White Wolf
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Learning experience for us and the players. We got away with this one and on another day Everton would have beaten us - they wasted three massive chances.
First ten/fifteen minutes we were good. Passing was a bit off (and was throughout the game) but we looked dangerous and the better side. Boly made an error but Coleman shot straight at Patricio.
Things changed with their goal. Someone made a poor pass across the pitch and Doc made the foul which they score from. No idea what happened or who was at fault from where I was sitting.
Everton on top from there for the most part, we kept giving the ball away and making the wrong decision. Jiminez looked dangerous and had one chance which unfortunately got away from him.
I'll have to see the Jagielka tackle again. On the first viewing I was calling for a foul and yellow but from my angle just saw him go through Jota not whether his studs were up or not. FK was brilliant by Neves.
Thought we would kick on from there with Everton down to 10 but you wouldn't have known that they were missing a man - if anyone looked like it, it was us. We just couldn't get going. One good chance when Jiminez made a good run and Bennett sent him through forcing Pickford into a good save. But at no point did I feel like we made the man advantage count.
You could tell the goal was coming as we started to go really off our game. There was a spell before and after Everton's second goal where we simply could not keep the ball and were constantly giving it away as soon as we won it. There was a mixup at the back where Walcott should have scored and then Tosun wasted a great chance when he shot instead of playing Walcott through - Patricio made a good save.
With the goal it is a good finish but Bennett got much too tight on Tosun, you could see straight away he was going to roll it into the path of Richarlison. Doherty needed to track the run and Coady needs to be closer so he can try and get a block in when the pass happens.
Subs were positive and helped us get back into the game. Costa was very poor and Bonatini added some movement up top and brought others into the game which Helder had failed to do all match. I had seriously hoped we were finally about to ditch Doherty and bring Jonny to the right with Vinagre left but of course it wasn't to be. Still, I thought we had a bit more zip down our left which was our much stronger side by this stage. We could have done with Cav on the bench in this game, shame he was injured as he would have made a real impact I think.
Fantastic cross by Neves who has, as we all expected, proved his quality in the Prem from day one. Nice header by Jiminez also. But despite there being 10 mins to go with them a man down I never felt like we were going to win, we lacked something although I can't identify what. There was also time for that other Everton chance they wasted when Coleman and Niasse broke two-on-one but the former totally fucked up his centre which should have been a simple tap-in.
Pleased with the point but there's still some disappointment, particularly as we played a whole half against 10 men but could never tell. Neves was brilliant. Really impressed by Jiminez, runs a lot and is much quicker than he looks - seems to have more of a striker's instinct than Bonatini but was still able to bring others into the game just as well. He ran at Pickford frequently and put him under lot of pressure. As we all know from England Pickford can get the ball out very far but when closed down like Raul did his passing was very poor and this nullified one way Everton had of getting the ball forwards quickly. Bennett made an error but otherwise was good, he made a superb tackle when Richarlison burst forwards. Moutinho was solid, would give him a 7/10. He isn't adding a new element to our game but is instead a straight improvement on Saiss I feel. Boly had a stinker, Doherty as we know cannot cross and kills our attacks with his rubbish crossing and habit of turning back to give it to Bennett. Costa was poor and never in the game while Jota was slightly better but too selfish.
Lots of positives to see then and lets hope we kick on from here. I think we will improve as we go as our new signings become accustomed to how we play. Dendocker will come in for Bennett should improve us playing out from the back that side. But what we need, badly, is to ditch Doherty. He's shit and Everton knew it, all the play come down our right as they were aware we wouldn't be able to handle Richarlison. I was in the BW close to the NB and from where I was sitting could see Doc had his arms around Richarlison constantly, always trying to pull him down or sneakily shove him in the back as it was the only way he could try and stop him.
I'm happy with our signings in the transfer window but we have a major failing - a RWB. A lot of people, myself included, thought this was our weakest position by a mile last year and needed to be our #1 target to improve on. Yes, we looked and tried with Cancelo and then Zinchenko to move Jonny on the right, and I cannot criticise the recruitment for being turned down by Cancelo as he had a much better offer, but we needed to keep looking and not just wait on Zinchenko as we badly needed an improvement on Doc. I really, really want to see Vinagre at LWB and Jonny RWB next game, should improve us massively.
