Everton v Stoke City. 28th Dec at 1500.

[BlueToff]

This is awful again at the back

Martinez has to go, we won't get anywhere with this man in charge

And replace him with who, mate?

Get a grip.

 

[TheAlmightyFloater]

Stoke playing very well. They clearly know our weaknesses (who doesn't by this point?) and have set up perfectly.

We're playing badly. There's no spirit to win the ball back and we're giving away too many bad passes.

Kone has literally offered nothing, Galloway isn't able to cope and Deulofeu needs to give up that diving (at least get better at it Gerry, eh?).

Both their goals were beauties, the first a result of great team play and the second (helped by a disastrous defence) was a quality bit of individual skill.

Martinez got the line up wrong. McCarthy clearly wasn't ready to start and Shaqiri is clearly too good for Galloway to cope. Kone might have some quick feet, but what's the point if he's just gonna pass it to Whelan or Shawcross again.

 

[Professor Toffee]

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

He preens a bit now doesn't he

 

[The Mighty Quint]

To be fair we've been the better side, Stoke have practically scored from the two decent chances they had.

Our defending yet again piss poor, and Howard is just beyond a liability.

 

[II McColl II]

Either Howard was thinking to himself that goal is too good for me or hes thinking its offside because he doesn't even make an attempt at anything just stands and spins as if the shot is irrelevant.

He had a mare a bit earlier on aswell when 3/4 of them left the ball after his shout and he panicked with no stoke player near and punched it back to them.

Defensively we are a shambles again, playing offside imo is one of the worst ideas when you have a GK with a track record of being in no mans land and CBs who aren't naturally pacey. Stones is having a right shocker against Bojan, doesn't know if he should go with him, stick where he is and his passing is way off today and FM is struggling with the amount of games he having to play its clear to see.

Kone can do one as well, amount of times hes had a simple pass on and decided to go on a bit of a jog with the ball into a stoke player is embarassing.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Just seen stokes first

Must admit I'm getting very tired of watching a luxury replica of Wigan...

Said that from day one

 

[Mogwai]

I don't think Galloway has been half bad.... But apparently thats just me

 

[The T-Dex]

Kone has spent 90% of the game at right mid. It's pointless, especially with how much Johnson supports Shaqiri, Galloway given a hard ttask made harder

 

[keverton]

Won't achieve anything with a manager who is incapable of getting his teams to defend.. In our managers speech we are phenomenal at not being able to defend.

 

[Jags..class]

In hindsight i would have played Galloway against Newcastle and Baines today

 

[ftk43]

Always the way, by far the better team, but then crap defending lets us down once again.

We are not the better team though, definitely not by far

 

[GrandOldTeam]

How many times are we needing 3 goals to win a game at home?!

 

[Norwegian Cow]

gerrard brings shame to his name with that pathetic diving. As a Gerrard he should be world class at it.

 

[Anna]

Once again we need at least 3 goals to win, and that's hoping we don't concede anymore, getting rather tiresome this Wiganesque defending

 

[Norwegian Cow]

How many times are we needing 3 goals to win a game at home?!

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