TFI – Player Ratings vs Everton – 28 Dec 14

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TFI – Player Ratings vs Everton – 28 Dec 14

Post by Cal » Sun Feb 22, 2015 6:23 am

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After a fortnight of misery manifested in four straight losses, Pardew's parting gift for Newcastle was one last win, our first to close out the year since 2002, before he departed to Palace, followed by interrupting Carver's pie eating with press duties.

A return to the usual shape, and it looked like a repeat performance of pretty much any match in December as within five minutes we were a goal down thanks to Arouna Koné's first in an Everton shirt. For a change we took this as our cue to attack, rather than accepting defeat, and eventually made the breakthrough thanks to a short corner routine that eventually resulted in a cross to the back post, where Williamson was waiting to tee up Cissé for his fifth goal in six games.

Five minutes into the second half and in the wake of a prolonged attack after Everton failed to escape their own third following another Newcastle corner, Pérez was found on the edge of the box, where he twisted, turned, and fired into the bottom corner through a crowd of five defenders that had assembled in front of him. With a quarter of the game to go our lead was doubled as Janmaat found Colback exploiting an opening in the Everton defence, and despite the defender getting a touch he managed to place it past the onrushing keeper to score his first goal in his hometown club's shirt.

Late on Everton would look to keep the game interesting after an incisive through ball from Baines cut through a sleeping Newcastle defence to allow Mirallas to reduce the deficit to one. Rather than sitting back to defend this slim lead, Newcastle continued to attack and really should have made it 4-2 as Cabella slinked through the Everton defence and passed to Sissoko, who set up Pérez to hit the post, with the offside Rivière failing to react.

We ask our forum members to rate each player’s performance in the concerned game out of 10, which we then average out to get a rating representative of the fans’ views, we also collect a few user comments to summarise how the player did and show a few different viewpoints from the board. The top scoring player is man of the match; the lowest is mug of the match. Ratings are from this thread, and at the time of writing highlights can be found here.

It'll be no surprise to hear that yet again Pérez was named man of the match, his rating of 8.18 coming among proclamations that he's the best player we've had at the club in some time and that he always performs regardless of position. Gouffran was given a break from mug of the match duties thanks to Williamson, who despite earning an assist, was rated 4.75 and criticised for being at fault for both Everton goals.

The team averaged a respectable 6.17, with only three players falling below the baseline rating of 5.50. Pardew closed out his time at Newcastle with a 5.54 performance, right around the average mark with criticism of his team selection and tactics combined with claims that the team won in spite of him pretty much the epitome of his time at the club.

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(You can click on player names to go to their pages)
Alnwick - 5.68 Ratings ranged between 5 and 7
"7 - His best game so far. Will get more confident. people slagging him need to be reminded 3 tough games for his initiation."
"6 - Getting stronger with each game, though thought he might have been partly at fault for the Mirallas goal."
"5 - Shaky as hell still, our manager doesn't have confidence in him either."

Janmaat - 6.82 Ratings ranged between 6 and 8
"6.5 - Played well, got in some good positions."
"7 - Best right back we've had in ages, gets forward as well as anyone."
"7 - Great going forward, coped well with Baines, gave him some treatment early on and he disappeared after that."

Williamson - 4.75 Ratings ranged between 4 and 7
"4 - Poor for both goals, everyone knows we should have someone better than him at CB after 4 years."
"5 - What was he doing for the second goal? 30 yards out of position chasing the ball when Colback was already closing. Useless."
"5 - Very poor player, why play him over Taylor?"

Coloccini - 5.54 Ratings ranged between 5 and 7
"5 - Seems to struggle against Everton, even without Lukaku today."
"6 - Did reasonable. Still not the old Colo."
"5 - Seems sluggish lately. Maybe he has that disorder where you get depressed over winter, he always seems to be a bit crap at this time of the year."

Dummett - 6.04 Ratings ranged between 5 and 7
"7 - Not his best position but worked hard, tried to get forward and was committed."
"6 - Solid enough, always available for a pass."
"5 - Teams getting in down our left a lot, Kone goal came from a cross down that side."

Pérez - 8.18 Ratings ranged between 7.5 and 9
"8.5 - Absolutely outstanding no matter where in attack he plays. He's a gem, need to give him a pay rise!"
"8 - Excellent goal and performance, would've been a 9 but for a couple of silly ball give-aways. MOTM."
"8 - Best player we've had at the club in a while. Someone posted on here yesterday he reminds them of Suarez and I'd agree with that, he's everywhere. Cool finish for the goal."

Tioté - 6.29 Ratings ranged between 5 and 8
"6.5 - Did his job OK, still not the old Tiote but looked better than previous games."
"7 - Didn't give the ball away much today however really pissed me off when he shot from 50 yards at the end. Also put on a decent cross for the Cisse goal."
"5 - Another performance we are accustomed to from him these days, gave away possession a lot, he never learns."

Colback - 6.86 Ratings ranged between 5 and 8
"7 - Chased everything down, made some good runs and finally got his goal!"
"7 - Consistent performer, good goal, work rate, solid passing game, good tackler - same as always really, was a great signing."
"5 - Goal aside I thought it was his poorest performance for a while."

Gouffran - 4.82 Ratings ranged between 3 and 7.5
"3 - Lost his man for the first goal, had some great chances to get at their defence but was too ponderous. Maybe it is a confidence thing but he clearly lacks ability too. A lot of the time when he got the ball he was immediately looking to pass on the responsibility to someone, usually poor Dummett."
"5.5 - Little bit better than normal, but still awful at football."
"7.5 - Finding a bit of form in recent games, thought he did well today and was unlucky not to score."

Sissoko - 7.07 Ratings ranged between 6 and 8
"6 - Driving runs gets us further on the pitch but should have done better with the chance"
"7 - A threat, dreadful touch when through on goal in first half."
"7 - Very good at times, missed a great chance."

Cissé - 7.11 Ratings ranged between 6 and 8
"7 - I don't like his all-round play which I think is poor, but he scores so you can tolerate it. In the long run, would like to see Armstrong develop into the player we think he can be and force him out of the team."
"7.5 - Lucky to be on the pitch, but with the exception of that he was a excellent. Without the elbow he's MOTM."
"6 - Another goal and had moments. Could have spoiled with a silly elbow. Looking at the pictures."

Rivière - 4.88 Ratings ranged between 3 and 6
"6 - Looked better tbh, although others won't agree."
"5 - I don't rate him but the flack he was getting off the crowd at times was uncalled for."
"3 - Doesn't look a footballer. Unbelievably lazy, was running less after 30 seconds on the pitch than Cisse was after 70+ minutes. I'm not sure whether he was under instructions to just stay up top and not pressurise their defenders or whether it was a conscious decision by him, but I don't understand why you would come on late in a game when you need to make an impression and not even run about a bit."

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Pardew - 5.54 Ratings ranged between 4 and 7
"6 - Good team for a change today. I'll upgrade this to a 10 if he leaves for Palace..."

"5.5 - Hit and miss with things, looked all wrong first 25 minutes but we won so must have got something right."

"5 - We won in spite of him not because of him. Please go to Palace!"

"4 - Got to be happy with the win. Everton were very poor, a better team would have put us away today. Another baffling team selection, some players seem to be able to play a countless number of poor games without getting dropped."