Everton Post Match Thoughts

[Steve Miller]

Five things I learned (again) today:
1 Blackman and Vassell should never appear again for us
2 For all his silky passes Barlaser can't and shouldn't take corners; he never manages to raise one above 4 ft from the deck
3 While Harding did nothing wrong Clarke is faster across the turf, better in attack and deserves some starts. And maybe given his crosses to take some corners.
4 While Smiffy did nothing wrong and Crooks was excellent we do not have anything resembling the term Championship striker anywhere in the squad
5 We humbled a pretender to Prem league title today and made them look poor. With one half decent forward and a goalie who hasn't played for every team in the country except the one that owns him, we should march out of relegation with our games in hand. And we have the goalie.

[avondalemiller]

Five things I learned (again) today:
1 Blackman and Vassell should never appear again for us
2 For all his silky passes Barlaser can't and shouldn't take corners; he never manages to raise one above 4 ft from the deck
3 While Harding did nothing wrong Clarke is faster across the turf, better in attack and deserves some starts. And maybe given his crosses to take some corners.
4 While Smiffy did nothing wrong and Crooks was excellent we do not have anything resembling the term Championship striker anywhere in the squad
5 We humbled a pretender to Prem league title today and made them look poor. With one half decent forward and a goalie who hasn't played for every team in the country except the one that owns him, we should march out of relegation with our games in hand. And we have the goalie.

I think lots of people will agree with that SM...........good post, hope you're right. UTM.

[flourbasher]

Five things I learned (again) today:

5 We humbled a pretender to Prem league title today and made them look poor. .

Agree with that but just to put it into context a bit, they only had three or so players who started their recent prem games so it was nowhere near their full strength team

However, we have numerous injuries and still battling the effects of the virus and getting our match sharpness back. The media never mentions that bit though, just that Calvert-Lewin and his mates were rested

Really encouraging performance for the rest of the season.
It's a shame that PW couldn't have kept our star performers on for 130 mins or so but there's many, many reasons to make subs which may have been forced on him