The opposition view: Everton

  • by Staff Writer
  • Sunday, 6th March 2016

Well that sucks - ending up empty-handed after throwing away a 2-0 lead to a team that you consider to be your inferiors.

Yet that was the quandary in which Everton supporters found themselves after West Ham United staged a quite remarkable comeback to take all three points at Goodison Park yesterday thanks to Dimitri Payet's last-minute winner.

See what they made of it all in this week's edition of the OV...


"FFS. I hate West Ham as well."
- AIE

"What a genuinely shitty way to lose a game. You couldn't make it up, with Payet scoring the winner after we should have gone 3-0 up just twenty minutes before with a penalty. There's too many hard luck stories with this Everton team for it to be coincidence or bad luck."
- chicoazul

"Three goals in 12 minutes is truly a train wreck of historic proportions. And while Everton seem to have perfected this brand of rapid decompression it isn't exclusive to Merseyside. With world class striker talent now peppered liberally throughout the league, a two-nil lead isn't what it used to be. Payet may look a right tool with his brohawk and all but he will get his chances in a 90 minute match. Especially against a side playing a man down for 50 minutes or so."
- NoSlipSteve

"Martinez should be told outright that his job is on the line and that he has until the end of the season to prove he can manage a game defensively. He will then have had three seasons with us, two of which have been very disappointing. He doesn't seem to have learned the lessons of his Wigan days and you have to wonder now whether he ever will. We have an exciting squad and yes, he has us playing some exciting football, but at the end of the day results matter, and in this area he is not proving he is up to the job. Unless there is a marked upturn by the end of the season there's no way i think we should start a new season with him. The last two substitutions in that game were tactically naive. It was not the time to showboat Niasse to the Goodison crowd when we were down to ten men and then to take Lukaku off for Barry at the end was almost like an admission he'd got it wrong and acknowledgement of the need to shore up the defence when it was already too late."
- froggyted

"If West Ham were proper boss and made the advantage count I wouldn't moan, genuinely. But they were absolutely abysmal all game. Shocking and we have gifted them three goals. We all want Niasse to play but bringing him on when we have 10 men and are holding onto a 2-0 lead is pure idiocy. The man's finished, I've lost every bit of faith I had in him. After Moshiri has binned Elstone, he needs to bin Martinez."
- MartSlinger



"The present system - whereby the ref only gives a card if he's in no doubt there was a dive - works fine. Yesterday I couldn't tell from the Gwladys St end that it was a dive, but Anthony Taylor was perfectly positioned and called it correctly. And it was every bit as stupid and needless a yellow card as the second one. If he'd stayed on his feet we could have created a goalscoring chance. Never mind referees penalising players, clubs should be fining their own players over this. The only consolation I can offer Miralles was that no-one can accuse him of going missing yesterday, perhaps if anything he was trying too hard."
- tadpole

"West Ham exploited our achilles heel and it didn't take tactical genius to do it. Bilic used the Alladyce tactic of pump the ball in the box because we have little full backs and only one CB that can possibly win a header. The CMs are bypassed and our RB and LB allow too much space and invite the crosses time and time again. I hope with the money we have we can get another CB who is good in the air and more defensive minded tall LB and RBs."
- banno

"Bilic's comments after the game did my head in, saying how no-one could argue West Ham didn't deserve it. Bollcoks. West Ham were crap and outplayed by 10 men. They won because Martinez made abysmal substitutions and our defence are a bunch of amateurs when it comes to dealing with crosses."
- Jimmy1

"I would like to congratulate Mark Noble, I thought he refereed the game really well!"
- BLUENOWZ1878

"That was disgusting. In one season we have lost at home to Stoke, WBA, Swansea and West Ham. Drawn with Watford and whoever else. Just sickening sort of stuff."
- Joleonarteta



"Not even 2-0 and a penalty can stop this effing 11 year jinx. '72, '83, '94, '05 and '16 - all [years we've] lost to West Ham, not lost any other home games against these."
- ToffeeDan

"Frustrating... Disheartening... Unnerving... Some of the words which have flashed through my slightly tender mind this morning. What makes it even worse was there were some real positives from the game yesterday including our work rate, effort and overall play. We looked the much better side for large swathes of the game even when we were down to ten men, but capitulating just sums up our season. Scoring the penalty would have most probably finished the game off, however Kevin put us in an inherently difficult situation due to his rashness. We went from being a side who were controlling the play well and curtailing West Ham, to allowing them freedom to swing balls into the box. Once they were able to do that and score their first goal, you could feel that it was then out of our hands and down to their effectiveness. People mention Groundhog Day... well it is certainly starting to feel like that. One step forward before the ultimate two steps back."
- PhilM

"Such a shame, how this game went. West Ham is a pretty darn decent team, pretty scary how good they are. But getting down to 10 men and then just watching the boat sink so late on in the game is just a pity, cause I felt like Everton would have had the three pointer if Mirallas didn't catch a second yellow."
- Mirallas

"Just got back. A four-hour trip back with two Hammers trying their hardest not to rub it in, that bloody Payet song ringing in my ears. Martinez out for me ASAP. You cannot be a winning team if you can't defend, how much more have the Goodison faithful got to take before he's told to go? Everyone in the ground could see it (the capitulation) coming and I'm sick of it happening, it's beyond a joke. And a bird shit on my shoulder as I stepped out of the Park End, which kind of summed it all up."
- bluemoz

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