Chelsea v Everton. 11th Feb at 19.45.

[johnnyW]

Agree mate. Like you, I thought we played very very well and should really have won. Only genius by their keeper denied us a deserved win. How good was Naismith in the second half. I mean he was pretty good in the first half as well but that was more a display of his attacking skills. The second half he was a terrier. My Man of the Match by some distance.

I really couldn't disagree more about naismith tbh mate. every time he gets the ball in a attacking position he lacks any type of passing ability to take advantage of any position he finds himself in. I lost count of how many times we went on the counter attack and the ball came to him he stopped dead looked around and missed placed a pass and they hit us on the counter.

naismith, Barry and howard are three massive weak links that are costing our side in form.

I think Martinez style of play is sound atm but he is not dropping players that damaging to those tactics.

 

[Fansince1988]

Exactly. You may as well play Garbutt at left back and Oviedo in the Naismith role.

I think Garbutt is more of a direct replacement for Oviedo, but Oviedo is a good player and deserves game time.

 

[marty mcfly]

Hard work listening to the Chelsea show on BT sport. Unlucky Everton, thought we played really well.

I can't stand that channel. I refuse to spend money on it. Chelsea never getting out of 3rd gear. Chelsea where up for that game from the off. Our defence where just excellent and Lukaku had a brilliant game.

 

[ijjysmith]

Wow! Amazing! We won't get relegated!
5th last season, £28m forward and people are happy we probably won't go down. Pathetic.

Don't think anyone is happy with that mate.

 

[toffee matt]

Errrm, but we 're not scoring goals, a sign of every team that gets relegated.

Not conceding goals and were creating chances.

We look like an actual team again

 

[JAYTALITY]

it went through 2 of our defenders, doubt he could see it. everyone has their own opinions though. the whole team played a decent game but forgot Chelski owns the ref

Robles is the way forward though.

 

[Jxg]

Clearly jumping to his right to save, has to shift left once he sees the ball has gone through all three of his defenders' legs. One of them has to block it, otherwise Howard is seeing it far too late to react.

 

[GwladysBlue]

This squad is much better than at the end of December. It'll be fine.

It doesn't matter if it is, that is the point. This position is not acceptable for Everton. Surely Martinez was given a minimum criteria he must meet? His performance has been absolutely unacceptable.

 

[marty mcfly]

This was classic Moyes against one of the big teams away, try not to get beat...then get beat (same on Saturday). Whether playing this way this is good or bad, i havent a clue

I was at the game and I'm pretty sure we didn't get beat on Saturday.

 

[deipnosophist]

I prefer Naismith just behind the striker where his thread passes to release Rom come in handy. To be fair, today wasn't one of his better demonstrations of that art but usually I think he is pretty darn good. What impressed me most today was his defensive shift. We have got a real player with Naisy...skill and guts

 

[Dharma]

Barry missing for a few games is a positive.

 

[Kev The Rat]

The type of performance that desperate relegation threatened teams put in. Make no mistake the manager and team are in fear right now, they realise we are in a relegation scrap and hope to grind out a few results. Villa will get a new manager and will pull clear of the drop. You never know the same might be true of qpr. If we accept that palace and west Brom are safe that leaves burnley Leicester hull and sunderland as our only rivals for the drop. Leicester are probably gone but what if they sack Pearson and the new man galvanises them. Burnley hull and sunderland are all capable of stringing a few results together. We are in deep deep trouble and could go down as I can't believe the players believe in this kind of anti football.

 

[Fansince1988]

So because we beat palace to get to 27 points, we are now safe? Ok mate

We are not safe,but we are not in trouble we are improving and there are easier games a head.

 

[Toffeelover]

Looking at the vid, did Howard need to come out we had two players out there?

 

[Del]

Errrm, but we 're not scoring goals, a sign of every team that gets relegated.

No a sign of a team getting relegated is them getting beaten, A lot

We have been beaten once in the last 5 league games ffs only conceding 2 goals