Megson - We were shocking

07 February 2009 18:05
olton boss Gary Megson was bitterly disappointed after seeing his side go down to a tame 3-0 defeat to Everton at Goodison Park.[LNB] The Toffees dominated from the off but had to wait until the 40th minute to go ahead via a Mikel Arteta penalty after Jo had been fouled by Andy O'Brien in the box.[LNB]Jo then doubled Everton's advantage four minutes after the restart, showing great skill to bring a high ball down, turn Gary Cahill and bury the ball under Jussi Jaaskelainen from the edge of the box.[LNB]He then got his second of the day with an injury-time penalty after Mark Davies had handled Dan Gosling's cross.[LNB]Megson told Sky Sports: "Performance - we didn't have one. We didn't compete anywhere near as well as Everton, we will have been out run I am sure, out competed and out passed and really there's very, very few positives that we can take from that."[LNB]ShockingHe added: "That's as bad as we have been all season - we were shocking. A lot of players have played nowhere near like I know they can play.[LNB]"We haven't competed - every header we came off second best, every tackle, every second ball - its just been a really, really poor day."[LNB]The performance was particularly disappointing after Bolton had battled to beat Spurs last week.[LNB]"Everything that we did well against Tottenham last week - there were times that Tottenham passed it a lot better than we did - but they didn't out compete us, they didn't out battle us, out run us and really, aside from Kevin Davies who I thought did okay without being near to what I would expect from Kev, the best player that we had was young (Chris) Basham when he went on the field," said Megson.[LNB]Asked how crucial the second goal was, Megson replied: "Well we had wasted the first 45 minutes and just hung onto a 1-0 loss, we just didn't do anything at all.[LNB]Irate"We spoke at half-time - or we didn't speak it was a bit irate at half-time - that we needed to start showing a little bit of pride, start competing, score the next goal and, you know, this team that we're playing against played for two hours on Wednesday but we didn't do that.[LNB]"The centre-half ran under the ball, it's a really soft goal from our point of view and the game was over."[LNB]He was upset his side did not work Everton when they had the ball.[LNB]"If you're not going to be constructive when you've got the ball, then you've certainly got to be a lot better when you haven't.[LNB]"That's as bad a performance - we've had some poor performances - but that's as bad a performance as I've seen at Bolton," he said, adding if the team play as poorly as that in up-coming games then they will be relegated.[LNB]

Source: SKY_Sports