Match Thread Everton vs Chelsea - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[Blues Harp]

disgrace the dirty red

Dirty Red? Who dat den ? Man U fan?

 

[GT77]

A 'Brazilian Rolls-Royce'?

That sounds cowing awful.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

the latter

Actually should have typed and.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

I hate losing but this has probably been the best footballing performance I’ve seen from us for a couple of years.

 

[captainvindaloo]

This could end up being the longest game of football we play all season.

 

[longers]

We didn't play that bad relative to Chelsea but dear god that was one horrendous game of football to watch. Not a good advert for the league.

 

[ChesterBlue]

Unlucky that, not a bad performance and one error cost us

 

[neil999]

Not too bad tbh

 

[TheBigIguana]

Absolute joke that a team as talented as Chelsea should play a half of football like that

 

[Efcjake]

Not every team will play a back 5 either. We’ve been matched up by the team who plays it the best and has done for ages.

Even if they did we have looked good enough today that we will do well when we get an actual forward in

 

[Azza]

Okay overall performance given the lack of striker.

Shocking injuries. Hopefully Mina isn't out too long, but he clearly can't be relied upon.

Certain players putting in individual performances which show they are in no way PL quality.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Reality is Gordon should be out on loan in the Championship learning his trade. Having him play alongside Gray is going to be very detrimental to our season as both currently nowhere near good enough. Gordon tries hard, but his end product is zero.

We badly need Onana and Gueye starting games, and we have to be all over Coady after today.

And yet even that, if we don't sign at least one striker, we're going down. You cannot play in the Premier League without strikers. It's as simple as that. And one striker isn't enough.

 

[Tree13]

Defending has been brilliant today...

Keane has not played?

There will still be some on here who will insist that these things are purely coincidental.

 

[ProZ]

That ref the little quiff

 

[Fansince1988]

Ok we weren’t great neither were they and we gifted them the goal, so frustrating as we would have drawn that.