gazillions of passes as always and not one meaningful chance. in fact, has created more for everton than it has for us.
totally lost that cutting edge we had last season and now it’s just painful
all very well saying “we’ll just outscore the opposition and it’ll be entertaining!!” (which we’re not doing right now), but imagine how much of a confidence boost it is for the opposition knowing they’ll most likely be able to get at least one, probably even a couple, without having to exert...
awful awful defending. managed two bites at that without anyone getting anywhere near him. and shite from verbruggen to push it straight back into danger
it’s like that with a lot of teams. which means all they need to do is employ dirty tactics to stop our rhythm and they’re already in with a good chance of at least a point
everything about today is screaming ‘bad defeat’. they’re in great form, we’re not, they play exactly the kind of football we struggle to deal with and have exactly the kind of players (doucoure, dcl, tarkowski) we struggle to defend against.
at the same time, surely this awful run we’re on has...