Leicester City v Everton. 16th August at 15.00.

[Bilko]

seriously lids,a point away from home to a side fired up for their first game.second half we were not great but come on,bit over the top,a draw isn't the end of the season.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Why did we look absolutely shattered and Leicester looked fresh as a daisy?

 

[banno]

We need proper cover for Seamus, stones not good enough. Can Besic play right back?

You have a right unjustified downer on Stones. There is a reason he was offered an extended contract and was selected for England or can you not see that.

 

[Ihaters]

When we attacked them we looked dangerous. We let them get a foothold in the game

We looked dangerous for about 5 minutes in the second half.

 

[bluestevon]

Lot of positives in first half, especially Pienaar and Baines looking back to their best with Naismith & McGeady doing well.

We ran out of energy in the second half and let them back into it with our subs too late.

Ah well, could have been worse but we'll have to get our fitness levels back up and sort out the shakiness at the back.

A rare sensible post in this thread mate, far too much fuming and a fair few rs lurkers on the WUM as well

 

[BlueToff]

Only ourselves to blame as we sat-back too much. Martinez for once poor with his subs - should have been made far earlier. When we were arsed though we bossed it, just too sloppy - Distin especially.

We'll be fired up next week. Goodison needs to be on top form though - can see Arsenal starting the season like a house on fire

 

[Boss_Blue]

The difference between pre season and today is intensity - we were operating at 70% and today it's more like 90%

Leicester can't handle it and if they try we just go up a gear... Is right Blues I've missd you

What do you know? Biff

 

[Heskeys Wife]

yeah, we shouldn't be playing stones out of position but it was uncontrollable due to coleman lacking fitness.. as bobby will say, there were lots of positives and things will only get better once our perfect starting 11 are in the team

 

[Whitty]

We looked dangerous for about 5 minutes in the second half.

Yes, after they equalised. We stopped attacking

 

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

Everton sure know how to leave you feeling deflated.

 

[Muzumbu]

AT LEAST WE AREN'T MAN UNITED

 

[Professor Toffee]

bit harsh, would go more like:

Howard - 5
Stones - 4
Jags - 3
Distin - 3
Baines - 7
Barry - 4
McCarthy - 4
McGeedy - 7 (saved by goal)
Naismith - 6.5 (saved by goal)
Pienaar - 7
Lukaku - 4.5

Martinez - -0 Just absolutely awful

Howard 5
Stones 2
Jags 5
Distin 4
Baines 6
Barry 6
McCarthy 5
Pienaar 7
Naismith 7
McGeady 4
Lukaku 4

Martinez 1 poor tactics and substitutions

 

[rascal]

We've let our standards drop since beating Arsenal 3-0.

 

[Tree13]

bit harsh, would go more like:

Howard - 5
Stones - 4
Jags - 3
Distin - 3
Baines - 7
Barry - 4
McCarthy - 4
McGeedy - 7 (saved by goal)
Naismith - 6.5 (saved by goal)
Pienaar - 7
Lukaku - 4.5

Martinez - -0 Just absolutely awful

Howard was better than a five, and Distin was better than a three. Stones demonstrated a lack of positional awareness and Jags was mostly anonymous. McGeady had the classic game of two halves, ace in the first and invisible in the second. Lukaku was better than the 4.5 you've given him.

Surprised we didn't see Besic or Atsu, the second half was crying out for them.

 

[Kiwi]

We had a shocking second half, but some of you need to take a good hard look at what you're saying here. Fume of disproportionate levels to the result. One game in, dropped two points, a tricky run ahead but we'll get there and play some sexy togger like we did in patches today. It is by no means the end of the world nor the season.
Pull your heads in