Blog Posts

  • The Everton Diary – Game Week 8 – New Manager Shortlists

    It’s that time of year again where Everton fans pose the question: “Well if you want him gone, who do you want instead?” The correct response to this is of course: “I’m not on the Everton board, it’s not my job to know the managerial market.” Let’s face facts, fact fans. Everton clearly doesn’t know…

  • The Everton Diary – Game Week 7 – Pressing Matters

    Morning! Pressing statistics have been bandied around recently in the form of PPDA (passes per defensive action). PPDA is not very nuanced for tactical use as it covers the whole pitch rather than specific areas. I haven’t got time this week to break anything like that down and cut video etc so I tried to…

  • The Everton Diary – Game Week 4 Wondering about Wolverhampton

    Another game live on TV for Everton as Wolves come to Goodison Park on Sunday. What can we expect from them? First of all you’ll get some nice build up play. You’ll see a bit of this: It’s nice, but it’s slow, and it’s not leading to great chances for Wolves at the moment. In…

  • The Everton Diary – Game Week 3 The Ballad of Dominic Calvert-Lewin

    A ball smashed high into the air For Dominic to chase Gets it under, runs like a hare Richarli…too much pace… Ok, so I’ll drop the poetry. This is basically a post to show each one of DCL’s first 12 involvements in the game on Friday night. This first clip above looks like a pretty…

  • The Everton Diary – Game Week 2 Post Match Notes

    A good start to this season’s analytical takes having talked about Watford getting caught high up field, with space in behind the fullbacks for Everton to exploit. I really wanted Marco Silva to stick with the same players on the flanks to give two different types of threat, the directness of Richarlison on the right…