Everton's current playing style

How do you rate Everton's current style of play?

  • Edge of seat excitment!

    Votes: 5 2.5%

  • Would sooner watch the cladding going up on Goodison :(

    Votes: 19 9.3%

  • We have a style?

    Votes: 83 40.7%

  • I'll answer in six months, followed by a few platters of beans on cheese on toast

    Votes: 97 47.5%
  • Total voters
    204
  • Poll closed .
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Martinez's foundations where built on solid rock, whilst Koemans are being built on marsh bog land, so can't expect to see as much as we did under Martinez in the first season..

I have seen steps towards a style but it will take more personal and time to get to they style Koeman wants us to play..

I think early signs suggest we will play similar football to Spurs.. High intensity and pressing game but we desperately need more creativity behind rom and options in the middle to get near them..

We are a first choice GK, CB, CM, 10 and left winger off having the side Koeman needs to get us to were we want to be IMO.
 
Clearly, we have had to rebuild from the foundations up. And so our play has been quite defensive and pragmatic in the main.

In short spells we have played some good stuff though, and scored some great team goals (Mirallas v WBA, Lukakus 3rd v Sunderland, Coleman v Boro etc.)

Koeman still has a lot of work to do to get the balance right, but i'm confident he will.
 

davek said:
Cautious
Safe
Direct
Guileless
Dull
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Agreed. It's not so much a style of play we have right now, but more of a "whatever works at the moment" band aid. Koeman's first task was to stop the bleeding - get that sorted and then focus on the cure. Hopefully, this is just a temporary state of affairs. A short lived, transitional stop gap. Rebuilds are always ugly and messy, but you do expect, at some point, to see progress. Meanwhile, beans on cheese on toast it is.
 
Verbal Kint said:
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Exciting
Frustrating
Stupid
Gutless
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...just about sums up the football served up under Martinez....but at least there was excitement and good football along the way. Consistently so for the first half of his time here and even early last season up to Christmas the attacking intent was there. The football in both second halves of the last two seasons was very frustrating though. And the slide last season was alarming. Which is why he was sacked.

Koeman up to now though: dull as ditchwater. No spectacle, no entertainment value, no attempt to construct moves, not good enough from a stylistic point of view. That needs to change. The stuff I read from the Southampton forums though suggests it wont change that much.
 

Seems we are heading back to the 80's and prior with the focus on big strong lads, that means hoofball. I'll reserve judgement for a while.
 
We have replaced some senior players, but will need to introduce more players shortly, especially in defence.

Barry 35
Jagielka 34
Stekelenburg 34
Williams 32
Baines 31

So we are still in a period of transition.

Koeman - and Williams - together have stabilised the defence. And we have got some promising players coming through.

I like to see two wingers, but they do have to work hard in midfield too. But we desperately need some consistent creativity in midfield.
 

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