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Scoring 3 Goals in a Game is The Only Way We Can Win
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That’s the truth that no one can deny. Since our defence is in a shamble, the only way we can win a game is by scoring a lot of goals. For my money, a minimum of 3 goals is need to win a game.
The Blackburn (A) game is testimony to this. When we scored our first and second goal, I was not even elevated. I knew we were going to screw up big time and give away goals to Blackburn for some reason or another.
My instincts was proven right. Each time we got a lead, we screwed it up. However, on the 90th minute, Yakubu, playing one of his best football, escaped his marker and crossed close to the goal-line with his left foot. And Cahill was there to finish it with his foot.
I knew when we scored the third goal that Blackburn will not come back into the game. It’s as if our defensive instinct is restored to our greatest heights whenever we score 3 goals in a game.
I think in order for us to secure 9 points our of the remaining 3 games, we have to score at least 9 goals, no exception. It’s too short of a time to sort out the major screw up in our defense. Playing Yakubu for 20 minutes or so seems to help our offense. So, we should maintain that.
As for our defence, I forsee they will remain the same failure for the next 3 matches. In short, they’re hopeless. Period.
Expect them to concede 2 goals per game minimum until the end of the season. I still say we should maintain 4-6-0 for 65 minutes of the game and go 4-5-1 or 4-4-2 in the last 25 minutes.
And, we need to get rid of Bily. He’s a dud. The way he’s playing, we’d be better off putting John Paul Kissock there. At least we know John Paul Kissock would not screw up worse than Bily. Plus, John is free. If we wanted someone to play the way Billy played, might as well use our Youth or Reserve players. They cost nothing.
Rahman Talib
Rahman Talib, Posted 19/04/2010 at 05:41:46
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sorry mate but you are talking a load of old codswallop.
Everton 2-0 Bolton
Everton 2-1 Sporting Lisbon
Everton 2-1 Chelsea
Wigan 0-1 Everton
Everton 2-0 Sunderland
Everton 2-0 Man City
Everton 2-0 Burnley
AEK Athens 0-1 Everton
West Ham 1-2 Everton
BATE Borisov 1-2 Everton
Portsmouth 0-1 Everton
Everton 2-1 Wigan
To be fair though, Blackburn's first goal took a wicked deflection that moved the ball about 2 feet to Howard's left but without slowing the ball down. There's not much anybody can do about them. For their second, Jagielka tried to block it but went in feet first. If he had spread himself across the flight of the ball I think he would have stopped it.
Overall though, not so long ago teams like Blackburn were our direct competition in the league. As tight as it was in the end on Saturday, the Blue's performance demonstrated that all over the pitch we are now a far better team than Blackburn and teams like them. But you can't win them all though as Arsenal now know to their cost!!
The Russian league isn’t the strongest in Europe and the game is played at a pretty slow pace. All of a sudden he is playing games that are played at 90 miles an hour with defenders smashing through the back of you at every opportunity.
Also, nobody knows how he is settling into life on Merseyside. His English is limited at best, and as far as I know there isn’t a massive Russian community here either.
Give the lad a break, and judge him next season when he’s had a summer off, started to get used to the English game and started to settle into life on Merseyside.
Our defence is a shambles, but expect a list of excuses as long as your arm.
To catch Liverpool, hoping we win all our games gives us 63 points which is a task in itself.
We need Liverpool to drop points. Realistically we need them to lose two of the remaining 4 games or not win more than one of them!
West Ham(h)
Burnley(a)
Chelsea(h)
Hull(a)
The fact they've lost Torres give me hope, but even if Liverpool fuck up I question if we can draw with Wolves and West Ham we might struggle to get 9 points against Fulham(h), Stoke(a) and Portsmouth(h) with Fulham and Stoke both very winnable but also could be tricky!
Good Luck boys COYB
We are attacking more recently with the full backs pushing up and one of the consequences has been a weaker back 4. lso I agree that Distin is not good enough to be in the team - most of the goals we concede seem to come through the middle and whilst a year out provides some mitigation for Jags there are no excuses for Distin - I have never seen a centre back miss so many headers.
Dont bet against Neville retaining his place in midfield when Johnny boy is fit with Distin losing his place.
Jags does seem to have a habit of squandering possession and inviting unnecessary pressure too and needs to learn to pass it simple.
We miss (unless you have Heitinga in there) a ball playing CB. Surprised not to have seen Jags and Heitinga given a go thus far.
From TV/streaming footage AND after seeing live games, Bily is WAY off pace and has no idea where he should be positionally.
We all know that by the end of a footballing season most players are running on automatic rather than practise/energy so this may be because he has played almost 2 seasons worth of football and his head is all over the place.
Because of this, I'm willing to give Bily the benefit of doubt however I for one will be significantly less sympathetic next season as I would expect him to be up and running by then.
There are signs he has the ability and quality however, so far, something isn't right.
They are the easiest to defend against.
Jason Roberts (of all people) totally lost Distin and was able to take time to get a shot off on target. Any good defender would have at least recovered to get a block in. Distin although looking good on the ball has more "Yobo" moments than Yobo.
There are no excuses. And I agree with the comment that the game just passes by Bily although he does show the occasional bit of skill. If he's not yet up to it then rest him till next season.
I thought last year he improved his penalty saving technique, but still feel he stays on his line too much, even when a ball is clearly rolling towards him from an opposition over-hit pass he still stays rooted, a defender often having to chase the ball down and clear it.
I wouldnt blame him for the 2 shots as one was deflected and the other bounced before hitting the net. He needs to look at Reina who totally commands his 6 yard box and area, plus his kicking and throwing is one of Liverpool's best counter-attack ploys, Howard almost always waits till everyone is back in position before releasing the ball.
As regards the CB pairing, most teams like to play a right-footed and left-footed pairing, Distin was bought because he is left footed. Senderos is right footed.
Personally I think it's the Jagielka/ Distin partnership that doesn't work. If Heitinga is fit for the Fulham game, he should partner Jags at the back, keeping Pip in front of them, which is his best position (well, let's face it, he won't be dropped and I thought he looked ok last game). I think these two will be good together and probably be our centre backs for the most of next year, so why not pair them up now?
2. I think Distin is a stop-gap defender. Surely Moyes will eventually look towards a Heitinga/Jagielka partnership next season. When Fellaini returns to midfield, Heitinga will lose his place and defence seems a good place to put him.
He is probably amongst the highest number of assists and it probably 4/5th highest scorer but he is obviously a £100,000 player.....!
Can't believe that and certainly not sure what to make of it.
Does this new information make him a luxury player?
While there was no Toffeeweb in those days and computers had big oily wheels I do remember Howard Kendall being criticised in the same manner on the terraces and in the pubs. To put it bluntly he was not very good for the first few months after we signed him. In fact he was crap.
Well...the rest is history!
I think we can look forward to 2010-11 with a great deal of confidence.
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