London Blue Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Pickford is class, so much command for a young player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafnia Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 bored much? We look toothless. I don't see a goal threat anywhere. I'll agree with you on DCL tho We've looked toothless since Martinez's first season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Why do I bother.... nyblue23 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btay Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Negotiated a tricky tie. Improvements needed and I'm not sure gylfi is the answer. We need a negredo/dzeko when at city Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Blue Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 We've looked toothless since Martinez's first season. No we haven't. Can we have a Lukaku swear box please? nyblue23 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjazzbassist Posted August 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 we won 1-0, another clean sheet too. considering it was essentially another pre-season match the "style points" don't really matter. well done lads, let's hope for a good draw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newty82 Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Thank fuck for that! Found that hard to enjoy. We did what we have to do. But with just one friendly and a opener against Stoke to cone before we hit a 4 game run of City, United, Chelsea and Spurs...we have work to do!!! Struck me tonight that Baines was the only natural wide man out there tonight. All the others are central players by nature. Until Kev came on of course. Keep at it lads. Need to click asap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c1982 Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) Slow, boring at times, frustrating but a massively important result and another good work out for the players against opposition which was no match quality wise but the effort and energy they put into that was commendable. Positives for me were Keane, Pickford, Klaassen, DCL and Davies. The balance doesn't look right but that could equally be down to match sharpness - Sunday will be a big game to sort a few bits out looking forward to Stoke. Edited August 3, 2017 by c1982 MikeO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sev Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Yes. We're through to next round. Congratulations indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 DCL to start, Rooney on the bench. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 That was shite. But we're through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghoat Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Think that was Klaassen. But definitely a great pass. All those blonde blokes look alike in full a 380x200 reso stream...but I do stand corrected! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shukes Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Jeez guys. It's still pre-season for us. Some of the players have barely been training for over a week. Ruzomberok are a couple of weeks into their season now and are putting their full strength side against our experimental line up. We were always going to coast through these games. Ruzomberok offered no threat what-so-ever. We got through doing as little work as possible in a fixture that is notorious for screwing up people's pre-season plans. We have a game again on Sunday against a much better side. There will be more chopping and changing in that game too. It's completely up in the air what Koeman will put out against Stoke but I guarantee it will be on a whole different level of performance when the league starts. Literally bickering online over a bloody pre-season game, it's ridiculous. It's like the RS thinking they'll win the league after beating someone in pre-season. Exactly. I didn't think we were that bad considering. Though I think Matt is right, we are screaming out for a target man....Giroud? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Kev 100% going for goal He's so so selfish. There are times when it's needed, but not when the angle is as tight as that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 That was terrible but we're through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 we won 1-0, another clean sheet too. considering it was essentially another pre-season match the "style points" don't really matter. well done lads, let's hope for a good draw. Just not AC Milan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjazzbassist Posted August 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Just not AC Milan. we can't get them, we and they are seeded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Really tired but in a nutshell it's job done. Rozemberok parked the bus for 170 minutes (which they are well within their rights to do) and it obviously made it hard for us to break them down. As it happened we limited them to very little chances over the two legs and got the two goals to see us through, the second coming as soon as they came out of their shells and attacked us. Had they done that from the off then we may well have had the four and five-nil's that everyone was predicting. We're into the hat for the next round now which takes place tomorrow, hopefully we get an easy tie again so that we can get into the group stage. Things are coming together nicely when you consider that this is still pre-season. markjazzbassist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyblue23 Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) We've looked toothless since Martinez's first season. You mean the season we scored the most Premier League goals out of all Everton seasons in the last 21 years? FFS. Edited August 3, 2017 by nyblue23 markjazzbassist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 We were about as good as Leon Osmans shirt and tie combo badaids and nyblue23 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaiah Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 I'm too lazy to look up all the complicated seeding rules, so if anyone follows that stuff, could you post a small list of the toughest teams we could face in the next round? