Everton: 5 Reasons Moyes' Men Deserve Champions League Football
4. They Play As A Team
Now this may seem like a silly point, but Everton are stronger in a team unit rather than on the strength and skill of individual talented players. All of their players seem to fit an overall system and tactics perfectly putting in so much effort fighting for the team.
Chemistry is an overused term in football however with Everton the term just fits look for example at the left side of Evertons team. Baines and Pienaar are perfect examples of players that just click and play perfectly together. Like Neville and Beckham down Man Unds right for several years Baines and Pienaar are both at their best in the same team linking up together almost like they have been playing together their whole lives.
The two centre backs also have the same style of playing far better together being a perfect partnership. Phil Jagielka is probably one of the best centre backs in the country and a fixture for the England team thanks to some of his amazing play in a blue shirt. Sylvain Distin too defies his 35 years racing around the pitch making vital blocks and tackles helping to make Everton only lose 6 league games all season.
Leon Osman too - you sense in any other team he would be a bit part player or sent out on loan to the Championship yet at Everton the local boy is a vital cog in their midfield pushing the team on and coming up with blistering displays that got him a first England cap at 31 year old. Marouane Fellaini is an unpredictable kind of player than few other Premier League teams would be willing to take a chance over. Everton not only took a chance on him and his flaws but turned an average defensive midfielder into a Duncan Ferguson weapon of mass power and goal scoring that other teams around them would kill for.
The strike force for Everton is not the most lethal in the world not scoring a mass amount of goals but Moyes sticks with his strikers looking to get the best out of them. Victor Anichebe is a key part in what kind of team Moyes is building the poor kid has had a lot of potential but has kept breaking down with injuries but Moyes has stuck with him all the way through and now he is fit Anichebe looks more than a handful as a big powerful lone striker. Kevin Mirallas too came from the Greek league with not much thought about him yet in the past few games has scored some of the nicest individual goals ever seen in the Premier League.
So all over the pitch Everton are stronger as a unit than as the sum of their parts and when they are on their game as shown this season they can batter and defeat the top sides in the country.