I guess Arsenal was just a false dawn...sigh.
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I haven't watched it back loads, but IMO his positioning was all wrong. He was miles out but no where close to the shot. It was unfortunate with the bounce.
Not saying Stek would have definitely saved it like, and Robles made a great save from Firmino's shot.
And he was visibly urging the side to press up all the second half.
But with Barry in there, it just couldn't be done. And for all their possession, the RS still relied on a jammy deflection to get the win. It sums it up.
You'd rather keep watching that [Poor language removed] we saw tonight? Cos thats what ur gonna get. Ronald probably more worried bout his round of golf tomorrow than tonights result
Yep, doesn't make sense, you have a natural winger on the bench in Mirallas, but you bring a young forward on to play out wide who's game time in the first team is next to nothing.
USABlue
Player Valuation: £70m
true but it's the same back line as when Martinez was here (except for williams )and GOT said the only problem then was Martinez and his insistence using Howard...they're both gone and we still ship easy goals.
And therein lies the issue.
Koeman's system works - the 1st half tonight and Arsenal showed that.
The issue has been we're so lacking in terms of quality in the forward areas that we couldn't take advantage and then, due to the fact that we have zero depth, one injury cripples us and the rest of them just bottle it.
tadao
Player Valuation: £25m
Or, the bad goalkeeping or, the player being allowed to run across the box?
Simple question, did you think we were going to score?
As I said mate, I think the plan was to - like vs Arsenal last week - have CL play a role just off Rom.
The thing is is that vs Arsenal we were on the front foot. We weren't at all in the 2nd half tonight and Ron should have recognised that. A poor sub.
artetatata
Player Valuation: £225k
First time posting. Felt compelled after watching that garbage.
I'm sick of it. The football is horrendous week after week. Every game is the same. The defenders are clearly told to lump it aimlessly forwards, despite the fact our forward can't control a ten yard pass let alone a 50 yard hoick. He doesn't seem to have any passion for the club or any desire to play progressive football. We can play better than this. These players can do better than this. It's not good enough.
It's nearly Christmas and it gets worse by the week. I know we need to give him at least a couple more transfer windows, but I just can't see him being upto the job. Absolutely gutted about that performance. I know it's Everton. I know we're spineless. I know it's ingrained in us. But to play like the away team at Goodison on a night game. Not for me that.
I'm sick of it. The football is horrendous week after week. Every game is the same. The defenders are clearly told to lump it aimlessly forwards, despite the fact our forward can't control a ten yard pass let alone a 50 yard hoick. He doesn't seem to have any passion for the club or any desire to play progressive football. We can play better than this. These players can do better than this. It's not good enough.
It's nearly Christmas and it gets worse by the week. I know we need to give him at least a couple more transfer windows, but I just can't see him being upto the job. Absolutely gutted about that performance. I know it's Everton. I know we're spineless. I know it's ingrained in us. But to play like the away team at Goodison on a night game. Not for me that.
Before Xmas last year they were stagnant, lack of ideas and playing long to pelle with people supporting him. It wasn't working, he reverted to a 3-5-2 and had long doing all the leg work
How can you say the team set up was right tonight?
We never, ever, looked like winning the game. Seriously. We never had a proper chance in the whole game. At home. Against our biggest rivals.
If we'd drawn I'd have grudgingly accepted that we had played like a non league team in the 3rd round of the cup in order to keep our unbeaten home record, but it was no surprise we couldn't hold out for 90 minutes.
Hard work and pressing is great, but it's supposed to be a supplement to the gameplan, not the gameplan itself.
USABlue
Player Valuation: £70m
I wasn't over enthused with Koeman when we got him, but it's foolish to write him off after 1 transfer window where we missed on alot of our targets. Should at least get time to bring players in, not be replaced by a manager who did well by solidifying us in 7th-8th and getting no where. Moyes did a good job for many years but his time at Everton is over and he doesn't have the ability to win anything
I don't no, and that's due to a dreadful second half performance - and I hate to say it but that lies with the Barry change. Not his fault, but he can't do it anymore against teams with so much pace down the middle.
But despite the fact I'd resigned myself to that, for all Liverpool's possession, they created zero clear-cut chances until that final one - and they scored it, and that was down to luck.
It happens. We were crap in the second half and need signings desperately. Nothing we didn't know.
tadao
Player Valuation: £25m
The same player who RK was more than ok with selling, to be replaced by Sissoko?
That's what cost us the game?
Taking responsibility by setting up every game the same bar 1 and a half games and having little threat to the opposition goalkeeper
Talk is cheap
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