Ancelotti: We couldn't match Fulham's intensity

12/12/20
Newcastle United 2 - 1 West Bromwich Albion

16/12/20
Leeds United 5 - 2 Newcastle United

19/12/20
Newcastle United 1 - 1 Fulham

26/12/20
Manchester City 2 - 0 Newcastle United

30/12/20
Newcastle United 0 - 0 Liverpool

03/01/21
Newcastle United 1 - 2 Leicester City

12/01/21
Sheffield United 1 - 0 Newcastle United

18/01/21
Arsenal 3 - 0 Newcastle United

23/01/21 Aston Villa 2 - 0 Newcastle United

26/01/21
Newcastle United 1 - 2 Leeds United

30/01/21
Everton 0 - 2 Newcastle United

02/02/21
Newcastle United 1 - 2 Crystal Palace

06/02/21
Newcastle United 3 - 2 Southampton

We are a joke!

"It was difficult for us to manage the game and we didn't have the pace or intensity we normally have."
Name one game we played with pace and intensity!

"It was a hard defeat for us but, like I say, we need to learn from our mistakes and focus on Wednesday."

Why didn't you learn it after other utterly crap performances against Leeds, Newcastle, Leicester and West ham to name a few!?

“Obviously, it's a hard time. We are playing every three days but the Premier League is like that."

I have news for you! Its not just Premier League Andre! In Spain and Italy for example, they play 3 games a week too! What about Fulham, West Ham and Newcastle? Aren't they playing the same amount of games as we do!!!?

I hope there's been some honest open minded review of this match, as it was the best example of to set up and get smashed, because there was no belief, no movement no desire etc.

This Wednesday and the next month if fixtures will be a defining phase in this season for Everton.

The facts are this Everton, and other recent Everton teams never turn up regardless of the opposition when the stakes are high.

That was our best chance of getting 3 points for possibly, and I really hope not over the next few weeks, as the fixtures we have are tough.

Dust down now and move on, and hopefully the sludge has finally been flushed out of the squads mindset for this season.

Blood, swear and tears and more for the Everton cause on a Wednesday, and no more pathetic after match excuses, from any of the players.

Fulham epitomised all the good traits of a decent footballing team and the warning lights were on at half time, as with better finishing it could have been at least 3-4, nil to them by half time.

Now let's see which version of Everton turn up v City.

Olsen
Coleman Keane Godfrey Digne
Davies Doucoure
Iwobi Allan Richarlison
Calvert Lewin

Pace everywhere; slow coaches Sigurdsson, Gomes, James can warm the bench for an hour at least.

In my 60+ years supporting this club I could count on one hand the amount of times we have shown real "bottle" the perennial shithouse geno runs deep in the dna of this gutless club.

I like CA but see nothing from him to suggest he understands let alone has a plan to change this.

If he said another debacle will result in the twats having a yellow streak painted on the back of their shirts and the badge changed to a chicken I might change my mind.

We're still drifting

At this time of year, Everton should be looking for central defenders from the under 23s because they have at least 6 months of playing competitive football in the PL2. No chance, there are none.

In games of late, Ancelotti has been forced to rest Keane to Mina because the only other proven central defender Everton had to play in further games in empty stadiums without the pressure and intimidation of 'packed houses' was Branthwaite. He is out on loan wasting his premier league time at Blackburn as Everton are conceding too many goals to be serious challengers for a top 4 place.

Thank you

Would they have been as crap as the others though? Tough one to answer, I doubt they would've been worse.

Anyway we are, or we should be done here, we've talked it to death so lets move on - its game on tomorrow.

Who knows how The Mk II Tinkerman will go with team selection and formation...and even fewer will know in advance on which Everton will turn up...upto and including Ancelotti and the players themselves.

Strange days Indeed.

I like James, Sigurdsson & Gomes but all 3 of them lack pace and should never play together as a trio.

We could easily have put James in midfield in place of Siggy, Bernard and Iwobi either side of Richy or King and had pretty fresh team.

