Ended up working late yesterday so missed everything, but what a result!! I wouldn't care if we had played ****e and scraped a win, as results are what matters for now, but by all accounts we played very very well. To do it to another team down with us is even better. Everton have really been dragged into this now. On another positive note, the fact Everton demolished Brentford at the weekend showed how bad Brentford must be too. It won't be long before they are another team dropping below us. Now we need to make the most of this feel good feeling and follow up with a win against Villa to really turn the screw on the others around us.
I take it back what I said about willock. Was brilliant second half. That was probably the best football I've watched in a long time. Thought leaving Bruno out was a good idea I recon he would have got injured in there as there was some hefty tackles going in. That being said he has to start against villa
I'd love to see a compilation of the amount of times he slips, falls, airshots and mis-kicks in the box. Needs a new boot sponsor because he looks like Bambi on Ice at times! Swear in the last 18 months he's had some absolute mares when presented with an opportunity to score an easy game.
I'd like to see Joelinton play with less pressure in a team that isn't struggling. Look at Trippier - another planet as a footballer. The pressure on that freekick, the need to get a third was HUGE. He's all over it. He's getting Shelvey out, he knows what he's going to do. No pressure, no shirking and in it goes. Joelinton has been brought up in a pathetic club, with a fragile mindset and zero ambition. The pressure on him to put us 2-1 up at that moment in time, in his mind, is massive. Everything is weighing on him, he's 100% guaranteed to fail. He needs to be getting these chances in a low pressure, mid-table or higher side. He needs to stop thinking and just do. He has so much ability. But to think our chief scout was adamant he was a £40m striker......incredible. He might be a £40m midfielder at some point.
I just want one to fly in for Big Joe. He has zero composure in the box now, its a mental thing. Everything else he's doing great but he gets in the box and I can hear his nipper going ten to the dozen.
As much as I agree with the pressure and it being in his head at present I give you: https://www.reddit.com/r/NUFC/comments/iyghgz/joelinton_miss/
It is crazy though, scored a good goal against Totenham on his debut then it went to **** for him. You can see he can finish from his goal a few weeks back vs Brentford on his weaker foot, lashed it home but just so inconsistent. I mean the one last night falls on his weaker foot granted but he kicks it off his own head and nutmegs Wood FFS
He'd just made a move to the back post then literally that spilt second the ball came where he was leaving from that meant it was just little behind him.. He tried to recover balance and find the top right.... Unfortunately it failed
I don't know of a single other player that could do that. If Wood was on the Everton goal line it would have been a fantastic trick shot!
