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Post by Avinalaff on Dec 10, 2016 14:42:16 GMT
Was prepared to give Koeman time but he's proving to be utterly useless. The warning signs he isn't that bothered are when he took forever to arrive at the club which didn't give him time to assess the squad and him not playing the youth. He's an average manager at best. We need to remember that the same players have let us down 3 seasons on the bounce now, and before I'll condemn another manager, I'd like to get rid of the players first, as I find it too coincidental.
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Post by rugbytoffee on Dec 10, 2016 14:46:41 GMT
I give up.
The next two games will be a disaster
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Post by Avinalaff on Dec 10, 2016 15:02:50 GMT
I give up. The next two games will be a disaster Arsenal and Liverpool ha ha. I'm dreaming of a sh white Christmas.
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Post by Everton News. on Dec 10, 2016 15:08:36 GMT
Watford and Stefano Okaka rally and hold off Everton and Romelu LukakuHome team scorers Stefano Okaka 36 Sebastien Prodl 59 Stefano Okaka 64 Away team scorers Romelu Lukaku 17 Romelu Lukaku 86 Watford outfought and outthought a vulnerable Everton side to take all three points on a dank December lunchtime. Two goals from Romelu Lukaku were not enough for the visitors, who have now won just once in their last 10 league matches. Watford came into this match on their own poor run of form, having lost three of their past four matches. But any expectations of a nervous, cagey encounter were rendered null by the 17th minute when Everton took the lead. Gareth Barry was the architect. Now joint second in all-time Premier League appearances (tied with Frank Lampard and behind only Ryan Giggs), he received the ball on the halfway line and everyone expected a simple pass from the defensive midfielder. Instead the former England international opted for a curled chip that flew 40 yards and took 18 players out of the game. As the ball came down, Heurelho Gomes froze on his line and Miguel Britos could not judge its flight. Lukaku, meanwhile, knew precisely what was going on. He let the pass roll across his body and fired the ball coolly under Gomes. Watford were shocked and descended into frustration. Étienne Capoue saw a good chance drift out for a throw-in and Nordin Amrabat smashed a cross against Ramiro Funes Mori when he had two players unmarked at the far post. Otherwise their play was stilted, the home side’s passes both over- and underhit. As is sometimes the way, an unlikely moment sparked the Hornets into life. Sebastian Prödl had robbed Séamus Coleman with a sliding tackle. Camilo Zuñíga came in to clean up but opted instead to play a delicious back-heel that sent his team on the attack. It ultimately came to nothing but Watford puffed their chests out again and began to dominate the match. Their equaliser came in the 33rd minute, and it was another back-heel. Capoue’s long ball was won in the air by Troy Deeney, He nodded down to his strike partner, Stefano Okaka, and the Italian found Amrabat. This time the midfielder picked the right cross, low around Leighton Baines, and there was Okaka rushing on to it, pirouetting on the ball and sending it low into the net past Maarten Stekelenburg. Both sides came out for the second half fired up and with a game plan but one worked better than the other. Everton upped the tempo, running at Watford’s retreating defence. Gerard Deulofeu found himself in the home penalty area with space and time in the 53rd minute but could not make his pass count. Five minutes later at the other end, Valon Behrami won a free-kick. José Holebas curled the ball in from wide left and the giant Prödl rose above Colman to power a header home. It was simple, direct and all too effective, so four minutes later they repeated the trick. Stekelenburg had done magnificently to turn a Britos header over the bar for a corner. But up stepped Holebas again and his near-post ball was flicked powerfully beyond the Dutchman by Okaka. Walter Mazzari soon withdrew his fellow countryman in favour of Ben Watson as he sought to lock down the game. Ronald Koeman, meanwhile, went two up top and added Ross Barkley and Aaron Lennon into the mix. Everton went for it and with four minutes of normal time remaining Lennon found the time and space wide on the left to pick out a cross that the advancing Lukaku nodded home. A frantic final few minutes followed and Everton claimed a penalty after Britos stopped Enner Valencia jumping for a cross but Watford’s bad blip had come to an end. Guardian
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Post by Everton News. on Dec 10, 2016 15:10:30 GMT
Everton's desperate run of form goes on after they succumbed to a 3-2 defeat at Watford.Ronald Koeman's side have now won just one of their last 10 Premier League games after a second-half collapse at Vicarage Road today. The Blues had taken an early first-half lead through Romelu Lukaku but were pegged back by Stefan Okaka. Watford then struck twice in the space of five minutes after the break as Everton's defence capitulated under pressure from a pair of set-pieces. First Sebastian Prodl powered home a header from a free-kick before Okaka got his second when he nodded home a corner. Everton had folded without the merest hint of resistance and were left with less than half an hour to try and salvage a point. But the Blues lacked any cutting edge and though Lukaku headed home his second of the afternoon with four minutes left, Watford were able to hold on. Everton had made a bright start to the game and their reward was the opening goal after 17 minutes when Lukaku latched onto Gareth Barry's sweeping ball over the top and showed composure to slot past Heurelho Gomes. The Blues looked to be in control and ready to build on Lukaku's first goal since the end of October, but Watford improved and equalised nine minutes before the break. Okaka sent Nordin Amrabat into space on the right hand side and continued his run into the box to meet the winger's cross and finish with a backheel past Maarten Stekelenburg. Everton emerged after the break with renewed intent but failed to make the most of some promising positions and were made to pay for their wastefulness. Idrissa Gueye gave away a free-kick wide on the left hand side and from Jose Holebas' set-piece, Prodl headed past Stekelenburg to make it 2-1. Stekelenburg produced a magnificent save to deny Miguel Britos soon after but was helpless to prevent Okaka getting his second after 64 minutes. Holebas fired in a corner and Okaka got ahead of Barry to power a header past Stekelenburg and Leighton Baines on the line. Everton went in search of a way back into the game and though Lukaku's header from Aaron Lennon's cross set up a manic finish, the damage was already done. Defeat sees Everton drop to ninth in the table and the full-time whistle was greeted by boos from the away end. Liv Echo
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