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 He's so so selfish. There are times when it's needed, but not when the angle is as tight as that. Against a keeper who doesn't know his arse from his elbow it's not a bad idea..however I am not disagreeing about kev being selfish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafnia Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) You mean the season we scored the most Premier League goals out of all Everton seasons in the last 21 years? FFS.Tell ya what.... do a search for "toothless" in this forum and look at the dates... FFS indeed. "We need a number 10"...."no pace"..... Ah but let's rewrite history and pretend everything was tickety boo because we had a striker who could finish chances when put on a plate for him. We've been toothless because we haven't had any intelligent movement and interplay upfront for so long, we been toothless because we've had one player who is creative without being intelligent with one player in front of him who can't make good runs. We've been toothless because we lost the ball so often in transitional phases of play. End of. Edited August 3, 2017 by Hafnia nyblue23 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjazzbassist Posted August 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 I'm too lazy to look up all the complicated seeding rules, so if anyone follows that stuff, could you post a small list of the toughest teams we could face in the next round? Thanks. now i'm second guessing myself. trying to look it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Gueye and Schneiderlin should be either/or, not both. They seem to pull down each other's contributions, somehow. Davies and Sandro are live wires. Bring on DCL because we need a target. Hate to say it, but Rooney does not fit in well. We'd do better without him on the field. After a full game, I'll stick with my earlier comments. The only things to add are (i) DCL did the job, and (ii) Mirallas adds little value. The biggest decision Koeman has to make is what to do with Wayne Rooney. A great start would be realizing that Rooney should not be an automatic starter. He needs to fit the team structure and strategy, not the other way around. Actually, I think it would help him a lot, and take the pressure off him, if he weren't an automatic starter. His move to Everton may be a great business decision, but it should not dictate how we play. Right now, for whatever reason, it's not working. (I realize it's too soon to be definitive about this, but the warning signs are there.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 He's so so selfish. There are times when it's needed, but not when the angle is as tight as that. At that stage of the game it was worth a go, I said to Josh he's going to put it in the top corner; obviously he didn't but we had nothing to lose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaiah Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Some very decent teams (PSV Eindhoven, Freiburg, Bordeaux, Gent) already eliminated by 'minnow' teams. Just goes to show these early rounds aren't walkovers. markjazzbassist and MikeO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Tell ya what.... do a search for "toothless" in this forum and look at the dates... FFS indeed. "We need a number 10"...."no pace"..... Ah but let's rewrite history and pretend everything was tickety boo because we had a striker who could finish chances when put on a plate for him. We've been toothless because we haven't had any intelligent movement and interplay upfront for so long, we been toothless because we've had one player who is creative without being intelligent with one player in front of him who can't make good runs. We've been toothless because we lost the ball so often in transitional phases of play. End of. obsessed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Well how poor was that, I know win is more important than the display, but fuck me if we don't show some massive improvement on that bollocks, we are going seriously struggle in the league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Anyone convincing themselves that this game wasn't poor or that it's only preseason needs to wake up a little because performances in preseason are a precursor for the real thing. Our best preseason in recent years resulted in our best ever Prem points tally. Last season we sharpened up a little but soon dipped back to preseason levels. Soton also struggled in the first half of the season when they had the UEFA qualifiers under Koeman. In terms of tonight, it was poor. We played a bang average side with a dodgy keeper and posted maybe 2 or 3 shots on target. Koeman said we would be sharper but we were worse. It was the worst cross between Moyes and Martinez, lots of negative possession. Pickford was a positive, Williams much better, Keane classy again. Baines solid, Davies solid but completely wasted. Jags ok, but looked rusty. I thought Schneiderlin was poor tonight, again Gana did well defensively but he was poor offensively. Klaasen was barely involved, Rooney was poor and Sandro showed why I warned you all not to get too carried away byour that video. Playing under pressure is a different kettle of fish. I'm so glad DCL came on. He showed how much we missed Lukaku because he was a presence. He could beat them in the air, with his pace or by dropping deep and running at them. Rooney and Sandro were talking one good touch then a poor one but largely it was backwards or to the corner. Klaassen was completely wasted. He is clearly a box to box man, not wide. He should have been playing alongside Gana or Schneiderlin and then we needed some pace on the right. Rooney looked like the UTD player of the last 6 months. I can see a bit of promise but he looked like a 50 year old in the second half. We really need to step it up, and we may well do it but I'm not convinced yet. nyblue23 and Sibdane 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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