#Barclays 24/25

[Jambomo]

I get that Patterson isn’t the best defender yet, but it’s baffling that Young starts ahead of him. He’s a car crash in almost any Everton game I see.

[peasy23]

5 minutes ago, The Master said:

Yes. A yellow can be given following a VAR intervention to award a penalty.

Very surprised it wasn't then as that was a stick on yellow.

[Iminavest]

Jordan pickford getting relegated again would be very funny

[Michael W]

So when can we expect the Everton reaction to the points deduction? 

[eindhovendee]

5 hours ago, jagfox said:

Sad to hear, Sir Terence of Venables has passed away.

15 year old Pep in the pic.

 

[Bairnardo]

15 minutes ago, throbber said:

The Garnacho goal was insane - definitely better than Rooneys and the Ronaldo one v Juventus as well.

I can’t think of a better goal that i’ve seen on live tv before.

Bales v Liverpool was better than the others you mentioned too. It's not one iv seen mentioned in the comparisons to Garnacho, but it happened to give the lead in a Champions League final and this puts it top of the tree for me Jeff

[Richey Edwards]

Goalkeeper went for the Hollywood diving save IMO. If he had stayed on his feet he would have stopped it.

[Bairnardo]

2 minutes ago, throbber said:

Bales one also fell more favourably for him. Also there was more fizz on the ball from Marcelo than the cross to Garnacho.

Look how far Garnacho has to run back just to make contact with the ball and then how well he hits it right back across goal it is absolutely immense. 

You definitely should not hesitate to disagree with me, but you should think long and hard about lining yourself up with Gary Neville. 

[DrewDon]

On 26/11/2023 at 16:12, AMMjag said:

You simply can't come into our league, expect to play how Postecoglou wants to play and get away with it.

[Bairnardo]

45 minutes ago, DrewDon said:

No one lands more. No one lands harder. 

[velo army]

12 minutes ago, throbber said:

i didn’t hear neville say anything other than it was the best overhead he’d seen live including the rooney one. my initial thought was it was better than Rooneys, i’ve then gone on to think it was up there with the best premiership goals of all time and now after further inspection i think it was the most incredible moment caught on camera ever.

I thought the Garnacho one was fantastic for all the reasons you state. I just think the Bale one was better given the pace the ball was going at and the amount of time he had to set himself. It was an awe-inspiring goal. 

The best overhead kick I've ever seen was Ibrahimovic v England. A ridiculous piece of genius that, I'm fairly sure, nobody else would have even attempted. Ludicrous.

 

[Zetterlund]

The Garnacho goal was definitely better than Rooney's and will likely always be 'up there' when discussing greatest ever Premier League goals etc, but for me there are others which top it for the sheer outrageousness of the attempt. Players try overhead kicks fairly regularly and occasionally one nails it and it pings in, although tbf few as spectacularly as Garnacho's.

Bale's probably just ahead for me too due to the quick reaction and change of direction. Ridiculous speed of thought and execution.

Incidentally I think my favourite EPL goal was this beauty from Crouchy. The comical element of who scored it adds to the golazo factor.

 

[Ewanandmoreagain]

1 hour ago, velo army said:

I thought the Garnacho one was fantastic for all the reasons you state. I just think the Bale one was better given the pace the ball was going at and the amount of time he had to set himself. It was an awe-inspiring goal. 

The best overhead kick I've ever seen was Ibrahimovic v England. A ridiculous piece of genius that, I'm fairly sure, nobody else would have even attempted. Ludicrous.

 

Denis Law

 

[velo army]

26 minutes ago, throbber said:

Bales one is impressive how quickly he reacts but Garnacho and Ibrahimovic efforts were incredibly difficult manoeuvres when they both had to run away from goal to make contact.  

Not sure how anyone can argue Rooneys was better than Garnachos but there’s full on debates on sky sports twitter about it right now. 

The whole raison d'etre of Sky Sports is to create or manufacture "heated debate" amongst its pundits (and wider puddle-drinkersphere online) so this isn't the least bit surprising. 

Garnacho's was incredible in that, not only was he moving away from goal, but he was pretty far away from goal too and he managed to get it right in the top corner. I would barely have been able to stop myself applauding were I an Everton fan. 

[velo army]

I think we're at risk of falling into the binary, zero-sum game thinking of the "CR7 v Messi" gonks in devaluing certain goals purely because we like the other one better. 

Rooney's one was fantastic too. The technical execution was wonderful and, given that it was, I think, a last minute winner (more or less) I think it deserves fully to be in the conversation. 

I always thought Ronaldo's one was a bit overrated due to who it was. The ball sat up a long time for him and he wasn't that far out. 

Overhead kicks are brilliant (fastshow.gif).

[Ro Sham Bo]

Iwobi scores for Fulham. Time for Wolves to be wound up. 

[Musketeer Gripweed]

I will need to watch it again, can't deny it was a fantastic strike and great goal, but where were the defence? There must have been no one within 6 yards of Garnacho. I'd be questioning the Everten defence as well.

[Bairnardo]

Only turned on after HT but impressed with Cairney from what I've seen. 

[The Master]

That’s a tricky one. 

He gets a touch on the ball, but then it breaks nicely for the attacker who’s then brought down by the follow through. 

I think it’s one where VAR would have stuck with the on-field decision regardless of which way it went. 

[Steve_Wilkos]

Harry Wilson has the same "my teeth are too big for my head" thing as Greg Docherty going on.