Match Thread Everton v West Ham United (Sunday 16th Sept 4.00)

[daza_1973]

Remember when we were 2-0 up at Bournemouth....
Cue nose dive...


Everton that

 

[Jimishorts]

Hope anyone who stayed till the end, gave a hefty Booooo.

 

[brieverton]

People were cursing the international break, I love it myself.

Any optimism well and truly snuffed out.

Back to normal then folks.

 

[TyphooToffee]

..I think that’s a fair point.

It certainly is

 

[Toffe3m4n]

We have two major issues as I see it:

1) we're using a defensive system that simply isn't yielding the desired results. Whilst the personnel aren't completely blameless we just seem to be left exposed time and time again by this high-line setup. Very concerning that we now seem to be conceding easily from open play just as well as from set pieces. Yerry Mina isn't going to automatically solve the problem so it's a major cause for concern for me..

2) our strikers aren't scoring and, on the face of it, really aren't good enough. I've been patient with Tosun, but we can't rely on strikers who seem to run on confidence which both he and Niasse seem to when it comes to converting chances. Both squandered absolutely golden opportunities today when we really needed them to be hitting the mark.

Both of these in tandem could prove to be a recipe for disaster unless Silva and the board do something about it. That's a pretty embarrassing result today.

 

[Dunc's elbow]

Happy birthday Manuel....easiest 3 points they’ll get all season.

 

[Bebeto]

Hopefully last game for Holgate for a very long time...we need to sort out the defence then trying to be more efficient on the other side...too many wasted chances to score or create...

 

[The_Street_End]

We've got players who can't play football. Honestly, they're awful footballers.
They're also thick as two short planks. No guile, no intelligence. All sorts of bad.

I hate them so much.

 

[R.Reddington]

Martinez
Koeman
Allardyce
Now Silva

Watching this team, you would never know that we have had 4 different managers as its just more of the same lethargic, static, lacking in quality, gutless performance.

10 minsxbefore half time and 20 mins after was not lethargic and static or gutless. Did you expect Silva to come in and work a miracle like?

 

[ToffeeTim]

Kenny did ok

Catch a grip

 

[Tin-Tin]

No defence
No attack
No midfield

Not much to fix really

 

[arminisgod]

This has been Holgates worst game for us, but Kenny today has been better than Coleman has been all season.

what? That's about as bad a right back performance I've ever seen

 

[billybeeru]

It’s been a while since I was this upset at a result. Utter garbage from front to back.

 

[Pabbers]

Joke right?

Created the goal, holgate was very poor though

 

[Death]

I'm looking back at the moyes era with such fondness.

#sad

 

[ChesterBlue]

We're terrible still - ace.