Instead, we played the same bizarre formation we had away at Newcastle and, somehow, managed to put in an even worse performance.

Awful selection from Carlo.

The question mark is that I believe Carlo knows what an almighty mess the mentality side of the club is in. He probably privately doubts that even he can operate successfully to remove the foul tumour of mediocrity that leeches season after season on this great club's innards.

I still believe that Ancelotti has standards that he is determined to embed. I want the fans to give him plenty of trust and time to do it. I think there has been improvement in the team and there will be bumps along the road, but fuck me Fulham was no bump, it was a pothole the size of a crater.

I also must admit some of the team selections he has come up with have been unnecessarily weak , selections that just don't cut the mustard in the physical, competitive world of he Premier League. Always and without exception the intensity and desire has to at the very very least match the opposition or the control of a game is conceded .

Our midfield needs to be constructed with intensity and desire as the priority qualities, it goes without saying they need to be hugely talented with the ball too . Is it too much to as to have both?

Gomes showed how easy it could have been when he strode forward and took a shot; Fulham folded like tissue paper. The only problem was it was as pathetic a shot as his contribution all evening.

Yes, he makes some bad team selections but he can only use what cloth he has to cut with. Whoever he chooses there is always 1-2 player (min) who go MIA in games, usually the same ones.

Carlo will get us there, eventually. If he can't we may as well give up. Oh, and please don't ever mention Potter, Dyche, Moyes, NES or even the former Bournemouth manager who was a favourite on here.

The clamour from one or two posters to appoint him as our manager was fervent.

You are correct, it won't take ten transfer windows before it gets better, but until the summer he will have to use the squad better and not experiment with different formations versus the weaker teams, with Sunday's formation he made us one of the weaker teams, not for the first time.

Pickford trained OK yesterday and could play. Allan and James also.

Says we will need to play a defensive rather than open game v City tomorrow.

No issues with Josh King's fitness, that he can and will play during the season. That he is adapting well to the team.

Gave the Colombian journo short shrift when he asked if James is being deliberately targeted by opponents to take him out of the game and if James himself could do something to avoid getting these knocks.

Carlo replied the only way for James to avoid physical contact is for him not to play! That, or a radical rule change. Carlo considered the challenges were normal, so no sympathy from the manager for James.

Carlo City Presser

Need to scroll past the still photo in the link to around 16 mins 30 secs for the start of the presser.

The manager isn't getting the best out of them. The manager isn't motivating them. The manager's failure to spill his tea is somehow indicative that all our problems are Carlo's fault!!

Maybe if we brought in the best motivational manager we can find - Klopp, Guardiola, Simeone - somehow we'd get consistent performances from Bernard, Sigurdsson, Gomes etc. Or would we?!

One thing is certain though and that's if he carries on performing like the other night, it won't matter what his feelings are towards Everton, because that was unacceptable, and Evertonians will be the first to tell him.

Good to see so many dismissing this nonsense.

Like the past four managers. This guy thinks we were born yesterday.

The honeymoon period is coming to an end. More and more people are becoming disgruntled with this soulless dross.

We want to see the Sultans of swing. Not the Zombies of Ming

My ding a ling

The truth is a lot less fanciful and already explained by Carlo himself on the night.

Carlo's Cool Tea Blowing Explained

It was so cold on the night Carlo said he couldn't speak and he asked for a cup of tea. And there was no joyous celebration because he had seen a VAR check was being run.

What next? Interpreting the hidden messages in his farts?

Forget it. Been done already.

Magnifying Carlo's Farts

I have it on good authority he can give a good rendition of boogie woogie bugle boy with them.

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Well he certainly talks out of his arse)

I forgot about him. I was talking about Martinez. Koeman, The Night king and Silva all spouting similar shite to what Carlo has spouted here.

I have nightmares that after spending 500m on players 100m + on five managers..TGT comes back to haunt us by finishing above Carlo.

Lets hope that prospect is put to bed sooner rather than later.

