Man Of The Match V Liverpool

[MikeO]

 

Current Player of the Year standings....

Baines 56

 

Pienaar 38

 

Fellaini 26

 

Howard 22

 

Distin 21

 

Coleman 18

 

Osman 17

 

Cahill 9

 

Yakubu 8

 

Hibbert 7

 

Arteta 7

 

Jagielka 6

 

Rodwell 5

 

Beckford 3

 

Gueye 3

 

Neville 2

 

Bilyaletdinov 2

 

Heitinga 1

 

MOTM winners....

 

Birmingham (A)...Leon Osman

 

Fulham (A)...Steven Pienaar

 

Brentford (A)...Seamus Coleman

 

Newcastle (H)...Sylvain Distin

 

Manchester United (H)...Tim Howard

 

Aston Villa (A)...Leighton Baines

 

Huddersfield (H)...Marouane Fellaini

 

Wolves (H)...Sylvain Distin

 

Blackburn (A)...Leighton Baines

[holystove]

Cahill for me. Honorable mention to Yakubu and Distin.

[Bulletproof Tiger]

Cahill. Absolute legend! True BLUE!

[BrotherEstapol]

Suuuper, super Tim!

Suuuper, super Tim!

Suuuper, super Tim!

Suuuper Timmy Caahill!

 

Not sure if Evertonians use it or if it's just the Socceroos guys, it's a good chant!

Edited October 17, 2010 by BrotherEstapol

[Guest Reg Reagan]

the yak.

 

Showed so much strength and pace to beat the RS defence and put us in the good position as well.

 

Special mentions go to coleman and arteta as well

[Madmatt]

timmy was awesome today, but i have given it to distan. im not his biggest fan at all, but he did me proud today and if that effort had have gone it i think i would still be cheering now.

 

i think the whole team played well. Great effort shown by the whole team and im so proud i cant stop smiling

 

I think beckford needs some confidance, shame he couldnt set up the yak or finish that half chance off

[Blue 250]

Distins best game in an Everton shirt.

 

They all did their bit, we've played better than that and lost ie Villa.

 

The Yank has offered £40 million as transfer funds, their going to need every penny.

[marcopaulo]

distin for me...solid and the best game he has had in a blue shirt! a good leader at the back today and led by example a couple of times burstin forward with the ball..a lot pacier than i thought too!

[Bailey]

Brilliant performance from more or less everyone!

 

Cahill gets MOTM though as he was everywhere, probably his best for the club imo. Even when he had to go back into the midfield he played great and completely nulified Gerrard when he was looking his most dangerous.

 

Yakubu was a man on fire in the first half! Whatever Moyes said to him before the game worked and I have never seen him work as hard. Unfortunately we stopped playing in the second half, and he tired so his influence wore off but he still put Beckford in on a couple of occasions. Very impressed.

 

Distin was very dominant in the air today, but both him & jags were very solid for the whole game, just a couple of poor clearances let them down.

 

Baines was very good as well, his set pieces actually managed to beat the 1st man (take note Arteta).

 

Neville was average. I would actually go as far to say that he was probably better in midfield than at the back. Positionally he was good but his passing and choice of pass was poor.

 

Heitinga was average again for me. His passing at times was woeful, which is surprising for someone of his skill. Having said that he broke up play well at times and he gave Gerrard a couple of sly digs which always goes down well with me!

 

Arteta did well but still lackign that spark. Gerrard really pinged some balls around today and thats what Arteta's role is for us but we dont see that from him. He did brake up play really well though and kept the ball under pressure.

 

Osman looked lively without really touching the ball in the 1st half. Hopefully its not a bad injury!

 

Coleman was very good. Defensively we was very solid and he certainly made an impact going forward. He is the only player we have in the current 1st team squad that can beat a man like that (maybe Gueye as well). Hopefully many more derbys to come!

 

Billy looked so nervous and really lacked confidence. However once he got a couple of good clearances under his belt and got back in tandom with Baines, he got much better and set Beckford up. Needs games

 

Hibbert didnt really have much to do but was solid.

 

Beckford was lively, lucky to not get sent off really, especially with that shocking dive. Probably should have scored or at least got the effort on target.

 

Credit for Moyes in that he really got the boys fired up for this one. I again question his tactics towards the end of the game and if both Arteta and Heitinga hadnt picked up knocks Im not sure he would have changed it. However at least he made the right calls when they did have to go off.

 

Roll on next week! COYBS

[Ian C]

Has to be Distin. He was absolutely immense.

 

Honourable mentions to Coleman, Baines, Cahill and Yakubu.

 

What a fucking brilliant performance.

 

Don't understand what people are moaning about re: the last 30 minutes. We defended brilliantly, didn't let them in behind or let them break at us and we threatened to break numerous times with Yakubu and Beckford. Professional and effective, exactly what we need more of.

[c1982]

Distin was excellent - also cahill/yak came close.

 

Very disappointed with Johnny H - doesn't look like he really wants it (here anyway)

[The Beard]

Don't understand what people are moaning about re: the last 30 minutes. We defended brilliantly, didn't let them in behind or let them break at us and we threatened to break numerous times with Yakubu and Beckford. Professional and effective, exactly what we need more of.

