OTF

Geez, was Pope asleep there?

No way that was a foul by Joe

LBW

Should have changed his line a little earlier, but was always going to be outpaced there.

Yep, that was their best play all game.

Looked like an impact injury, the kind you can run off for the match but could be very sore when you cool down afterwards. Hopefully he's ok for the weekend.

This was no toe nail, it was obvious and called by the linesman correctly in the game. No idea how it took the VAR so long to confirm it was offside.

Everton have been the polar opposite to Tottenham though, in terms of pressing and tempo. Absolutely nothing to show for it though. The most Pope has had to do is get behind some hopeful drives from distance.

Booya Wilson!

Chris Wood is out for the season with a thigh injury he picked up playing park footy with RobinRobin and Shelvey's been dumped because he spat his dummy at being dropped to the bench. Working out well for them.Ithat said, I actually want them to stay up though. Their scattergun approach to recruiting is nothing if not interesting.

I absolutely appreciate what Burn has done and how he has been a huge part of our achievements this season as part of our brilliant defense. It's hard to get that across whilst also suggesting that we need to improve on that position, or at least on aspects of it. It's why I suggested we have to at least try a more balanced attack minded natural fullback. Maybe part of that is learning that we're actually better off with a Hybrid LB-CB Dan Burn than a traditional LB. I wouldn't say Trippier plays wholly as a traditional right back for us, in attack he's positioned a lot higher up the pitch than a normal RB would be. With the protection of Longstaff and Bruno sitting in behind and Burn combined with Schär and Botman along the back he's able to do this. He (Trippier) doesn't have the athleticism to be pushing up and down the pitch constantly, and generally gets backs when he has to, but we're mostly set up so that he doesn't have to get back in a hurry. Targett only had one poor game from memory, and a few very good ones, the rest he was wholly functional. From what we've seen it's tough on him to not be getting a look in after returning from injury, however it's fully understandable with how well our defense has done. Whether that means Howe doesn't believe Targett plays a part in our future remains to be seen, but I believe if we do qualify for Europe proper we'd keep and play Targett along with bringing in a new left back, if we don't (we will) we'd potentially have to sell to bring in the more dynamic and althetic full back. Eddie has talked about a new left back in at least one pre or post match conference quite recently. I recall because at the time I thought it was a bit of a slight against Targett.

I'm calling him Krafth 2.Eddie. Might take a while to catch on, I was trying to acknowledge that under Howe's tutelage Krafth looked a decent player even when played as CB. The remember him was for the rest of us given how long he's been out, even though he's still in our victory snaps.

Technically Dan Burn should be third choice centre half. Lascelles to his credit has looked much better in the slim chances he has has this season to the degree where I'm OK with him being fourth choice. Beyond him though it would be playing Krafth 2.Eddie (remember him) at CB.

I love Dan Burn, he's been a brilliant signing and his passion is contagious. There's not much better than watching a player who will bleed for his team mates and the club giving his all.... but he's not a natural left back and he offers next to no attacking impetus when he gets forward. If we want to provide more balance to our forward play we need a natural attack minded fullback on the left. We need to at least try one out. The higher your profile becomes the more teams will come at you. You get one season where there is a little leeway and opponents underestimate you - the perfect example is Leicester when they won the title, it was mostly counter attack based and still teams playing them thought they could push up and beat them only to be hit on the counter again and again. For us if you were looking for a weakness it would be the mobility of our defense, starting with Burn.

Also we've been quite multi-dimensional* whilst building our impressive record and goal difference, so whilst injuries and suspension have certainly had an impact I feel that even if we were unlucky enough to lose a few key players with the matches we have left we'd be ok. * - in that we have a variety of goal scorers and type of goals scored

The W D L system of analysis is outdated and redundant now that we have xP, xG, xA, xCetera.

The Steven Taylor; it's a complex one, so you don't see it as often as something as basic as the Cruyff turn.

The fewm from them watching this must have been next level.

Imagine the financial trouble Everton would be in without that sale. He'll be their player of the season.

How much was Richarlison again?

A bit more finesse in the finish was required there.