Coleman inspired Blues sink Spurs
Magnificent Everton made a mockery of Tottenham’s title aspirations at a rocking Goodison Park last night, dominating Harry Redknapp’s in-form side with their best performance of the season.
David Moyes admitted in his press conference prior to the game that he was desperate to put things right and the fact that the manager arrived at Goodison Park at 11am to meticulously prepare spoke volumes.
Everton were fast out of the blocks and within two minutes Louis Saha had his first goal in 26 Premier League games.
Leighton Baines found the Frenchman lingering outside the box and Saha sent a 30-yard drive fizzing past Heurelho Gomes and into the corner of the Park End net.
Five minutes later a push by Alan Hutton as clear as day on Jermaine Beckford should have resulted in a penalty for the Blues but instead Tottenham went up the other end and equalised through Van der Vaart with whistleblower Probert conveniently overlooking the blatant push by Peter Crouch on John Heitinga.
1-1 and a clear sense of injustice brewed around Goodison.
Everton’s football had been impressive, but their work-rate even more so and they started the second half with the same lung burning intensity.
Both teams clearly wanted the win and Seamus Coleman must be wondering this morning how he managed to mess up the biggest chance of the game when he inexplicably delivered a Leon Osman back pass into the arms of Gomes from six yards out when Jermaine Beckford had a tap in.
The Donegal destroyer soon made up for his glaring miss though.
With little over fifteen minutes left on the clock, Beckford fed Saha with an acute reverse ball and Saha’s powerful shot was beaten out by Gomes to Coleman who raced in to head in the rebound.
It was no more than Everton and man of the match Coleman deserved. Everton held out for the win without any major scares and pushed up to eleventh in the Premier League.
So, sometimes the fans really DO know better than the manager! 4-4-2, players played in their correct positions, attacking intent, pace, movement…taking risks. Fortune favours the brave, more of the same Moyes and nobody will have issue with you. But why oh why has it taken 20 games of dross to realise this?
One game isn’t going to change anyone’s outlook…. this brilliant win HAS to be carried forward.
Up the Toffees.
Joe Jennings
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Here’s hoping he same 11 play against the Shite next week!
It wasn’t too much of a different formation in my opinion with Saha playing the Cahill role. Fellaini deserves a mention as when he plays like he did last night, i can’t think of a better player in the Premier league. To think some knobs were saying Carsley was a better player on some other live forum last night is incredible.
yeaa.. thats because it was the exact same formation. People dont seem to realise that, except the executioner on here who is always spot on. 4-4-2 with ball. 4-5-1 without. been that way the large majority of the season. Difference last night?? Goals to match large amount of chances.
The difference between the 4-5-1 we usually play and the “4-4-2″ we played against Spurs though, is that having two out and out strikers on the field at the same time changes your mentality. You could say that all 4-4-2s are 4-5-1s with your arguments. Having Cahill on the field with a striker means that one of your attackers also has midfield roles on his mind, whereas I suspect that the only thing going through Saha and Beckford’s head was “Score a fucking goal!”
nextepisode there showing that he doesn’t understand football and makes judgements based on statistics rather than what actually happens on the pitch.
If you use pass area statistics to decide what formation you are playing, then we were actually lining up 3,6,1…because Leighton Banes’ passing markers and average positional markers are always way out of sync with the rest of the back 4.
Sometimes though, if you understand football, you dont make such foolish comments based on stats…because you simply know better.
We played 4-4-2, I know that, the players know that and Howard Kendall knows that.
staveros there showing that he is once again a deluded idiot and a laughing stock of this site and pretty much (by my and many friends efforts) a joke to more and more everton fans each week. Statistics werent used.. i used my EYES, although i understand your unfamiliar with using these staveros, as you have proved time and time again. Im actually surprised you went a WHOLE post without calling for Moyes’ head… a whole post!!!!! Well done to you.