The Kraken

Pinch of salt required I feel. Its not a quote from Danny Ings, it’s from Alex Crook, and we all know how reliable he is. The quote is: “. I was told he wasn’t particularly keen on joining an Everton or a Wolves.”. Which, even if true, suggests he’d prefer / only want to move for a side higher up in the league. Saints may be a little more a draw than those just due to family, who knows. But I think it was reported that Ings is on around £120k a week wages at Villa, so that’ll be a factor too.

Just looking at Ings’ wiki, Villa only put him on a 3 year contract when they signed him, so he’s got about 18 months of that left.

Funny, I was driving in the car around full time yesterday and they had a bit of a phone in on the radio, a Chelsea twat was on bemoaning how breathtakingly terrible it was to support Chelsea, they have no stability with sacking managers willy nilly and now are apparently are paying the price for that. It had to be pointed out to him how successful they had been previously but I don’t think it got through, he was just so hard done by.

Lavia certainly seems to be being eased back in, which is encouraging to see. Against both Man City and Everton he was taken off just following the 60 minute mark. Sensible, we really can’t afford him breaking down again.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12520895/transfer-news-fifa-announces-radical-new-loan-plans-that-will-limit-clubs-to-six-loan-exits-per-season I hadn’t heard about this, good news, as you say Chelsea and other sides having 50 players loaned out was a bit ridiculous.

Kind of looks like Everton had a plan to drop a defender onto the line but he didn’t make it back quickly enough.

Not sure what Pickford was doing giving him all of that side of the goal, but it was an excellent strike from JWP.

That’s a foul.

Particularly first 30 mins or so he was really far forward, often almost playing off of and beyond Adams. A good position for him if we can get the other bits right. A reasonable start to the game and some bright spots but the press isn’t as effective as it was against City, giving Everton too much time. Poor goal to concede from but we’ve had chances.

Yep, poor performance from all of those 3. Edozie has got talents but just not productive anything. Adams has got a job on against those defenders on his own, but he’s not really making a good fist of it. Dammit JWP, close.

Everton’s tails are up now. Need to get control back. Come on Saints.

How terribly fucking easy for them.

Agh, Diallo. Good opportunity, Lavia did brilliant to win it back.

Elmo just shirked out of a header. He really is a nothing player.

Damn, we had a header on goal from a corner!

This, it’s a very weak press and Everton have for far too much time.

Edozie and Elmo need to get into this game, offering nothing so far. Adams is going to get no change out of the service being given to him, playing into their hands.

KWP isn’t at it.

Promising start, looking to play it around in midfield, finding some space in there. Long throws are still dreadful though.

Fuck me, some of these Everton banners are absolutely cringeworthy.

Me neither, not convinced that line up will press and harry like the team against City did. We’ll see.

Sekou Mara, properly world class. Edit. I se this was coved already….

Call it what you want, it’s just another number that might be useful in quickly summarising a game if you didn’t get to see it.

Which is why XG starts to become useful when you’re not able to watch the game. If you’re watching a game you’re able to get a feel for it. If not, XG is as useful a stat as shots on target or possession, no more no less than that really.

Give him a break, he climbed a tree to watch Saints training. Behaviour that these days would either get you arrested or sectioned.