England’s Anthony Gordon

[Cronky]

I don't think his pen was any worse than the one that he scored from last week. It's just that on this occasion, the keeper went the right way. Neither were great penalties. 

 

But apart from that and his miss near the end, I think that's the best game I've ever seen him play. He was great.

[Cronky]

5 minutes ago, Lotus said:

Looked like there might be a possibility of him playing a 10 style role for us if we ever use a formation where we employ one. 

 

I'm not sure about that. We need to take advantage of his pace and play him either out wide or on the last line of defence.

[Superior Acuña]

Last week i gave his technique the benefit of the doubt and assumed his technique was based on sending the keeper the wrong way. Ie that sending him the wrong way was part of the process and not just luck. Because aye, otherwise they’re going to be getting saved if you hit them there. 

[Kid Icarus]

I think that was something I've never seen before. I've seen players bottle it, shrink, get revenge, play the panto villain etc. 

 

I don't think I saw Gordon do any of that, it looked to me more like someone overdosing on confidence. The pen and the one on one aside he was very good and he seemed unaffected by both misses, which in itself seemed a bit odd. 

[Pata]

5 hours ago, nufc123 said:

Hes on pens when Isak and Wilson is out. Cant just shy away because its Everton. No problem with him taking it.

 

Should've been Schär tbh. Schär scored a brilliant modern pen against Wimbledon and if Pickford does that stealing against him he scores 100/100. Not a fan of Isak's pens either, wish we addressed that and make them learn the patient technique and not just hoping the goalie jumps the other way.

[Nucasol]

Gordon bollocksed up but the club made the bigger gaffe by spending another season relying on Callum Wilson to cover for Isak. Gordon shouldn’t be covering for that.

[Shearergol]

8 hours ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Both our first choice strikers being injured at the same time is the issue really. 

Yeah I guess nobody could have predicted Wilson being injured.

[David Edgar]

And Isak is NEVER injured.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

OK, let’s not have the debate about signing a second striker yet again. 

[Hanshithispantz]

8 hours ago, Kid Icarus said:

I think that was something I've never seen before. I've seen players bottle it, shrink, get revenge, play the panto villain etc. 

 

I don't think I saw Gordon do any of that, it looked to me more like someone overdosing on confidence. The pen and the one on one aside he was very good and he seemed unaffected by both misses, which in itself seemed a bit odd. 

He played well and caused them issues all game, the narrative will be that the crowd won but on another day he has a couple of goal contributions.

 

Should never take a penalty again like, any keeper watching that knows he can dive a good second before the strike 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

That chance he hit over the bar wasn’t that good a chance anyway. Tight angle and defenders and goalkeeper around him. If it’s the one on the YouTube highlights. 

[Ronson333]

 

[Superior Acuña]

40 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

That chance he hit over the bar wasn’t that good a chance anyway. Tight angle and defenders and goalkeeper around him. If it’s the one on the YouTube highlights. 

Yeah, he should’ve done better, but I didn’t expect it to go in. It’d have been a good goal if he scored it. 

[Shearergol]

1 hour ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

OK, let’s not have the debate about signing a second striker yet again. 

That’s not the debate for me. It’s more a question of why when we only have one recognised striker he’s not getting minutes.

[nufc123]

8 hours ago, Pata said:

 

Should've been Schär tbh. Schär scored a brilliant modern pen against Wimbledon and if Pickford does that stealing against him he scores 100/100. Not a fan of Isak's pens either, wish we addressed that and make them learn the patient technique and not just hoping the goalie jumps the other way.

Then Gordon got to be the dropped on pens. Cant shuffle the pen takers around if its Everton, Villa or Chelsea. If Gordon is the pen taker he takes it everytime.

[McEwan]

3 hours ago, nufc123 said:

Then Gordon got to be the dropped on pens. Cant shuffle the pen takers around if its Everton, Villa or Chelsea. If Gordon is the pen taker he takes it everytime.

Why does that have to be the case? Why can't they have a different list of pen-takers for each game depending on the matchup against the opposing keeper? 

 

Gordon might be a better penalty-taker against most keepers but in this case, Pickford probably has some advantage against him being his former club teammate and current country teammate.

 

[TRon]

5 hours ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

That chance he hit over the bar wasn’t that good a chance anyway. Tight angle and defenders and goalkeeper around him. If it’s the one on the YouTube highlights. 

 

Think a better first touch and the angle would have been better tbh.

[Rafalove]

Have I got it right that Everton fans treated Gordon like shit? No wonder Liverpool fans call them bitter.

 

 

 

 

[Heron]

12 minutes ago, Rafalove said:

Have I got it right that Everton fans treated Gordon like shit? No wonder Liverpool fans call them bitter.

 

 

 

 

I generally don't have issue with Everton but I think since our hounding of Pickford they've taken a real disliking to us and us having Gordon really has got their goat so to speak. The commentary from Carragher regarding Gordon was always "Left for bigger things" etc. on Saturday almost making it out they were hard done by. He's played in the Champions League for us since and had his most productive couple of years, improving as a player after being bullied and hounded out of (I believe) his boyhood club. That, is the reality.

 

 

Edited October 6, 2024 by Heron

[mikejaxer]

 

[Kanj]

What a fucking classless social media post 

[Yorkie]

They're rancid. One of my favourite bits from the game was when they forgot to boo him at one point in the second half because they were to busy chastising their own players. By the time they'd remembered to boo him he'd already released the ball. 

[thomas]

12 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

They're rancid. One of my favourite bits from the game was when they forgot to boo him at one point in the second half because they were to busy chastising their own players. By the time they'd remembered to boo him he'd already released the ball. 

 

slow and spiteful is such a great combo

 

 

Edited October 6, 2024 by thomas

[Lush Vlad]

Saw a still image that some Everton gimp posted on Twitter when he is about to hit the ball.  Fuck me, Pickford went early.  He's almost on the deck and way off centre before he's even kicked it.  

 

You notice against City and on Saturday.  He doesn't look at the keeper at any point during his run up or for quite a bit beforehand, actually.  I guess every player has their process and the style of looking at the keeper, waiting for them to go is a fairly new and not that common approach.  Toney, Jorginho, Schar off the top of my head, for example.  Isak, at times waits for the keeper to start moving.  But I think if you're not trying to give the keeper the eyes or see who blinks first.  You really need to be hitting the corners or going for the Shearer thunderbastard special.  Gordon certainly didn't do that, it was tame as fuck.

 

Probably over-thinking it as it was just a pressure penalty back playing at a ground where 90% of the people there don't want him to do well and are audibly abusing him all game.  But I'd rather Schar is our penalty taker if Isak and Wilson (haha, good one) aren't on the pitch. 

[Tiotes Witch Doctor]

He played well overall but hasn't been in sparkling form so far this season anyway, tbh his finishing has always been a weak point of his game that he needs to work on, despite his numbers last season his end product let's him down at times, do think the occasion got to him on the pen though, and in hindsight he probably shouldn't have taken it.