Match Thread Manchester City(1) Vs Everton(2) - Capital One Cup - Semi Final 2nd Leg - Weds 27th Jan - 19:45 KO

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Forget the was it or wasn't it beyond the line.
This failure is down to Martinez going far too defensive.
Lennon would have been perfect for this game.
Would help out the full back as well as giving us a out ball.
Coleman should have started.

Not even that angry. More dejected.

I'm away to drink a case of Tennents Supers and beat up my missus.
I might torch my house with my kids inside. I'll decide that when the Supers have been drank.
 
Ashtonian said:
As I said before about this.

We have conceded 3 goals.in 5 games over the last 2 months.

At what point do you blame the manager and say hang on , we shouldn't be doing that in a regular basis?
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Think you have to look at context in those situations and say that yes there needs to be a defensive adjustment but tonight that wasn't the case except for Stones being benched. Funes Mori looks twice the player he is.
 
There were two supposed superstars wandering round that pitch like they were above it all. Is that the manager's fault? The one good defender tonight was the one he bought.
Despite that everyone knew we needed huge chunk of luck tonight against a team who could bring someone like De Bruyne on as a sub, but they still needed one of worst decisions I've seen against us and a nasty deflection. Both of them just when we seemed to be regaining some composure. I know it's hard for people to look rationally but we lost by one goal over two legs against the probable champions. Is calling for the manager to go really what's needed now? Or is it just what some people wanted to do after this match.
 
I wish Hinchcliffe would bugger off with his "you couldn't blame the officials" comments.......yes you can, all the linesman has to do is look across the bleeding pitch, it isn't hard..........
 
KevMirallas said:
The subs were fine initially. Personally I would have kept Del on, but we got a foothold on the match we were missing when Kone came on.

The moment that changed it was the second goal, which was inexplicably allowed. I don't know how anybody could not see that ball was out in real time. From there, we were always likely to be cooked. They have big game players, some of the best in the world. We have oldies and potential, with not a real leader in sight.

It's hard for me to blame Martinez too much as once again fate badly conspired against us, but given this is happening every week, it ain't a coincidence anymore. He won't ever get sacked obviously, but I'm concerned that we've gone about as far as we can under him. Which is nowhere.
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To go nowhere would to not improve on what Moyes did which was top 6/8 but he's actually made us worse, much worse, more Wigan-like you could say but with better players...
 
So tempting to not bother with Everton anymore, other than looking at their results and hoping they don't get relegated. It's not worth getting emotionally invested because every season is a display of mediocre disappointment. I expect following Everton is similar to following a team like Stoke, just with unrealistically higher expectations, which makes the mediocrity more frustrating.
 
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