Everton vs. Crystal Palace match thread

PatrickA said:
The team will look different in October with the incomings and outgoings and Sage will have his own ideas on players and if he suits how he wants to play.

A defeat at Everton is no surprise - probably 90% on here were forecasting that.

If I was Sage I'd focus most of my attention on defence.
You can't win games if you don't keep clean sheets and no teams achieve success with a leaky defence.
You have to have a solid foundation first, and the current defence looks like it could concede every game.
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Sorry to be pedantic but you can win games without a clean sheet. Just score more than the opposition.
 
I feel we have seen players today that reached their full potential and can’t get any better.
Mitchell much as he’s one of our own is not a LWB and seems stiff not fluent
Richards doesn’t move when we have the ball to stretch playing out from the back
Wharton and Kamada don’t have the energy and legs unfortunately
Guessand…. No wonder villa fans want rid of him
Mateta is cooked

We should give Sage time, but we can’t afford to wait for 5 games to get a win.
 
park the bus said:
There's no need to play 3 centre halves. Go to a standard back 4 and reinforce the midfield, control the ball in that area of the field.
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Sage had already stated that the players were not yet ready to implement his ideas and that he would start off partially using a system that the players were used to ala Glasner ball.

We need to see how he is going to set up moving forward but fan and points pressure won’t take long to kick in.

Zero wins after 5 games and there will be some raised eyebrows but he deserves a chance.
 
Pikester said:
Dyche?! SEAN DYCHE??!!
You lot are nuts.
Put our gilt edged chances away and you'd be raving about Sage.
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You can see by his reaction to the match in progress that he is out of his depth, he wont even be here in October, i predict a mass of supports will have retained there blinkers from last season.
 
A very poor performance against a side that would have lost against most of the other prem sides today. Thought Kamada stayed on way too long today. Was knackered after 60 mins. Defending sloppy and passing by all just not good enough. We lost to many challenges and didn’t take our first half chances against a poor Everton team. It’s going to be a long first couple of months and if we don’t strengthen our first 11 then a long season is ahead of us. Hopefully the Hull and Ipswich wins today was just a fluke day for them as we need the promoted teams to get relegated. Otherwise we will get drawn into it with Europe ahead of us? Early days I know but nothing I’ve seen in pre season and today gives me any positives :-(
 
Lanzo-Ad said:
You can see by his reaction to the match in progress that he is out of his depth, he wont even be here in October, i predict a mass of supports will have retained there blinkers from last season.
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1 match so far. We didn't get decimated, Everton were just that bit more clinical. Had Nketiah and Mateta put away those chances, it would have been a different story
 
Well I predicted 2-0 or 2-1 ( second seemed optimistic) so no surprise today .
Reckoned we’d be lucky to get two
points from first five games so hoping that prediction is more in line with my usual ones - crap ! ManC next COYP !
 
mtp1958 said:
Oh sorry should we have gone out and won 5-0 its his first lge game with almost all the players back , for f*** sake whats a matter with people on here , so small minded , we lost after we missed chances christ some people , tell me what was you expecting
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Ironically reading the prediction thread most were expecting exactly what happened

Somehow that makes it even more annoying!

I don't think Sage copying Glasnerball to the letter is going to work - he needs to get his own plan implemented (fast) and be judged on that basis

Bad start
 
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