. Pretending Mina punched him in the stomach was ridiculous.

 

[SantaClausisanEvertonian]

Felt tonight would be an easy win for us but ended up happy with a point!
A pretty poor performance all round. We never really got going but at least we didn't lose to a distinctly average Watford team.
We need to do much, much better on Saturday, at the risk of stating the obvious!
Just watched the highlights and the officiating seems to be some of the worst we've seen for a long time, for both sides.

 

[DanEFC92]

Pickford - 4
Coleman - 1
Keane - 4
Mina - 4
Digne - 6
Walcott - 4
Gueye - 3
Gomes - 5
Sigurdsson - 1
Bernard - 4
Richarlison - 5

Lookman - 2
Tosun - 2
Calvert-Lewin - 2