Well, what can we say about Saturday's peformance. When will Everton realise that if the turn the game into a war, we will win. I thought Carra set the tone right from the start and by booting Pienaar up into the air. That made it quite clear we were not going to back down. LOVE IT.
It was a throwback to bygone days, when that sort of physical commitment was commonplace, now people are calling it brutal. How the game has changed! I thought the ref got most things right, no complaints with Soty getting sent off, you cant go into a tackle 2 footed and expect to stay on the park. Thought Fellini should have gone too, he knew what was coming and did his best to break Soty's leg. Pienaar should have gone for the tackle on Mascha, he wasn't even looking at the ball, which was on the ground not at the height of Javier's knee!
Well onwards and upward we go, despite not playing anything like the football we have been capable of in the past. Thankfully the other teams around us cant string a series of results together and if Spurs and Villa are serious about CL, then that dros they both served up on Saturday evening isn't going to cut it.
Thankfully Man City are also all over the place, Adebayor coming back seems to have upset their balance.Losing to Hull isn't really good enough, long may it continue.
Looking ahead to Wednesday night, no doubt after the 2 teams at the top have shown that 4-3-3 counter-attacking is the way to beat Arsenal, our FSW will play 4-4-2 with Lucas and Mascha, giving Fabregas and Arshavin the freedom of the Emirates to hurt us. The other thing we have to factor in is surely Wenger won't make the same mistake 3 games in a row with his personnel. Or is he just as stubborn as Rafa??? He must start with Bendtner through the middle, just to give them an out ball. Anyway, I am all for a bit of plaigerism. Here is my team for Wednesday night.
Goal - Pepe
Defence - Carra-Skrtel-Agger-Aurelio
Midfield - Masha- Stevie G - Spearing
Attack - Babel-Kuyt-Riera
I know thats a bit controvertial, but Insua is too slow and Walcott will eat him for breakfast. Aurelio is taller,quicker, a better tackler and gives us another free-kick option.Spearing is a better player than Lucas, he can go box to box, isnt shy to tackle and can shoot and pick a pass, all things Lucas is incapable of.
Obviously if we are going to counter-attack, then we need pace up front, Babel and Riera give us that. Dirk is scoring or fun and can be interchanged wth Babel either out right or through the middle. Prefer Dirk through the middle if we play like this as Babel does not really compete with centre-half when he does play through the middle. Lets beat the Gooners and close that gap to just 2 points then 3rd is looking good, who would have thought that a month ago!
COME ON YOU REDS
YMWA
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