Goodison Tactics: How can Everton hurt Bentford?
Everton need a win in the Premier League; they have failed to win in their last six and are dropping down the table.
Their next opponents are Brentford, who have failed to win in their last five games, so they will be looking to change that at home on Sunday.
WhoScored claim that one of the Bees’ weaknesses and, therefore, something that the Toffees could exploit is their ability to win aerial duels as a team.
However, that also comes into their apparent failure to deal with crosses into their box in various matches this season.
So, with that in mind, we are going to look at three goals that the Bees have conceded this season and analyse how the Toffees could copy and exploit Brentford’s weakness.
This was a great finish from the Chelsea left-wing-back; however, he managed to escape the attention of the whole Brentford defence and midfield by standing still.
Now, the Toffees don’t really play with wing-backs, so you wouldn’t expect Lucas Digne to pop up in this position.
However, if they decide to play Salomon Rondon, he could fill the same role as Lukaku did here and occupy defenders and just be a nuisance.
If he can do that and Everton can get men in and around him, then something might fall for them.
This was such an easy goal. The cross from the left wasn’t even that good, but once it went over the goalkeeper, he was in trouble.
Henry at the back post did nothing, and you would think that if the Toffees could get crosses in from the left, they might have a bit of joy because Henry really couldn’t deal with this cross.
So, if Everton can get Digne sending crosses into that back post area, they could have some joy.
This was a good goal from Newcastle United, and the cross to the back post from Fraser was fantastic.
However, it is clear that Canos could be exploited by Everton as well as Henry.
Here he didn’t even try to follow his man, and the Bees were punished.
So, if the Toffees can get crosses in from either side to the back post, you would think they can cause Brentford many problems as both of their wing-backs appear to be suspect defensively.
In other Everton news, Jean-Philippe Gbamin has been tipped to make a move to the Championship in January.
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