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This game just brought me back to earth and reminded me I'm still watching Everton.

Deulofeu needs to start in the derby.

We just don't know what to do with all the possession. I like the new Everton trying to control the play and have the ball and I like what Martinez is trying to do, but we need to do something with the ball. The movement is poor and our passing and final ball have been off for a couple of games now. I trust Martinez can see this so we must be patient. The players are still learning.

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We just don't know what to do with all the possession. I like the new Everton trying to control the play and have the ball and I like what Martinez is trying to do, but we need to do something with the ball. The movement is poor and our passing and final ball have been off for a couple of games now. I trust Martinez can see this so we must be patient. The players are still learning.

Barkley and Deulofeu on second half please. Absolutely no cutting edge today.

No offence, but that's a premface post if ever I've seen it. The PL is filled to the brim with clogger, bruiser defenders - the level of defending is woeful for the most part and many of the league's defenders would look terible against the nippier La Liga attackers (look at the state of them when they come up against technical, intelligent players like Aguero, Mata, Suarez...). Look at the mistakes that are made every week ffs. Going by your comment Messi can't be all that great either. One of the better PL teams in West Brom were hopeless defensively yesterday. There's been loads of 6-0, 7-0 etc hammerings in the PL over the last five years.
 
In saying that, you're right that Ligue 1 is a far worse league. But La Liga is arguably better - I consider it a stronger league than the PL personally, and I think that despite all the talk of the 'big two', Atletico would have a very strong chance of winning the PL. The Bundesliga is the best right now though for me.
 
Look at the extensive list of players who've come from Spain and pissed all over the PL - Mata, Michu, Silva, Aguero, Cazorla, Torres. The La Liga imports have arguably comprised most of the best attackers in the league over the last few years.
 
I don't mean to be rude but do you even watch La Liga?
 
Zlatan and Falcao have both succeeded in Italy and Spain. Those are top leagues and far better than Ligue 1. The likes of Ibra, Falcao and Messi are well proven either in CL football or international football, but apparently they have to do it against the likes of Stoke to prove themselves? Come off it. Have you seen some of the shite strikers who've scored 20 goals plus in the PL?
 
Posts like yours are what leads to someone like RVP being rated more highly than Zlatan, when it's clear that Ibrahimovic is a far better player than Persie.
 
There's been a clear decline in the level of the PL over the last few seasons, so the old 'prem proven' line doesn't wash. Thinking like yours is why Man United have employed a guy like Moyes...
 
By the way, one player proves nothing, but the best defender in the world plays in France, ironically (Thiago Silva). On the other hand, the guy who's considered the best defender in the PL (Kompany) has been exposed constantly in the CL - I like him as a player but he's been woeful for City in Europe, for the most part. Food for thought.

Has to be Howard. Osman obviously played a massive part in changing the game too but Howard kept us in it a few times.

I'd let you do that too if it means we can keep Lukaku.

I will shave my balls with a cheese grater and let John Terry fuck my mom if it means we can keep Lukaku.

Look at our players celebrating and having fun. Is there something changing here?
Love to see the players like that.

Sounds like Goodison :jump for joy:

Pienaar and Mirallas have both been poor. If ever there was a game for Deulofeu this is it I think.

Pienaar and Mirallas have both been poor. If ever there was a game for Deulofeu this is it I think.

luna injured, hope he can play on, he has been awful

Villa missed a penalty, a couple of minutes later Tonev with a nasty tackle on Baines that could have easily been a red, not even a booking.
 
Villa have started strongly, we need to slow the game down and start getting into it.

Well we could guess it I suppose, we'd just need to fit Osman, Naismith and Neville in there somewhere. It just wasn't the team we wanted most of the time!

its not the same feeling when its not live!
 
Plus youll have to live the rest of the day sat in a corner in your house, with your phone turned off and not answering the door...

Good decision imo. Not that it will affect us as we'll be qualifying for the CL by then

This. I seriously hope we're wrong though.
 
I want:
 
Howard
Coleman Jagielka Distin Baines
Barry McCarthy
Mirallas Barkley Pienaar
Lukaku

These are funny;
 
Brendan Rodgers' Greatest Hits
 
* "When we have the football, everybody's a player."
 
* "It was a perfect away performance, apart from the first 10 minutes."
 
* "I've always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can't live for a second without hope."
 
* "My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence."
 
* "I started coaching for one reason and that was to make a difference for people, not just as footballers but as human beings."
 
* "You train dogs, I like to educate players."
 
* "When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team. We're not at that stage yet, but that's what we will get to. It's death by football. You just suck the life out of them."
 
* "I always say a squad is like a good meal - I'm not a great cook but a good meal takes a wee bit of time, but also to offer a good meal you need good ingredients."
 
* ""All I'll ever do is all I've ever done in any job, and that's promise to fight for my life for the people of the city."
 
* "I've always worked along the statistic, that if you can dominate the game with the ball you have a 79% chance of winning a game of football."
 
* "We play with 11 men, other teams play with 10 men and a goalkeeper."

This; Millwall got into Europe due to the magnificent achievement of beating Walsall, Telford, Burnley, Tranmere & Sunderland (then losing the final) in 2004. How does that deserve a place ahead of the team finishing 6th in the league (Villa) over thirty eight top level games?
 
Overdue change in the rules imo (though the league cup runners up have never qualified that way have they?).

I love this comment on the BBC website: "If Southampton are to compete for a Champions League place then they really need to be beating these mid table sides."

Mourinho fortunate? You cannot be serious. Did you miss his time at Porto? They were 5th in the table when he got there and 3 years without a league title. He transformed them into Portuguese, Uefa Cup and Champions League winners with talent that he found in the Portuguese league. Or even Leiria before that when he took them to their highest finish in the top flight ever? Porto and Inter aren't Ladas, but they aren't Ferraris either. He got the jobs at Chelsea and Real Madrid on merit - not because he was fortunate.
 
As for Pep you could say he was fortunate yes. He is clearly an intelligent manager and seems quite good tactically, although obviously it's difficult to assess his real skill when you manage Barcelona and Bayern. I do feel people give him too much credit for what happened at Barcelona. The real revolution at Barcelona started with Cruyff, Guardiola was just intelligent enough to use the talent available to him correctly and to put the right players in the right places.

Hello Everton fans,
 
This will be my second visit to Goodison Park.
It all started last year....
 
My daughter is a massive Romelu Lukaku - fan.
So we went to see him with West Bromwich at Old Trafford around x-mas.
The deal was ...Romelu on saturday , Everton-Chelsea on sunday.
Despite the 1-2 loss , i saw a great game.
 
With Romelu's loan to Goodison , i had to hear the same question every day.
"When are we going back?"
 
 
Yesterday , i booked the plane tickets.
The Southampton game...and the Royal Oak.
 
 
Greetings,
Jurgen.
Seasonticket holder KV Mechelen.
Charmed by Goodison , home of Liverpool finest.