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

[Bullens Rd]

The drop off from the last ,30mins of the first half was absolutely shocking and worrying

Utterly pathetic second half and completely unacceptable - hopefully the manager sees it the same way.

I saw it coming though when we didn't, as usual, capitalise on our many, many first half chances. Knew we'd drop off and then, ultimately, panic and proceed to throw the game away.

Very lucky to get a win here.

 

[Bob Latchford]

The changes tightened us up thank god.

A tale of 2 halves.

Lookmans cross at the end was a reminder of his time with the blues but both he and Robinson did well.

Credit to the boys in the first half and also to Fulham in the second who played well.

DCL is brilliant, pure quality.

Loftus-Cheek is a good player and made a massive difference.

3 away points and up to 6th.

More work to be done.

 

[Trout Masked Replica]

Good win. It doesn't matter if everyone wets themselves. Easy to say Leeds will do this or against better opposition we will get battered. Won away again with an experimental formation and line up. Up the toffos

 

[Tubey]

MOTM was DCL, no contest. We'd have lost heavily there without him. Not just the goals but his hold up play was outstanding.

He was literally our only decent player in the second half.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Performance is secondary to wins on days like today. Upsets tend to happen weekend after internationals with no preparation so thankfully we got the job done.

I'm not going to criticise the Performance too much. You take 3 points and run on a day like today. Carlo will know we have to be far far better and has a week on the training ground.

Well done DCL again. Got us out of trouble. Any away win for us has to be welcomed.

 

[Efctrueblue]

I liked the system in the first half but we were too deep in the second. Mina needs dropping he turns like hes running in treacle and he always deflects shots into our net!!

 

[efcjames]

Grim win against a crap team, future does not look bright

 

[Amw79]

Thought Davies was the right sub, got us a bit further up the pitch. Would have rather brought a training cone on, than Siggy. No impact at all.

 

[Chrismac]

We weren't winning that game if he kept Rodriguez and Richarlison on.

They had no legs.

No argument taking them off, my point was why bring on sig and davies to try and hold onto a lead in front of Holgate. Both have shown in the past to be liabilities when we are under pressure defensively and neither can put the foot in the break up play.

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Iwobi was the best over 95 minutes. Pleasant surprise

I was impressed with his performance, much better than I thought he would do

 

[andy4efc]

Despite 3 points, finding it hard to be positive after that but at least its a win in the bag, 3 wins in London which usually would see us get a point.

16 points already.

 

[stretford blue]

Gave dcl motm his goals yes but his hold up play for the last 20mins was superb

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

DCL and Digne outstanding for me but Alex Iwobi gets my vote.

Yep. I'd argue it was Iwobi's best performance in an Everton shirt.

 

[billybeeru]

Three points is good but there is still so much to be worried about with this team. We have a new midfield that still can’t keep hold of the ball if the other team presses.

 

[Bebeto]

Need a week of rest for some of these. Takes the pressure off Carlo, 3 points, would have taken that all day, but some of these players are disgraceful.

I think we need to show more respect here for the opposition...Fulham is not a bad team...yes they lost a lot of the games this season but more often than not it was close...players did their best today...