OTF

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that header from Pope, their player is not even making a challenge.

Absolutely nothing

Not a chance, Willock's was a volley.

Great lead up play and no composure from Willock

We're consistently winning the ball back when they have possession, which is unfortunately too often because we're errant with our passing.

Meanwhile in spain the real Wilson is banging them in

Schnoz into Miggy's bony leg

Did catch studs but the defender was so obviously clean on the ball that there was no shout for a penalty.

For the record Benitez: 22 games, 7 wins, 5 draws, 10 losses (31.8 win %). 27.3 win percentage for Franky.

Why no mention of Better Call Saul?

This man personally bought Schär and Miggy.

It's odd that the Everton fans have turned on Gordon after he was critical to their survival last season and is still their leading scorer this year in the league. That said Lampard has been atrocious for them, blaming everyone but himself and yet they seemingly still think he did a good job so there's not much logic being applied.

FYP

The one thing I would say about our mooted interest in Gordon is that I don't think there's any great urgency to bring him in unless he's really pushing to leave Everton and the price is reflective of that. His preferred position is wide on the left where Willock is currently in pretty good form and where Joelinton and Isak are also comfortable playing. Who knows what Lampard's sacking will mean for their playing roster.

He looks pretty good to me tbh, brings good energy which would suit our high tempo play. I think that his price would be prohibitive and that Everton would not sell him on the cheap when he has a few years on his existing contract and would be on comparatively low wages. I'm still expecting us to bring 2 players in before the window closes. More potentially if we can sell anyone else.

FYP

It's clear that selling Wood is all about getting someone else in who suits our style of play. He came in did what was needed last season and now can go elsewhere and do what he's suited to.

Blocked?

I mean this with no disrespect to CT, but the CN is the CT of 'journalism' in that the C stands for contrary. With CN you can probably swap out the o for a u.

When he's part of a defensive unit like we have he's fantastic. Has great vision and range of passing, is confident on the ball and generally has great judgement on when to get forward.

They're incredibly annoying, Sherwood has always annoyed me. He contradicted himself talking about how the fans expectations are excessive then later said we expect top four "and rightfully so". At least acknowledged that they should have been a man down. In general Sherwood's tune has changed so much since Howe came in, he's quite complementary of him but not of the club and our supporters. As far as the commentators went that Seb Hutchinson was shockingly bad. I'm not sure why the anti-Newcastle bias but he picked on anything we did and gave them an easy ride. Efan Ekoku was fine, great in comparison to Hutchinson.

Disappointing result really for all the ball we had, couldn't create much in the way of clear cut chances. Have to give some credit to Palace for that as they defended well, apart from the fact that one if theirs got away with a blatant second yellow that should have seen them a player down for more than a half. Seemed to be a good atmosphere in the stadium also. Also Jordan Ayew is a little diving prick and Zaha should have been carded when he went to ground trying to buy a penalty against Trippier.