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I know Whoscored can be very ropey but his apparent strengths are finishing and dribbling. Sounds like he'd be a decent short-term option, to me.

Lower league opposition, aye, but Berahino's finishes yesterday were great. Just what we need.

Dembele is talented but not that great, imo. Total cock too, he actually 'shushes' players that try to tell him what to do on the pitch.

I don't think Ba had everything, either. Brilliant predator in the box, aye, but not a huge amount out of it. Inconsistent first touch, not particularly skillful, ran out of legs after an hour, not a great dribbler. He only scored one from distance too, iirc?

Ba might've been the better striker, although not IMO, but Remy is definitely the better forward. He'd get goals from any attacking position and is a very good footballer, in general.

Good post, Disco. Personally, I think the lad can be a decent squad option, in the long run, and he'll just about do as genuine first team competition for the rest of this season. He's always struck me as a talented footballer and decent athlete; just pretty dumb which hampers him. We can work with that

Remy is mint. Best forward we've had since Big Al. If we get him in, that's a massive leap forward for our survival hopes. For all the shit McClaren gets, if we'd had a striker relatively on his game with his finishing all season, we'd be nowhere near the relegation spots.

Why even bother trying to go for that? They'd have had over an hour to equalise. No guarantee he'd even have scored.

Dude, they look pretty toothless today. They might have had a good goalscoring season but they've been powder puff this after and should try and mix it up.

I hate slow build up. But going forward Everton will score. Just don't smell danger at all at the back. Sure I've seen Neil complain about them having to break teams down. They should be getting it into Lukaku much quicker on occasion.

Everton could actually mix up their game far more, here. Too much slow build up.

I don't think Stones is all that, like. Good on the ball but I don't think he's great at actual defending.

I'm not sure any of those 3 man marking could be described as playing it safe . Still smarter than letting one of the most in form and quickest strikers in the league to move freely into a very dangerous area of the pitch. They know he's a brilliant mover, they should have looked to get deeper with him considering Watford barely had anyone forward. Made a rod for our own back.

Why play an offside trap when you're 3 against 1? Just man mark and play it safe. We're not in a position to take risks like that.

The goal when Ighalo was offside and when Lascelles was our last man? He looks directly at Ighalo before the ball is played and doesn't make any effort to get near him. Just a lazy step up instead.

Played a very tight diamond. Even Deeney was dropping back in, though. It was all congested. Aye, so a decent manager would have spread the play wide, reacted to the situation and taken advantage. We just banged our heads against the same wall for 90 minutes. Tbf, Sissoko was pretty much a winger for the second half after Perez came on. Still needed more balance, though.

He couldn't be arsed for that first goal. It's just basic defending.

Played a very tight diamond. Even Deeney was dropping back in, though. It was all congested.

A more experienced striker puts that chance in the back of the net, like. It's an awesome opportunity.

He shouldn't be saying that, like, even if he's not wrong.

Interesting that they got in twice as many tackles us. Mitro had no joy with aerials either - so not many outlets as we struggled to keep it. Saivet got most tackles in for the game, out of both sides, somewhat encouragingly.

I agree but I think McClaren would've got just as much stick for playing Mbemba LB and starting Lascelles. But he had limited options. I think it would have made perfect sense. He had to play Lascelles anyway right? Besides Aarons starting today seemed very optimistic, especially ahead of Perez, and in a wing back position. Really disappointed in the manager today. All the time we were stinking it up earlier int he season he never tried this system, and now we had put together some good performances he starts messing about with it. Mbemba had never played FB before he came here. I would've had him there today, tbh. Yes, he has played full back before. He said after the game he played FB that he'd never played there before.

Even Championship sides in England will shut down space and press you. It seems a bit pointless spending millions on players if they can't cope with the opposition trying to win the ball. Stretching the pitch is pretty important, like. They might be internationals but most struggle when there's a lack of space.

It ended up too central, like. Not quite sure what our final team actually was

I agree but I think McClaren would've got just as much stick for playing Mbemba LB and starting Lascelles. But he had limited options. I think it would have made perfect sense. He had to play Lascelles anyway right? Besides Aarons starting today seemed very optimistic, especially ahead of Perez, and in a wing back position. Really disappointed in the manager today. All the time we were stinking it up earlier int he season he never tried this system, and now we had put together some good performances he starts messing about with it. Mbemba had never played FB before he came here. I would've had him there today, tbh.