TRon

Nah. It's about game management. If you run out of energy you can either bring in fresh energy or drop back and defend for your life. You can't do both.

Just watched his interview now and he's not prepared to resort to excuses, he wasn't happy with the performance tonight. Thank fuck for that.

I thought we were really poor at stopping the crosses coming in as well.

It was like Samson in reverse. Growing lost hair seemed to make him lose his mojo.

He's the modern day Sam Allardyce. You just know if Ashley was still the owner he'd have ended up here.

I honestly thought he'd be right up for this one but he seemed overly bothered about upsetting Everton fans. It affected his performance I thought.

I saw they were knackered against PSV but Howe didn't make changes then either. When players are clearly gassed then you have to replace them, even with inexperienced players who aren't.

Is it though? Pretty sure Howe was saying just last week that he wasn't prepared to play victim, and using fatigue as an excuse would be along those lines. I think he'll be a bit annoyed at some aspects of the performance tbh.

And won the game against Man U with the one class delivery in the whole game.

Mate you can either accept playing out from the back will lead to the odd catastrophic mistake, or resort to kicking it into row Z to be on the safe side.

Have the goal you cunts. Makes fuck all difference to us.

If we'd shown a bit more arrogance we might have shown some more conviction in our finishing.

I hope it was worth it you fucking twat.

That's how you beat the press though. That's how Brighton beat ours. We just haven't done it well enough today.

Fair play to Everton, they've shown willingness to burst forward in numbers when they got a sniff.

Not good enough at playing through the press maybe. Home teams are never going to sit off you.

This. We actually needed more of his willingness to play through the press and we'd have made far more chances.

We've just got outmuscled in the end. It needed some skill and conviction to win this, and we haven't shown it.

It was pure class.

Another great move, another weak finish. Gordon has been reincarnated as Almiron.

Gordon with a Miggy type finish there.

Dirty bastard, should have been a booking.

Just not happening today for Isak.

He's looked a bit more lively this half anyway.

Joelinton showing the way forward in this half, he's using half turns to get that crucial bit of space under the press and set off our moves.