Why so poor away?

[BlueToff]

We’re happy with draws away from home. We ply for the win a bit but as soon as we go behind or it gets to about 70 minutes we just go into protect the point mode whereas teams below us think ‘this might be our day let’s go for it’ and the teams above us think ‘this is our day let’s win it’. We constantly seem to be of the mindset ‘it’s never our day and we might lose it so let’s get a draw’

I don't think we are constantly in that mindset.

It's just getting it to click.

Our last away games of last season (from after that 17-day break)

- Cardiff 3-0 win
- Newcastle 2-3 defeat
- West Ham 2-0 win
- Fulham 0-2 defeat
- Palace 0-0 draw
- Spurs 2-2 draw

Only in the Fulham game did we show the issue you're on about. Against Palace we dominated and were unlucky. It was one of them. Hit the post and their keeper made a worldie save. If Dom could slot we'd have been 1-0 up inside five mins.

Strangely enough, same thing this season to an extent - except it was Gylfi missing the sitter. But we definitely went for it at Selhurst Park, we just didn't quite have the levels right at the start of the season, plus the whole Zaha saga meant the game suddenly got bigger for both sides.

So the only game we've shown any 'mentality' issue in this season is Villa. We were crap. And it was like that Fulham game.

But overall, since Feb, we've had no real mentaility problem away from home so maybe it is starting to turn.

We do need to improve, clearly, but that Newcastle game wasn't a case of playing safe or settling for a draw, it was a freak comeback and our heads fell off for a bit. Spurs draw was definitely not us settling either. And the West Ham performance was - along with the Man Utd game - our best display home or away in years.

 

[mikel_88]

Need to take the chances when we are on top of teams away, hopefully with delph being more vocal in the middle can keep us more focused

 

[JelavicBrate2]

Think we are some way from peak fitting but we are getting there. Don't think much of Silvas pre seasons. Not enough tough games e.g RS played Napoli, city etc and look at peak fitness already. We finish last season swamping most teams we played with pace and power. Signs yesterday that all that is returning. We will see against Bournemouth. Hopefully pace and power and not side to side boring play like palace and villa

That's the problem we have had for years we play average teams and wonder why we get off to a slow start. Our appalling pre season in 2014 caused our awful start to that season. When we played decent teams such as Real Madrid, Juventus, Valencia and Betis we did well that season. Going to Kenya and playing a variety of silly teams, means that we're unable to properly analyse players. Also pre season friendlies are a good way to make money we effed up our chance at controlling to US market that was largely untouched, with the exception of areas where you have large numbers of Hispanics or European or the children of European immigrants. We had 2 of their most famous players Donovan and more importantly Tim Howard and wasted it. So the RS, Arsenal and Man United took over the market. If we'd gone to places like LA, Miami, Boston and other places we'd of done great. Plus the amount of Beatles fans in America we could of pretty much dominated the American market, but instead we just did the usual Everton thing, the completely wrong thing.

 

[Gareth Gibson]

The Goodison atmosphere hasn't been as quiet or as negative as it has been in previous seasons.

That gives us a big advantage when playing at home.