 

I totally agree with that statement, Ian. Tactiacally, we allowed that to happen to create our own space on the break and to be honest in most games that would have happened when a team is chasing the game, we do it ourselves. Anyway lets not be churlish, and I only called home to get a bite to eat before finishing the day off. Distin for me, could have been any of.............well 11, 12, 13 or 14 really.

[Romey 1878]

For me, 3 players REALLY stood out and I could pick any one of them. They were Cahill, Distin and Yakubu. Take a bow lads, you were immense.

[jcrawfor]

Distin for me, nothing got past him, and that run towards the end...could have been brilliant! Timmy and Yak were also immense. Hard to pick out a poor performance, I was even impressed by Bily's 2nd half shift, he ran at them and won some good challenges (more of that please!)

[chicagoblue]

Had to wake up at 5:30 after 2 hours of sleep to catch this one, but absolutely worth it. Went with Cahill because he was a 140% for 90 minutes. Distin also excellent but did have a couple of shady clearances. Best game from Yak in a long while but he clearly still lacks fitness.

[evertonblue]

Lucas Neill was solid as a rock at the back. So i went with him. 2nd was Tim Howard, what a keeper. 3rd Heitinga. Inspirational.

[MikeO]

Lucas Neill was solid as a rock at the back. So i went with him. 2nd was Tim Howard, what a keeper. 3rd Heitinga. Inspirational.

Deeply strange person.

[Ian C]

Lucas Neill was solid as a rock at the back. So i went with him. 2nd was Tim Howard, what a keeper. 3rd Heitinga. Inspirational.

 

[rubecula]

I went for Distin for MOTM. But I could just as easily gone for Timbo. Arteta did some good stuff not only in attack but acting defensively in midfield too. He broke up a few attacks. The Yak did brilliantly by forcing them into defence and putting himself about.

 

I think the tactics were excellent. Puting the ball into the net twice when we were on top, and then 'resting' as if to save energy for any further atticking play if needed. Or maybe to ensure we were fresh for the next game against Spurs.

 

We really had nothing to worry about from the RS attack. It was pretty woeful. Most of them didn't really want to know from the body language.

 

The chants of "Going Down, Going Down" were premature, but very very sweet.

 

On the whole a good performance all through the team, so I could nominate most of them really. I will stick with Distin though.

[rubecula]

Lucas Neill was solid as a rock at the back. So i went with him. 2nd was Tim Howard, what a keeper. 3rd Heitinga. Inspirational.

 

 

Pardon?

[Romey 1878]

Don't worry about him; he was dropped on his head when he was a kid.

[Lowensda]

love this piece of analogy by The Guardian " Sotirios Kyrgiakos and Martin Skrtel were being led a harrowing dance by Yakubu Ayegbeni, who scattered them time and again like an armoured car sent into battle against spear-throwers." aha!

 

...And in response to Evertontoffees...WTF are you on dude!? out of politeness i see no-one had the heart to tell him Neill DOESNT play for us anymore? ahaha. Either he hasnt got a clue what he's sniffing or its a kopite wind-up?

[dark]

Lucas Neill was solid as a rock at the back. So i went with him. 2nd was Tim Howard, what a keeper. 3rd Heitinga. Inspirational.

 

Oi! That's fit to be one of my posts!

[MikeO]

Love the fact that Seamus has made Garth Crooks' "Team of the Week" at right-back .

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/score_on_bbci/7631245.stm

 

Does he actually watch any football or just sit smoking crack?

[Droobie]

I gave my vote to Seamus... young lad had no fear going forward, and had an assist.

[Lowensda]

Love the fact that Seamus has made Garth Crooks' "Team of the Week" at right-back .

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/score_on_bbci/7631245.stm

 

Does he actually watch any football or just sit smoking crack?

Maybe there were no decent RB performances that merit a 'team of the week' selection and knowing Seasmus' status as a RB got him in? Saying that, its still odd...so yeah, smoking something!!.

[MikeO]

I gave my vote to Seamus... young lad had no fear going forward, and had an assist.

He has so much potential.

 

Love the fact that he cost us considerably less than Liverpool's wide players earn in a week .

[Hafnia]

Went for dusty bin. Never say I don't give credit where due. Very good today, given my criticism of him, he deserves the award for stepping up to the plate. All things being equal the yak was awesome, not giving it to him on the basis that what we seen today is the minimum we should expect off such a unit. His shoulder barge deserves it's own thread, even my red mates were tickled and impressed.

[dark]

I went for Jagielka myself. I thought that he commanded the defence perfectly and was by far the best defender we had. I agree that Distin was good but I felt that his heading was actually poor - Jagielka seemed to have a faultless game today against Liverpool. Kept Torres out of trouble and made some excellent tackles, especially that one towards the end when Gerrard I think it was looked all set to score.

 

Notible mentions to Cahill & Mikel for the goals. Yakubu for working his arse of today, if he would have scored a goal then he could have been MOTM and a mention for Beckford. I've not liked the look of him because I thought he was shit against Newcastle but today he looked like he has a point to prove. Good game from him (for the time he was on)

[jamiemaher85]

I'm actually going to have to come back to this because there were so many good performances. Distin, Yak, Coleman, Baines, Cahill and Arteta all superb.

 

Also worth noting just how good Ossie was. I'm one of his biggest critics but he was probably one if, if not the, best player in the first 45. He'd be right up there if he hadn't picked up a knock.