Match Thread Manchester City v Everton (Mon 21 Aug 2017, 20:00)

[peteblue]

Would have taken a draw of course like pretty much everyone here, but the reality is those 3 points should have been ours, we basically caved in 2nd half against a team with 10 vs our 11, pissed off because we've literally pissed away 2 points by inviting City to dominate us, total cuckold display.

Holgate made one mistake, which unfortunately he seems to do regularly, and that was it......I thought it was a decent result against a far better team.......

 

[cromofo]

Rooney just now: "we had a plan given to us to get men behind the ball and frustrate City"

Great. Just 'kin great.

Logging off here now because there's some things I'd like to say about the mentality of this manager and I'd best not.

Disgusted. Utterly disgusted.

 

[Everton1654]

Any side with anything about them would have won that game quite easily

 

[NorthernBlue]

It's nothing like that game really. We could easily have lost this one once it went to 1-1, and we would have done on years gone by, a good point.

Agree we didn't deserve to win but we just never see them out.

 

[Brisan123]

Whole game plan killed off in the second half.....thanks to the ref should of kept 3 at the back also, always looked open when changed to 4, poor Jags has 0 pace oh well, got a point out of the game..... next

Welcome son of Davek

 

[Michaelcoyb]

That second half was criminal. FFS we had them there to pile up a big score against.

And don't get me started on the Davies sub for Klaassen.

This isn't an Everton fan.

 

[Jamiednm]

Holding on for that win would've sent a big message that the new Everton is the real deal...but we all know that isn't the case yet, we lack the cutting edge as we all know. The second half was disappointing, but that first half was an away day masterclass.

 

[banno]

He showed his hand to Pep and Pep out played him, it's really that simple

I get Koeman was trying to give us a better chance but we've been utter garbage since the changes 1 man up and we've played like we had the man sent off

They do have a different class of player.

 

[Goat]

Rooney just now: "we had a plan given to us to get men behind the ball and frustrate City"

Great. Just 'kin great.

Logging off here now because there's some things I'd like to say about the mentality of this manager and I'd best not.

Disgusted. Utterly disgusted.

The manager took off a defender and stuck on 2 attackers.

 

[DanEFC92]

Wanted Lookman on.

Get rid of Besic.

 

[Blue83]

Think he set us up right from the start tbh, williams looked like he may have been injured, it was a gutsy move and it made sense to go more attacking. Maybe he would have been better off brining martina on and pushing holgate to centre back? I dunno. The goal was always going to come though, it always does against us in those types of games. I really would like us to go at teams a bit more but we haven't brought in a striker yet, sandro was injured, barkley injured, bolasie injured, siggyurdson not match fit. Our options were pretty limited.

It was a Jekyll & Hyde display though, we were fantastic in the 1st half, really couldn't fault anything apart from maybe Pickford looking off.

2nd half was utter garbage, we can make excuses but there's no excuses for getting dominated the way City did to us with 1 man less. It's incredibly difficult to take because it should have been our 3 points if we'd done something different and not give City all that possession

 

[gerryandtheRedhaters]

Rooney just now: "we had a plan given to us to get men behind the ball and frustrate City"

Great. Just 'kin great.

Logging off here now because there's some things I'd like to say about the mentality of this manager and I'd best not.

Disgusted. Utterly disgusted.

No your going to giggle to your mates on RAWK....grow up.

 

[RomanReigns]

Holgate made one mistake, which unfortunately he seems to do regularly, and that was it......I thought it was a decent result against a far better team.......

martina did the exact same mistake in pre-season and got crucified for it

 

[AdaBrummieblue]

Logging off here now

 

[Jb90efc]

Still massively require a centre back partner for Keane. Koeman doesn't seem to trust Jags and Williams enough to allow us to play a higher line in these big away games.