Match Thread Reading vs. Everton - Tuesday 22nd Sept - Capital One Cup Third Round - 20:00 KO

[zirc]

Seen them given

 

[Smodger]

lewandowski 5 off the bench!!! holy and we're 1 down to bloody reading

Kone probably will not score that many all season.

 

[sageyefc]

Get Gibson on for osman and Leandro for either rom or kone

 

[lungo]

Hate the league cup, very year this cup ruins our morale, can't we just pull out of this cup next year

Its more to do with Martinez having a brain fart again . Playing 3-5-2 with 2 wingers on the right and no wingers on the left. Overrun in midfield . No control what so ever.

 

[Tubey]

both have been alright though?

robles should have done better with the punch/ whatever that was but can only assume it swayed at the last minute.

mori apart from the goal has been fine, sound going forward / on the ball and without protection of someone infront of him he hasn't done anything really that wrong

Think Funes Mori has looked cumbersome myself buto he's settling in and out of position so can't blame him.

Shouldn't be playing two square pegs in round holes at full back away from home. Cross should have been stopped on the right and was defended horribly on the left. That's all on Martinez - for me at the very least Browning should have started.

 

[Librarian]

 

[GardinerEFC]

He has a name!

Hope this isnt a racist comment?

 

[longers]

missed first half hour, why they booing delofeu ?

 

[Wat Tyler]

Pen that

 

[4737carlin]

Let there be absolutely no doubt - ROBLES chickens out of any and every 50-50.. and that's why we concede so many when he's in goal.

What worries me about playing Robles now is if we managed to go deep into the competition, it will be harder for Martinez to leave him out if we get a decent side to play. Keepers don't need a rest, Howard should be playing.

 

[evertonarntwe]

Osman of for Gibson at HT, dreadful half so far surely has to get better? Surely...

 

[orly]

i don't think he has though, maybe i'm being less harsh on him because its his first proper game, but i'd still judge any player starting off unbiasly, i think he could do a few things better for sure but he's shown more promise than he has negative for me.

You are accusing of us bias now?

He's been poor - we aren't saying HE WILL ALWAYS BE POOR FFS MARTINEZ - but he has been really poor and people have given you loads of examples.

One might say, you're bias is clouding your judgement.

 

[ToffeeDan]

Still, we are perhaps not quite as embarrassing as Sunderland..

 

[Chegsy]

Nice spear on Del.

 

[meagher94]

Let's not judge Funes too quickly. He was poor for their goal then but he's played about 45 minutes of English football ffs.

People writing him off already. Pathetic.