I'd be annoyed at Everton for raising their game after another gutless performance in the merseyside derby, but credit to them they are as pointless as they were at the weekend. The only thing they seem to be able to is "play it up to Lukaku" (as Philip likes to point out) It's just that we have somehow managed to be even worse.
Herrera and Ibra look tired which is understandable conside... no wait, it fecking isn't, they're both coming from suspensions and just had at least a week of what was essentially rest.
I also enjoy this "Michael Carrick seasons tribute tour" that Carrick has going. It seems like a conscious attempt to recreate every version of Michael Carrick we've seen as some sort of marketing stunt to promote his upcoming testimonial. Today he is apparently displaying the 2009/10 version of himself, so every pass must be either backwards or sideways. At one point we were in the middle of a counter attack (the score was already 1:0 at that point) and he even instructed a teammate to pass it backwards and wait a bit. Wonderful.
I mean I'm sure there are a few legitimate reasons as to why are we playing a bit shite (and it isn't the worst we have played in the past few seasons by a longshot) and it is generally a bit silly to draw any conclusions at half time... but at this point I just don't care anymore.