Marco Silva felt Fulham deserved more than a point at Goodison Park tonight as his side were pegged back by Beto’s 94th-minute equaliser against Everton.
The Whites looked set to bounce back from last weekend’s disappointing defeat against Aston Villa with all three points when former Everton midfielder Alex Iwobi scored a superb long-range strike against his old club, but substitute Beto headed in from close range to steal a share of the points for Sean Dyche’s side.
A crestfallen Silva told the BBC’s Match of the Day after the final whistle:
“It’s so tough for us and players in the dressing room. We didn’t give them any chances to press high. We frustrated their press. We controlled the game. The players are down right now, but they should be proud with the way we played. The points will come for us by being more clinical, a little bit more quality in the attack. We should have scored more because we created enough.
When I say we are down, it is because football wasn’t fair this evening. It’s not easy to come here and control the way we did it. Looking at the bigger picture, we have to be pleased with the way we have started the season. We should have more points then we have really because they deserve that. The way they have been playing, we probably deserve more but if you continue this way, the good things will come for us.
We created clear chances to score. The result is really unfair because we should have scored one or two more goals. We had one or two chances to score again. These games are always tough when you are so much better than the opposition. We should have scored the second goal to completely kill their hopes. We didn’t. Unfortunately for us came a moment where we should have done much better to defend the ball into the box.”
Look to yourself Marco. Your substitutions have resulted in the loss of umpteen points this season.
Silvas own fault. Weird substitutions. Can’t blame anyone else for this. Hope he learned his lesson.
Silva has to take responsibility for his substitutions at such a late stage in the game only to cause disruption to the team, which led to their goal.
Also, Traore’s confidence is literally shot after his miserable efforts against City and he should be benched for his own sake and the team.
How many more times Marco. Man U, West Ham and Everton. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. None of the players you took off looked knackered and we were dominating. The changes limited our out ball and we invited pressure.
On the Everton goal we had four people in the box marking nobody . They did not seem to know who to pick up. One of the four was Robinson who should not have been there. His responsibility was Young who unchallenged put the ball across for Beto to score.
Marco is a brilliant manager but must stop these senseless substitutions. We were in a winning position by being positive.
If we had scored more goals in this game then we would not have had a Corporal Jones don’t panic moment bringing on Cuenca and Reed was left the defence saying who was marking who this is happening more than once now concentration levels need to be addressed we Totally outplayed Everton and deserved more from the game Adama needs a rest perhaps start Nelson against Brentford and use Adama as an impact sub must score more goals then we won’t need panic stations at the end
We failed to make the most of our opportunities. How many more time are we going to concede in the minutes. We just panic. I would agree the late substitutions upset the balance
4 points coughed up in injury time so far this season with more to come if we don’t work it out. Watching us defend a lead late in the game is like watching a horror movie with hands over my eyes at the moment.
Very disappointing shipping more injury time points. The hope they could break into the top 10 has faded fast and higher than 14th seems a struggle now as teams like Forest, Bournemouth, Brentford are all in form and likely Palace will sort themselves out
My prediction is 15th place for Fulham which is bang average