Man Utd v Everton. 5th October at 12.00.

[The Esk]

I only saw the last 20 mins (lucky me) - best I have seen of Everton this season so far.

Given we had a game in Europe, 60 hours previous, very promising to see us finishing so strongly.

 

[Goat]

I only saw the last 20 mins (lucky me) - best I have seen of Everton this season so far.

Given we had a game in Europe, 60 hours previous, very promising to see us finishing so strongly.

I suggest you go and watch the other 70 minutes mate.

2 very poor sides and 1 of them had an actual Goalkeeper.

 

[evertony]

I only saw the last 20 mins (lucky me) - best I have seen of Everton this season so far.

Given we had a game in Europe, 60 hours previous, very promising to see us finishing so strongly.

Three games on the bounce, all away at difficult places, that we've finished very strongly. I recall Martinez saying he needs to pace the players for a long season bearing in mind we have the Europa League (which can add 16 games to the season). I'm not one bit concerned.....only Swansea in the League cup was a poor performance, every other game has been extremely fine margins. More concerning is the ease with which key players pick up significant injuries.
We'll be fine, absolutely fine.

 

[evertony]

I suggest you go and watch the other 70 minutes mate.

2 very poor sides and 1 of them had an actual Goalkeeper.

We weren't "very poor" Goat. Not great, but equally not poor

 

[Goat]

We weren't "very poor" Goat. Not great, but equally not poor

I thought we were rubbish personally.

 

[BluePeadar]

The second goal we conceded was an absolute disgrace and I don't mean Howard's clearance. We play a ball down the wing that Hibbert doesn't bother running after and Pienaar is too injured to chase. Instead of Pienaar going down and us making a sub he carries hobbling around. We really need to get smarter because that was just stupidity.

Pienaar the little tart was hobbling around all day. He was useless today

 

[evertony]

I thought we were rubbish personally.

I think we watched a different game.
But, each to their own as they say.

 

[ijjysmith]

Pienaar the little tart was hobbling around all day. He was useless today

As mentioned before, not the best game for him to return from injury in.

 

[meagher94]

We weren't "very poor" Goat. Not great, but equally not poor

We were terrible in our approach tbh. Facing a team with an awful defence and couldn't even muster up a chance in 45 minutes until they gifted us a penalty.

We were good for 5 minutes after Naismith's goal when they look rattled and 10 minutes at the end. We were crap the rest.

 

[The Esk]

I suggest you go and watch the other 70 minutes mate.

2 very poor sides and 1 of them had an actual Goalkeeper.

How many sides in the Premiership do you think will be poorer than MU and ourselves come May next year?

 

[meagher94]

Also, I wanted Oviedo to start today in front of Baines. Playing a clearly not up to it Pienaar was baffling, why not play Oviedo who seems to be raring to get out and play? Looked good when he came on.

 

[Goat]

I think we watched a different game.
But, each to their own as they say.

We stroked it around at times and I thought a few players had a decent game, but I thought, as we have for most of the season, lacked any real cutting edge going forward.

De Gea made some cracking saves and Baines missed a peno, on another day we win or at least take a point, but overall I wasnt impressed with what I saw, certain players let us down big time and the manager was slow to make the correct subs at the right time.

United aint all dat and as I said, we should have at least took a point.

 

[BluePeadar]

As mentioned before, not the best game for him to return from injury in.

Maybe so. Fair point. He looked a bit uninterested to me and didnt cover back like the Pienaar of old. Close to past it I fear

 

[Goat]

How many sides in the Premiership do you think will be poorer than MU and ourselves come May next year?

I based it on the match I saw today mate, im pretty sure both teams will play much better between now and May.

 

[ijjysmith]

Maybe so. Fair point. He looked a bit uninterested to me and didnt cover back like the Pienaar of old. Close to past it I fear

Oh defo. Don't think he'll ever be as good as he was once.