That has been coming. We really are poor on any ball into the area.

Damn

Game over.

Coopers tactics are all over the place. Players look like they don't know the formation at all

Another pen denied by VAR for handball.

Totally agree, surely if nothing else we should have taken off Wood and given Origi a chance.

Not a pen imo Everton player is too close and his hand isn’t far from his body, fair decision.
I can’t see anyway we will score, if anything they are likely to get a second. Another very disappointing performance.

comment by reddave (U8660)
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Not a pen imo Everton player is too close and his hand isn’t far from his body, fair decision.
I can’t see anyway we will score, if anything they are likely to get a second. Another very disappointing performance.
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It's the consistency. If we were playing a big six team and did that you know it would be given

To be fair Felipe could have gone for that second pull back.
We really are a team in big trouble, granted to concede and little or no threat up front.

James Garner has run this game, absolute quality

Such a shame we couldn’t get the deal done for him, head and shoulders above Sangare for example

Hopefully there are three worse teams than us this season, that maybe our only saving grace, we are awful, again.

It's just poor. At times it's so slow and ponderoua

We miss Awoniyi massively, not just goals but getting us up the pitch.

Wood does not look like he has the hunger we need

This feels massive, for all the wrong reasons.

Ref blows early. Sums up his performance

I've never doubted Cooper but he seems to be out of ideas and why once again do we have to go behind before we have a go.

No hunger, no quality, no goals, no hope.
What a pathetic performance against team bottom of the table, I’m not sure this is surviveable for Cooper, he doesn’t seem to have a plan ‘b’, and all too often plan ‘A’ isn’t working.
Has he taken us as far as he can, i hope not, i love what he has done, but EM won’t be impressed with what is happening at the WFCG.

There are some poor teams in the Prem but is anybody truly confident that Forest will not be relegated?

Without the points deduction Everton would be 11th. Which is about right for that performance. They a tough team to play against, not as nice to watch as Villa and Brighton but full of know how and well organised, they will definitely stay up regardless of the outcome of the appeal

It was always a tough test without Awoniyi! Also assume Aina and Dominguez are unfit

We no where near as good as some thought early season, new players like Sangare, Origi, and CHO are not an improvement. We miss Johnson more than many thought we would.

We’ve won one home game against the bottom four teams and picked up 5 points, we now have to away to all of them, plus we’ve played a lot of the ‘big’ teams away, which means they have to come to the WFCG, no guarantee of points there, i seriously think we are right in the relegation battle already, Fulham and Wolves away, an out of form Spurs at home and Bournemouth at home, we desperately need points from those fixtures, though it’s difficult to have confidence when the performances are consistently so poor.

The core issue for me is that Cooper never seems to want to go for it. It's like they play with the handbrake on and only when we are losing and with 10 mins to go do we see them have a go. Why are we not going for it at home from the start.

I also have to say that the decision for the penalty was shocking and if we been given the decision, as it was absolutely clear, then its a different last 20 where Everton may well have felt it was not going to be there night.

Sky pointing out that the Yates incident was both a shirt pull and a clear kick. At minimum the ref should have been sent to the monitor. Its not an excuse for the performance but it really was another massive mistake from VAR and again it's go against us.

Whilst agree with the sentiments on the penalty, which SKY have just shown about a dozen times, and can’t figure out how its not a pen, or at least a VAR referral, its still papering over the chasm size cracks we have in our lacklustre performances.
As stated, we never have any urgency until we go behind, its not a scenario that works well in the Prem, which we are finding out, to our cost.

Moving on would Graham Potter get us playing ?