LFC vs Everton - post match reaction

[Maestro]

Oh - and Voronin was well off the pace today. He could have had a hat-trick.

[lfcruleus]

Im still concerned about Babel, he seems a bit thick...and his touch is bad, hopefully he will develop.
Lucas did well but lets not go overboard it was against 10 tired blue****e players, tidy looking player though and he showed composure that Momo doesnt possess as Neville wouldnt have had to save a momo shot unless he was in the Park Road end

[breffniboy]

In bullets:

• Rafa grows more baffling by the day - two defensive mids left on against a 10-man mid table side until 3 mins from the end
• Our attack once again looks pathetic, only marginally less so when playing versus 10 opens up some space for us, and virtually any team can snuff us out and keep us scoreless if they decide to sit deep
• we got the rub of the green with refereeing decisions
• we won this game despite the manager and despite the way we 'attack', not because of it
• there are more questions than ever over Rafa's ability in domestic football

Normally I'd be delighted after beating the blue ****e but I'm more worried than ever. We're just a very functional, rigid, systematic, negative team and on the basis of the last month are having an absolute ****ing laugh if we think we're going to get within an asses' roar of the Premier League title. If Rafa thinks he can win league titles with 'clean sheets', and 'second balls' and with a system precariously dependent on us scoring first all the time (when we have such an impotent attack), then good luck to him but I can't see it happening.

[El Diego]

Andy Gray was a joke - he acted like a tabloid journalist all day. Appalling stuff.

Sissoko was abysmal, as we all know. Delighted for Sami that we won. Mascherano did really well considering the week he had. Kuyt has incredible mental strength, but I think Rafa's system is ruining him as a player. Sad to see.

Rafa desperately needs a top class number 2 to come in. I'm really worried about the effects of Pako's departure...does he trust anyone anymore? His lineups and substitutions are very worrying of late.

Lucas had a nice little cameo, but it was only a cameo....let's not get carried away.

This result is a huge boost for us going into a difficult week, and there are many positives on the way ... namely the returns of Agger, Alonso and Torres.

Sami was wanting the winner he was playing just behind the strikers for most of the game.

[thesilverfoxlfc]

[Red_Al_77]

We won

I overreacted during the match

Momo was ****e

SG should never have come off

Rafa really doesn't know how he won today and nor do we

Everton are a small club

We deserved to win because we created more although it was mainly crap.

Come on England.

[Gazzla]

Torres would have scored a bucket load today against this lot, we badly missed both him and Xabi today. Sissoko was utter dog **** and that's being kind to him, Pennant showed the benefit of proper width in the 5 minutes he was on and contributed to our victory.

I thought all the subs helped turn the game nomatter how bizaree they looked at the time, Lucas looks a hell of a player.

[Maestro]

[Jack D Rips]

Delighted with the win.

But it just papers over the cracks. We are poor. And our managers selections and substitutions are just mind boggling.

[Morph]

Another thing we need to note:

injured players

Torres
Alonso
Agger
Arbeloa

That's 4 who you could argue are first choice players and we were missing, we still got the result but if we'd had

Agger in for Hyypia
Arbeloa in for Riise
Alonso in for Sissoko
Torres in for anyone

then we'd have solved the majority of our problems and probably have battered them, let's hope they are all back for the Arsenal match

[Kopite_Colin]

The game was there for the taking. Rafa didn't have the balls to go for it but he got lucky. **** performance from the manager in my view, and shows that he's fundamentally negative in mindset.

Little he does these days makes sense to me.

Nothing he did tactically pushed the game in our favour.

Much of what he did worked against us.

Pitiful performance from Rafa in my opinion. Thankfully, despite it, we got the 3 points, more thanks to Clattenburg than the manager.

Yes, that final shout really was a pen (the first of their shouts never was in a month of Sundays).

If anyone knows why any team playing 10 men needs Sissoko in it, let me know. We were very very fortunate to have avoided the headline being "Nine Man Everton Salvage Late Draw In Derby".

I'm thrilled we won, but let's be honest about it, it showed Rafa in all his negativity.

My doubts about his leadership are firming up (yes I know that's not a popular view). But he's now in a position where, in league football, he very much needs to win me back again.

You're spot on lad.

[Parm]

ah we won, no one ever said winning the league would be played with sexy football every time, we're in a position where confidence is low and we arent playing that well. In the circumstance we need to go back to basics and grind out some results in order to instill confidence. Once that is back the sexy football will be as well.

[breffniboy]

The game was there for the taking. Rafa didn't have the balls to go for it but he got lucky. **** performance from the manager in my view, and shows that he's fundamentally negative in mindset.

Little he does these days makes sense to me.

Nothing he did tactically pushed the game in our favour.

Much of what he did worked against us.

Pitiful performance from Rafa in my opinion. Thankfully, despite it, we got the 3 points, more thanks to Clattenburg than the manager.

Yes, that final shout really was a pen (the first of their shouts never was in a month of Sundays).

If anyone knows why any team playing 10 men needs Sissoko in it, let me know. We were very very fortunate to have avoided the headline being "Nine Man Everton Salvage Late Draw In Derby".

I'm thrilled we won, but let's be honest about it, it showed Rafa in all his negativity.

My doubts about his leadership are firming up (yes I know that's not a popular view). But he's now in a position where, in league football, he very much needs to win me back again.

[Guest]

We won

I overreacted during the match

Momo was ****e

SG should never have come off

Rafa really doesn't know how he won today and nor do we

Everton are a small club

We deserved to win because we created more although it was mainly crap.

Come on England.

We passed it about (instead of running with the ball a lot - Stevie's fault) as a result. At the end of the day Lucas (his replacement) should have scored.

It was scrappy because we still lack confidence. I still think we played well in patches but as long as the game went, we seem to lose the plot. That's understandable due to the current run of results. We dug deep and beat an Everton team who should have beaten United a month ago.

[JCase]

Same here and lets hope Bolton win and a great final in the rugby.

2 out of 3 ain't bad. Go Bolton.