Roberto Martinez: Everton boss embarrassed by Liverpool defeat

BBC: April 21: Everton boss Roberto Martinez described Wednesday’s 4-0 defeat at Liverpool as his worst moment at the club.

Goals from Divock Origi, Mamadou Sakho, Daniel Sturridge and Philippe Coutinho gave the hosts victory over the Toffees, who had Ramiro Funes Mori sent off five minutes into the second half.

Martinez, under pressure after a run of just three wins in 10 games, said he was “embarrassed” by the performance.

“It doesn’t come any worse than that,” he added. “Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. The whole chain of events was horrific and it is a showing we need to forget as quickly as we can.”

Everton have not won at Anfield since 1999 and, after conceding two quick goals before half-time, they never looked like taking the three points on Wednesday.

In the end the Reds had 37 shots on goal compared with just three for Everton, none of which were on target.

“We know we shouldn’t have put a show on like this,” said Martinez.

“Sometimes there are things in football that you can’t control with events that go against you, but we brought that on to ourselves conceding those two goals in three minutes just before half-time and it’s something we should be much better at.”