Match Thread Notts Forest 0-2 Everton. Tue Dec 30th. 7.30 pm

[Eggs]

….its great, hairs on the back of your neck stuff.

 

[billybadger]

The ref had a decent game…wish we could say that more often

 

[Cameron Manning]

600 up for James Garner as MOTM out of the 682 who voted — Got to be a record that on Grand Old Team !

 

[Vaughan]

You really believe he was sick

you think the manager is putting him out the squad for getting on the ale on his day off when we have no options and need results?

not so sure on that

 

[gonetomorrow]

Garner should be the captain of the team.

He really has upped his profile in recent weeks.

What a player!

 

[Benicetoourboys]

….its great, hairs on the back of your neck stuff.

Wonderful, but needs slowing down just a little I think.

 

[Bluelenny1984]

we had so many players missing, 5 of them you would be hard to argue against being our best outfield players this year, four lads who have about 20 minutes between them on the pitch, playing away to a side desperate for points who by all accounts have a lot of talent and were expensively assembled

no surprise we barely had any of the ball but we showed tremendous grit and a real spirit and solidty, and took our chances which has been the one big failing this seasonn

when we played forest with grealish ndiaye and kdh all starting we played them off the park

and once our main lads are back and hopefully stay healthy we have a really good chande of cementing ourselves in the top half and challenging for europe, which was unthinkable 12 months ago after being spanked at home by forest

 

[Bluelenny1984]

Some perspective here please. We acquitted ourselves with a good performance against a poor side led by a dinosaur of a manager.

Same old narrative when we win though isn’t it, there’s a reason why we won, it’s because they are poor, out of form, poor this or poor that. We can only beat what’s in front of us, however we manage to do that! Exact opposite story when we are beaten tho, they are always our fault, Moyes fault, recruitments fault and end of the world!

 

[h8kurdt]

Wonderful, but needs slowing down just a little I think.

Always annoying when you go to a gig and the band speed up a song you love

 

[MisterJ]

The second goal - if that had been Foden to Haaland, or had been Saka to Gykores it would have been sung from the skies by the media, but it there were few superlatives from anywhere cos it was Jimmy to Barry. Not forgetting the initial ball win by McNeill and how Barry set it to Garner in the first place.

I really wouldn't worry about it too much, just enjoy the fact our players are doing things like that

 

[evertondotcom]

You really believe he was sick

I bet you refused the vaccine too, didn’t you?

 

[summerisle]

Great shot of how close was the shot by Garner.

 

[Jeff Jones]

I just like us playing in ALL blue and winning. Something about the blue socks hey

Everton's colour is Royal Blue, but the black horizontal bands across the shirt change the shade and I don't like it.

 

[Rob17896]

It was the kind of game we used to see a lot of, with the shoe on the other foot.

Here, Forest played the role of Everton in the FSW/Lampard/Dyche years: Forest had more of the ball, and they huffed and puffed, and played some nice football with some pretty triangles out by the halfway line, and they lumped a lot of balls into the box, and if you looked casually they controlled the game. But they never really had any menace.

And we played the role of all those teams who beat us during those years: we stayed organized, snuffed out threats, didn't trouble ourselves much, and at a couple of key junctures displayed quality and class and sheer ruthlessness and cut them open like a monger gutting a fish.

Very satisfying.

Slight correction. In previous seasons we never had more of the ball as we did not know what to do with it.

 

[HKContractDave]