I only look at what Ancellotti has spent Darren, because he wouldn't have been appointed if the others you mentioned hadn't wasted so much money on mediocrity. But Moyes, took us for fools imo, and was unbelievably clapped out the fucking ground.

This is a mentality that has existed for years at Everton. Kenwright &Co, hanger on Everton Stars, Finch Farm and Mercenary substandard Footballers on Popstar wages have all been analysed and blamed as the causes of this often recognised and typicial Everton malaise. Maybe Ancelotti may get to the bottom of it and Good Luck to him in trying to sort it out. There has been a reduction in the Injury Recovery loophole to get out of training, since Ancelottis reorganisation of Medical Services.

I don't buy the fatigue excuse, which was pushed in the media.

Moyes upcoming six games are all against the "big" clubs. Be interesting to see if he adopts his usual "knife to a gunfight" mentality. I saw him do that against the RS -- shutting up shop at 0-2 a few weeks ago. I expect more of the same and those who laud him as a genius to remember his true nature.

Look at the money Mancini and Pellegrini spent.

Some of our fans obviously still hold Davie close to thier hearts.

Astounding

I hated Moyes and his expectation management when he was here and you have to say. He hardly set a high bar for Carlo But he spend less in 11 years than Carlo has in 11 months. His team regularly finished about the seventh place we are in now and although he often played dull unimaginative football, people like Baines Pienarr and Osman ensured it was still a sight better than what we see now.

Given what Carlo earns, His pulling power, his incredible tactical know how and the fact that he inherited a team in much better position we are surely entitled to expect more from him than we got from TGT.

I worry about this club. It doesnt matter how far you lower the bar...it's never quite far enough

Its becoming like a link to the samaritans.

Those who are feeling down now should consider that Ancelotti encouraged Richarlison to give one more season to the club. He could be off in the summer if we don't get European football. I suspect others may be too - then there'd be major rebuilding to be done!

No wonder all these managers must think we were born yesterday, because although I've slagged Kenwright for years, only now, whilst I'm writing this post, do I realise how much talent the man must really have!

Uncle Bill and TGT, An unholy alliance.

The birth of expectation management.

Still prevalent today

There will be setbacks and although some of the football being played is not what we all want but overall we have improved. I think we should let Carlo get on with bringing in points however he can with the hope that style of football will improve as he shapes the team.

We are still in with a shout of top 4 and certainly top 6 together with an FA Cup quarter final.

Things could be so much worse.

Don't tell the players that. They will down tools even more, according to Ancelotti.

Agree 100%

Verratti in PSG's midfield is some player. Moise Kean impressing. Gana Gueye not surprisingly subbed off at half time having picked up a yellow card then got a warning from the ref for a second foul just before the interval.

In English league games tonight I see Simms played all game in Blackpool's 1-0 home win with Rochdale while down the road at Preston Anthony Gordon got 30 mins as sub in their 0-1 loss to Watford.

And Moise Kean just denied by a fantastic ter Stegen save.

Never mind... we have King for tomorrow against Man City.... mmmmmmm.

Then again, look at the service he gets.

When your team mates are Mbappe, Di Maria, Icardi, Veratti, Neymar there is half a chance you will get chances provided

Kean is a different player than when he turned out for Everton, he most probably will want to leave next season but I would prefer he stays and make sure he has support because he knows where the goal is.

PSG on easy street. 3-1. Virtual white hankies being waved for Koeman in the ether.

We buy young players for sure, then too often fail to play them and allow them to prosper.

Those white hankies turning into funeral shrouds for Koeman.

Better off on loan. If we can sell great, bring in better in the summer.

It's always back to Moyes with some fans. Great for us at the time but we have moved on. He'll do well at West Ham but he's not going to crack the top 4.

Carlo expected his players to do better against Fulham, no one on the pitch knew how to react. He'll feel let down. Lack of leadership on the pitch.

He has to take some responsibility for that. Strange line up and subs.