Leicester City v Everton. 16th August at 15.00.

[Professor Toffee]

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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.

I can see he's not a right back, can you?

 

[blue4eva77]

Martinez has a lot to answer for there

Get a grip.

The defence has a lot to answer for. The marking throughout, the positioning was wank.

Having said that, fatigue did set in and the subs should of been made 10 mins earlier. It took until injury for baines to even get in the final 3rd.

 

[coollino]

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.

Exactly. This reaction is hilarious.

 

[daz4matty]

Get a grip FFS

He was swanning around in brazil and not put the effort in pre season.
We looked tired in pre season an out of it 2nd half.
We were badly prepared for the start of this season simple as that

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Stones, Jagielka, Distin, McGeady, Naismith (yes they both scored, but general play) and Lukaku were all appalling.

Some have excuses, being played out of position, not fully fit, etc, but that's too many passengers.

 

[EverBlue86]

Why not bring besic on for a knackered barry?

Why not bring atsu on to inject some much needed pace and push them back?

Absolutely furious with Martinez complete moyes bottle job and as usual it took their equaliser for the lazy gets to go for the 3rd goal absolute joke. Distin needs replacing by a younger defender and we need a backup striker for lukaku to change things around.

I pray barkley isn't out long

 

[orly]

Ah well.

Good little pipe-opener before the season really gets moving.

No idea why our best pre-season player stayed on the bench and an unfit Coleman was risked.

Have no idea why he persists with 3-5-2 as it just doesn't work well

 

[toffeejack]

Look at it like this. We will take 4 pts from Leicester this season.

Looking back we were bricking it about playing a team that was freshly promoted and full of confidence anyway. So away from home we did alright. Most of us lets be honest would have taken a point at kick off.

It was the lack of a fully fit team that cost us today. (TBH a change should have been made earlier than pienaar, and pienaar shouldn't have been taken off).

Let's be honest here, next 2 weeks are gonna be a lot worse than today.

edit: when I say worse I don't necessarily mean results wise. The next two weeks are massive, 2 big fixtures in a row like that is a lot of pressure early on. Thank [Poor language removed] they're at Goodison

your kidding yourself if you think we set out standards that low

 

[Ihaters]

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.

He wasn't

 

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

Distin was beyond terrible. Arsenal will punish us if he makes as many sloppy passes next week.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

No Coleman,Kev,Barkley and a half fit Lukaku cost us to day

Add the whole side looking goosed after 50 mins

I thought that. They looked shattered and were obviously thinking, lets do as little as we can this half offensively and keep the score the same. The manner in which we approached that second half was the most disappointing thing. Echoes of West Brom away last season where we took the lead then totally lost interest.


Baines looked like getting back to his best though which was pleasing.

 

[flibbyflob]

Frustrating but on the 90 minutes a draw was a fair result.

We look half fit. Can only get better.

 

[toffeejack]

Ah well.

Good little pipe-opener before the season really gets moving.

No idea why our best pre-season player stayed on the bench and an unfit Coleman was risked.

Have no idea why he persists with 3-5-2 as it just doesn't work well

when did we play 3-5-2 in that match? think coleman just played RM which was odd. if it was 3-5-2 then he was nowhere to be seen in the RWB position for the equalizer

 

[Hellerad]

Don't worry. We will loan in Barry, Lukaku, and Deulofeu on deadline day and beat Chelsea at home.

 

[Del]

There is a reason we looked good in the first half then went to tits in the second, The players are not match fit

Martinez has to take the blame for that

Chelsea and Arsenal will smash us if we defend like we did today