Ruddy looked stumped so good job Olsson was awake. Looking at the RvW- Hooper partnership, RvW was through and he simply did not appreciate Hooper's run. Not convinced it's working brilliantly.
Your right they been playing together for 30 minute now, they should know each others game inside out
I'm just commenting on what I see. They train together and they have played together. We are making defensive mistakes all over the place.
Barely containing. In fairness, they've been brilliant. In complete control, but we are constantly giving the ball away outside the penalty area and making it impossible for ourselves.
Yep turn around eventually get the ball the whittaker and the long ball doesn't work. Same old same old.
I thought exactly that too. Some wonderful touches between Garrido, Fer, Hooper and Olsson. Then it gets to Snodgrass and he puts a game stopping pass to Whittaker which allows Everton to easily regroup, pressurise again and quickly win the ball back.
Sounds like the same old story then. As brilliant as Everton may have been, we've shot ourselves in the foot with a negative mentality and poor passing.
Not sure about negative mentality. We've actually looked quite positive and for once have been pressing very high up the pitch. It's the passing that has been absolutely terrible. But they are being pressed hard by Everton with the crowd baying. Howard's slightly odd decision making might be the only thing to get us into this.
As good as Barry's strike was, does anyone else think Ruddy could have done better? It was hardly right in the corner. I can't understand why we consistently concede from roughly every other shot on target, whereas it takes us about five shots on target to score (or if it's against Cardiff, ten shots on target doesn't do it...)
I'd like to see redmond for Snodgrass to try and inject some pace, several times whits has played a ball in behind the defence which snoddy hasn't been fast enough to get too
I guess we should have expected a very hard game, they only lost once at home in 2013 Still, we're not out of it at 1-0
This Everton side is completely different from the industrial unit Moyes used to put out. I have to admit I've never been convinced in the past by Martinez, but judging from this he's good. Everton are so fluid. We're doing well to even stay in this game, I think. But why does everyone play so well against us?
