Suffering because Doucoure has been told to play further up in support of Beto. Now Doucoure can't link play and pass adequately when he's ten yards from fellow Everton midfielders, so what he's going to do when he's twenty yards from the nearest friendly shirt I don't know.
We're a bit stuck, either we use the man extra and dominate midfield at the cost of isolating our sole attacker, or we push up and try to press like we did first half and put the opposition on the back foot. Either this pays off and we look great, or we eventually slow down and the opposition grow back into the game and start to lean on us in return.
We don't have the quality in depth to whole sale change things, so we limp on carrying the side as best we can. Gana aint Pirlo, and Garner aint Scholes.
We'll be a different side with
Ndiaye and McNeil back, and we'll have clear changes from the bench to freshen things up and willing runners to introduce.
Garner is suffering a bit from the transition in play and some of his cover going MIA.