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Kalimuendo has had 88 minutes of premiership football. He scored in his last start in the Europa. Taiwo has one goal in 44 appearances.
Some of our football was too safe and lacked any urgency. The corners were crap again. The defending for both goals was shocking.
Anderson is having too many touches. There are no runners apart from Neco. We put in 24 crosses first half - why on earth didn’t they work out to do a low drilled cross or attack the by line for a cut back?
Now Dyche did try and change it - luiz and Ando is a combination that for me doesn’t work.
He swapped wingers over and for five minutes or so they had a go but Everton then doubled up.
Defensively we were crap all night - Barry is crap but played like drogba - Murillo kept having brain farts and looked well off it.
Really worried now - we don’t score enough goals and can’t defend. We are far too open - too far apart and don’t move together.
Ndoye, kalimuendo, mcatee, Bakwa, Luiz, Hutchinson. You’d have thought some of these have more to offer…
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(31-12-2025, 12:09 AM)ozzyten10 Wrote: Kalimuendo has had 88 minutes of premiership football. He scored in his last start in the Europa. Taiwo has one goal in 44 appearances.
Some of our football was too safe and lacked any urgency. The corners were crap again. The defending for both goals was shocking.
Anderson is having too many touches. There are no runners apart from Neco. We put in 24 crosses first half - why on earth didn’t they work out to do a low drilled cross or attack the by line for a cut back?
Now Dyche did try and change it - luiz and Ando is a combination that for me doesn’t work.
He swapped wingers over and for five minutes or so they had a go but Everton then doubled up.
Defensively we were crap all night - Barry is crap but played like drogba - Murillo kept having brain farts and looked well off it.
Really worried now - we don’t score enough goals and can’t defend. We are far too open - too far apart and don’t move together.
Ndoye, kalimuendo, mcatee, Bakwa, Luiz, Hutchinson. You’d have thought some of these have more to offer…
Spot on .
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(30-12-2025, 11:48 PM)wassy04 Wrote: (30-12-2025, 11:36 PM)nffc93 Wrote: (30-12-2025, 11:34 PM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: (30-12-2025, 11:32 PM)nffc93 Wrote: That was diabolical and WTF were those tactics? Just keep us up and get gone.
Awful manager
You have wanted him out since day 1. Notice you didn’t give him any credit for the victories over Tottenham and Liverpool?
It was poor again tonight and I didn’t like the tactics either but you seem to want us to jump off a cliff.
You are correct. I didn't want him. He was a very poor choice to bring in. He'll take us down.
Dyche was a sensible and pragmatic appointment at the time and remains the best option to help us grind out survival in my opinion. He's broadly sorted out the defence and the attack was S**t under the previous two managers anyway. I don't agree with some of his choices but I'm struggling to see who else we could've got?
Can we not just accept we don't actually have a very good team.
Precisely, people going mental because we spent a wedge on unproven PL players.
It's a team that is struggling. Dyche will ensure we stay in PL and we'll see what happens after
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Dyche is woeful, end of !
Shocking game plan, just get it out wide and cross it straight onto their centre backs heads !
He will be gone in the summer
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Hutchinson had a good game. Cannot say anybody else did. Slow in the build up. Chances to break. Pass backwards. Jesus was getting manhandled. Taiwo coming on wasn't mental if you are to keep Jesus on. That way like for like. Bit of Chaos. Bakwa showed that he has some real talent.
Honestly this is a game I would have put hutchinson in the 10 and had MGW and Anderson further back. Cho and Bakwa on the wings. Got to pass to feet. Jimmy Garner was immense and played the ball to feet every time.
We played into Everton's hands. We were appalling. At least keep it tight. Zinchenko is an absolute rubbish full back. Garner scored because Zinchenko should have been there. MGW was trying to track back. Where was the Ukrainian. Half way up the field again. Which again was for the second goal too.
At least we should have ola for the Wet Sham game. massive massive must not lose game.
The fact that we are not scoring goals now or looking like scoring is really worrying. Bakwa came closest.
Terrible again. I do wonder what is going on when you know lumping the ball into Everton's back line is just silly.
Chicago: Tired.
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Really hope we have enough to stay up on paper we have ! Why does he keep bringing awonyi on ? Hopefully kali gets some minutes against villa as I believe he can be a very good player for us
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(31-12-2025, 12:09 AM)ozzyten10 Wrote: Kalimuendo has had 88 minutes of premiership football. He scored in his last start in the Europa. Taiwo has one goal in 44 appearances.
Some of our football was too safe and lacked any urgency. The corners were crap again. The defending for both goals was shocking.
Anderson is having too many touches. There are no runners apart from Neco. We put in 24 crosses first half - why on earth didn’t they work out to do a low drilled cross or attack the by line for a cut back?
Now Dyche did try and change it - luiz and Ando is a combination that for me doesn’t work.
He swapped wingers over and for five minutes or so they had a go but Everton then doubled up.
Defensively we were crap all night - Barry is crap but played like drogba - Murillo kept having brain farts and looked well off it.
Really worried now - we don’t score enough goals and can’t defend. We are far too open - too far apart and don’t move together.
Ndoye, kalimuendo, mcatee, Bakwa, Luiz, Hutchinson. You’d have thought some of these have more to offer…
Agree.
You would have thought some had more to offer. Edu certainly thought they did. Perhaps therein lies the problem.
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I will hold my hands up and say I got it wrong with Dyche. Istanbul is possible but the championship is more likely at this stage. His lack of adaptability and awareness makes me wonder why I'm on the salary I'm on if this is elite professional football. Walking into Evertons strengths again (a team he managed last season) was there to see from before the game.
I will never eat humble pie with the roots of our problems though. Its our club ownership and senior management. Poor, unbalanced, wastful financially, disruptive excessive recruitment has put us in this position.
Nuno might be the enemy. But if we worked with him rather than against him in the summer and didn't obsess with EL over conference we wouldn't be in this position and he will still be a hero
If you take everything into consideration on and off the pitch there is no other club right now who deserves to go down more than us.
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(31-12-2025, 09:09 AM)Trailer Park Tom Wrote: I will hold my hands up and say I got it wrong with Dyche. Istanbul is possible but the championship is more likely at this stage. His lack of adaptability and awareness makes me wonder why I'm on the salary I'm on if this is elite professional football. Walking into Evertons strengths again (a team he managed last season) was there to see from before the game.
I will never eat humble pie with the roots of our problems though. Its our club ownership and senior management. Poor, unbalanced, wastful financially, disruptive excessive recruitment has put us in this position.
Nuno might be the enemy. But if we worked with him rather than against him in the summer and didn't obsess with EL over conference we wouldn't be in this position and he will still be a hero
If you take everything into consideration on and off the pitch there is no other club right now who deserves to go down more than us.
The day Edu walked into the club was the problem.
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(30-12-2025, 11:20 PM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: Why on earth, how on earth have we changed from a team that played with 30% possession and played lethal counter attacking football to one that has 70% possession and doesn’t seem to have a clue what to do with the ball?
The day we sold Elanga was the day the Forest counter attack died.
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(31-12-2025, 09:44 AM)Paplane Wrote: (30-12-2025, 11:20 PM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: Why on earth, how on earth have we changed from a team that played with 30% possession and played lethal counter attacking football to one that has 70% possession and doesn’t seem to have a clue what to do with the ball?
The day we sold Elanga was the day the Forest counter attack died.
Why though? We bought in 3 wingers at a cost of over £100m to replace him.
FFS we could have bought Brennan back for £35m
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