Match reaction vs Everton

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Even if we have only had four stinkers this season then we are clearly doing very well. To be honest, I think yesterday was our second stinker of the league campaign, our first one at Leeds we got away with it, but we should have lost up their too. United defeat wasn't a stinker, we actually played well but got suckered on the counter. Southampton draw we struggled in periods but should have put the game to bed in the first half.

On the whole, our performances so far have ranged between very good and good, we have tended to dominate most games home and away.

The reason I am not panicking yet is because this team does appear to have a fair bit about them. I am expecting us to turn it around next Saturday at home to Brentford. I mean turning it around by playing very well and picking up 3 points, if we keep churning out performances like yesterday then we can forget about any title.

I might be alone but I don't think yesterday's performance was really that bad; I mean the result was terrible and embarrassing but if one watched the game we've played worse than that quite a few number of times and managed to get results.

I feel we were beaten by the better team and here I mean by the team that wanted it far more and upped their game by a 100%. Hopefully we don't come up against teams that play their season's best against us for the remainder of the season, hopefully.

The only thing that worried me is that lack of a plan B when it comes to scoring in games like this; we should be shooting from range, take meaningful set pieces (our corners were dreadful) and sadly even look for penalties, something Arteta did against Newcastle.

The sad thing was it was like our boys stopped being the intelligent group of lads I have come to respect, they insisted on driving forward with a system that clearly wasn't working.

We need to be able to alter the shape of this team meaningfully and I really hope thats what the team will practice these coming days instead of more intensive tippy tappy passing and wing play.