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OMT - Tottenham vs. Everton

Decent way to equalize, and a decent performance, all things considered. We restricted Everton to six or seven shots, and two mistakes from Jan gave them their two goals. A better performance than I was expecting.

I find it extremely telling, though, that the one time Walker cuts it back instead of crossing it in, we scored. That, and Dempsey letting it run on to Ade, which was more useful than anything he did with the ball over the course of the ninety minutes.

If we use our brains for just a little bit, we can be dangerous. It just doesn't happen enough, for reasons unknown to me.

12 points to the seventy-point mark. Four wins from our last six games. We'll need something from Chelsea or City. Preferably Chelsea, as we can hobble a rival at the same time as gaining points for ourselves. And as for the Stamford Bridge hoodoo we seem to have, we also had an Old Trafford hoodoo until recently, and that's been overcome, so there's no reason we can't approach the game with confidence.

Good point, then, considering things could have been a lot worse.
 
Some Posters on here are simply unreal. Everton are a very good side who have won their last 4 inc City. We have almost our entire 1 st choice midfield out and still pretty much dominated. There are issues but proud of that performance this lot still have to play the goons. Also those saying that we are suffering for not spending in Jan I agree re: a striker but we cannot completely cover our midfield? Who are we going to sign to cover Lennon for fudges sake. We already have bentley on our books.

You Sir, are speaking far too much sense. Be gone with you...
 
It must be very hard coming from another country and league so I'm not expecting Holtby to be fantastic straight away. I would however expect to see little glimpses of why we bought him, so far I haven't see anything.

He's got a good touch and he works hard but other then that I think he's a very average footballer.

I know a lot of people on here like him, I'm not looking for a war of words. Hopefully next season we see the real Lewis Holtby
 
A couple of points that were important for me:

1. Never watch everton again unless Spurs are playing, everytime I go against this I end up wasting hours of my life watching trash.
2. Spurs, if the ref is a gullible monkey, dive more and play act. Everytime a player went down bar Dempsey he gave a free. Please roll about to get them booked like arsenal would have done.
3. Levy/AVB Please look at our options on the bench to change this game and react to injuries, we had no wingers and only 1 fit striker - ie somethings wrong with that...for at least the 4th year running!
4. For the billionth time, for teams that are time wasting why not get extra ball boys to put the ball in the players hand for frees and get players to put pressure on the ref to add on time or punish the time waster. I honestly have spent far too much time watching Howard take a goal kick...seriously.
 
As promised earlier in the thread, didn't watch or follow the game in any way, and have to say a point is a pretty decent point - a very decent point if Chelsea mess up today. We played an excellent side with fresh legs, we didn't have Bale or Lennon and I don't need to ask anyone how Parker or Ade played as I already knew they didn't have two games a week in their legs any more. Surprised at the Jan at left back business but then I guess AVB knows what he's doing...

There's still hope!
 
Well, I thought Holtby did fine. Not outstanding granted, but better than some are saying.

Made almost no mistakes that I can recall, and tried to play others in at every attempt. Calm passing, but looked to move the ball quickly.
 
So basically Huddlestone and Carroll done well?

Hudd came on and hit several accurate long passes and showed some good positioning. His heading/jumping is still poor but if he can build on this 15 minute cameo he can definitely help us in the run in.
 
I find it extremely telling, though, that the one time Walker cuts it back instead of crossing it in, we scored. That, and Dempsey letting it run on to Ade, which was more useful than anything he did with the ball over the course of the ninety minutes.

If we use our brains for just a little bit, we can be dangerous.

Well said Sir - it seems we are hell bent on sprint smash smack sprint whack sprint smack whack sprint... it was nice to see a few brain cells flicker briefly into life for 2 or 3 seconds.

Overall I thought we did OK - they sat back in their half and we dominated, for obvious reasons, we kept swinging it in over and over again and Distin and Howard won every high ball, so it was good to see the goal come from a cutback.


I've slated Adebayor all season for truly awful performances, but today was much better, perhaps because he scored for 2 games in a row?
 
Dawson had a shocker I thought.

Oh, FFS.

One mis-placed pass against countless blocks and clearances. Did you see how many times he threw himself into challlenges, and won them?

Honestly........not one player had a shocker. Parker was close, but even he made some better runs.
 
Well, I thought Holtby did fine. Not outstanding granted, but better than some are saying.

Made almost no mistakes that I can recall, and tried to play others in at every attempt. Calm passing, but looked to move the ball quickly.

He made a strong case for himself with regards to playing as a Deep Lying Playmaker. Some great simple passing and energy. In time i can see him improving his tackling.
 
Oh, FFS.

One mis-placed pass against countless blocks and clearances. Did you see how many times he threw himself into challlenges, and won them?

Honestly........not one player had a shocker. Parker was close, but even he made some better runs.

How do you think Dempsey played?
 
Oh, FFS.

One mis-placed pass against countless blocks and clearances. Did you see how many times he threw himself into challlenges, and won them?

Honestly........not one player had a shocker. Parker was close, but even he made some better runs.

I am a huge Daws fan but he did lose anichebe but as I said before he was up against him with no support. Whereas Everton had 2 or 3 vs ade.
 
Better than normal today, no major fudgeups. I thought Huddlestone made all the difference and if he can play like that for the whole match I would play him over Dembele. At least Hudd brings others into the game. More of the same from Dembele. Holding onto the ball too long, dribbling into blind alles etc. I dont see what the Dembele fans see. Dempsey is the weak sister in this side, areal waste of space. Liverpool dodged a big bullet by not signing him.

So basically Huddlestone and Carroll done well?


I felt we upped our one touch , two touch passing with Carroll and Hudd on the pitch . Both Parker and Dembele both like to hold on to the ball way to much for the resulting end product they manage to achieve.
I think its coming to the point where either one or the other has to be dropped. Personally, of the two I'd prefer to keep Dembele on the pitch.
 
Oh, FFS.

One mis-placed pass against countless blocks and clearances. Did you see how many times he threw himself into challlenges, and won them?

Honestly........not one player had a shocker. Parker was close, but even he made some better runs.

Exactly. He got unlucky twice when he was out muscled by Anichebe but he put in atleat 8 critical blocks/tackles. We really should have seen him and Verts paired together i thought Caulker looked like he had a mistake in him.
 
We actually scored two goals without Bale, Lennon AND Defoe. Never would've believed it. Everton really are a fantastic side, so well disciplined and constantly fighting for each other. A good point, given our injury situation, onwards and upwards!

Fact is we needed to win, we saw this last season and it cost us CL football. Once again we witness the same problems, no winger replacements and no lethal, or in this case no striker option at all on the bench. I love your optimism but football doesnt give a damn about hope, its about results and we dropped more points today that we couldnt lose with the moneybags teams coming up. Onwards we go but upwards who knows....
 
Our rivals are winning their games and we are struggling at home for a point today and lost against Fulham at home. This is only going to end one way.
 
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