I said he'd be instrumental didn't I? Moussa hit the woodwork but I thought it was curtains and with Chelsea losing just get a third Spurs please.
Got out of jail, but not that satisfactory really, a game of two toothless halves despite the scoreline...weird game.
2-2. Not an awful result, but we failed to take advantage of Everton's missing players, though they could say the same about us. Much better performance than our midweek display, but our defence still looked very shaky at times. Dawson had a mare. No idea why Villas-Boas failed to give Walker some help down the right in the later stages. Everton were struggling with him on his own, Holtby hadn't done much and we needed someone else out there to stretch them.
We really weren't that bad... they had no ambition at all and everything they "created" was on the counter attack, where we gave it to them or as a result of some dodgy decisions. I reckon there were a couple of minutes lost from wrong decisions that meant them keeping possession until we could regain the initiative. The media will say that they deserved a point, but if you come to play like that what do you deserve? I actually think we played better today than we have in the past few games! And when Lennon and Bale come back, hopefully this season, they will be more rested perhaps. Thought Sigi was very good today.
Everton still have to play chelsea and Arsenal. They should be stronger when they play both clubs, which could potentially do us a couple of favours.
and we say it every season. The cost of not having a 20 goal a season striker. Like others have said, Sigurdsson was great again today. He's really hit form just when we need him to.
Huddlestone looked like a different player today, for some reason. Maybe his run in the U21s has done him some good or maybe it was just a lack of pressure from tired Evertonian legs, but he passed it around well and tracked back when required. Surprised me. Adebayor worked hard and got a goal, Sigurdsson did pretty well all game and Dembele put in a real shift, despite being manhandled for his entire time on the pitch. Dempsey and Holtby didn't contribute much, though the American had a lot of shots. Not sure where either of them was supposed to be playing, though. Maybe they weren't, either. Sian Massey seemed to make a series of mistakes in the second half and I thought that Marriner was applying a totally different standard for fouls between the two sides. The Walker free-kick at the end was a big example. Minimal contact from a shoulder-to-shoulder and he gives it, whereas Osman's allowed to ram his shoulder into Parker's face and get away with it. Not impressed.
