Chelsea v Everton. 11th Feb at 19.45.

[The Equaliser]

Ah balls, heroic narrow defeat by a deflected goal in the last few minutes it is then. Fairly typical for us.

But there are a lot of positives to take from that and other recent performances, most importantly our defensive resilience is back and we are no pushovers anymore.

Should safely stay in mid-table now.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

You just knew no matter how well we "restricted" them,something would happen to kick us in the gonads,we get away with the disallowed "goal" and then fall for that,ffs blues,all that effort and for what?Koff Howard BTW.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Howard... Near post.... EVERY BLOODY TIME

Deflected off Naismith, otherwise it's right at him and he has his body behind it.

 

[paule1981]

Some of the positive responses on here are bizarre.

Why did Howard 'win' his place back? Then didn't even put an arm out for the goal.
Barry again but no McCarthy?
Barkley tonight instead of Saturday in the derby?
Besic off again?
Naismith stayed on. Anonymous.
No more than 5 passes put together in the opposition half
2 wins in 11
Negative football again
What has happened to Coleman

Stones and Jagielka were the only positives

Utter garbage

 

[Toffeemeister]

2 wins in 16 is relegation form. Anyone saying we're not in a relegation fight is deluded.

2 wins in 16 is very scary ! We must beat Leicester.

 

[keverton]

Apart from the two goal line clearances by their keeper. Yeah.

You're talking out of your arse. We're playing Chelsea at Stamford Bridge ffs.

1 win in 11 clap clap Bobby clap clap. School of science is on its way back

 

[toffeejack]

howard at fault there? it was a fecking terrible effort at goal and he does love getting beaten at his near post. barry cost us as well, i can't believe how experienced that moron is, he plays like a 17 year old sometimes. what an utterly pointless foul!.

martinez is a bright lad, but what the [Poor language removed] does he see in those two? they've almost single handedly derailed our whole season. i'm guessing he's thinking if we take those two out then we don't actually have any experienced players in the team, which is a valid point, but when they play like those retards, why would you want experience in the team?

very good second half performance imo, deserved to win, we had all the good chances. in the grand scheme of things, losing a point won't make one bit of difference to our season. just get back to winning ways against leicester hopefully. thank the lord i don't have to watch barry for a couple of weeks, just wish howard would get injured again, his distribution was utterly abysmal all game.

 

[SNova]

So wait, let me get this straight: people on here bitching about the fact we went toe to toe with one of the best teams in the world right now, had better chances than them, played tactically well and were 50:50 on pretty much everything? In fact, their goal was down to absolute luck as it went through the legs of multiple people and Howard didn't even try to save it for some reason (the tw@ ffs).

Top notch fans, us.

A lot of blerts on here. What do you expect.

 

[Blue Cheese]

Of course I am a little disappointed, but we are FAR too good to be relegated.... and I reckon we'll be in the CL next year (via EL)
Chin up lads

Leeds, Forest and countless others disagree. I do think we have shown improvement recently and tonight I thought we were at the races. We still are struggling to win games and that worries me, it really does.

 

[Aqui1a]

I'm made up the way we played defensively, we've come along way in this last month.

Undone by a shitty deflected goal, atleast Barry is out for the next two games, maybe Martinez will see the light and drop Naismith aswell.

And maybe he'll play two wingers! lol

 

[matty1878]

2 wins in 16 is relegation form. Anyone saying we're not in a relegation fight is deluded.

Amazes me how people think we aren't. 5 points is it? And teams below are winning were not

 

[flibbyflob]

People still in denial we are in a relegation fight.

A month ago i'd have said we were, now I think we have turned the corner. Playing with far more spirit than at the back end of 2014 and we know we have the quality if they start firing. Had a tough run of fixtures and not disgraced ourselves, just need to step up against the weaker sides when we play them and we will be fine.

 

[Brennan]

2 wins in 16 is relegation form. Anyone saying we're not in a relegation fight is deluded.

And prior to tonight we had 4 points from two matches, which is Champions League form.

I look forward to us playing at the Nou Camp.

 

[ijjysmith]

Do you ever get the feeling it's reached its conclusion already?

How dya mean mate?

 

[EvertonRhys]

Totally Everton that. Gutted. The effort they put in tonight was fantastic I thought. Barry- what a fool. He really is the new Osman. Not a fan of Barry/ Howard/ the ref after that. And get some history Chelsea, you arrogant, Kensington Tory- loving, Damon Albarn wannabe no marks. Hate them.