Is the attack worse than last season?


It seems unbelievable the amount of poor forwards Everton have spent millions on over decades. Just sticking 100s of pictures of available forwards on a wall and throwing a dart at them blindfolded to make a choice would get better results 🤷‍♂️
 
I don't think it's worse but they're playing worse if that makes any sort of sense.

Nobody in their right mind is trading Grealish for Harrison back but they've not been up to great shakes the last few matches.
 
No. We have better players in attack but Beto hasn't gone on a scoring run like 10 months ago.
You all aren't seriously longing for the days of Harrison?
 

Our attack is fine. The striker position isn’t. Beto seems so slow to react to balls and his first touch is awful. I think now we have to give Barry a run of a few games. It’s not like Beto is playing poor but scoring. He’s playing poor and not scoring so we may aswell play Barry.
 

Simple answer. Yes. Our players now are more comfortable on ball, but that leads to an awful amount of messing about, rather than being more direct. McNeil isn't a winger and is far better in centre, where he can take shots, I'd give him a chance. I'd put Alcaraz back in side and also ban Garner from taking corners, his corners are useless.
 
davek said:
It's a predictable and easily nullified attack.

Moyes will go more route one again VERY shortly.

That's because he and the 'impressive operators' made a complete bollocks of the transfer window by getting unsuitable attackers in to be a part of an attack with Grealish and Ndiaye in it.
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Going direct is trendy again, league leaders are. And play with 4 center backs in defence. Spurs did us by going direct.
 
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JelavicBrate2 said:
Simple answer. Yes. Our players now are more comfortable on ball, but that leads to an awful amount of messing about, rather than being more direct. McNeil isn't a winger and is far better in centre, where he can take shots, I'd give him a chance. I'd put Alcaraz back in side and also ban Garner from taking corners, his corners are useless.
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Tippytoe or hoof ball as long as it wins matches is all entertainment football needs. Noone cares if they are winning.
 
JobForTheMoyes said:
The slowness comes from fears of the breakaway. It’s something we will have to suffer through until Branthwaite comes back as our defensive coverage lacks true pace.

Like anything else, it’s more complicated than it appears. We are a bit stretched and unable to achieve overloads in good positions down to a variety of factors.

But, to me, the fact our defensive line needs to adopt a deeper starting position has massive knock on implications for the whole side in both attack and defence.

People want simplistic and easy answers and, at this level, they don’t really apply.
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Branthwaite being missing affects everything. He’s our best long and short distributor, fastest defender, most dominant in duels and most composed. I think we probably miss him more than any other player because we do have comparable options in most other positions.
 

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