02 Dec 2021 11:19:04
In the first few minutes Coleman was shielding the ball and signalling for Pickford to come and collect. Think Coleman had to clear for a corner because Pickford failed to come and collect. One or the other to blame.
Coleman was at fault for their 3rd goal, he will hold his hands up for that.

Pickford got to accept some blame for the 4th goal as he left to much of his near post exposed, exactly where they put the ball.

So when still 1-2 Everton were still in with a chance. Was pointless putting crosses in because no one was there, Rondon was elsewhere and how he can be a Premiership striker is unbelievable, never has been, never is and never will be.
Like playing with 10 men.

Townsend and Gray 2 of our better and more consistent players, weren't these Rafa appointments? So can't blame Rafa there.

We all know a right back has been needed for few years among others and it's not happened. Who is in charge of identifying replacement for the future, it is Brands, . He is to blame more than Rafa for the mess. If they can't afford to sack him, then demote him to brushing the stands, then he might resign.

Rafa is experienced and capable of identifying replacements so why do we need Brands. Is there a power struggle going on here? I am not saying Rafa is blameless but he has got to accept responsibility for not changing things as we all know.

So there is a collective responsibility here between Rafa, Brands, Bill and Mr Moshiri to sort things out.

I have been following Everton for over 60 years and in all that time along with Arsenal remain the only clubs to stay in the top flight of English football. I want that to continue, as do all the other fans, but the frustration is coming out because they can't do anything about it.

We have England's No1 goalkeeper, no2 striker and until recently no2 centre back plus other international players, we should not be in this mess. It is embarrassing for the club and the fans and it should be for the players.
We might not be in the bottom 3 but we are certainly in a relegation battle.

{Ed025's Note - i agree with all of that brian..

1.) 02 Dec 2021
02 Dec 2021 12:10:47
In regards to the Coleman/ pickford incident, I think SC was right to have a go at his keeper. JP should have been quicker to react, especially since it was Dalah that SC was trying to shield the ball from.
Totally agree with everything else you say, Brian21. I think the DoF role has been at the route of our problems since FM took over. Brands hasn't wasted as much as Walsh did but there hasn't been much improvement since he took up the role.

2.) 02 Dec 2021
02 Dec 2021 12:14:04
To be honest, if you analyse the lead up to the goals certain players should have done a lot better to prevent conceding the goal.
1 Godfrey should have prevented the cross, right on the bye line that led to Henderson’s goal.
2 Godfrey lost possession way into Liverpool’s half and started jogging back as the move progressed and only started sprinting when Salah was bearing down on our area. Pickford should have been faster off his line to narrow the angle for the goal. He made exactly the same mistake in a previous game and was punished. He is very poor at restricting the angle of his goal for the attacker to shoot at. And we supposedly have a goal keeping coach!
3 Resulting from a poor corner by Townsend which didn’t clear the first defender, the ball broke to Gray who hit a slightly difficult back pass to Coleman who should have dealt with it better but conceded possession to Salah with a free route to goal.
4 Pickford should have saved Joto’s shot as it was from such a narrow angle there was no way he should have been beaten on his near post. Instead of staying big he crouched down and moved to his left away from his near post. Schoolboy error.
I appreciate everyone makes mistakes but the basic level of the type of mistakes highlighted above should not be continually made. They’re obvious and visible and with the level of technology available to the coaching staff should be eradicated or at the very least minimised.

3.) 02 Dec 2021
02 Dec 2021 12:11:47
Thanks ed025, I’ve tried a common sense approach to the difficulties.

{Ed025's Note - common sense and everton should never be in the same sentence brian mate..