Match Reaction vs Everton

[Globalgunner]

Everton were the best team we have played all season (including the CL IMO) and when you consider they are 5th and have only lost once this season (having beaten United and Chelsea) then a draw isnt bad at all.

However, we should be winning the home games against the non top 4 sides and we were 7 minites from doing so but Everton got a top top goal that was almost unstoppable. Everton had pletny of posession due the the fact that we gave them way too much space and also becaise they have a good midfield. This season in the big games (spurs, pool, dortmund, and yesterday) we have let the opposition have the ball and sort of waited to se what they could do before we went for it and im not too sure thats gonna work against City on saturday. we have a better passing team then most in the league so i dont understand why we have gone for this approach this season (some may arue that its an improvement from seasons gone by where we;d attack from the first minute before being hit on the counter).

all in all, a decent point and our lead is now 5 points (4 before the weekend) so we've increased our lead on the chasing pack.

City away will be very tough considering they put 10 past United and Spurs this season but a draw there would be good considering our lead right now but WE HAVE TO WIN AGAINST CHELSEA.

It was only unstoppable because Gibbs refused to close him down. He doesn't yet have that in his game the awareness that makes a top defender. He wont have done himself any favours with the watching England manager

[LDG]

There is some serious bed wetting going on here, after a draw against one of the form sides

Get a grip. You can't win 'em all.

[Zerlathon]

Obviously I'm a little disappointed that we didn't grab all 3 points (we all wish that we could win every game), but I feel that a draw was a fair result.

[Marc Overmars]

We're not always going to have it our own way, so sometimes you've just got to accept we came up against a decent side who had a go at us and earned their result. I'd be more concerned if we were dropping points against cannon fodder like our rivals are.

[Power n Glory]

It was only unstoppable because Gibbs refused to close him down. He doesn't yet have that in his game the awareness that makes a top defender. He wont have done himself any favours with the watching England manager

Yeah, it wasn't unstoppable. A good strike but he showed him too much of the goal. He had a shaky game. Monreal has looked very good recently and thought he'd get to keep his place.

[I am invisible]

Shame we couldn't hold on with 10 minutes left, but I guess you can't really begrudge Everton their point - good team, likeable manager, and one of the more respectable clubs in the league, and you can see why they're doing well.

Not too much to take from a game like that really, but I guess the main positive for me is that I thought we coped very well with exactly the type of big, powerful, pacey striker that we usually struggle badly against - that at least is another step in the right direction in the continued development of this side...

[I am invisible]

Lev probably meant unstoppable shot rather than goal - obviously any goal can be prevented if you go far enough back in the build up...

[selassie]

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.

[Grebbo]

Cazorla has looked poor for most of this season - he needs to be dropped. We have so much competition in midfield that we don't need to be playing players who are not performing.

How come Gnabry doesn't feature anymore? We seem to lack pace on the wings and he played pretty well there. This team really needs a fit and on form Walcott - he could really be the difference to us winning the league or not. He was our top scorer last season and always gets lots of assists.

Like others have already mentioned; I'm not going to lose any sleep over drawing with Everton. They played well and we're not going to win them all. Our rivals all fucked up this weekend so it wasn't a bad point tbh. I had a feeling we'd drop points before the game.

[Newguy]

There is some serious bed wetting going on here, after a draw against one of the form sides

Get a grip. You can't win 'em all.

Its always nice to be pragmatic, but I think its healthy for the club and supporters to be in a state of expectancy at the moment. We had enough chances to be 2 up at half time.

Everton played well first 30-35 mins but, we've see that before from us and like us in the past chesney didnt have a save to make.

You cant win them all but we should have beat everton at home when youre one up with 7 minutes of football to play and a 7 point buffer up for grabs.

As 21 alluded to, lets hope we dont have to many games to look back on with that "if only" expression written all our faces cause we screwed it up.