closed Everton 1-0 Chelsea

[Jase 43,479]

19 minutes ago, Jason said:

Horrible performance at Goodison Park...again! But said it earlier, as much as we were horrible, Everton didn't really create too much but Mendy decided to turn into Kepa for a moment again and cost us this time. Should have been able to just take the 0-0 and run. Frustrating.

Exactly what I meant...

 

[Strike 7,489]

4 minutes ago, Jason said:

Don't have the flexibility yet? Have you forgotten that Lampard changed formation like every game last season!?

Yes and that was criticised too IIRC

 

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[Alabama 1,992]

Shit happens...

We lost we move on...other teams are gonna drop points as well...no shame in that...Losing our most important attacking players to injury is frustrating but that's football....unto Tuesday against Wolves...

[OhForAGreavsie 6,075]

18 minutes ago, Jason said:

Continuing with the 4-3-3 with Abraham and Werner flanking Giroud was laughable. 

When I saw Tammy coming on I thought he'd play wide right since he did that a lot in youth football. Must have been something tactical SFL had in mind but it didn't play out. 

[Alabama 1,992]

With Ziyech and Pulisic in there....it would have been another ball game...hope Hakim is back against West Ham

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Strike said:

Yes and that was criticised too IIRC

Yes and no one is asking him to do that again but maybe a little flexibility wouldn't hurt. Lampard has gone from changing formation every week to not changing it at all. Fair enough that he hasn't been changing at all because we have been playing well and all that but since our wingers are out injured, maybe it's worth wondering whether we should change it to a back 3 for example because this nonsense of Abraham and Werner flanking Giroud is utter nonsense!

[Jase 43,479]

2 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

When I saw Tammy coming on I thought he'd play wide right since he did that a lot in youth football. Must have been something tactical SFL had in mind but it didn't play out. 

It happened in midweek as well but the thing just doesn't make sense whatsoever. Werner also used to be a winger but it's clear that he isn't one and so is Abraham. 

[OhForAGreavsie 6,075]

21 minutes ago, Johnnyeye said:

Mount also deserves a shout, could have had a brace today, fucking goal posts.

Goalposts are multifunctional. Sometimes they serve to make shots which are in fact off target look a bit more exciting.

[Vesper 30,185]

31 minutes ago, Johnnyeye said:

seconded and Everton relegated

so many other teams I would rather see relegated

I do not really hate Everton at all

 

[Special Juan 28,141]

Havertz should be benched for the next game, we won't miss him.

[killer1257 3,282]

Both giroud and werner were horrible today

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[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

2 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

Both giroud and werner were horrible today

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Both were better than Kai although that isnt saying much anything

[Jase 43,479]

5 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

Both giroud and werner were horrible today

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Imagine playing a player in a role that isn't suited him and then we're surprised that he plays poorly...

[Jase 43,479]

After 12 Premier League games:

2019/20:
W - 8
D - 2
L - 2
Pts - 26
Pos. - 3rd

2020/21:
W - 6
D - 4
L - 2
Pts - 22
Pos. - 3rd (could be overtaken on Sunday)

[MoroccanBlue 5,382]

We will probably have to play 343 against Wolves if Pulisic is out

[communicate 2,703]

57 minutes ago, Hutcho said:

No one was expecting us to win the league anyway. Its just come about after us starting well. Liverpool still ahead of us as they should be. It's a new team and at the moment our academy boys are the ones firing. We aren't gonna win every game and walk to the title. People thinking otherwise are dreaming.

Shit game onto the next one

Actually I do. With city struggling and Liverpool injuries. The league is there for the taking. Squad wise we also don't need much other than a dm. 

[Laylabelle 9,535]

16 minutes ago, communicate said:

Actually I do. With city struggling and Liverpool injuries. The league is there for the taking. Squad wise we also don't need much other than a dm. 

But with their injuries so far.. Liverpool have been fine. May change as it goes on but still just one random loss..

 

[manpe 10,861]

We will never get to play Werner, Pulisic and Ziyech together, will we? Werner is wasted on the wing, even more so on the right side. Fuck how frustrating those injuries are...

[Superblue 6,372]

Really poor game, hopefully one of those every team has sometimes and we move on.

I think the only player that could really say they had a decent game was Reece.

The likes of Chilwell, Mount, Kovacic, Werner, Giroud it was the worst I've seen them all play this season and Havertz since Covid has looked alarmingly off the pace.

These sort of games we need that bit of luck to help pull us through and unfortunately we didn't today, hitting the post twice but even then we frankly didn't deserve anything tonight.

No pace, urgency to our game. No one seemed to want to take responsibility on the ball and to drive the team forward. 

Hopefully it's just a one off and we can get it out of our system against Wolves midweek.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Actually I do. With city struggling and Liverpool injuries. The league is there for the taking. Squad wise we also don't need much other than a dm. 

We played a game with no out and out wingers because of injuries.
We have a team with basically 6 new starters without a preseason. These things take a lot of time to gel and we've seen glimpses of it. But we have depth in some positions but not the position we seem to keep getting the injuries.

I believe the squad is good enough to win the prem but this season has come a bit too soon.