Everton v Man United

[Bally]

any hope of European football was put to bed last night , we have a slim chance but our home record is fucking abysmal .

that ref was fucking shite last night too
fernandes in his ear all game and consistently for a for 5 minutes , no warning nothing , Pickford for moaning about them not having their subs ready , yellow straight away .. fucking cunt

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[Audrey Horne]

I didn't like Moyes' plan but outside of that one counter, it almost worked.

Did it?

[sam of the south]

I didn't like Moyes' plan but outside of that one counter, it almost worked. It's dire to watch, we seemed to lack any sort of plan when we get the ball, we made terrible choices in the final third and and the quality of that final pass was often terrible, but we limited them and still created a few chances that we really should have done better with.

I wish he could trust any of our fullback options, I think Patterson is crap but he did enough during that short stint of games to show we're better having him there than Jake. I wish he'd drop Gueye who hasn't had a good game since he came back into the team. If he's desperate to include
Armstrong (as he has to justify keeping him here by the looks of things) then, put him in the middle with garner and put an actual winger out wide.

If worked means nab a 0-0 draw, then yeah.

The reality was they created 2 big chances to our zero.

[UnsyisaRhino]

If worked means nab a 0-0 draw, then yeah.

The reality was they created 2 big chances to our zero.

I mean I'm guessing, but knowing moyes and what we do against every 'big team' when he's the manager, the plan was to limit them as much as possible, win the ball in their defensive third, and then try to nick one from a mistake or a set piece. So yeah, almost worked.

The armstrong chance has to be 1 big chance surely?

So 2-1, and unfortunately they took 1 and we didn't.

[UnsyisaRhino]

Did it?

Yes.

It was a boring, horrible, anti-joy plan that lacked ambition, but it almost worked. We lost 1-0, we didn't get battered.

[Blueski]

If worked means nab a 0-0 draw, then yeah.

The reality was they created 2 big chances to our zero.

To be fair we had the ball in their area for a good long time that 2nd half, which of course amounted to nothing. I'm no fan of how it played out but in my head at least pretty much any other setup would have been a loser. Sit back and try to hit them on the break without a lot of pace or finishing? Probably not going to work. Cross balls in for Barry, also probably not going to work.

I am just struggling to tell a story of tactics inside my head with the squad what it is where we'd have dominated the game. Maybe someone else can I don't know.

[sam of the south]

Sounds like a lot of us are gaslighting ourselves again into thinking we have no options in the squad or ways to win football matches at home.

United weren’t great, and neither were most of the teams that have beaten us at HD this season.