It's disturbing to see other teams in the Premier League - teams we would consider to be "lesser" - who pass the ball well, and move. Simple triangle passes around our midfielders, then quickly move forwards to another phase of play. I imagine we played more long balls today than Stoke did. Or at least it felt like it. They have players who cut in, look for the late run and to play a ball through our defence. We just constantly looked to get the ball to Young, Evra or Rafael and ping it into the box. It's stone-age stuff.
Moyes had Everton playing some good football alot of the time. They were solid, but they also had alot about them. More than just passing it to a winger and banging it in.
He had some strokes of bad luck today which were out of his hands. No centre backs on the bench, and two centre backs get injured. But that didn't necessarily lose us the game. Our tactics on the ball cost us. We looked to have no idea. Give the ball to Rooney so he can blast it into the wind seemed to be out go-to tactic.
He can "rebuild" all he wants in summer, but it's more about what changes on the pitch. Teams with inferior squads than us are playing good, penetrative football. Teams inferior than us are beating us whilst swatting away our archaic tactics with ease. Would signing Kroos and Coentrao change what we do with the ball on the pitch, and our ideas going forward? Our brand of football and our identity on the pitch are abysmal. I can't think of a team in the league right now who plays a worse style of football than us. Not even Stoke. They looked more dangerous than we did, and passed rings around us at times.