Match reaction vs Everton

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Originally Posted by Dein-machine

Just wonder if we'd lost would it have made him do the obvious and buy some quality upfront. Now does the late goal hide the the fact that we have the same problems going forward as last year

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We could do with something better up front however what cost us today was our absymal start which has been a feature of a lot of our important games away from home, including the FA Cup final.

There's just no shape or plan about it. Chasms of space between the midfield and defence and no sort of strategy to defend deep for the first 30 minutes, kill the crowd and by consequence the game before seeking to win it.

The terrible reffing for the second goal didn't help either but we simply have to do better otherwise it's going to be the same shit as last year. We lose the game in the first 20 mins.

We need to knock this Wilshere/Ramsey thing on the head. I hate it.

Giroud changed the game......he misses a ton of chances and I understand why that makes people crazy via it does me too but he is the only player that can hold the ball up and allow our tippy tap brigade to get up and support....we need another player, one who will weigh in with goals as Sanogo and Campbell are projects.....I am not leaning towards the likes of Cavani but I would take Remy and his dodgy ticker....Remy, Cavalho and Manolas and we are sorted!

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Originally Posted by Sterling Archer

Hopefully, that's the last time we see Giroud not starting. Two goals came once he came on.

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Didn't say that after the Besiktas game

Jack is a liability at the moment. Rambos been giving the ball away too easily aswell but at least he's getting in the box.

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Originally Posted by Dein-machine

Didn't say that after the Besiktas game

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I wasn't slitting my wrists either...

Terrible performance but in the end we did deserve the point in the end.

In fact, if you look back at the chances we created, we could have easily scored two or three more if we were more ruthless in front of goal. That Giroud chance at the start of the 2nd half and one of Ox's chances in the first half should have been in the back of the net. Factor in the shocking officiating for Everton's second 'goal' and we should have won that by a comfortable margin.

We need to fix ourselves up though, especially our defence. We don't have the firepower at the moment to blow teams away with 4 or 5 goals so our defence HAS to be on point like it was at the beginning of last season. Merts doesn't have time to shake off the rust, he needs to get back into form right now.

I hate tippy tappy and I wish we'd stop playing it. It wastes Ozil, Ramsey, even Giroud. Tippy tappy and the complex technical boredom just isn't entertaining. Shouldn't entertainment be just as important as results? I think so anyway. We could all go and support the chavs if entertainment is irrelevant.

Didn't think Jack was any worse than Ramsey but for the goal but again Wilshere will cop the overwhelming majority of the flak.

Well done to Giroud, but my view on him is the same and I have thought that the flak he has got has been OTT recently too.

If Alexis wasn't injured, it is really worrying that he was hauled off at half time. Really worrying. You might argue it is worrying in either case.

I know he probably isn't quite ready yet but I just really want to see Bellerin play. I love his Alves style 1'2's and overlapping.

So what's wrong with us at the moment? Is there a problem with the makeup of this team/squad that that we need to address, or have we just not really got going yet?