The game plan was the same, sit deep, soak, win set plays etc.
I agree the intensity was different but the basics such as the ability to pass a ball, control it, added with some awful set pieces (they put Raya in for a reason, and we didn't trouble him once with Ashley Young's floaties) was lacking. We'd graft and win the ball only to look like a Sunday league team with it
Onana, Doucoure, and Gana are terrible technicians. They've attributes but holding on to the ball isn't one of them.
If we don't play with intensity and aggression then we have no chance. I don't ever want to see an Everton side stand that far off at Goodison. It was absolutely pathetic tactics, and it shows why Dyche is not suited to be our manager, and is out of his depth at a club of this stature.
The set pieces are appalling and that's on the coaching as much as Young. The decision not to put many balls into the box from open play was just bizarre.
Arsenal won't have an easier away game all season. Our game plan was to play for nil nil, and once we went behind we gave up. Arsenal were there for the taking and we weren't even aggressive!!
I see absolutely nothing I like in this team, and if we are going to struggle all season and go down, then I want a manager who I can get behind and someone who will try their best to win every week.
Dyche is exactly the manager Moshiri and the board would want. This is the biggest job he will ever get by far, and he's not going to rock the boat. He's exactly the manager who we don't need because he won't create any connection between club and supporters and ultimately his results are worse than Lampard. I wish we hadn't made the change last season.