I think, if anything, the lack of attention paid to Everton might do us well. When we win, its inevitably down to individual mistakes from the opposition, blind luck, or bad officiating. I think teams underestimate how well organised we are in defence, how competitive we are across the pitch, and how incisive and ruthless we can be in attack.
However it does my absolute nut in when I stay up to listen to the pundits after a mid-week game, only to hear them moaning about Jose Mourinho or whatever. Even during the game, the commentators are thirsting for VAR checks after every one of our goals, or remarking on how lively the opposition look.
The FA cup was a case in point. Our goals all came from individual Spurs mistakes, apparently, their goals came from concerted pressure and attacking flair. Which, when you look at it, is total nonsense. We scored all of our goals from open play, having pressed the opposition into errors and then taken it to them with good movement and incisive passing. They scored most of their goals from set pieces, with a load of individual errors thrown in for good measure. The only travesty about that match was that we had to score 5 to win it!
But no comment on us actually scoring 5 to win it, and showing the kind of winning mentality and resolve that is required to overcome those individual errors.
Media bias and refs adding on unlimited injury time until the oppo scores have been my main gripes this year. Which makes a change from poor performances on the pitch! Things must be looking up...
