What was the single biggest factor in the defeat to Everton.

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I'm losing the will to live reading all the drama here about last night's game, it's bordering on the hysterical at times. So. with no hyperbole, what in your opinion, in one concise sentence was the reason we lost last night?


For me it was having 4 centre backs injured.


edit - the key here is focus, thus the phrases 'single biggest factor' and one concise sentence. Gimps.
 
If I do it over 2 posts can I give 2 sentances? :p
 
for sure, and having our best holding midfielder filling in one of those spots

That plus our 2 best players in Rooney and Nani decided to play very badly
 
Poor wing play, from a team that prides itself on wing play.

Also, lack of fitness from certain players.
 
Poor performances from all of our attackers.
 
Even last season, Everton had a great ability to raise themselves for matches against 'bigger' teams; same last night.
 
Having to play a midfielder in defense.

The likes of Evans would had it tough for sure but at least they would have put off Fellaini a bit. Against Carrick, Fellaini did whatever he wanted and precisely how he wanted. Long balls to him were like passes to Messi's feet.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Having said that, I object to any explanation for a defeat in a game of football which ignores the fact that two teams take part. So I'm demanding a second sentence.

Everton played bloody well.
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Sorry my rules. (Everton were fecking fantastic - but I feel that as good as they were and Fellaini was, us at our best would win)
 
Solius said:
Not having a plan for Fellaini.
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Not having a player in central midfield who could deal with Fellaini's physicality.

Lead to too many easy out-balls for them which ruined any chance of getting into a rhythm and applying sustained pressure. Very rarely can you point to one factor like that, but in this case it was very much just the single effective trick.
 
moses said:
So you think that even with out first choice defence we would have struggled or that without them we should still have been able to beat them?
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Fellaini was drifting about targeting who he went up against, we needed someone who could follow him and not let him target Valencia/Carrick. I'm not sure having Ferdinand in there would have made much difference (apart from defending the corner) it needed to be someone in midfield to get tight so he couldn't be the out-ball all the time.
 
moses said:
So you think that even with out first choice defence we would have struggled or that without them we should still have been able to beat them?
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We should have done better than that, with or without first choice defence. God I can't wait for our OT fixture against them, really want us to smash them good.
 
An unbalanced lineup. Multiple reasons for that require multiple sentences, the defensive injuries probably is the single biggest factor but I think we might have to go through a period of slight adjustment as our forwards find their roles. Nothing to flap about yet.
 
Not taking at least one of the few chances we carved out, Hernandez would have pinched one at least.
 
Gibson

No in my opinion we are lacking a central midfielder who presses, so we rarely won the ball when Everton were out of position. Our whole team is geared up to counter-attack so we are pretty impotent when they have ten men behind the ball.
 
padzilla said:
Not taking at least one of the few chances we carved out, Hernandez would have pinched one at least.
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do you have tomorrows lotto numbers too?

Too many poor individual performances last night & RVP on the bench was a bad idea.
 
The fact we couldn't handle Fellaini, simple.

Then that comes down to not closing Everton down quickly enough, and not having proper defenders capable of handling him, so injuries.

If Everton didn't score first we could've won easily, but they got the goal and stifled the game.
 
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