Match Thread Everton v Man City. 23rd August at 16.00.

[EFC Si]

I paid £6.99 to watch this on Now TV ffs.

* at least I can watch Real Madrid later

Every cloud

 

[VentureBrosEFC]

Dreadful from Howard for the first goal.

Dreadful from Browning for the entire game. I'd have done a better job at left back. He was stationary for most of the game. He doesn't close down players when he's supposed to. He's out of position far too often. Sure, he might have potential, but he is certainly not ready this season and maybe he won't be ready for the next one either.

Whoa whoa whoa ... He is a right footed cb not a lb but the taking was poor for #2

 

[diggerdestroyer]

We need a playmaker, someone like Yarm.......................

Yarm will be bought. But not played. Naismith will play that role.

 

[DClay]

Holy hell Deulofeu's touch has been awful.

 

[bicycleheader]

[Poor language removed] manager [Poor language removed] boring other predicable football Martinez do one

Facebook is thatawayyyyyy

 

[coollino]

losing at goodison doesnt matter at all to you? Oh dear.

Not really, no.

 

[Norwegian Cow]

deulofeu sux.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Blooming heck, Gerard looks well off the pace here. Every touch has been a stinker thus far.

 

[moyeslovechild]

Here they come. The lids with the martinez avatars telling us we should be chuffed losin 2-0 at home with barely a sniff and not an ounce of attacking ambition in the 2nd 45.

 

[Eggs]

City haven't even had to play that well here. We don't even put a tackle in. Walk in the park

....I think they'll know they've been in a game. Top side in top form, they deserve the win but have had to work for it.

 

[RFUS]

Blooming heck, Gerard looks well off the pace here. Every touch has been a stinker thus far.

Yet "fully fit" Mirallas is on the bench....

 

[paulus]

Barry 90 min again

 

[ftk43]

Someone explain to me why would you bring Naismith on when your best bet for scoring is counter-attacking and you've got a '100% fit' Mirallas on the bench? Because it worked last season ffs? Killed all our chances with that sub.

 

[The Mighty Quint]

60mins I'd have brought Kev on, City score 5mins later Gerry on.

Go for it Martinez, like you use to do, you were the sub master in your first season.

 

[matty1878]

We've lost 0-2 to the best side in the league. The side that will win the league.

We lost because of a goalkeeping mistake and because we had to through a kid in at left back, who's a right back, to replace a kid who was thrown in at left back, who's a centre back, to replace the best left back in the league because he's injured.

We hit the post and had some great chances. On another day, we'd have managed the win.

Now pipe down.

It stems to the manager with his decisions to stick with a dud goaly and a center half at left back