Roberto Martinez discussion

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By god I'm blue said:
What I deduced from today's game - he picked Lennon and Kone to try and give a guaranteed work rate and help the full backs, only that leaves us a little off balance as Kone doesn't do the same job on the left as is being done on the right.

He set up to contain Spurs in the first half, but we played way too deep and this allowed them to dominate. That said, let's not take anything away from Spurs, probably the best side they have had for years. Their movement and closing down was superb and they were first to everything apart from our goal in the first half.

We all come on here saying it's the best squad we have had for years. Well, the fact is for me is that there are several other clubs in exactly the same position.

We are a decent side, but that's it for me. That does not give us a right to expect teams to be easily brushed aside for the reasons I gave above.

Some good performances and we have some good players. Make the most of seeing them, as some of them won't be here next year unless we win a cup and qualify for Europe.

Sadly for the manager we don't win enough games, so that must ultimately fall on his head. Do I want him sacked? Probably not, but i also wouldn't be too arsed if he was.
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I am about here at the moment. A cup would improve my mood obviously. Actually a convincing win would probably do. When was the last one?
 
Titus Bramble said:
We aren't half frustrating aren't we? So exciting going forward. Barkley, Del and Lukaku in full flight is a joy to watch, Lennon's pace and Cleverly has a cracking long ball on him (see goal today and Lukaku's 2nd against Stoke).

And then at the back we can't stop these moments of madness. Fair enough, Spurs' goal today was very good, although we should have seen it coming since they scored the exact same goal against West Brom. Stones tried his best to tie himself in knots and Mori struggled to clear his lines at times, but he did improve in the second half.

We are getting close to a great team, it's just not quite there. We're 6 points better off now than at this point last season, which doesn't sound too much but would put us on course to finish with about 60 points. Not the best, but enough for a 7th/8th placed finish the last 5 seasons. It's not as bad as some are making out, but not as good as others...
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We had europe last season though mate.
This season has not been good enough so far
 

boris said:
More nonsense, do you really just post without thinking what you're writing. No one has said that anywhere.

We're Everton fans who can see loads of positives but 1 big worry, our defence.

On closer looking it seems these issues are only at home and not really away so it gives us more optimism that he may sort these issues out.

I suppose it depends l were you're coming from and if you're supporting the manager or not.
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Surely the opposition we have faced in our away matches and the form they are in has a significant bearing on this stat
 

Bickering over conceding more goals home or away or one proving a theory about the other one seems rather futile.

Why not just stick to the facts? We don't win many football matches under the current manager and system.
 
mkrudden said:
But too Doug, he's assembled a competitive squad that he deserves massive praise for.

He got it spot on today. Started with Lennon, sat the team deeper then brought on the pace at 60mins.

We should have won in all honesty.

Tactically I thought Martinez was brilliant today. shame others can't see it.
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Yeah I agree mate he got it right (besides our win) especially with Wednesday coming up.

I just expect he never wanted to change it up so soon.
 

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