Emi Martinez

[paul_e]

That's last bit sums it up for me. Too many refs 'play the man' with him. For a while it was booking him for time wasting whilst ignoring the keeper at the other end taking just as long over things and now it's become him getting very little protection from refs. It is happening with other teams though so not just us and there's clearly been something agreed to change how much shit they'll let go at corners, which has made them fucking shit this season, so many scrappy goals where there's all kinds of nonsense going on and being waved away.

[brontebilly]

Been weak in the air all season. One for the coaches and him to work on. He's going to catch it when he should be punching and vice versa. After Onana went off today, Watkins probably the only player we had left strong in the air.

[rougegorge]

Generally he is pretty good on crosses. It's just the ones from corners where he has recently been costing us goals when he's far too busy having a wrestle with players instead of concentrating on the path of the ball and making the right decisions.

He got away with one at Brentford at the start of the season from a long throw so maybe teams have sussed out a weakness.

I don't think he has been treated any more harshly than other keepers by referees, and the bar is probably a bit higher for fouls,  but he should be aware of that.

[Drummond]

He spends the prep time fighting and pushing the opposition to clear space and then is out of position when the ball comes in.

Pre kick he should just stand there, and be the victim rather than the aggressor, he'll then get noticed as such. When the kick is taken he just needs to go for it, punch first, catch if possible.

[eamonn]

As Rob Green on MOTD pointed out, it's not just the Chelsea and Arsenal goals he's been caught out like this. It happened at Leeds and somewhere else (Brentford?). It took us until Arsenal's second goal for us to rectify things by putting one of our lads between Martínez and that irritant Gabriel.

Also to go from teams scoring their first shot on target against us last season to now conceding to the opponents' first corner of the game is a bit... blose.

[brontebilly]

As Rob Green on MOTD pointed out, it's not just the Chelsea and Arsenal goals he's been caught out like this. It happened at Leeds and somewhere else (Brentford?). It took us until Arsenal's second goal for us to rectify things by putting one of our lads between Martínez and that irritant Gabriel.

Also to go from teams scoring their first shot on target against us last season to now conceding to the opponents' first corner of the game is a bit... blose.

Brentford he got away with it, very fortunate free out if I recall correctly. Burnley late on he got involved in another pushing match at a set piece rather than dealing with the guy getting a free header a few yards ahead of him. Seems like a few more too.