Match Thread Everton v West Ham. 5th March at 1500.

[The Equaliser]

The worst bit is that you knew it was coming after Lukaku missed the pen.

Boss football which deserved 3 points but no mental strength or resilience to back it up.

A recipe for mid-table obscurity.

 

[longers]

he'll just say the usual stuff, he's not getting sacked any time soon.

 

[toffeemax]

I want to love roberto and see him do well but he is just out of his depth. He will probably be given one more season after this to turn it around solely due to his first season being so good. He just cant sort out our defence, a defence that under moyes was almost unbeatable.

 

[bunky]

We were 2-0 up and didn't even try to defend.

 

[Darth Vader]

He's so bad its scary

Hopefully the new man gets rid quickly

 

[sheedys left foot]

Today just sums up the past 2 seasons.

Is anyone really arsed at this stage? Roll on next season... Hopefully with a new manager and some new defenders

 

[Jamo Martinez]

I. Feel. Sick.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

True, but the faith in the Manager must be shot by now. Should be closing games out at 2-0, once is unlucky....

Martinez should have parked the bus to see the game out.

 

[Smodger]

Subs again Roberto every time he makes a sub the game goes to pot.

 

[DualityNSNO]

You are correct, we were the worst in the league earlier this season letting goals in from crosses, but the last 2 months our defending has been good, then that today out the blue.

I won't rank it as good, more decent, and a somewhat easy set of fixtures. We only showed actually good defending against City in the first game, for the whole game, and at random times in a few games. Most the time it's anus clenching time whenever a cross comes in, and someone ends up having to make last ditch tackles if it's not a cross, as we're just useless at closing down and stand off everyone and their nan.

 

[Ashtonian]

To be honest I'm not even mad. As soon as they scored I knew they would go on to win. Good crosses from them, that's why they are higher than us.

Just it's expected now, we can't hold leads against anyone half decent. We aren't getting anywhere with this no matter how many goals we score.

 

[Jonnyww]

New owner, time to sack him

We all deserve better then this.

 

[hullefc]

Martinez was as bad with his clueless managing again

At least Mirallas isn't available next week. The clueless player should just warm the bench until the end of the season and then get rid.

 

[Igrok]

We lost at home to the team who played without defenders...triple bottom breakdown...

 

[DualityNSNO]

Good post mate. You are 100% spot on.

I'm an honest fence sitter when it comes to Everton but Martinez in or out I can see exactly what you can, and it's a bit bloody odd, the whole thing.

When we hired Martinez the biggest worry for me was the form Wigan showed in the league when they got relegated. I read somewhere that 19 goals they had conceded were down to individual errors. 19 goals..!! That's pretty serious and it's similar to what we are seeing here.

Except we're in a worse position right now - 19 games with the lead lost, from 1 or 2:0 up. Absolutely ridiculous.