Roberto Martinez Not Going To Change Playing Style

[alan_stubbs]

Personally I believe you need to be flexible and able to adapt to the situation we find yourself in, instead of being stuck with the same approach over and over. In the words of Bruce Lee:

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”





Martinez will not waver from purist style.

Everton manager Roberto Martinez’s (pic) deeply-ingrained belief in how his teams should play football has earned the Spaniard many plaudits since starting out on his managerial journey in England.

A fifth-placed finish in the Premier League last season, when many believed Everton deserved a place in the Champions League, had many suggesting he would land one of the biggest jobs in England or Spain in the not too distant future.

Yet, as the Christma

[Everton_Freak]

The problems don't lie with the style. We play great footy and we've been unlucky in the goals that have been put past us. It's giving the ball away in the middle of the park. Our resetting needs to happen on one of the wings rather than with our very unreliable full-back players.

[alan_stubbs]

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I feel that a lot of the time we lose the ball by players looking to make that one pass too many instead of being more direct. We have Lukaku coming to the edge of the opposition area to collect the ball instead of being in the six yard box attacking crosses etc. The simple wing play with the likes of Baines and Pienaar combo worked well. Now it seems that all too often we pass the ball back and forth sideways outside the opposition area, bring pressure on ourselves, then end up playing the ball back to the edge of our own area.

It's going to be a bumpy ride, but I do believe it will all come together in time

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