I hear ya. I did not watch the match and don't plan on watching it so I cannot comment on how the goals played out. Just saying when you have superior players and superior tactics that is what usually wins out. I did not expect them do to well today.
bad clearance by Mina, but the goal itself wasn’t his fault. https://streamja.com/KZ3q 2nd goal: white boy keane (#4) never really had Jesus marked and Mina shouldn’t have let Jesus have that space considering that he had an eye on him. https://streamja.com/1Z9d Third goal I already pointed out #SteepLearningCurve
On that 1st goal, It was all on Yerry: 1. he clears the ball right to the middle. 2. doesnt get enough on the ball on the clearance so it only travels 30-40 yards 3. ball is cleared right to a Man City player 4. he doesnt reference his back line quickly enough and leaves Jesus player onside On #4 and inline with what Dapip mentioned in his previous post about Silva's approach to this game being too defensive and they looked quite disorganized. They lacked quality in MF and I'm not sure if it was by design but I noticed Mina was in charge of constantly stepping away from his line to put pressure on the receiving LP player, almost as if he was playing as a DFM. Problem with that is that Mina can be a bit flat footed and the space that he would leave behind would never be properly covered. Everton likes to play possession ball from the back starting with Pickford but high-line pressure teams like Man City and Liverpool will make you pay for that type of strategy.
Furthermore, Everton have been playing 4-2-3-1, and changing it to 5-4-1, while making sense, meant that several players would be out of position and in roles they're not used to. If Silva had opted for a more defensive midfield (maybe only Sigurdsoon or Bernard as a creative) and with just Richarlison upfront, this could have worked, but he opted to have 3 offensive players (Bernard, Sigurdson and Richarlison) in the midfield, which in practical terms meant that Andre Gomes had to cover a lot of ground, usually leaving acres of space for City's midfield to transport the ball and exploit the gaps that the forced coverage opened in defense. On the bright side, after the Spurs game, they play several accessible games that could even bump them up to 6th place with a marginal chance of making it to the Europa League next season.
One thing of note to add. Everton's corner taking is horrible. You have a 6'5" giant in Mina who can score for you but rarely is the ball put in a spot where he can make a difference.
For people that don’t know the song this is it. He’s 6 foot 5 and his names Yerry Mina, got cock like a hose off a vacuum cleaner, he goes on the Lemo with David Ospina, heyyyy Yerry Mina. To the tune Macarena— Louis ➐ ➐ ➐ (@Louis1878EFC) December 21, 2018
I think “goes on the lemo” means “snorts cocaine” That might be the “offensive” part of the song I guess Everton fans don’t know any other Colombian player except Ospina??
english fans are pretty ignorant for the most part, I don't pay whole lot of attention to them. They're like mini crzds
I find the song offensive because the only other Colombian they can associate Mina with is David Ospina.
Went to an EPL game (Chelsea) for the first time ever and it was the most different type of experience I've ever noticed; very classy. First I hated that you can't drink beer in the stands... but the fans were boring AF! Dress up super fancy, hardly sing any songs, they get up and clap or make noise only during a nice play.. all as if they didn't know about soccer. Talked to a few of them and EPL seems to be all they know
Mina hitting the bench but Sanchez with the start coming back from injury. So far Sanchez looks like he hasn’t missed a step
The guys on Telemundo seem to think the goal was his (Davinson's) fault for not trapping the ball and clearing it well. As for Mina, I think he will probably get the start next match. That play with Zouma and Pickford running into each other was just pure amateurish defending and communication.
I'm not worried about Mina, he'll get plenty of mins this season. I never inderstood the logic on why some people try to be funny suggesting that Colombians snort cocaine. It was/is being produced in Colombia but it's the Americans and Europeans themselves who are snorting it.
Depends on where you sit. I went to England in October 2015 and went to 3 games Tottenham vs Man City (Tottenham home game) Brentford vs Derby County (2nd división game in Derby) Arsenal vs Man United (Emirates) Now I’m an arsenal supporter and I had the least fun there despite them winning 3-0 for the same reasons you mentioned plus I was sitting in the upper deck behind the goal where it was full of other tourists and families. Going to Emirates these days is like going to a theme park, not a fútbol stadium - it’s for the kids. Now the spurs and 2nd division game I went to were crowds of pure locals - middle aged, balding white men who were ready to smack someone if you looked at them the wrong way. My friend who lives in London is a brentford supporter and we were with the away fans and the experience was thrilling. So much smack talk but it was fun and people knew not to cross the line. Everyone does their boozing before the matches outside the stadium.
Silva crapping his pants again. Thanks to his tinkering with a decent defense, now they have allowed 9 goals in two matches, after allowing 5 in the previous 5. The good news is that the toughest stretch of the season is over and now they have a long stretch of winnable matches from here to February.
The whole defense fell asleep here. Gotta play until the whistle is blown and not stand around like a bunch of cones https://streamable.com/a4jhy