Everton v Stoke City. 28th Dec at 1500.

[zaitken]

No game changers on the bench either. Martinez needs to wake up. Where the hell are Mirallas and Lennon? The defence and Howard have been absolutely awful yet again

 

[Liamliverpool86]

I hate howard but i don't think he could of done much against the finish

As someone pointed out a high line against these is very dangerous ... is the manager even discussing tactics , lost this and there needs to be questions asked IMO

 

[streeky]

it's all coming from our forward passing , it's awful getting cut out every time and teams just smash us on the break.

 

[Toffee-nerd]

Stones at fault for both goals for me. First one he went running off like a headless chicken. Second one he needlessly gave the ball away. Some finish by shaqiri though. Kone. Stealing a living.

 

[Ducans elbow]

Baines please

 

[Jags..class]

We should sell stones and buy a new defender and a keeper. Stones value will keep dropping the way he playing

 

[sageyefc]

Stones really needs to switch on,

 

[Verbal Kint]

Yarmolenko nailed on to come here and score a hat trick for West Ham next season.

On a side note if John Stones insists on being the second coming of Franz Beckenbauer he needs to be able to play 10 yard passes. Cut open every time he loses it.

 

[riddick]

If anyone thinks Martinez has a clue how to organize a defence let me help:

5 internationally capped defenders
2 internationally DM's

And we get torn to shreds constantly. Theres a common theme here somewhere...

 

[Huyton Layne]

It's Leicester again isn't it?

Nah. We battered Leicester, Stoke have played decent and had a bunch of chances

 

[USABlue]

Our defending would have let Shakira score twice.

I'd let her do whatever she wants

 

[billybeeru]

Get Galloway off. He's not equipped for this. And someone remind Stones that his first job is to defend.

 

[bflefc]

I'm now almost in the 'Martinez out' camp. Too powder puff, and seemingly hopeless in defence (including both back line and keeper). This should have been addressed a long time ago, but he's seemingly either ignoring it or incapable of sorting it out.

 

[navidson]

This season feels like hard work

 

[paulbefc]

I'm fed up watching us try to defend without Jagielka. He can't come back soon enough.

Missing our back 4 for half the season has cost us a lot of points. Galloway playing has cost us in this game so far, but I don't see how we could have done it differently as Baines is blatantly not ready to play two 90s in 48 hrs.