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Post by jimmy on Oct 15, 2016 15:33:50 GMT
Flaming Nolito again 1-1 He likes scoring against us.
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sheff
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Post by sheff on Oct 15, 2016 15:48:39 GMT
I'll take a draw now. City have been the better team but we've dealt with most of it so a point will do me.
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Post by jimmy on Oct 15, 2016 15:56:15 GMT
That'll do. A draw against them is a good point all things considered. Stekelenburg has just shut a lot of people up.
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Post by Everton News. on Oct 15, 2016 16:01:11 GMT
The Manchester City wobble continues. They should have won this match and would have done but for an outstanding performance from the Everton goalkeeper, Maarten Stekelenburg, who saved two penalties and kept out two more goal-bound efforts from Sergio Agüero and Kevin De Bruyne. Apart from a third successive game without a win Pep Guardiola will be concerned about his side’s penalty wastage rate – of eight spot-kicks awarded this season they have only converted four – but mostly he will be worried that City are dominating games without making their superiority count. It is far too early in the season to suggest the former Barcelona manager is becoming desperate, but when, almost laughably, he sent on Vincent Kompany as a striker for the last few minutes it could only be interpreted as a sign of frustration. Guardiola introduced a new formation for this game, three at the back and four across midfield, and when Leroy Sané marked his first league start by whisking past Bryan Oviedo in the opening minutes as if the defender was not there it looked as though City might be about to give Everton a football lesson. It did not quite work out that way. When Stekelenburg dived to his left to keep out De Bruyne’s penalty a couple of minutes before the interval it was just about the first save the goalkeeper had to make. There had been a routine stop from Raheem Sterling earlier in the game but that was typical of the home side’s first-half efforts. City had virtually unlimited possession and moved the ball around swiftly and intelligently in attempting to swarm all over their opponents, only for a combination of tame finishing and dogged defending to allow Everton to reach the interval unscathed. Phil Jagielka and Ashley Williams deserve credit for a series of blocks on the six yard line as City kept trying to pass the ball into the net, but ultimately City had to reflect on a long period of dominance that brought no reward. With Agüero left on the bench following international duty Kelechi Iheanacho did not quite provide the cutting edge up front City were seeking, and though Everton could not complain about the penalty awarded when Jagielka left out a leg to trip David Silva, the manner in which De Bruyne placed his attempt at an easy height for the goalkeeper to reach seemed to sum up his side’s indecisiveness in front of goal. Everton could only have been pleased to turn round on level terms after spending almost all the first half on the ropes. With two tricky wingers in the side in Yannick Bolasie and Gerard Deulofeu they might have been expected to at least try and exploit the space behind City’s extremely notional wing-backs, though in fact they barely crossed the halfway line and never managed to send players forward in the sort of numbers to cause their opponents problems. That seemed to change at the start of the second half, as if Ronald Koeman had asked his players to impose themselves more during the interval. Bolasie linked with Deulofeu for the latter to force Claudio Bravo’s first save of the afternoon, before a flick from Iheanacho brought a reaction stop from Stekelenburg at the other end. The Nigerian made way for Agüero shortly after that, and when Koeman sent on James McCarthy for Deulofeu at the same time it looked as though Everton were stiffening their midfield to hang on for a point. Nothing of the sort, as it turned out. A determined touch by Bolasie on half way simultaneously took out a defender and turned a hopeful ball forward into an opportunity for Romelu Lukaku to run at an exposed Gaël Clichy. To say the striker accepted it gratefully would be an understatement. Lukaku devoured the opportunity, and Clichy with it, losing the defender and finding Bravo’s bottom corner with an alacrity that put the home side’s finishing to shame. Things did not get any better for City when yet another penalty was squandered, this time by Agüero. Jagielka was again the culprit and it appeared Everton’s lead might last a mere five minutes until Stekelenburg pulled off another impressive stop, proving equal to Agüero’s shot despite the striker’s effort to put him off with a stuttering run-up. When Stekelenburg followed that with a fine save from Agüero from open play he put himself in the running for man of the match and kept Everton on course for an unlikely victory, though of course it could not last. Guardiola’s response to the second penalty miss had been to replace a fading Sane with a fresh Nolito, and within two minutes the substitute put City level, heading home from the six yard line from Silva’s clever cross. There was still time for Stekelenburg to rescue Everton again by getting fingertips to a tremendous shot from De Bruyne, though even with Kompany sent into the mixer the visiting defence clung on for a deserved point. Guardian
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Post by Avinalaff on Oct 15, 2016 16:37:51 GMT
Flaming Nolito again 1-1 He likes scoring against us. I think he scored three against us in a friendly.
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