Match Thread Everton v West Ham. Wed 30th July. 23.30


Gilbert.. said:
Only Everton could turn up for a tournament that has 3 games in 7 days with a squad equiped for a 5-A-Side competition.
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It's ok mate, at least our reputation and commercial opportunities in the US and A will have gone through the roof due to our extracurricular activities over there, namely handing Dan Meis a £10 'Best American Toffee' on a boat cruise of Lake Michigan, and some Scouse coach attempting to have a group of New Yorker kids understand him in an open training session.
 
daza_1973 said:
Whoevers idea it was to go on a high profile US tour with this gang of shabite wants burying under a slab on Everton way. Done zilch for our club profile over there probably done more damage than good. We should of stuck with Moyes classic PNE and Wigan games.
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Pity the senior coaching staff couldnt have had them on a serious training regime at home rather than this long haul waste of time. Id rather the players bonded on the pitch than off it instead of playing like strangers. The days of their pre season slogging it up Ainsdale sand dunes working off the summer ale have clearly gone. Im pretty sure anyway that Patterson, Garner and McNeil could end up in the treatment room a few weeks even after combatting sand.
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Think my biggest issue with how we play (which has been the case for absolute donkeys now) is that we just don't do a very good job of spreading the play and creating space on the ball. We're still far too limited technically as a team and, as a result, whenever we try to string passages of play together we're a yard too slow and treat the ball like a hot potato, which invariably means that more often than not one of them will just end up punting it downfield to no one, usually one of the fullbacks...

We're crying out for ballers across the pitch - not just in specific areas (Ndiaye the main example). Cool heads who are good at creating spaces and getting others on their bikes/bringing them into the fold. Our short/first-time passing has always been atrocious as well and that can only be drilled into certain players to a point..

Trouble is - those types of players are either already at Champions League clubs or we're generally priced out of a move for them full stop. So what do we do?
 

Ratings online -

Michael Keane – 4/10



Nathan Patterson – 5/10



Vitaliy Mykolenko – 5/10



Idrissa Gueye – 7/10



Tim Iroegbunam – 5/10



Harrison Armstrong – 7/10



Dwight McNeil – 5/10



Iliman Ndiaye – 6/10



Beto – 5/10
 

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