When the players know the system isn't working and it is making their job impossible, is it any wonder their heads drop when their manager pushes them to do more of the same? You can bet they've talked this through in training and after games, it speaks for their professionalism that they'll continue to go out and do as they're told even though it was obvious months ago it was failing.
How bad does it have to get before Martinez concedes that the madness to his method is the issue? Stubborness is great, when it's a manager sinking someone elses club.
He picks the side, he sends them out to perform technically above what they can manage, he doesn't change it, he carries the can when it comes to it. I hope it doesn't but enough bad luck, and injuries is slowly forcing the clubs hand. His inability to change it up is his digging his own grave.
The morons (and king moron) blaming Hibbert, Osman, Naismith and Ferguson (wtf!) are kidding themselves and trying to kid you. The best way to pipe a shyster down is to call them out and then laugh at them. A few too many shysters trying to call the shots on here of late.
Martinez is explaining with his methods that he has learned very little to nothing from his days having Wigan play above average going forwards and like a bunch of startled lambs trying to defend. He has to change it, for his future and for Evertons in the Premier League.
Time is seriously ticking.
If by 'the system' you mean 4-2-3-1 I don't think it's especially at fault. We're pushing both fullbacks forward, which is fine because we have the two best attacking fullbacks in the league. But I don't think that we're getting enough cover from Barry and McCarthy. If it was me, when we were on the attack I'd want Barry to sit in between the two centrebacks and McCarthy sitting just in front trying to slow the opposition counter-attack down. McCarthy has been our best player so far this season but a lot is being asked of him because Barry has been so poor. When he played at centreback a few games ago you could see that he was dying to run into midfield to try and nick the ball. We need to be more disciplined, hold a line and play more intelligently. Wasn't
Moyes using the same formation by the end anyway?
I don't really like the passing out from the back and keeping possession at set pieces. I can understand why he does it. Statistically the chances are that the ball will come straight back at us from a punt upfield and we won't score from a set piece delivery but we're not going to carve out an opportunity from open play while the opposition have everyone back unless we work it well and we have one of the best deadball specialists in the world in our side, so we might as well chance our arm. And anyway, I don't think that we have the personnel to play out from the back and you get closed down too quickly in the Premier League for it to be worth the risk.
I think that our problem is that we expect to boss possession home and away and pin the opposition in. It's a flawed concept though. If we pin them in it gives us no room to get in between or behind them and we can't create chances. Teams will let us do that because they know that we'll over-commit and that they can spring a counter-attack on us, score one goal and defend it until full-time largely untroubled. If a side came to Goodison and left just their two centrebacks halfway in their own half we'd take advantage. Roberto might argue that it's the Barca way but they have Messi, Neymar and Saurez to create something out of nothing.
I don't disagree with his principles but maybe he's being too ambitious too soon? He won the cup by being tactically cute and very difficult to break down. He didn't set out to pass us or City off the park. Eventually the likes of Coleman, Stones, McCarthy, Besic, Barkley and Lukaku could form the basis of a very slick passing side but for now we need to take a step or two backwards and just be solid. Roberto needs to learn that occasionally putting a cross into the box for Lukaku isn't the antithesis of sexy football.
