It’ll be by one goal if we do. The dirtiest of a low low block from Dyche. Playing for set pieces, Pickford time wasting over everything. City playing it about on the edge of the area.
That was as bad as it gets. Absolutely not good enough. These players need to be better. At this rate we’ll need to buy 11 new players by the summer because they are all woeful.
First game in a while I don't feel the need to criticise Pep (apart from maybe Aké being on). He dropped the right players and we had chances - they just need to be better.
Stopped playing the wingers high and wide after we scored, bringing Savinho further back and Doku inside meaning Everton could push on to the midfield easier and it became more congested where Phil was. Pep going gor control imo. Too many players playing safe, Rico, Bernardo and Kova especially.
Bringing gundo on instead of Mcatee when needing a goal says Pep has run out of ideas to me. Not switching the wingers to their natural sides to up the tempo but keep them cutting back inside and not crossing for Haaland is criminal. Erling must be considering his options.
can't see a logical reason why we might beat them if arsenal and chelsea couldn't, though of course football doesn't always work like that. atmosphere might be pretty moody. feels like a very classical 0-1 might be on the cards as we're not really creating and they've started defending well.
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We haven't been that good for months.
IMHO we need 2 CB's, RB, DM, creative & pressing AM (maybe 2 AM's).
To make top 4 we need min 45 of the next 60 available points for 73 pts!