Arsenal Vs Everton. FA Cup 6th Round, 8th Mar 2014 @ 12:45

[Jags..class]

Can we stop playing Pienaar now?

Hate the way he goes down all the time or just kills our attacks.

 

[Loz]

He has come back from 2months out. Guarentee you didn't say anything about Ross Barkley when he came back?

RM left the subs too late. We needed them at 50th min.

Absolutely right. Deulofeu should have come on at least when we conceded the second goal as the injection of pace up front means that the whole team doesn't have to commit to going forward and leave us open at the back.

 

[Jxg]

No they haven't. Martinez tactics are very good its just that we have not got the players to execute when in promising positions. That costs money. RM will have had a full season to assess the players qualities and will adjust accordingly if BK gives him some cash to spend

Which is not going to happen, ever.

We have the TV money to cancel out our debt. We have £30m+ surplus from player transfers. Yet, we will not spend half of that in the summer. We might spend a quarter, if we're lucky. Kenwright will probably sell Barkley for £20m and we'll spend £10m of that while Bill cries and tells us all how he's Everton's biggest fan and how he mortgaged his house, car, wife and dog to get the money to support Everton. Meanwhile, he's sucking the life out of the club, holding it back.

 

[GreenTeddy]

McGeady needs his chance now.

 

[daz4matty]

No they haven't. Martinez tactics are very good its just that we have not got the players to execute when in promising positions. That costs money. RM will have had a full season to assess the players qualities and will adjust accordingly if BK gives him some cash to spend

Kenwright is the main reason we will never be succesfull there is no doubting that.
But its the tactics not the players that mean we hardly create anything.
We never have efforts on goal unless from distance.

 

[SteKelly]

Are people actually admitting Mirallas is a myth now? he plays awful 80% of the time. He got outpaced by Arteta in the first half also. I gave up on him then.
Subs were late. Needed them at 50th minute. We take short corners whilst Distin and stones are only just by the D. Just bizarre

 

[BluenosePaul]

Oh well i'd rather England won the world cup anway.

 

[SteKelly]

Kenwright is the main reason we will never be succesfull there is no doubting that.
But its the tactics not the players that mean we hardly create anything.
We never have efforts on goal unless from distance.

Our fans say this but they just put #KenwrightOut on twitter. Fkin do something about it instead of writing on twitter and forums lad.

 

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

Hate the way he goes down all the time or just kills our attacks.

He spends more time on the ground than on his feet these days.

 

[Jxg]

Hate the way he goes down all the time or just kills our attacks.

It may just be me, but does anyone else think he doesn't know how to control the ball? Whenever he receives it, he doesn't stop it, it just kind of bounces off him, a foot into the air.

 

[Toffeelover]

Okay, end of the dream for this season.

WE lost IMO due to

1) the penalty which put us up against it.

2) bad substitutions, I never want to see Osman on again, McGeady is not very good no better than an average squad player (championship player, waste of money, for me)

3) Peanuts is coming to the end of his time.

The positives,

!) we played darned well upto the subbing,

2) Give Joel more starts to get playing time and expereince. Unlike Howard he did come off his line!

3) Stones is good, IMO get Duffy back and give him some starts or subbing for Distin so we can see these two together.

4) sign Lukaku,

5) not convinced about Barry, maybe one year contract but blood some younger players in this position.

 

[paulbefc]

I know playing Joel didn't cost us in the end, but Jesus H Christ. What a horrific choice by Martinez. He tried his best and nearly succeeded in scoring an og in the first half ffs.

 

[bicycleheader]

We have the players we just don,t create.
We never load the box and hardly test the keepers unless its a shot from distance.
Its ok having the ball but we don,t seem to know what to do with it.

Next season I'd want Lukaku(if we have him), Ross and two others in the attacking positions. For me the two others need to be a quality playmaker who replaces Pienaar and can play across the supporting 3 and somebody more consistent than Kev, McGeady and Deulo are whether it is a loan signing or not. Better players will take the right decisions more often and youll see our, for me very good, gameplan implemented much better. As it was when our "okay" players were fit and in a vein of form, and even then it still wasn't consistent enough.

We don't have the quality to kill games when on top. The evidence is very clear in how we fail to take advantage of space and finish off moves. Pienaar, Kev, Osman are not good enough to be playing so many minutes for a team aiming for top 4 or general success.

Having said that, this is the squad he has to work with for now. Lets see in the summer, if we actually do spend money.

 

[arbok]

watched from 60mins onwards today...but same [Poor language removed] every time... i think martinez is getting found out...

also you can really see lukaku's frustration... why don't they just set it up for him more? The three attacking mids have all been told that they can shoot, so they do... lukaku for the number of 'real' chances he gets, is probably the most accurate of anyone in the team. West Brom used to just get it to Lukaku and he would do the job.

secondly our play seems to be stuff around with the ball in the final third, but the final ball is truly awful, or no final ball at all.

Awful challenge from barry today... also the defending for the third goal was awful, and by the fourth, they had all by given up.

The energy from the start of the season seems to have been lost now.

 

[daza_1973]

Hands up anyone else who is sick to death of early kick-offs ???
Spurs,Chelsea now Arsenal.... and that's just in the last month.