First ten/fifteen minutes we were good. Passing was a bit off (and was throughout the game) but we looked dangerous and the better side. Boly made an error but Coleman shot straight at Patricio.
Things changed with their goal. Someone made a poor pass across the pitch and Doc made the foul which they score from. No idea what happened or who was at fault from where I was sitting.
Everton on top from there for the most part, we kept giving the ball away and making the wrong decision. Jiminez looked dangerous and had one chance which unfortunately got away from him.
I'll have to see the Jagielka tackle again. On the first viewing I was calling for a foul and yellow but from my angle just saw him go through Jota not whether his studs were up or not. FK was brilliant by Neves.
Thought we would kick on from there with Everton down to 10 but you wouldn't have known that they were missing a man - if anyone looked like it, it was us. We just couldn't get going. One good chance when Jiminez made a good run and Bennett sent him through forcing Pickford into a good save. But at no point did I feel like we made the man advantage count.
You could tell the goal was coming as we started to go really off our game. There was a spell before and after Everton's second goal where we simply could not keep the ball and were constantly giving it away as soon as we won it. There was a mixup at the back where Walcott should have scored and then Tosun wasted a great chance when he shot instead of playing Walcott through - Patricio made a good save.
With the goal it is a good finish but Bennett got much too tight on Tosun, you could see straight away he was going to roll it into the path of Richarlison. Doherty needed to track the run and Coady needs to be closer so he can try and get a block in when the pass happens.
Subs were positive and helped us get back into the game. Costa was very poor and Bonatini added some movement up top and brought others into the game which Helder had failed to do all match. I had seriously hoped we were finally about to ditch Doherty and bring Jonny to the right with Vinagre left but of course it wasn't to be. Still, I thought we had a bit more zip down our left which was our much stronger side by this stage. We could have done with Cav on the bench in this game, shame he was injured as he would have made a real impact I think.
Fantastic cross by Neves who has, as we all expected, proved his quality in the Prem from day one. Nice header by Jiminez also. But despite there being 10 mins to go with them a man down I never felt like we were going to win, we lacked something although I can't identify what. There was also time for that other Everton chance they wasted when Coleman and Niasse broke two-on-one but the former totally fucked up his centre which should have been a simple tap-in.
Pleased with the point but there's still some disappointment, particularly as we played a whole half against 10 men but could never tell. Neves was brilliant. Really impressed by Jiminez, runs a lot and is much quicker than he looks - seems to have more of a striker's instinct than Bonatini but was still able to bring others into the game just as well. He ran at Pickford frequently and put him under lot of pressure. As we all know from England Pickford can get the ball out very far but when closed down like Raul did his passing was very poor and this nullified one way Everton had of getting the ball forwards quickly. Bennett made an error but otherwise was good, he made a superb tackle when Richarlison burst forwards. Moutinho was solid, would give him a 7/10. He isn't adding a new element to our game but is instead a straight improvement on Saiss I feel. Boly had a stinker, Doherty as we know cannot cross and kills our attacks with his rubbish crossing and habit of turning back to give it to Bennett. Costa was poor and never in the game while Jota was slightly better but too selfish.
Lots of positives to see then and lets hope we kick on from here. I think we will improve as we go as our new signings become accustomed to how we play. Dendocker will come in for Bennett should improve us playing out from the back that side. But what we need, badly, is to ditch Doherty. He's shit and Everton knew it, all the play come down our right as they were aware we wouldn't be able to handle Richarlison. I was in the BW close to the NB and from where I was sitting could see Doc had his arms around Richarlison constantly, always trying to pull him down or sneakily shove him in the back as it was the only way he could try and stop him.
I'm happy with our signings in the transfer window but we have a major failing - a RWB. A lot of people, myself included, thought this was our weakest position by a mile last year and needed to be our #1 target to improve on. Yes, we looked and tried with Cancelo and then Zinchenko to move Jonny on the right, and I cannot criticise the recruitment for being turned down by Cancelo as he had a much better offer, but we needed to keep looking and not just wait on Zinchenko as we badly needed an improvement on Doc. I really, really want to see Vinagre at LWB and Jonny RWB next game, should improve us massively.
