Match Thread Swansea v Everton. 19th Sep at 15.00.

[ianefc]

That's 6 in 27 now for Lukaku in the league. 2 of which were penalties and seeing as he cant hold any ball up unless it's a simple pass to him. Questions have to be asked. Another dreadful performance along with the Spurs game that makes it 2 out of last 3.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Agreed.

He's been wank today. Lead boots, lazy, not interested. Been played in 3 times and spurned every one. All those wanting through balls, he's had them today and what. Not even close once.

28m for a player who puts in a performance once every 5 games doesn't do it for me. Crap

Of course

 

[Jags..class]

bringing mirallas on for 2 minutes, is he trying to mug him off. Something going on between Martinez and kev for sure.

Well he let himself down and the fans.

 

[longers]

It's Mirallas fault obviously but Martinez seems to have issues with Mirallas, getting him to sign a new contract most likely based on him being an important player and yet he never gets a look in and instead gets brought on at 90 minutes. You could see he looked annoyed whilst waiting to come on, he looked equally pissed on the bench during the Chelsea game. Just doesn't strike me as particularly good man management. Doesn't excuse Mirallas being a tit though.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Unlucky today, really great team performance.

 

[COYB]

im about as p'd off as kev now ffs

 

[ilikecheese]

What's happening Wednesday?

We're losing to Reading in the League Cup.

 

[Chang Elephant]

Good practice for the derby, opposition players niggling and in the refs face all day, but we kicked sh1t out of them regardless

 

[The Mighty Quint]

I really don't understand why you would put him on in the 91st minute.

Especially with nais and particularly Rom's finishing being gash, I bet my cock Mirallas would have bagged one of Rom's tap ins he missed.

 

[maccavennie]

Brilliant away performance except from a one woeful finishing up top. We should be toasting an easy 5-0 win but oh well, clean sheet and a decent point

 

[Seanjd]

Well it's not but maybe if he was playing earlier he woudnt of

sending off was pure frustration, part of the blame is on martinez, sending him on on the 92nd minute to basically waste time was insulting

He's a bloody 'professional' footballer! If he is asked to play for the last 2 minutes, he should do it and put everything into it. He's just petulant - don't excuse it as being frustration.

 

[Robertor]

Agreed.

He's been wank today. Lead boots, lazy, not interested. Been played in 3 times and spurned every one. All those wanting through balls, he's had them today and what. Not even close once.

28m for a player who puts in a performance once every 5 games doesn't do it for me. Crap

Not having him bigging himself up as a big deal and only putting one good performance in every 5. I'd bench him for West Brom for a kick up the backside. When your defence and majority of midfield are excellent and you don't put away a one on one then you're not a first team striker for me.

 

[deipnosophist]

We outplayed Swansea...missed out on 2 points but ...
Important we do something worthwhile (points-wise) at the Hawthorns.

 

[Furey1878]

If you wanna criticise the manager for the timing of the substitution, fine. You have good cause too.

If you wanna use that to somehow justify Mirallas's challenge, go throw yourself in the bin.

 

[Tubey]

We've just dominated a decent side on the road but you'd think we just lost 4-0 by some of your reactions.

Was a great performance, no complaints here. Just individual stupidity at the end, more from the player of course but the manager isn't beyond criticism for that.