Everton v Crystal Palace. 16th April at 19.45.

[daza_1973]

he won't. there season has gone horribly wrong as always he falls short and will be losing his job most likely in the summer..

In all likeliness he will win the Fa cup and finish 4th - hardly grounds for sacking

 

[TX Bill]

I'll say this.

I don't ever think I saw Delaney play the ball. Usually, he was just going through his man.

 

[marnie]

his tactics are from fifa10 online noob tatics ... 1 up top , 2 fast wingers with no other skill, all out defend , all out pressure.

STILL MANAGED TO PUT 3 PAST US THOUGH ... DIDN'T HE

 

[NilSatis1878]

In all likeliness he will win the Fa cup and finish 4th - hardly grounds for sacking

it is when you have been told your pushing to win the title, season after season... arsenal aren't everton you know, their expectations are higher

 

[Dexter]

No. Martinez messed up with his bloody ridiculous team selection!

You are both right

 

[uknightbreed]

STILL MANAGED TO PUT 3 PAST US THOUGH ... DIDN'T HE

yep and many a screaming clueless 9 year olds spanked me at fifa10 the same way lol

 

[Big Fat Sam]

There will surely be a bidding war between Madrid, Barca etc for that Bolasie in the summer, looked absolutely world class. 50m should do it.

 

[Matthew mcdonnell]

still confused why naismith didn't start, they are sitting right back so that pretty much takes pace out the equation, especially with us having very high possession as i would expect against a park the bus team at home, instead to break these teams down it takes short patient passing around the edge of the box with INTELLIGENT players hence naismith to make runs in the box (like equalizer vs villa at home), not a front 3 full of pace, were 2 of them are new this season (del and mcgeady) so the link up play was obviously not going to be that good so all we could do was cross. these pacey players should have played vs Sunderland away were the other team were going to push up since they needed a win so we would get the space for pacey players to exploit. really dissapointed with these 2 team selections in our last 2 games and it's cost us, of course it could help if lukaku was a bit more willing to try and get on the end of our crosses. That kind of short passing around the edge of the box with runners like naismith going beyond which was required today is obviously going to be tough since it is our first season under this style even passing out the back can be tough never mind tiki taka football but we have done it at times this season so there was no reason to not try it tonight as that was the only way to break them down given their solidity and to improve at it in the long run we have to try and fail but not starting nessi didn't really give us a chance tbh. im just really pissed at the timing: in the rs transition season they have no chance of top 4 and now when their managers philosophy starts coming together they get 2 teams (spuds and utd) playing awful but when we improve at our passing game for next season, utd and spurs will come back, i mean if van gaal goes to utd and shapes them up with the money available, then thats pretty much no chance of top 4 for us

 

[TyphooToffee]

if Palace are that good, maybe we should sign some of theirs. nope. they are not that good but we were poor tonight

Pullis is just a good defensive organiser. When a team defends like they do it's very difficult to make chances. I think Geads had the right idea, shooting from distance and I think it's a shame he was taken off.

 

[deipnosophist]

can you say that again in english please?

lol

 

[Dexter]

it is when you have been told your pushing to win the title, season after season... arsenal aren't everton you know, their expectations are higher

They might even pip city into 3rd

 

[Matthew mcdonnell]

Pulis always seems to bring out the worst of us. Absolutely hate him, football-wise that is. You know it's bad when Cameron Jerome scores against you.

Hopefully good old Moyes will underestimate us on sunday. We need 12 out of 12 points, it's definitely doable. Believe lads, believe.

yeah i bloody hate pulis tactics, i remember last season it took a ridiculous individual effort from kev to settle it

 

[Seamus Colemole]

In lots of ways, when palace attacked they looked dangerous, had mccarthy been there half their attacks wouldnt of even happened and therefore they wouldnt of scored so many. But Martinez had a plan and unfortunately it didnt work. We might of all been moaning if it finished 0-0 because Mccarthy did play but we didnt have enough attacking players on the pitch

I don't think it really made any difference, it was the attacking players passing to Palace players that didn't help.

Plus didn't they get the 3rd after Puncheon danced past our defence including McCarthy?

How many times have we read on here that we don't need 2 holding mids at home to teams in the bottom half? Not always that simple i know but i don't think we lost because he wasn't on the pitch and he probably wouldn't have stopped the goals they scored when he wasn't.

 

[deipnosophist]

Good night lads ...I am off to work. Don't despair, all is not lost. The race for fourth (and third, interestingly) has one or two more twists and turns yet

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Pullis is just a good defensive organiser. When a team defends like they do it's very difficult to make chances. I think Geads had the right idea, shooting from distance and I think it's a shame he was taken off.

Agree with this.

He looked one of the only bright sparks offensively tonight.