Martinez: Everyone is in a relegation battle until they get to 40 points
Everton manager Roberto Martinez has said that every side in the Premier League is in a relegation battle until they hit the magical 40 points mark.
His Everton side have 23 points from 22 matches this season and sit just above the relegation zone but believes that he has the players to drag their way out of danger.
‘Until you get 40 points everyone is in a relegation battle,’ said Martinez ‘I’ve been long enough in this league to understand how difficult it is to get to 40 points. In the same way, I know what we are capable of doing.
‘I think if you look at last season and the way we performed, that’s our standard and that is what, internally, we are fighting for. It is not trying to go into the unknown, it is clear. We know what level we can reach. We know what we can do and that is what we are trying to get to as quick as we can.
‘Are we in a negative run of results? Clearly. We don’t enjoy that and I don’t think anyone enjoys that. We are in a position that we know that we want to get more points, we have 16 games to go and want to take every one as a final.’
‘When things are going well you don’t want to disrupt anything you don’t want to lose anything,’ said Martinez. ‘When things are going against you, you need to find solutions, and that’s clearly what happens in every dressing room.’
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