Everton (h) post-match victory thread

[Slinky Skills]

Ha ha ha! @bitter****s's Tweet: https://twitter.com/bitter****s/stat...427825669?s=09

[Slinky Skills]

New Origi song. [ame]https://twitter.com/ste92lfc/status/848198651864395777[/ame]

[Red_Polo]

They were horrible as always but that ref needs to take a serious look at himself for letting Barkley remain on the pitch. Sucks to lose Mane especially with Lallana and Henderson out but I think Origi can do a job for us in the next fewfixtures, if we can just keep concentration and energy up a little bit longer we could well build up some breathing space for top 4.

Yeah he'll probably never learn, but if the ref doesn't send him off he certainly won't.

That goal will be just the tonic for Divvy, we'll need him to hit some form.

[Corndog]

Divock Origi is having a decent season.

9 goals and 4 assists in 35 apps, 21 of those coming off the bench as a sub into the game.

He's been a bit up and down but on the whole, that return from a 21 yr old striker is great, it's also decent for a player who is coming off the bench.

This is why I'm not convinced it would be possible to find a better back up striker realistically. (No firmino won't put up with sitting on the bench this much if we signed a top class CF, neither would the top class CF either)

[fidget]

Buzzing - spent £20 on aero data keeping up with the match mid Atlantic on the way to Florida! Worth every penny. Watched the highlights after we landed.Got my VPN running so can watch the Bournemouth match Tuesday too.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Divock Origi is having a decent season.

9 goals and 4 assists in 35 apps, 21 of those coming off the bench as a sub into the game.

He's been a bit up and down but on the whole, that return from a 21 yr old striker is great, it's also decent for a player who is coming off the bench.

This is why I'm not convinced it would be possible to find a better back up striker realistically. (No firmino won't put up with sitting on the bench this much if we signed a top class CF, neither would the top class CF either)

Think what is more eye catching about Origi is his goal return when used as a starter over when he is a sub.

He has been used as a sub far more often this season and has only 2 goals from all his sub appearances.

But he has seven goals from the games he started.

[Leyton388]

The fume is strong today.

[Red_Polo]

Divock Origi is having a decent season.

9 goals and 4 assists in 35 apps, 21 of those coming off the bench as a sub into the game.

He's been a bit up and down but on the whole, that return from a 21 yr old striker is great, it's also decent for a player who is coming off the bench.

This is why I'm not convinced it would be possible to find a better back up striker realistically. (No firmino won't put up with sitting on the bench this much if we signed a top class CF, neither would the top class CF either)

Yes, agreed. It would be mistake to do anything other than encourage him to stay. Hopefully he'll be primed for the coming games, having just scored that goal and knowing there's a big opportunity to nail a starting place down.

[SB]

That really was a special pass for the goal. I expected, & I think Origi did too, the ball to be played through the channel which would have put it on his left foot but Coutinho played it beautifully onto his right peg. And boom , what a strike.

[Tee]

They are **** and utterly irrelevant as far as I am concerned, bunch of bitter horrible nasty cunts; players, management and fans. We beat them without even moving into 2nd gear.

[ChesterDave]

GOT is funny today. They seemed resigned to reality that they are **** and not anywhere near out level. Dejection all round and not a 'red****e' in sight

[Irishnev]

Excellent from Mostar

[ame="https://twitter.com/lfcmostar/status/848509702304481281"]https://twitter.com/lfcmostar/status/848509702304481281[/ame]

[McDermotX]

[ame]https://twitter.com/CubeGoal/status/848170444545028097[/ame]

[Roboklopp]

https://twitter.com/CubeGoal/status/848170444545028097

[Hollowman]

Koeman's a funny one. He's fast becoming the Sean Spicer of the Premier League, with his soulless ginger demeanour, flat dropped-pie of a face, and alternative facts.



Tactically, I don't get him. He seemed to have pulled a blinder going three at the back against City, when they smashed them fours. But he played Barry, who ran the game against the increasingly leaky Good Ship Yaya, who only had Zabaleta for help in a wafer four man midfield with Silva and De Bruyne. They played a genuine three in the middle with Davies and Barkley, which allowed Barkley to take up dangerous central positions with no responsibility (he is a dimwit of a player; athletically gifted and good with the ball at his feet, but no game intelligence or decision making ability). Plus, John Stones.



But we play really narrow, preferring to break inside to out rather than outside to in. And Koeman leaves Barry on the bench and leaves the midfield outgunned, and has Barkley wafting about on the fringes. Barkley is basically only useful in one position, as far forward and central as you can get him, and Koeman seemed to have realised that in the last six weeks or so. Only in the opening minutes of the second half did he pose is any problems, and even then it wasn't much.



So did Koeman accidentally pull a rabbit out of a hat against City, because he seemed to just try repeating the trick without any kind of thought yesterday. The way we laughably flap about at crosses, surely going four at the back and having wide men further up the park to deliver to Lukaku would have made more sense. I only remember Baines getting into a crossing position once (corners aside) and his ball beat all our men.

Still, glad the bitter **** is making hard work of it. Let him revel in his own stoic manner and his team's abject ****housery in a losing effort.