There was some good passing in the first half of today's dreadful tie to Wolves. With excellent movement and lots of pace, we actually started the game off well, something that rarely happens. But of course, again, we couldn't score a goal to save our life, but I'll get to that in the bad. Lots of effort was shown by Pienaar, if that counts for anything, and Heitinga was pretty solid in his first league game after the World Cup. Distin had a pretty decent game as well, and I'll eat my words from last week as Hibbert was also pretty good.
The bad
I feel like this will be a long list. Regardless of his effort Pienaar's passing for most of the game was atrocious. The only thing worse in terms of accuracy was Bily's shooting. I have been sticking up for Bily since he showed up at Everton, but today he made me think twice. His key attribute was always his ability to shoot with power and score. Today just wasn't his day and I think the team suffered because of it. Times like today, I wonder why on earth we signed Saha. Not only has he not scored in the league in ages, he actually cost us the win today. Careless play, and a lazy attitude from him, set up the goal that not only cost us two points, but very nearly got Heitinga injured. At the end of the day, we fell apart in the second half. We were sloppy and slow and it cost us.
The ugly
I sincerely hope that Lee Mason will never be able to ref an Everton game again. The reffing truly was horrible and I'm just thankful we came out of this match without any injuries. Wolves were allowed to get away with murder to put it simple.
Moyes' tactics were also ugly. At home, we need to play two strikers. Everyone knows it so just do it already.
Ugh, at the end of the day this game was just terrible. I am actually losing years off my life with every game I watch.
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