Everton v Chelsea. 30th August at 17.30.

[bluelife]

That was mental. Positive enough to show how good the side is though, but Chelsea are just too good at punishing mistakes.

 

[deipnosophist]

16th on the table

 

[technojoe]

Can attack, can't defend.

100% at the moment. New CBs stat

 

[Fansince1988]

Our centre backs look as poor as I've seen in years,they seem to look un interested.Thats 10 goals now in 3 games even against 2 good attacking teams that's very poor.Our season need to start now 2 hard games gone,3 pts is a must next game.

 

[Wat Tyler]

The defence were atrocious yes, absolutely awful, but Barry and McCarthy offered ZERO protection. Our Central midfield was literally non-existent.

 

[Toffeelover]

Did they score a good goal against us?

It does not matter how they were scored they still count.

 

[hktoffee]

McCarthy had his worst game in an Everton shirt. He just let everyone ran pass him with the ball.

 

[Blue Juice]

Martinez better not pull out any of the usual Martinez bingo words; Phenomenal etc.

Anything other than good going forward, absolute [Poor language removed] league 2 standard in defence is a lie

 

[Blue Cheese]

Absolutely terrible defending, shambolic. non existent marking, no going with runners, absolute dog crap.

 

[bluelife]

I personally think we were up against a championship winning attack, yes we could sit here and pull apart every goal but they were a class apart.

On the plus side our attacking wasn't bad either and there are a lot of postives to take out of it.

Spot on that. Concerning defending but it won't be put up against many better attacks than that.

 

[BBleck]

we crumble over any attack that comes against us,we dont even attempt a tackle half the time and stand there

I'm not sure what should be more concerning, the number of times they beat our offside trap or the way the entire defense looked in defending the 18yrd box. Both issues have been present in every game so far.

 

[ilikecheese]

Sometimes you gotta LOL

I'm outta here...enjoy the melt fest.

 

[snipellis11]

We need to sort our defending out, we won't win games defending like, good going forward and played some nice stuff but pathetic defending.

 

[Eggs]

Yes I finally get my debut, I'll come on and do a boss flick pass, it'll be amazi.......oh [Poor language removed]

.....he can only get better. I'm a fan of his and wont write him off.

 

[streeky]

games like this totally pass Gareth Barry by. He has started the season badly and we have zero cover in front of our defenders even though we are playing to holders ?????.Super kev and naisey though wow.