Match Thread Fulham v Everton (Sunday 22 Nov 12:00)

[toffeepie1878]

He was poor and lost possession for the penalty.all I saw was three team goals if anyone could take credit it was Iwobi, Digne and Richarlison

indeed, James has been very poor since the RS - for club and country

 

[toffeepie1878]

The stress levels of being an evertonian must be through the roof! I feel exhausted after nearly every game.

Thats why I have a 8% DIPA at noon

 

[Death]

Fewmin we won lads. The fume isn’t as good without the points dropped to beat them with. It’s like we were willing the equaliser ourselves.

 

[Bullens Rd]

Thank God we have four months of no international breaks now ........

 

[PSB1]

Surprised and happy with Iwobi's efforts today.

Trying to be patient with Mina but beginning to think he needs to take a long holiday away (far away) from our defence.

 

[RomanReigns]

Can't tell if Fulham have some good players or we just made them look good.

we made harrison reed look like xavi

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Looked good attacking wise first half but very open defensively. Second half Carlo must have told Digne and Iwobi to stay back. Surrendered possession to them and nearly paid the price.
Fitness levels are a concern. We look very laboured. I know we had people away on internationals but we had fitness issues before that.
Positives.
Iwobi played well
DCL looked a real target man
No Pickford mistakes
Richy looking fuming when he was taken off

I just can't see why he would do something like that though, we were all over Fulham first half, looked really comfortable, any manager you would think in their half - time team talk would just be saying "right lads, more of the same" I actually think it was down to the mentality of the players, they thought is was game over so took their foot off the gas.

 

[allen]

Doubly pleased we came through that. Once for the three points, and twice for the much-needed confidence boost of hanging on.

More of the first half performance, less of the second half performance.

Please.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Agree mate still baffled we let Theo and Kean out as we have seen no Richy no pace. We need a forward with pace who can play across the front three. We also need a right back but that might have to wait till next summer.

People like saying get someone who can play all 3 positions but very few of those players exist who are actually any good. Even Josh King who does not fit into the good category doesn't actually play on the right despite everyone thinking he would have been perfect for this somewhat mythical role we've dreamed up. Reality is we need an actual winger and an actual striker to have coming off the bench.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

I went Iwobi as my MoM, best he's ever played for us, although DCL was also worth it with his goals and general play. It's a pity we didn't capitalise on our dominance in the first half by grabbing another couple of goals, that way Fulham wouldn't have looked so likely to spring a surprise in the second half.

I don't understand all the moans about Tom Davies coming on as sub, he did the job he was asked to do and releived the pressure our defense was under.

Definitely a game of two halves and not one for the scrap-book. Time to get back to re-growing my fingernails lollol

 

[BlueDraka]

I just can't see why he would do something like that though, we were all over Fulham first half, looked really comfortable, any manager you would think in their half - time talk would just be saying "right lads, more of the same" I actually think it was down to the mentality of the players, they thought is was game over so took their foot off the gas.

Got no knowledge but I'm pretty certain Carlo must have told Digne and Iwobi to stay back second hal. He probably thought the game was won after the first half

 

[blueblueskies]

Might have been said but 10 of the 11 that started were away on international duty and pretty sure Fulham didn’t have anywhere near as many.

 

[Zezti]

Iwobi was good, lets hope it wasn't a one-off for him.
Allan was more like his earlier of the season self and good to see Doucoure getting forward again and getting a reward for it with what turned out to be the winning goal.
I just can't work out why we get so shaky at times. That second half was just like the 90 against Southampton. Nobody could make a pass and were scared to come out of the box. Where are the vocal leaders on the pitch?
DCL MOTM.

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

It was a poor second half no doubt about it, its acceptable to be disappointed with a win. We want better and we are going to be in for a surprise against other opposition in this league.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Can't tell if Fulham have some good players or we just made them look good.

Bit of each column. They've been horrendously unlucky so far. I mean 0 for 3 on penalties, hitting the post multiple times in a game, having Mitrovic who is usually at least competent complete unable to hit the goal. As bad as they can be defensively I think they have enough going forward to sneak staying up. They've been better than the 3 teams below them so far at the very least.

But we also backed way too far off and lost way too much intensity in the second half. If we keep that up we probably score 5 as they definitely could not handle us going forward.