Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
I agree with others that say Everton are the best team we have faced this season maybe with the exception of Dortmund.

I felt we were dominated for the first half an hour or so, Everton seem to have our number and controlled the midfield, we did improve and the last 10 mins of the first half and a majority of the second half we were marginally the better team.

There were a lot of poor performances out there yesterday, especially in Central Midfield where I felt Ramsey & Arteta got dominated for large parts of the game, Santi was also very poor, he offered next to nothing offensively.

More worringly was our lack of pace in the offensive areas and due to Everton's pressing game we looked sloppy and slow offensively, we pretty much resorted to tippy tappy.

Overall a point wasn't bad given the performance but...we are now under pressure to win one of the Citeh or Chelski games, whilst big games don't determine our fate for whether we will be champions we really need to win one of the big games because it's been a long time coming.
I noticed on Wednesday against Hull that we were overplaying and going into tippy tappy mode. That was a comfortable game and Hull wasn’t threatening. But it annoyed me to see silly attempts at flicks and one touch balls when we’re failing to even do the basics. Attempting to run before we can crawl I guess. Worst culprits are Giroud and Cazorla at the moment. Playing one to many passes or trying to be too intricate when there is time a space to go for a shot or the better option is to wait and hold up play as space opens up. It’s great when it comes off but there is also a time to be direct and test the keeper.

I think we really need a better striker. Someone that can create space for themselves and get goals as well as set up play.