Marco Silva

[nogs]

There's a surprise, no one in here saying Silva's got the system all wrong, should be playing players out on loan and needs sacking before he ruins our football club!! 

[Finn balor]

Like I said before I can’t wait for next season. Zouma needs signing straight away 

[Btay]

Last 8 games - 16 points - 6 clean sheets.

5W - 1D - 2L

3W-1D v top 6.

2 points per game. Champions league form against good opposition as well.

This kind of football is what I could see glimpses of during the start of the season, the middle of the season was dismal. Still think we are about par for what I expected for the season. 3 wins from the last 3 would get us 7th I believe.

Still room for improvement as always but Marco deserves credit for the turnaround and probably a manager of the month award in my opinion.

[Aidan]

56 minutes ago, Btay said:

Last 8 games - 16 points - 6 clean sheets.

5W - 1D - 2L

3W-1D v top 6.

2 points per game. Champions league form against good opposition as well.

This kind of football is what I could see glimpses of during the start of the season, the middle of the season was dismal. Still think we are about par for what I expected for the season. 3 wins from the last 3 would get us 7th I believe.

Still room for improvement as always but Marco deserves credit for the turnaround and probably a manager of the month award in my opinion.

The most important thing now is to beat those sides below us convincingly and bring this good form into next season. 

[Btay]

4 hours ago, Aidan said:

The most important thing now is to beat those sides below us convincingly and bring this good form into next season. 

Consistency is the key. Something we will never get from chopping and changing managers and to another degree - players.

[Romey 1878]

https://www.football365.com/news/marco-silvas-everton-are-suddenly-something-again

[Finn balor]

Good article 

[AlbanyNYToffee]

"If Everton were a boxer, we’d be talking about their footwork rather than their raw punching power, and that’s a sign of improving health."

That line is absolute gold. We'll meet our top 4 and trophy goals as our proverbial footwork improves. We can't really on punching power to be successful which is what we tried to do up until Brands' showed up and had a brilliant summer. 

[duncanmckenzieismagic]

Frustrating performance today , unless you’re in the anti Europe brigade , but I thought Silva got it right again 

Good dominant performance right up until we got into the final third, get a good striker in and all boded well for next season

[Finn balor]

Yeah think we will be in the mix next season. Say arsenal for example apart from the front two I can’t think of a player I’d have from their first eleven over ours 

[markjazzbassist]

35 minutes ago, Finn balor said:

Yeah think we will be in the mix next season. Say arsenal for example apart from the front two I can’t think of a player I’d have from their first eleven over ours 

Them and United look awful.  Chelsea too but if hazard leaves and they don’t get worldies in there.

 

4th place is there for the taking next year I really believe that.

[pete0]

3 hours ago, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

Frustrating performance today , unless you’re in the anti Europe brigade , but I thought Silva got it right again 

Good dominant performance right up until we got into the final third, get a good striker in and all boded well for next season

How did he get it right? We only made their keeper make one save. Hodgson had them set up to close the space in the final third. Silva should have went more attacking as what we were doing wasn't working. 

[duncanmckenzieismagic]

4 minutes ago, pete0 said:

How did he get it right? We only made their keeper make one save. Hodgson had them set up to close the space in the final third. Silva should have went more attacking as what we were doing wasn't working. 

Are you completely ignoring the part where I said right up until the final third?

Silva got it right because we completely dominated the game, we played some very good football and got in some great positions to hurt them but then either the final ball was poor( not Silva’s fault) or the finishing was poor ( also not Silva’s fault)

 

[pete0]

3 minutes ago, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

Are you completely ignoring the part where I said right up until the final third?

Silva got it right because we completely dominated the game, we played some very good football and got in some great positions to hurt them but then either the final ball was poor( not Silva’s fault) or the finishing was poor ( also not Silva’s fault)

 

No, but it's Crystal Palace I expect us to have the ball. We failed to break them down. Hodgson got it right, he set up to be difficult to break down. Silva had no answer. 

[Btay]

1 hour ago, pete0 said:

No, but it's Crystal Palace I expect us to have the ball. We failed to break them down. Hodgson got it right, he set up to be difficult to break down. Silva had no answer. 

Can’t blame him for having faith in his front 4 with how they have played of late. It’s football.

[Gwlad]

They also would have their tails up after their win against Arsenal last weekend.

[pete0]

16 minutes ago, Btay said:

Can’t blame him for having faith in his front 4 with how they have played of late. It’s football.

Just goes to show the games we won was more a case of the opposition having bad days. Fulham and Palace didn't just let us have space for fun and we struggled. Doesn't help that we have no plan B either. 

