Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [15th - 18th December 2017]
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Thank god, it rules him out of the match tomorrow against us. Would have been very worried about him up against the young second string Arsenal defence.
Also, deserves it as it was so blatant.
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John Moss is THE WORST referee I've seen in a long long time. Too fat, too old, too slow and basically blind.
Gave a shocking yellow card to Holgate for a perfectly timed tackle. The first penalty was a penalty although a little soft, the second one was outside the area but he gave that too. He had no control over the game with players losing their marbles and a bit of handbags. He is a truly awful ref.
I've been amazed at the amount of penalties we've got this season. It's like all those times Andy Johnson was booted in the box years ago have all added up. I guess it does all balance out in the end, you might just have to wait the best part of a decade for it.
Everton only 6 points behind Spurs now, could this be a late run at a European place? Honestly it's Champions League or bust. The Europa League exists only to give Champions League teams another bite at the cherry, for everyone else it's a burden. I desperately do not want another Europa League campaign next year.
I'm predicting a 7th placed finish for Everton, supplanting Burnley in the next few weeks and ending the season wondering why we ALWAYS have to have a terrible run of games at some point in a season that ruins any chance of ever having a crack at the top 4 teams.
Gave a shocking yellow card to Holgate for a perfectly timed tackle. The first penalty was a penalty although a little soft, the second one was outside the area but he gave that too. He had no control over the game with players losing their marbles and a bit of handbags. He is a truly awful ref.
I've been amazed at the amount of penalties we've got this season. It's like all those times Andy Johnson was booted in the box years ago have all added up. I guess it does all balance out in the end, you might just have to wait the best part of a decade for it.
Everton only 6 points behind Spurs now, could this be a late run at a European place? Honestly it's Champions League or bust. The Europa League exists only to give Champions League teams another bite at the cherry, for everyone else it's a burden. I desperately do not want another Europa League campaign next year.
I'm predicting a 7th placed finish for Everton, supplanting Burnley in the next few weeks and ending the season wondering why we ALWAYS have to have a terrible run of games at some point in a season that ruins any chance of ever having a crack at the top 4 teams.
Everton fan really complaining the ref? He's the reason you won tonight...neither were pens for me imo, the old dangled foot for the first.
Cant see you getting close to top 4 tbh, top 10 finish for me.
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I can't point out the flaws of a terrible referee because my team got the rub of the green? John Moss has shafted Everton plenty of other times in the past with some howlers. Swings and roundabouts old bean.
We won't get anywhere near 4th. We'll have a resurgence and I can see Burnley falling away after January. We'll spend big again and keep improving. At the end of the season we'll be frustrated that once again we had a run of 10 disastrous games that ruined our season.
Same will happen next year too. It's the Everton way.
1:56am, i didn't read your post properly lol.
I think you have a shot at Europa (which by the way shouldn't be dismissed...) but its at least something to build on. The issue i think you have is you have beaten teams you arguably should have...the big test was Anfield (lets not go there) and the biggy on Saturday.
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This season we got shafted by the fixture list. We basically had to play all of the top 4 teams back to back whilst sandwiched between Europa League games.
Hajduk Split, Man City, Hajduk Split, Chelsea, Spurs, Atalanta, Man Utd all back to back.
We didn't get good results, confidence plummeted and then we started to lose games we should have been winning.
Koeman spent badly in summer. We have expensive players like Keane, Klaassen, Vlasic, Sandro, Lookman all bought in by Koeman and they don't kick a ball for us. We lack pace in key areas and we look lightweight in midfield.
Sam Allardyce has gone back to basics. He is right when he says that you can't play out from the back of your defenders aren't good enough to do it or the team your are playing against is too good. He is going from back to front a lot quicker, Calvert Lewin, for a young lad, is very good at bringing the ball under control and stretching play. Under Koeman we tried to play out from the back and regularly lost possession on the halfway line.
Calvert Lewin is becoming a good little player, we know this because he is agitates Liverpool fans haha, he isn't a natural goal scorer and I'd be surprised if he makes double figures but he stretches the play and pins defenders back.
Against Swansea he was very effective, he needs to stay up top because if he drops deepp searching for the ball it allows defenders to push up. Calvert Lewin can dictate the terms of the defensive line and force them back towards their own box.