Stalemate earns battling Blues another precious point

Well, Mr Dyche, this is your future possibly to be determined by 4 pm. Mrs T was eventually stabbed in the back and deposed.

I bet nobody saw that coming…

No gungho thankfully
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Chelsea also had a couple of first half chances.

Hard to expect too much more, especially when conditions were clearly so tough.

Christine (#14), thanks for that and will implement as soon as I get it translated, btw, I watch on the desk top via a dongle and had 2 good years but they now say that 10 klms out from Perth CBD there are too many subscribers which is causing the problem! On my phone they tell me I'm not a subscriber which is rubbish and my telly is that old I get last weeks programmes, but several times a day though.

I was worried before the game, but I thought we edged that

As for DCL... had the potential to be a thoroughbred but turned out to be a Blackpool Donkey...no offence to Blackpool Donkeys meant.

The ominous thing today was Wolves looking much better and Southampton looking solid. We will continue to pick up around a point per game most likely but have to hope that 3 teams below us can’t turn things around significantly.

We can't keep on drawing while potentially those around us begin winning.

The manager must take at least some of the credit for that.

Slagging DCL for his performance today shows that you really, really don't know what you're on about.

Oh, and Chelsea are one snidey, dirty, cheating shower!

Oh, and the ref was shocking!

Hats off to all especially to those belting out "suspicious minds" on the karaoke tonight.

We edged it because we carved out the better chances and restricted them to very little despite their huff and puff

Also. the knowledgeable Goodison crowd ( ONCE AGAIN) gave DCL very warm applause as he left the field.. Wonder why they keep doing that ?

A point gained. I accept that an average of a point a game is what we need this season, so am happy to take this one against strong opposition.

Yes we should be twatting these 4-0

And City
And Arsenal
And Liverpool
And everyone else

Ridiculous isn’t it

It's just the way we have to play right now to get the points to make sure we stay in the Prem for the new stadium, but for a former England striker in his peak years, this must be incredibly depressing for Dom.

I'll wish him well when he goes.

The last 2 games against 2 free scoring teams played right into his style and was quite effective. The weather today never helped but a defensive display was once again rewarded with a point. We still missed goal scoring chances that if not rectified will still see us struggling.

I am not sure what the new ownership plans are, but to change the more defensive style of play it will take a new manager, if they just want to stay in the premier these are the performances to expect, unless we can sign a goalscorer. But the players today deserve congratulations to provide us with a Happy Xmas.

Personally I thought if we could sneak a win against anyone it would be today. The Arsenal point was an unbelievable bonus and I was much happier with that point than today. These lot hate coming to Goodison and had a very weak defence today that could have been tested more.

Cucurella and Forana both missing as well as James meant they had no full back threat with Gusto much weaker on the left. Their centre backs are also very shaky as we seen when we did get at them. With conditions favouring us also I think they were there for the taking and you could see a lot of their young players just didn't fancy it.

A very good point all the same and if you would have offered us 2 points against Arsenal and Chelsea I think most of us would have taken them and run.

DCL was outstanding. He won every one of those long balls from Picks, and laid off more than a few of them perfectly. Roamed touchline to touchline to pressure the ball.

On current form, I think we’ve got a better chance against a surprisingly clunky Citeh than the very dynamic Forest unless we just concede possession to them.

Conor, perhaps you have seen much more of Chelsea recently than I have, because Ithought they’d been dishing out footballing lessons even with the likes of Gusto on the pitch.

The Spurs Boss should be sacked for that result and probably will before the weekend.

Still carrying a couple of passengers, I would have replaced Harrison with Patterson but Lindstrom played better than he has done and stuck with the opposition winger a couple of times and stopped his progress.

We looked more dangerous when Beto came on and with Broja ready for the next game I would look at one of them two to start versus City on Boxing Day, where three point are not out of the question.

Andy my agreement with Dave was nothing to do with Dominic who I thought was excellent again today I was agreeing that we could have been a bit braver

Difference of opinion Andy and I'll stand by mine.
Remind me again of his goal scoring record, how many 1v1's he's fucked up and lame shots at the keeper, not to mention him being yards behind play a lot of the time when on the rare occasion we break at speed!

You've got your opinion and I've got mine...get over it.

In atrocious conditions we kept them to 1 chance whilst we had the best 2 chances in the game.

Everyone put a shift in, mykolenko had a great game against their wingers.

The Dyche subs where also spot on imo, young was 1 foul away from a red, Harrison was knackered and DCL had put a decent shift in.

The ref played whoever falls over first gets a foul. Is there such a thing as a decent ref anymore.

We are desperate for some quality from the midfield.

Roll on Forrest.

The game itself was mostly enjoyable, as it was competitive and Chelsea although relatively inexperienced did put their foot in and were physical for large parts of the game, in fact their physicality suited the way Everton set up and helped Everton to stay in the match, and fortunately Palmer had one of his most ineffective matches in a Chelsea shirt.

As for Dominic, he just doesn't have that aggressive streak in him to worry defences and it was only when Beto came on, did I think we might have an opportunity to take all three points as their defenders suddenly had something to think about.

If we can buy some sort of goalscoring threat in January we might have a less worrying second-half to the season, else we will have to celebrate a point as we would a victory.

Happy holidays to all fellow Evertonians and let's hope that 2025 ushers in a better era.