Everton’s Second Half Collapse vs Chelsea! | David Moyes' Tactics Questioned

So today's agenda, obviously we are going to speak about Chelsea.

We'll discuss Everton's second half collapse, the lack of response after Neto's goal, as well as David Moyes' substitutions and whether it's time for a change right back.

So plenty to get through and as always, get your comments in, get your questions in.

Plenty on the live chat already, so I'll make a note of them and I'll read out as we go along.

Chris, I mean, obviously, I think you've just said it there, it's the manner of the defeat maybe more so than the actual defeat.

We know how tough a game it was going to be.

I don't think anyone was under any illusions that this was the same Chelsea as last season at home when we obviously beat them 3-0.

The disappointing thing for me was more so how competitive we actually looked in the first half.

I don't think it was a fantastic game of football or our performance was there.

I just thought we looked competitive and solid.

And then for multiple times now, Everton have conceded early in the second half, certainly consecutive weeks in a row because we did it against Hull, didn't we? And against United as well, so three out of

the last five.

So concerning with regards to that, but the performance in the second half just wasn't there at all, was it?

No, that was the problem.

As you said, it's like the polar opposite of last time Chelsea were there.

Obviously, they were in disarray at the time under Rossini.

I mean, that's not taking away from what was a great performance on the night.

But, you know, whereas that was the evening kickoff and everyone had been enjoying the sunshine, this was the early kickoff, not making excuses.

But, yeah, it was kind of flat, wasn't it, in terms of...

I was hoping...

That Harrison Armstrong, I'm going to come on to this, that challenge would actually sort of galvanise everybody, and I think it did for a while, but even though he obviously went against everyone, I mean, I thought it was a great challenge, I think a lot of people on the ground did, but even going against him, I was hoping that would sort of rile everyone, get everyone's heckles up, as it were, but...

Yeah, I think Xabi Alonso said in his post-match press conference, Chelsea knew as well that the first goal was going to be crucial, so once they got that, and like you say, so disappointing just barely a minute into the second half, I think there were a lot of empty seats in front of us in the area where we were in front of the press box, because some people hadn't even come back for the second half, and yeah, they were already 1-0 down, and there was very little in terms of a response to that.

Yeah.

I mean, throughout the game, Gav, did Everton look capable of getting anything from the game? I think we had that.

Barry Heather the jack shot that hit the tiptoe voice in the end I can't remember the English one apart from that in the first 20 minutes in the second half I thought we were poor the Barry Heather was particularly frustrating on the back of last week when we were saying I think I said last week didn't I if you miss a few chances then score I can forgive that you know I think you can say you've ended on a high the problem with that is missing a chance in a game where you've not scored at all your team and that was a golden opportunity wasn't it really three header about seven yards that was something like that in the middle of the goal is it a sitter I think I think you would expect a reasonably decent centre forward to get that back I think to me it's his technique isn't it you know he always when the ball's crossed over he always tries to flick his head doesn't he you know help the ball on into the corner but what's a Tim Cahill or a Duncan Ferguson very rarely do that they used to meet the ball on the full you know with the forehead and head the ball in the opposite direction to where it comes he's always trying to flick it on and you've got to be really there's very little margin for error in that especially for somebody a striker who is like let's face it is ill-treated as Barry you know because of his you know his late relatively late start to his career and if you do that you're going to mess up and invariably you're going to miss time it and and like on saturday it goes into the keeper's hands meet the ball full on with your head and head it into the opposite direction to where it's coming from and and if you don't and you give you a better chance better chance of scoring and that was frustrating and the other thing i'd say about scoring is i'm not a great one for my status you know but i noticed like rxg from open play on saturday with 0.14 which is equivalent to saying you're actually that's the next year one over seven matches I mean, that just shows you, scoring one goal from open play in seven games, that just shows you how poor that was, how poor our attacking play was.