 You know what's gonna be said There's nothing to say after a performance like that Everton to Newcastle 3 When I woke up two hours before kickoff today, I didn't expect that I Expected this to carry the momentum that we carried into the Liverpool game from the Cardiff game Into this game you come back after 17 days We put out to what to me was a questionable lineup against Cardiff Got a fabulous result. Everyone looked good We got a result against Liverpool in the World Cup of club football No, no Look defensively stellar offensively not so great, but that's not what the whole point of that was we took two points off the carpites We did our part to cost them the title everyone's buzzing good as soon as buzzing or talk all week was we need to You know to um To get that atmosphere we need to do x y and z with our crowd of our In-game hospice in our in stadium hospitality the things that we can do most of you know in the fan forums and all that stuff We've heard it all week and Then we look at it and say well, why can't we do that week in week out? You know, that's that's what the boys need everyone came out your shameless and everyone in Bernard I was came out and said yeah, you know, we could feel it We could feel the Everton we could feel the pride we could feel the passion and we converted that onto the pitch inconsistency Is something that can be said about Everton for the past couple of seasons Inconsistency in the management inconsistency in the boardroom and the top levels of the club inconsistency in player performances inconsistency in formation in strategies and like you know all that it's inconsistent Inconsistent FC is what this should say most of the time these days But I digress let's get to the game So we come out and we look fabulous Starting line-up when I saw it, you know an hour before kickoff. It's like oh Sexy Gomez back in with Charleston after his cameo performance on the right against Liverpool You know looks like something that we can work with Bernard. Maybe our best player all season Technically and skillfully gifted could make a pass and the guys touch the way he brings down brings others into play It's exquisite where we've got Dominic Calvert-Lewin up top who looked up for it from the start today And so, you know, but I think it's one of those things when you look at the formation you go What are you doing Marco? What are you doing Marco? And we win Liverpool? What are you doing Marco? What are you doing Marco draw? Everyone wakes up dangos. That's what I want to see That's the Everton line that I want to see looks creative looks fast looks speedy looks aggressive looks like they're just gonna You know just give it to Newcastle. We're on a run. We're on a high. Let's go boys And for the first 45 minutes we looked outstanding I thought for a minute one to minute forty six forty seven or whatever it was we handled the game Well, we took the lead beautiful play on the outside by Bernard and Luca Dominic Calvert-Lewin didn't bottle it He didn't put it over the bar didn't put it wide He made just enough contact just to put it to the left side of their goalkeeper and we're up 1-0 You know, they don't have that much possession They don't have that much going on for him and then the penalty comes because Jordan Pickford who can't just stay inside of his head For a game like this. He knows he's gonna get stick He knows what goes on when you come to Newcastle's a former Sunderland player He knows all of this but no like everybody says he's got to be cocky. He's got to try and do something fancy He's England's number one number one number one The question is why from now on Garis Elkett needs to take a good look at that for these upcoming internationals by the way and And so they get the penalty kick rugby tackle by Pickford obviously, you know Lucky not to get a yellow card extremely lucky Not to get any type of card not red not green not yellow not anything Lee Mason just keeps his hand in his pocket gives the penalty obviously the new way of saving penalties for goalkeepers Obviously, you don't go all the way to one side don't go you heads your bet You put your legs out put them in the middle if they think they're gonna go somewhere down the center of the goal You've got a good chance another save just like that. You know great save. He's a great shot stop But there's no denying it's the mental side of the game that gets to Jordan And then we go down the other end and we're to nil up, you know a little bit of bi-play Goes on Gomez just decides he's gonna just cruise into the box like he does It's nice strong holds of a tackle put the ball into Bravga fluffs it and Richaulacin's there for And that's where we are we're to nil up You know thirty five minutes into the game and then I thought we managed the game great for the last ten minutes Passed it around left to right right to left back to front front to back You know kick made them frustrated made them run around made them give them something to think about we look dominant and then we go in To halftime you get the rubber degree and you get the luck Everton that and all of a sudden we come out for the second half and then we just Haha, yeah, well You see the first half was really good The second half was absolutely woeful So if there's two sides to a game there's got to be two sides to the reaction, right? Well, here it is Archie the wolf the guy that puts the mask on embarrasses Everton embarrasses Evertonian And embarrasses content creators everywhere a stupid mask. Hey, you know what everyone that wears this badge right here See see this badge right here This one right here I'm not the biggest clown wearing that shirt today. Okay? And I never will be absolutely Pathetic the way that we came out in that second half No, no passion. No fight. No desire didn't look anything like the team that played in the first half Besides the names on the back of the shirts and the numbers And we know is Evertonians we know by watching the games We know that if we concede one goal, we're just gonna fall the pieces for the pieces You know, what's the bodies hit the four? What's the bodies hit the four? That's exactly what happened dead on our feet Didn't know if we got cocky I don't know what Marco Silver tells them at halftime They just go around and