Spurs v Everton. 30th Nov @ 16.00.

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Just went through the fixtures, (yes, I had nothing better to do) and noted the following...

After midweek Europa league games this season, Everton have had four of their next five league games away from home.

Spurs meanwhile, have had ALL FIVE at home.

Now, we're all biased around here, but surely that just isn't right?
 
Here's a revolutionary idea.

When he have the ball wide on the edge of the opposition penalty box and our player has nowhere to go, how about he just puts it in the centre and see what happens?

Instead of commencing a series of passes which sees the ball back in our own half and the oppositions gaining possession, like what happened with their second goal today.

This endless sideways passing is just getting tedious now.
 
BirkenheadBlue said:
Just went through the fixtures, (yes, I had nothing better to do) and noted the following...

After midweek Europa league games this season, Everton have had four of their next five league games away from home.

Spurs meanwhile, have had ALL FIVE at home.

Now, we're all biased around here, but surely that just isn't right?
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...amazing that. Well researched.
 
Eggs said:
...good point, 5 secs before half-time whistle. Blame Barry but credit also to Harry Kane, it epitomised what they were like.
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Unfortunately we seem to be the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to conceding poor goals this season. It's poor concentration from individuals time and time again and I thought we were back on the right track but unfortunately not.
 
Darth Toffeeman said:
Great opening goal. And then pathetic. I have no idea what the teams instructions were, but we scored and then surrendered badly. A complete mess against a poor Spurs outfit. The league form has been disasterous.
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Credit where credits due, Spurs played well today. We started well but after the goal as has happened a few times we take our foot of of the gas and once we conceded we found it hard to get the tempo back. On the other hand the goal lifted Spurs and they pressed hard all over the pitch. Harry Kane gave our boys a hard game and you could guarantee if anyone was going to score it would be Soldado, its the Everton way, anyone without a league for almost a year is bound to get one against us.

We just seemed a little laboured in possession all over the pitch bar the first 15 minutes. Barkley looked back to his best but i must say i was really dissapointed with Barry, thought he looked very leggy. Mccarthy and Naismith in the starting line up and it could have been a different story. Lukaku was frustrating aswell, especially after his showing in Germany midweek.

Not the end of the world but we have to start doing better against the 'top' sides this season if we do not want the league campaign to end with a whimper.
 
Just got back to Essex from the game. Jekyll and Hyde springs to mind. Really disappointed. Baines not fit and should have stuck with Garbutt, as he deserved it, back to poor set pieces and no hope or expectation of scoring from one. Barry not fully fit either. Barkley only man worth more than a 6/10 for me. I live in a Spurs stronghold. Cheers Everton.
 
There's no urgency in our play, We pass it about 20 times before we reach the halve way

Injuries have knocked us no doubt but Martinez team selections have been awful, Why shoehorn Eto/Barkley into the side ffs, Neither are wingers and both looked like they had zero idea of where they should be playing
 
harris78 said:
Credit where credits due, Spurs played well today. We started well but after the goal as has happened a few times we take our foot of of the gas and once we conceded we found it hard to get the tempo back. On the other hand the goal lifted Spurs and they pressed hard all over the pitch. Harry Kane gave our boys a hard game and you could guarantee if anyone was going to score it would be Soldado, its the Everton way, anyone without a league for almost a year is bound to get one against us.

We just seemed a little laboured in possession all over the pitch bar the first 15 minutes. Barkley looked back to his best but i must say i was really dissapointed with Barry, thought he looked very leggy. Mccarthy and Naismith in the starting line up and it could have been a different story. Lukaku was frustrating aswell, especially after his showing in Germany midweek.

Not the end of the world but we have to start doing better against the 'top' sides this season if we do not want the league campaign to end with a whimper.
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There looked only one winner until we gifted them an equaliser.

Then we just fell apart.
 
Just got back home after a good 8 km run which served to clear the mind after watching another typical Everton let down performance (and letting Soldado score lol lol).
The bottom line is this : we won't get top 4 because we aren't good enough. I love Everton, but have lowered my expectations because of that realisation.
We are a top 7-8 club. We need to concentrate on the EL .
 
SH1958 said:
Don’t games like that do your head in. No fight & slow, sideways passing might get you 60% possession again but no end result. Distin, Barry & Howard at fault for the goals but the annoying thing is after we lost the ball for both goals (near the halfway line) nobody puts a challenge in.
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I agree, Spurs outfought us for a lot of the 50/50 balls and were snidier in tackling whenever we were breaking. Ref wasn't calling things tightly. Everton should have upped the snide as soon as Erikson got away with that cynical pullback on Coleman.
 
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