Everton V West Ham FA Cup 6/01/15

[Fansince1988]

I thought Besic did ok to be fair, as did Barry. The Barkley shouts are a bit harsh too.

Lukaku was absolutely superb.

I agree the Cb's were to blame,looked better with stones on.

 

[Sy-]

That may have been down to West Ham sitting on the edge of their box ffs did you watch it??

Yeah I watched it, and other games... and I stick by my opinion. He doesnt look right, perhaps he would do better along-side McCarthy, who's to say.

 

[Fansince1988]

Special mention to Robles. Kept us in the game. Came for crosses.

He did ok flapped a few times,but played ok.

 

[dannyboy]

Mind you, this was a team without Sakho, Song and Koyoute. They bossed the midfield while we never won the midfield battle. You need those 1 min spells in the midfield where you CMs link with your wingers or AMs to create space to release a pass to the full backs or forwards. The only time our midfield starts acting is when we're on a counter otherwise they never control the play.

If you're judging by the standards of the players we have available then we were poor again. Honestly, how many of those West Ham players would we have in our squad never mind our starting XI?

We didn't lose though, so we have to take that positive forward and hope it inspires the players.

 

[banno]

our system at the minute has us 2 in midfield against our opposition's 4/5. Barkley moving central, mirallas moved central neismith central and all not tracking back. suicide football. I don't mind us playing 1 in the hole but not 3. Get Oviedo in front of baines get naisey or McGeady in front of seamus and push the back 4 up.

Spot on. That is our problem

 

[icburns]

This is not stopping the rot.

Drawing with West Ham is not a good result for Everton.

I'm happy we've not been beat but this is still nowhere near acceptable, never mind anything else.

*has thrombo....

To be fair, 'stopping the rot' means 'not worse.' I think we can all agree that this match was not worse.

 

[toffeejack]

People moaning about the ref.

Some undoubted bad decisions but he played a great advantage which let us score.

We would have messed the free kick up and we all know it.

i'm not sure 1 good decision all game warrants applause.

he was giving west ham free kicks all day long for their players going down easily, two of them cost us a goal + a possible goal. yet when our players were getting manhandled he didn't get anything.

lukaku's yellow was an utter joke, got it for accumulation when 3 or 4 of the free kicks against him were the wrong decision. that was another crap performance in a game where he had very little big decisions to make. all referees should play advantage, it shouldn't be viewed as a compliment.

stick the whistle in your back pocket and that already gives them an extra second to view the advantage instead of wrapping it around their wrist.

 

[Del]

My worry is Martinez thinks we don't need new players

 

[ijjysmith]

i'm not sure 1 good decision all game warrants applause.

he was giving west ham free kicks all day long for their players going down easily, two of them cost us a goal + a possible goal. yet when our players were getting manhandled he didn't get anything.

lukaku's yellow was an utter joke, got it for accumulation when 3 or 4 of the free kicks against him were the wrong decision. that was another crap performance in a game where he had very little big decisions to make. all referees should play advantage, it shouldn't be viewed as a compliment.

stick the whistle in your back pocket and that already gives them an extra second to view the advantage instead of wrapping it around their wrist.

I did say some bad decisions.

 

[bluelegend]

To be fair, 'stopping the rot' means 'not worse.' I think we can all agree that this match was not worse.

Without doubt it was an improvement. Defence is still a shambles and needs major surgery.

 

[Steve Wigan]

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Nothing to do with Oviedo rampaging down the left and whipping crosses in then?

Oviedo had been getting into a crossing position all evening, then failing to get the cross in.

 

[ijjysmith]

My worry is Martinez thinks we don't need new players

Same.

 

[Shagster]

That's not saying much...

It was better! I'll take that for now

 

[toffeejack]

haha chew on your gum allardyce you bitter bitter grumpy old fool. oviedo got lucky with the assist apparently.

lol. what was he trying to do? slice it out for a throw-in. managers make me laugh when they're angry.

 

[AdaBrummieblue]

To be fair, 'stopping the rot' means 'not worse.' I think we can all agree that this match was not worse.

I honestly think there were certain signs of improvement tbh! Don't like Nais and Ross on the same bit of grass but we were 10x better than last time out.