Match Thread Everton v Leicester

[Jimmy Lad]

Sadly inevitable tonight

 

[Lako42]

Defence is absolutely horrific here

 

[MerseyFox]

Midfield is not functioning at all. Chillwell needs to be subbed off

 

[Brown Nose]

Nights like this you look to the senior players to step up and take command. Ours haven't and the kids in the team are struggling.

I know I have an issue with him anyway, but it is like we're playing with ten men with James in midfield too.

 

[popillius]

I really do not understand Puel picking Chilwell over Fuchs. The kid has proven time and time again that he cannot defend. The fact we haven't brought in a decent LB this window is idiotic.

 

[Miles Away]

Shambbbbbblllllesss

 

[MerseyFox]

So poor

 

[Blue Maniac]

Stringer keeps saying it “could be five”. Presumably he doesn’t know how football works.

 

[Jeff]

I know I have an issue with him anyway, but it is like we're playing with ten men with James in midfield too.

Unfair to single him out. He was bossing the midfield until they scored. The whole team has been crap since then,

 

[Rock Fox]

we look compleytely clueless

 

[City Fan]

I really do not understand Puel picking Chilwell over Fuchs. The kid has proven time and time again that he cannot defend. The fact we haven't brought in a decent LB this window is idiotic.

We really are lacking decent fullbacks. Yet we have £25m strikers and midfielders on the bench.

 

[popillius]

Nights like this you look to the senior players to step up and take command. Ours haven't and the kids in the team are struggling.

I know I have an issue with him anyway, but it is like we're playing with ten men with James in midfield too.

It is hard for them to 'step up' when Chilwell is allowing anything and everything to go past him or dispossess him whilst Ndidi and Gray give the ball away time and time again.

 

[Rock Fox]

It is hard for them to 'step up' when Chilwell is allowing anything and everything to go past him or dispossess him whilst Ndidi and Gray give the ball away time and time again.

don't forget okazaki

 

[homer]

Awful, just awful

Why on earth Claude thinks Chilwell is anywhere near good enough is simply beyond me, but he's not the only one tonight. Gray and James in particular are passengers, and Wilf is like a headless chicken

Shocking stuff

 

[Blue Maniac]

Listening to Matt Piper’s ‘analysis’ is just awful.

 

[Jeff]

Listening to Matt Piper’s ‘analysis’ is just awful.

Don't listen to it then.

 

[popillius]

Unfair to single him out. He was bossing the midfield until they scored. The whole team has been crap since then,

Absolutely. He was our best player by a mile until they all went to shit.

 

[bloo]

Their tempo is causing us all kinds of problems. They're dismantling Puel's new passing game by hassling and closing down. Fat Sam scores 1.

 

[Feriol]

Didn't hear James mentioned in commentary at all after the teams were read out. Everything Chillwell did was a mistake. "Ndidi gives the ball away" is the commentators new catchphrase, and the defence are Stoned.

Give the defenders some snacks, Red Bull for Vardy and Okazaki. Let James go to Bed and maybe we can turn this around.

 

[Redditch Fox]

Chilwell is not nor ever likely to be a defender. Fuchs is quality - bit past his best - but a class defender.