[Hafnia]

15 minutes ago, pete0 said:

Just goes to show the games we won was more a case of the opposition having bad days. Fulham and Palace didn't just let us have space for fun and we struggled. Doesn't help that we have no plan B either. 

Let's get lardiola back in eh Pete..... we know how much you love your basics...... you must have enjoyed watching palace today..... lardiola esque. 

[pete0]

32 minutes ago, hafnia said:

Let's get lardiola back in eh Pete..... we know how much you love your basics...... you must have enjoyed watching palace today..... lardiola esque. 

Defensively they were very good. Don't know how anyone can be happy with what Silva is serving up. Same thing every week, and no plan B. 

[Btay]

1 hour ago, pete0 said:

Just goes to show the games we won was more a case of the opposition having bad days. Fulham and Palace didn't just let us have space for fun and we struggled. Doesn't help that we have no plan B either. 

I think you’ll see that we carved them up until the final third. Coleman had so many chances to get a good ball in ( granted he got that one to Cenk and was saved well ) but generally put in a nothing ball. DCL was off, which is unfortunate for him but that happens. 

For me another game where we looked defensively strong and competent, never under threat. I can see the foundations Silva is laying and I’m getting back to believing we could be 2/3 players away from being a seriously good team. So yes, I am happy with what’s getting served up because I can see the potential in what we are doing and where we are going.

[Matt]

Another clean sheet! How many is that now this year?

[Btay]

18 minutes ago, Matt said:

Another clean sheet! How many is that now this year?

12 I believe.

7 in the last 9.

 

Silva out.

[Romey 1878]

Unlocking tight defences is clearly a problem for us, but we've shown (the team and manager) that we're capable of solving problems when they arise.

We struggled to defend set-pieces and that looks to be sorted. We struggled keeping clean sheets and now we're keeping them more often than not. We struggled with our tempo and pressing at times this season, and both look massively improved. We've struggled putting 90 minute performances together but that has been put to bed recently. We've struggled getting results against the big 6 for god knows how long but we've shown that we're capable of going toe to toe with them and beat them.

It's a lot harder to solve this problem at this time but I have confidence that we'll do all we can to solve it over the summer.

[Shukes]

13 hours ago, pete0 said:

No, but it's Crystal Palace I expect us to have the ball. We failed to break them down. Hodgson got it right, he set up to be difficult to break down. Silva had no answer. 

22 efforts on goal! Failed to break them down? 

Surely you see that’s the players not getting them on target and not the manager? Surely? 

[pete0]

10 minutes ago, Shukes said:

22 efforts on goal! Failed to break them down? 

Surely you see that’s the players not getting them on target and not the manager? Surely? 

Palace were compact and defended well that's why most weren't on target, most were headers from crosses or pop shots. I don't think we created any clear chances, the expected goal stat says 1.15 goals from the chances we had, I assume that must be the Tosun one that was a good save. Other than that we didn't bother the keeper and you'd not expect us to with the chances we made/had. 

 

 

[Haiku]

The rule of thumb is you should never press heavily compact sides. It makes them even more compact. We should have kept the ball in the middle, pull them out of their shell and kill them with precise through balls in the opened spaces. If we're unable to create spaces for our attackers, we can't expect the opposition will unlock by itself.

[StevO]

We are always better against teams who attack us. teams with ten men behind the ball has been tough for us. Next season a lot of teams will put ten men behind the ball and that will be Marco’s biggest challenge. We’ll need to find a bit of magic to get through those games. 

We dominated the game yesterday, unfortunately the game showed DCLs biggest weakness. He can’t finish chances off yet. 

Their keeper made a few good saves too. We have to take our chances. Still not a bad result, let’s hope Burnley are on the beach come Friday night. 

[markjazzbassist]

He’s had a roller coaster year but it’s ending on a positive and the players all seem to back him.  I’m very happy we can continue to build and grow with him.  Let’s hope the players he and brands have picked will take us to the next level.

[Gwlad]

It's been a roller coaster year for all of us! At least we go into the break with a stable management organisation and as has been said maybe 2 or 3 sound acquisitions and shipping surplus out, should see us onward and upward.

[nogs]

On 28/04/2019 at 00:08, pete0 said:

Defensively they were very good. Don't know how anyone can be happy with what Silva is serving up. Same thing every week, and no plan B. 

I find it very hard to take you seriously as a supposed fan of this club when you cannot find it in you to give any credit you OUR manager and OUR players for a run that included drawing with the best Liverpool side in 30 years and beating Arsenal, Chelsea and Man Utd at home.