Martinez has stated they are now our equals.
On paper they are not although they do posses some quality players. I think what he means is that they amongst other teams this season have sussed out how to play us which on the day makes them our equal. This is down to our own failings rather than other teams being our equal or better. We all know what they are,we don't work hard or press teams enough without the ball,certain players stroll back when we lose possession and we have a defence that plays a system that leaves us wide open at the back.
This has been a strange season.On the whole we have looked out of sorts but we are still in contention for four trophies by some miracle.Well by a bit of luck,a few top performances and some individual magic pulling us through games we have been dogshit in,but I will take that. We now need to up our game from here on in and if we do and play like we can we could still have a great season at the end,which if we do will probably have a few of us looking back and wondering how the hell that happened lol!