they you know just hand out biscuits for that for their cups of tea They just sit there and I don't understand Can we get Everton to give us a little behind the scenes? You know, we have the excess where we get to see them arriving off the bus and kicking it around and signing all the grass And can we get a pre? I mean a halftime team talk for Marco silver Can we just see what one of those looks like please because I would be so Intrigued by seeing how he gets these boys pumped up if he even tries they just sit there with their hands in their knees They used to this one. Let's sit there and go You know, we're too we're tuning up. We should have been bouncing We should have been putting on the music at halftime and just do Let's do it Do it should be ready for that second half should be just sitting on I can't wait to get back on the pitch We're gonna go out there. We're gonna do the same thing We're gonna take three points back home to goodness and part and we're gonna play Chelsea next weekend And we're gonna pull on another show But of course that didn't happen the first goal goes in Lots of possession up the park You know ball towards a Towards Rondon and Perez it's two of them versus five of us and we're just scrambling We don't know what to do. We know who's where John Joe's coming in is also in the bubby's head And then the goal goes in and we're just broken Absolutely broken and then from then on What do we do it requires good game management where we have to manage this game, but how do we do it? How would Everton fc? How would Everton fc go about winning this game to one or he's taking three points. How do we go about doing that? What would other teams do what would man City do what would Liverpool try and do what would even Tottenham Arsenal Man United Chelsea, what would they try and do what would teams like Wolves try and do what would teams like Bournemouth and Watford try and do in this situation. They'd probably try and say hey Let's not hold on to two one. Let's go out there and score another win 31 But no and then comes the decision that decision The greatest and most he's probably sitting there on this touch line goes, okay, how are we gonna win this game? How would you do it thing? I've got it a yerry yerry come on come on Let's go you're gonna go on there and you're gonna tighten it up And you're gonna be a force to be reckoned with you're gonna lock down Rondon You're gonna lock down Perez you and Keenan Zuma gonna dominate and it doesn't really matter We're gonna pull with Charles now if he hasn't had the greatest game However, he has been double-teamed for most of the game Which was already in the left side with Dignay and Bernard being able to have the free Freedom and the space to do what they want to do because we're Charles was basically pulling two players most of the time For that first half. So what are we gonna do? We're gonna pull with Charles enough We're gonna put you every minute in there and then we're gonna put John Joe Kenny is the threat on the outside right Right that makes sense. No Marco it does not make any sense It makes sense if you're Jose Mourinho, it makes sense if you're Rafa Benitez It makes sense if you're Neil Warnock It makes a lot of sense to a relegation battling fodder team that is a good championship team at best Would try and do that, but we try and do it We don't try and bring on Morgan Snydolin to lock it up in the middle of the park to take off Guilfee, maybe Push Gomez further up have Ghana and Morgan just screening the back side You got one of them that takes care of John Joe. You got one of them that takes care of a Luca You don't allow them to put balls into the box You make sure that Rondon is on lockdown and you just put some tackles in and give a little of this to Jose Perez And then that's how it goes and you make other substitutions and good substitutions Then you try and if they start pressing if they've got 50,000 people behind them And they're screaming to get it on and they're doing dah dah dah just shut it down But no, that's not what happens. They get ahead of steam. They get rolling. They keep going. We're just lying down But I even lying down. We're just bent over. We're just ready to take it and we took it for 25 to 30 minutes So everything just went out the window all the good work after the Cardiff game leading into the Liverpool game trying to lead that Momentum that desire that passion that work ethic that creativity that That sense of togetherness of the team all gone all thrown out the window absolutely done So what do we do now? We expect our fans to get up for the Chelsea game. We're gonna do wall some sirens again We're gonna play Z cards a couple of decimals higher in order to get the crowd into it But this performance is like this today that calls what's been happening at Goodison Park for the past couple of months Or maybe past couple of seasons. It's a lack of inconsistency It's a lack of desire a lack of passion or not consistent for 90 minutes. You cannot be a half Game team in this league. You can't play well for 45 minutes and bottle it for 45 minutes You can't play well for 80 minutes in some games and absolutely completely capitulate in 10 minutes to go It's the Premier League and you we want to be seen as a top seven team We're gonna be seen as challenging for Europe It's games like this that make everybody question what we're capable of for 45 minutes We look like a Europa League team We look like we could be a top six team in a couple of years with a couple of alterations of a couple of squad changes But that second half made us look exactly like what we are and there's no hiding from it not at all I tell Everton to get their shit together, but they won't You have you got you know seven or eight games to you know Get us on your side Marco, and you just keep making decisions that don't make any sense What so ever whether it's walk-up starting week in week out you come out and defend that now you're gonna come out and defend Jordan Pickford you're gonna come out and defend your decision-making you're gonna blame the referees you're gonna blame the officials You're gonna blame the wind you're gonna blame the grass you're gonna blame the crowd You're gonna blame everything except yourself Thanks guys. I'm done