Man Utd v Everton. 5th October at 12.00.

[Furey1878]

It's understandable that our heads dropped after conceding a soft goal after we equalised and were seemingly getting on top of the game.

Understandable... but not acceptable. We should have been right into them with the urgency we showed in the last 10 mins.

 

[Professor Toffee]

As someone said on me twitter, the difference there was one keeper who wins you points and one keeper whos loosing you points.


Think something similar can be said for Rom, he doesnt look arsed, and there two looked hungry and were fighting

Rom wasn't facing the ball for a Baines free towards the end, that is not cool!

 

[Kiwi]

What am I on about? Do you not watch Everton at any other times when he's been a liability.

I have mate. But today he came on and played very well, as he did at times last season. He doesn't have the legs to play a full 90 probably, nor the strength on the ball to play deeper, but when he plays in the number 10 role, he tends to do well. I'd give him a solid 7.5/10 today, would have been an 8.5 had he put one away.

 

[Steve Wigan]

And let's not forget his cock up with a minute left when he chose to pass the ball out to his RB instead of launching it upfield, and even f@@@@d up the pass, leaving utd with the possession to run down the clock. And don't get me started on his weak efforts at dealing with crosses.

Brownings fault near the end because he had lost DiMaria and was slow to react to a perfectly sensible throw from Howard, to an Everton player in space, to retain possession.

 

[Rook]

You make some good points. Osman and Pienaar are crucial to the success of this style of play; but I would counter that Osman behind Naismith is the way forward. I wasn't hailing him last year as some saviour, I've never thought that, and if other people have done, that's their misapprehension. Today, and all season in fact, has not been about ragging on the subpar performance of the record transfer buy; he has been abysmal. Today he was downright hopeless... it is not the responsibility of anyone else when it comes to a player's control and ability to play a simple short pass. Lukaku looked inept at even the most basic tasks. It was almost ridiculous... the albatross around the neck in the form of that ridiculous fee weighs heavy on us all, Martinez & Lukaku quite clearly. We're forced to play him on that basis.

Those basic tasks shouldn't be chasing balls into the corners, trying to put crosses and beating people off the dribble outside of the box. He's never done it before, and its tiring him out (and its not because he's fat and lazy). You put him at CF or you sit him and give him a rest. Unless you are Essien in his prime players aren't swiss army knives. Lukaku on the wing is Naismith at RW.

 

[matty1878]

Just start all our games in injury time! That's what's infuriating and the silly errors.

 

[marty mcfly]

What am I on about? Do you not watch Everton at any other times when he's been a liability.

But he wasn't today.

In fact I now look forward to Osman's little cameos. He's always been a very tidy creative player especially in his prime and for the last 10 mins definitely offers us a lot.

Can't play 90 mins though. Then he is a liability.

 

[Furey1878]

the ball WAS out though, for a utd throw. Pienaar was out of energy and our sub was ready to come on. Why wasn't he brought on??? Instead utd take the throw and only then does Pienaar decide to sit down and await the subbing. 10 seconds later we're 2-1 down!!!
then Pienaar decides he's going https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/178790816/vintage-set-of-copper-and-brass-cooking?ref=marketaqto sit down

hahaha wtf?

 

[Stonesy]

It made me laugh that half way through that 2nd half, the commentator mentions about how great a result it would be for utd if they picked up the 3 points with the players they are missing today.... and started reeling them off.

No mention of our lads missing and our growing list

It was a 90-minute United propaganda film. Every opportunity to take matters beyond the pitch they would spin it to United. We got a mention at one point, '5-0 Benfica, Everton's worst ever European result' which was only mentioned in passing when discussing Di Maria's career. Then it was back to how great X new player, Y promising youngster, Z player-yet-to-return-to-fitness will be/are. Louis van Gaal's tactical genius. Michael Owen's opinion on the prestige of Utd's #7. Oh look, there's Bobby Charlton in the crowd, he wore #7... and so on and so forth. Ad neausaum.

 

[scratchnsurf]

Also, just pointing out that Luke Shaw is now officially my most hated player ever.

Hibbo defo would have scored there if he hadn't been brought down.

Denied us all the riot we deserve.

 

[LocalNative]

Tell you what, RAWK must have a massive laugh at this forum.

 

[Khalekan]

Why is everyone on here slagging of hibbo when we had the biggest piece of dog crap up front for 90 minutes and to be honest since pre season. Hibbo career is nearly over but he showed more desire, fight and yes ability than that 28 million no hoper up front. And don't go on about his scoring record the past 2 seasons what's done is done it's about right now and he is a useless !!!!

I have to say, as a fan of Rom, that i thought he was poor today.

A 19 year old rookie, not anywhere near his build, had him in his back pocket for most the game.

 

[Liam-EFC]

We're turning into wigan.

 

[Philw]

So gutted that Howard cost us a point there by mis-kicking the ball straight to their player who booted it into an empty net.

 

[DrEFC]

Some of the play in the second half was great. Man Utd could of easily had a few reds. Di Maria was brilliant as was De Gea unfortunately.