Martinez a bit hesitant today

[evertorial]

So its around the 70th minute and we are cruising and look set to score another couple of goals. Martinez then decides to put Heitinga on and switch to a 3-5-2. Thats ok and worth a try to see how we adapt, but as soon as that change happened we got totally dominated by Norwich and I really think Martinez should have seen this quicker because they had about 5 very good chances to score and all these chances were due to the tactic change as we lost grip of the match.
I thought Martinez should of subbed Stones for a midfield player or moved Heitinga further forward and gone straight back to the 4-2-3-1 because had we conceded which probably should of happened we could of thrown away a massive 2 points.
But as it was we got away with it but them last 20 minutes were a hell of a lot more nervy than they needed to be and I just felt Martinez could of acted quicker. This is in no way a gripe at Martinez because I think hes a legend and the best thing to happen to Everton for decades, but this was probably the first sign of a bit of hesitancy from him when I felt he should of spotted a problem and acted on it.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

So its around the 70th minute and we are cruising and look set to score another couple of goals. Martinez then decides to put Heitinga on and switch to a 3-5-2. Thats ok and worth a try to see how we adapt, but as soon as that change happened we got totally dominated by Norwich and I really think Martinez should have seen this quicker because they had about 5 very good chances to score and all these chances were due to the tactic change as we lost grip of the match.
I thought Martinez should of subbed Stones for a midfield player or moved Heitinga further forward and gone straight back to the 4-2-3-1 because had we conceded which probably should of happened we could of thrown away a massive 2 points.
But as it was we got away with it but them last 20 minutes were a hell of a lot more nervy than they needed to be and I just felt Martinez could of acted quicker. This is in no way a gripe at Martinez because I think hes a legend and the best thing to happen to Everton for decades, but this was probably the first sign of a bit of hesitancy from him when I felt he should of spotted a problem and acted on it.

Behave. Snodgrass was making headway down the wing? This allowed bainsey to push on further and jags behind him sorted that.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

And won the free kick that scored our second?

 

[andy4efc]

The problem was Pienaar got injured immediately after the sub. Had Pienaar not got injured we would have been fine. Can't plan for taking a creative player off, only for the most creative player in the game to get injured a minute later.

 

[Toffeelover]

I thought that sub was strange, why not bring Oveido and put him in there?

What did others think of Heitinga's performance for the last 20 mins?

 

[USABlue]

Don't think it was him being hesitant, more just having faith in who he put on the field and using the opportunity ( up 2-0 at home vs a poor Norwich team) to see the whole formation change through. I agree though we looked alot more shaky after the switch but I think peinaar coming off was the main effect

 

[Goat]

Osman and Pienaar both taken off with knocks.

You know the squad is stretched when Gueye makes the bench.

 

[evertorial]

Don't think it was him being hesitant, more just having faith in who he put on the field and using the opportunity ( up 2-0 at home vs a poor Norwich team) to see the whole formation change through. I agree though we looked alot more shaky after the switch but I think peinaar coming off was the main effect

we switched to a back 3 and Norwich instantly found pockets of space all around and I felt if we would of just kept our shape we would of coasted to victory but in the end we looked like we were hanging on, especially for a 5-10 minute period after the sub.

 

[davek]

The change was ok; the players just clocked off is all. Coleman in particular thought it was a good idea to let Redmond waltz past him into the area a couple of times in the last ten minutes.

 

[mawders]

To be honest, he's got a point. I thought the last 20 we lacked cohesion. Fair play to try it, but it's another example that it doesn't work.

Still, lets focus on the positives. For 70 minutes we were outstanding, another clean sheet, Rom looked sharp as did Mirallas, and we have a poor WBA next wk and Barkley will be back

 

[icburns]

Tinkering, experimenting, but I wouldn't say hesitating. I imagine Heitinga went in there to give potentially interested clubs a sniff.

 

[Furey1878]

Players dropped a couple of gears because we were cruising at the time.

Nothing major.

 

[neil999]

I wonder if he trying to find a way of making heitinga useful as he might not be leaving?

 

[andy4efc]

To be honest, he's got a point. I thought the last 20 we lacked cohesion. Fair play to try it, but it's another example that it doesn't work.

Still, lets focus on the positives. For 70 minutes we were outstanding, another clean sheet, Rom looked sharp as did Mirallas, and we have a poor WBA next wk and Barkley will be back

Osman and Pienaar both had to go off, that would explain some lack of "cohesion" surely?

 

[evertorial]

Osman and Pienaar both had to go off, that would explain some lack of "cohesion" surely?

That wouldnt be the reason why their players suddenly found so much space. Surely it would just be a reason for us to be less useful when we are in possession but defensively we seemed all over the place.